Archive for the ‘Primetime’ Category
Primetime Saturday 1961
1961 was an up and down year. Kennedy was inaugurated as President and then saw his popularity drop with the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion. Alan Shepard was the first American into space, but he was beaten there by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Jeff let’s us know that ABC had a news team too, but did anyone ever watch them? Then there was that quintessential TV series about the all American family living in that new phenomenon, the suburbs. Click on any of the images in the schedule below to watch a full length episode from one of the Primetime series of 1961.
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Primetime Saturday 1961 Rollover and click on any image below to watch an episode from that series
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The Roaring 20s |
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Lawrence Welk Show |
Fight of the Week |
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The Defenders |
Have Gun Will Travel |
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NBC |
Tales of Wells Fargo |
The Tall Man |
Saturday Night at the Movies |
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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 |
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 |
Tuesday Night at the Movies |
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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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NBC |
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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Peyton Place |
The Outcasts |
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Here’s Lucy |
Mayberry R.F.D. |
Family Affair |
The Carol Burnett Show |
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Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In |
NBC Monday Night at the Movies |
Please note that you may have to download the Veoh player to watch the episode of “The Avengers.” |
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Primetime Monday 1962
If we weren’t hiding under our desks during the Cuban Missile Crisis, we were watching The Andy Griffith Show or The Rifleman. Watch Jeff Grimshaw’s intro to Monday’s Primetime lineup in 1962 and the retro-mercial from Pepsi with everyone enjoying impossibly small 6oz cups of soda. Click on any of the images in the schedule below to watch a full length episode from that series.
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Primetime Monday 1962 Rollover and click on any image below to watch an episode from that series
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ABC |
Cheyenne |
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Stoney Burke |
Ben Casey |
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CBS |
To Tell the Truth |
I’ve Got a Secret |
The Lucy Show |
The Danny Thomas Show |
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The New Loretta Young Show |
Stump the Stars |
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NBC |
It’s a Man’s World |
Saints and Sinners |
The Price is Right |
David Brinkley’s Journal |
Local |
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