1961 CBS Sunday Night preview w/Ed Sullivan

[jln55]

That was the year our family went from reception of one TV station, to two! We got a TV that was able to receive UHF stations. Then we were able to get the CBS affilliate in our area.

[visor109]

Ed almost cracks up during his Mr. Ed intro.

[manitogata]

I still love Mr Ed, even when I was a kid I used to watch it .

[Mitube]

back when CBS ruled the world

[BigDuckKetterer]

TenStarsplus !!!! I remember all these great "shews" as Ed Sullivan would say!!!! I remember Lassie, before Timmy, when a boy named Jeff was Lassie's companion, and I remember when Jeff got bit by a rattlesnake too!!!! Those were the days!!!! RIP Ed!!!! Thank you for posting this video!!!!

[Beatlegirl4eva]

Mr. Ed`s one of my favorites. :) I`ve grown up watching 60`s TV shows...and Spongebob...XD Gilligan`s Island was, and still is one of my top 2 favorites (I can`t decide weather I like Gilligan`s Island or Star Trek the best, LOL).

[substitute91]

TV Shows were heaven back then, I suppose?

[michaelbme]

I'm only 26 years old, but I grew up watching old tv shows (on NIck at Nite and Sci-Fi The Twilight Zone). When the Internet came at full force, I started watching more older television.

There is a certain dignity and magic in these shows that you can not find in most tv shows today.

[Beatlegirl4eva]

You got it ;)

[fromthesidelines]

That clip of Adolf was from one of the many documentaries concerning World War II shown on "THE TWENTIETH CENTURY" (and there were plenty of THOSE, 'dudeman'!).

[dudemantwo]

I didn't know Hitler was on the Ed Sullivan Show...

[fromthesidelines]

Most "experts" said Sullivan would never make it on TV when he started "TOAST OF THE TOWN" in the summer of 1948, 'gator'. But Ed had ONE thing going for him- he KNEW how to "package" a solid hour of entertainment, and, due to his reputation- and daily newspaper column- he had access to virtually every "name act" in show business...and they made him look good!

[tvgator1]

Sullivan is SO lucky he was around when TV started. He is SO dry, and kinda boring. He'd never make it on TV today...

[WAHOOUPS]

11:30 sunday night...

Hot MILF"S riding the hog!

[pinetreeshaw]

1961 CBS Sunday Night

[oranger2525]

today candid camera would be seen at 8pm, not 10pm.

[saphopoem]

Thanks for posting!

[fromthesidelines]

9:30 THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM [need I say more?]

10:00 CANDID CAMERA [Allen Funt & Durward Kirby, co-hosts]

10:30 WHAT'S MY LINE? [the ONLY way to unwind on a late Sunday evening, with John Charles Daly as your urbane host, and panelists Dorothy Kilgallen, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf...and a celebrity guest panelist every week!]

and-

11:00 CBS SUNDAY NIGHT NEWS [15 minute wrap-up of the day's events, with Walter Cronkite]

[fromthesidelines]

Sunday night {all times Eastern}:

5:30 G.E. COLLEGE BOWL [which moved to NBC in the fall of '63, with Robert Earle succeeding Allen Ludden as host]

6:00 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY [the best weekly half-hour documentaries on ANY network, with Walter Cronkite as narrator]

6:30 MISTER ED [beginning its CBS run after a previous season in first-run syndication]

7:00 LASSIE

7:30 DENNIS THE MENACE

8:00 THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW [THE "really big shew"]

9:00 GENERAL ELECTRIC THEATER [Ronald Reagan, host]

[bigred997]

Thanks- brings back lots of wonderful memories from my youth when CBS was the king of nightime television.