1952 TV show intros Part 3

[2agray]

But now that Jackie Gleason show and Ozzie and Harriet is the early 60's.

[2agray]

Oh puke! My Little Margie. Gale Storm got on my nerves. Victory At Sea - don't remember that. Wonder what it was on against that we watched instead? Amazing how tremendously popular Ding Dong School was. I still have my records of Ding Dong School. I loved everything Eve Arden did. June Taylor dancers. Forgot about them. God Mother played that little album "Music To Make You Misty" all the time.

[issurchaim]

gale storm's photo is still in my wallett.

[fran9860]

Gail Storm was a CHRONIC ALCOHOLIC.

[TomBarrister]

As a guess, I'd say it was from November of 1962.

[funboy7979]

This Jackie Gleason clip is from between 1962 and 1964.

[MsAngieGee]

I loved Ding Dong School. My dad would watch Victory at Sea. The theme song always made me cry. I don't know why but it just did. I wish my cable tv provider would have a nostalgia channel for us real baby boomers.

[Nansbbgrand]

What a piece of nostalgia, this! =)

[onemooners]

i have victory at sea

[44032]

Ding Dong School is probably my earliest memory of watching a TV show. Miss Francis couldn't sing any better than Mr. Rogers. But she talked right to you!

[4933juju]

When Miss Frances spoke ... we listened ... her style and voice was hypnotizing. Oh, how I loved that show when I was four or five years old !

[Cris43130]

I've never hear the "teacher" on Ding Dong School cited as an influence on Fred Rogers, but the style resemblance is unmistakable.

[trayguy]

AHH! 1952 the greatest year ever . I was born in 1952.

[riverpotato]

"Mmmmmm-boy, that's good coffee!" - alternate line after the great Gleason takes a sip of "coffee".

[Mr76Yearsago]

This was 1962 not 1952 The four years Gleason did the American Scene Magazine was the peak of his career. Frank Fontaine always stole the show and Gleason was big enough (figuratively speaking) the let him do it.

[ensconse]

Gleason from September, 1962. Thanx.

[ldaccardi]

when i was a kid, jackie gleason used to scare me: too much hollering, did'nt like the way he talked to his wife. loved eve arden!

[fromthesidelines]

Jackie claimed he never drank on "show day"...BEFORE, certainly, but not during the show itself. A similar "coffee cup" routine got him into trouble with a sponsor when he hinted to the audience during his "apology show" on January 27, 1961 (after "YOU'RE IN THE PICTURE" had its first and only telecast the week before) that his cup wasn't filled with "coffee". Kellogg's was furious, telling CBS they weren't going to have anything more to do with that show, because they were a "family" sponsor!

[adzug]

@fromthesidelines thats so funny that thats what passed for "scandal" then

[fromthesidelines]

"VICTORY AT SEA" was originally presented as a Sunday afternoon series [3-3:30pm(et)] on NBC in 1952-'53. Its reputation grew in subsequent rebroadcasts (and a feature film version in 1954) and three RCA Victor albums of Richard Rodgers' score, late in the decade. "DING DONG SCHOOL" was on NBC's weekday schedule [10-10:30am(et)] from 1952 through '56, featuring "Miss Frances" {Dr. Frances Horwich}, who later revived the series in a syndicated edition in the late '50s..

[kirkmanb]

@fromthesidelines Hit the nail on the head!! Born in 46 I watched this show with my father when he came off the boats (Merchant marines} in the early 50s!! (he just passed at 98) The music was just mesmerizing!! Started my interest in classical!! The 2nd 2 albums are not close to the first!! Hell when I was a kid the 11 oclock news on one of our stations (Phila. and there were only 3) was the Guadacanal March!! Had to love it!!

[slim195771]

LOVE 1950 SHOWS

thank you

[hebneh]

I sure remember reruns of "My Little Margie" on weekdays in the '60s after the cartoon show ended at 8 am. I only saw it when I was home sick from school. "Victory at Sea" would be rerun on Saturday afternoons.

This "Jackie Gleason" clip doesn't have the June Taylor Dancers' opening number, just Jackie coming on after it was finished. I'm surprised he didn't have a heart attack trying to dance with them. The gag was that his "coffee" was probably liquor, thus his line, "How sweet it is!"

[vinylsingleman]

I guess you weren't able to get the audio track to the "Our Miss Brooks" theme. Though someone else has posted it here.

[cheeznado]

Correct, the Gleason show is from 1962- Sue Ann Langdon was on the show only in that year

[whizbang47]

Trying to puzzle out whether there was a San Francisco based police show on in '52. The star was some silver gray haired guy with impossibly wide shoulders in his detective tweeds. The black and whites were Nashes. Maybe '51. You'd see the reruns in NY many years later when a ballgame was rained out. Any thoughts out there?

[vinylsingleman]

Are you thinking of "The Lineup" with Warner Anderson and Tom Tully? That show was based in SF and ran for six years, but it premiered in 1954.

[whizbang47]

That's an interesting suggestion and to tell you the truth, I don't know, at least I can't tell from the 1957 clips up here on YT. Neither of those two guys are the star I remember. Thanks for the thought.

[donwert]

Probably either "San Francisco Beat" or "The Lineup"

[SAYZ]

I used to stay home from school sometimes My Little Marge , Didn't care For some of the other shows but these clips sure bring back memories .

[richardonstage]

isnt that gleason opening from about 1962?

[WSenator1]

You're right - this isn't 1952. JG started doing the American Scene Magazine (you see it in the first shot) in the 60's

[sussyman3016]

this is about 54 or 55

[debo8184]

Gleason and Nelson not from '52-these are much later.