Diver Dan
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Diver Dan was a syndicated television series produced around 1960, 61 in Philadelphia. The cast consisted of Diver Dan and Miss Minerva, the Mermaid, who were real people, along with a number of fish and sea creatures, who were all string puppets. To give the illusion that they were all underwater, the series was filmed through an aquarium. Do you remember Barron Barracuda, Trigger Fish, Finley Haddock, Gabby the Clam, Glow Fish, Goldie the Goldfish, Hammer-head Shark, Hermit Crab, Doc Sturgeon, Sea Biscuit the Seahorse and Skipper Kipper?
Primetime Monday 1963
You wonder if anything else happened in 1963. The assassination of President Kennedy in November was such a shock to the nation that it seems to have overshadowed all other news of the year. It created a touchstone for a generation, much like 9/11, or the Challenger explosion, everyone asked, “where were you when you heard President Kennedy was dead.” Jeff takes us through that period with some poignant clips and talks about the Monday TV schedule for 1963. Then click on any of the images in the schedule below to watch a full length episode from one of the Primetime series of 1963.
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Primetime Monday 1965 Rollover and click on any image below to watch an episode from that series
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Wagon Train |
Breaking Point |
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To Tell the Truth |
I’ve Got a Secret |
The Lucy Show |
The Danny Thomas Show |
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East Side/West Side |
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NBC Monday Night at the Movies |
Hollywood & the Stars |
Sing Along with Mitch |
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Primetime Tuesday 1965
We were right in the middle of the civil rights struggle in 1965, but TV was definitely not PC. Yet how many remember the lyrics to the Frito Bandito ad? And were we prejudiced against really bad sitcoms? Watch Jeff below as he hits the wayback machine to Tuesday nights in 1965. Then click on any of the images in the schedule below to watch a full length episode from one of the Primetime series of 1965.
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Primetime Tuesday 1965 Rollover and click on any image below to watch an episode from that series
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Combat! |
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F Troop |
Peyton Place |
The Fugitive |
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Rawhide |
The Red Skelton Hour |
Petticoat Junction |
CBS Reports |
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Please Don’t Eat the Daisies |
Dr. Kildare |
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GTV Saturday Chiller Theatre: House on Haunted Hill
We’re going to try to bring back that TV staple of 60′s, the Saturday Night horror flick. Jeff expresses his fondness for WPIX’s Chiller Theatre, but almost every market had some version. For some it was the late night movie, that is until Saturday Night Live entered the scene. So prepared to be scared, or at least entertained!
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House on Haunted Hill
Released February 17, 1959
The owner of a haunted mansion offers a group of people reward money if they can survive a night at his scary estate.
In a brush with fame, my wife and I actually met Vincent Price. I was shooting an interview of him and he was just as nice a guy as you would ever meet. Unbelievably gracious. He was going around lecturing at college campuses and enthralling student audiences, slipping in some Shakespeare between stories about shooting Thriller with Michael Jackson.
Primetime Wednesday 1967
With everything that was going on in 1967, we ponder the question: Did RC Cola ever have a chance to move out of 3rd place? And as Jeff Grimshaw tell us below, when he wasn’t watching the first ever Super Bowl or CBS’s hit comedies, he had the hots for RC Cola’s pitchwoman. Click on any of the images in the schedule below to watch a full length episode from one of the Primetime series of 1967.
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Primetime Wednesday 1967 Rollover and click on any image below to watch an episode from that series
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Custer |
The 2nd Hundred Years |
The ABC Wednesday Night Movie |
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Green Acres |
He & She |
Jonathan Winters |
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The Virginian |
Kraft Music Hall |
Run for Your Life |
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Primetime Monday 1968
What with the assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., the war in Vietnam, the summer of riots and the election of Richard Nixon, it seemed as if the country were coming apart. As Jeff Grimshaw tell us below, television was now more than ever seen as an escape from everything the world was throwing at us. Perhaps we need that escape today too. So click on any of the images in the schedule below to watch a full length episode from one of the Primetime series of 1968.
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Primetime Monday 1968 Rollover and click on any image below to watch an episode from that series
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Here’s Lucy |
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Family Affair |
The Carol Burnett Show |
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Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In |
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Please note that you may have to download the Veoh player to watch the episode of “The Avengers.” |
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