Posts Tagged ‘Gunsmoke’
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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Tales of Wells Fargo |
The Tall Man |
Saturday Night at the Movies |
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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 |
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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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Gunsmoke
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Airing from 1955 to 1975, Gunsmoke is tied with Law & Order for the longest-running primetime live-action drama series in US television history, and although The Simpsons has had more seasons (21 as of 2010), Gunsmoke beats both with 635 episodes versus under 500 for the other two. Gunsmoke also ran as a radio drama from 1952 to 1961 with William Conrad (of the TV series, Cannon) as Marshall Dillon. Gunsmoke was the last of the great TV westerns of the 50′s, 60′s and early 70′s, outlasting 30 of its rivals.
