Sorry to spoil luvthoseclips' memory, but in the 1969-70 season THE FLYING NUN aired Wednesdays at 7:30, and THE GHOST & MRS. MUIR Thursdays at the same time. And on Fridays after THE BRADY BUNCH was MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (a TV version of the Frank Capra film).
@tomservo56954 sorry to spoil your smug-on, but if you weren't around at the time and your only reference is fall schedules, you should refrain from "correcting" others recollections. From January to September of 1970 the ABC Friday lineup WAS Flying Nun, Brady Bunch, Ghost & Mrs. Muir, just as luvthoseclips said (4 years ago). You think the networks never moved any of their shows around from fall to fall or what?
@TVonthePorch I doubled checked some of my other sources--in January ABC canceled MR. DEEDS, and moved MRS. MUIR to its Friday slot...as well as the nighttime DATING GAME, making LMAD the Saturday lead off and FLYING NUN for Friday. They pushed back COURTSHIP OF EDDIE'S FATHER to Wednesday at 7:30 and put NANNY AND THE PROFESSOR in after it. I haven't anything to tell me what replaced MRS. MUIR on Thursday--I can check that next trip to the library.
This is from a time when TV was ,come home ,eat , take your brain out and watch something simple, with no stress or daily problems . Then fall asleep. All we have now is hurry up ,fix a house, cook and get fired, stressed ot logging and tree cutting ,and alligator shootings. Trucking on cliff edges and ice trucking. Nothing but stressed out hurry up or get fired programs , just what you need after work.
Had to be the most incredibly silly idea for a TV series in the history of television. But it flew (pun intended) long enough to actually be seen by some people.
@DarkstarNV - You were scared because it was real, that`s not special effects there. Sally Field or whatever stunt person that is, is hanging from a crane by wire right over that steeple. I`m in my 40`s as well and just watching that even now scares the crap out of me basically because the only thing between life and death in that scene is a wire probably no thicker than my pinky.
@JamesTKirkCobain You know, I was watching this again - thinking how much more real the flying "effect" looked than even the CGI stuff we can do today. Now I know why! She IS flying!
@MagicalMysteryTube I always thought those flying sequences were incredibly well done. You can tell somebody was being flown around while hanging from a wire in quite a few scenes and it does seem a bit scary knowing this now that I'm in my 40's too. But even the "blue screen" effects looked mighty more convincing than CGI effects, which tend to look very cartoonish.
@Sheri451 When you watch Gidget even now, it's an icredibly well-done show. When they started showing re-runs in the 80's, a lot of us guys were digging it on our summer vacations- and it was all because Sally was so good in the role. ABC was nuts to let it go, but it speaks volumes about Sally's appeal that they were SCRAMBLING to get her into another show. It speaks even more that Sally is the only reason The Flying Nun worked at all.
@tomovox I love Gidget. I was just a baby when it premired so I have no memory of when it was originally on, In the 1980s when they first showed reruns I was hooked on it. I have the DVDs of it, She said on an interview on there that she loved the cast members, especially Don Porter and the man that played her brother-in-law.
@Sheri451 Hi Sheri, we are in the same boat because I was born in '66, so those 80's reruns were my first knowledge of the show. I bought the DVD set too. I'm really impressed that for a show that ran only a year, it seems more popular now than it was then! Even my nephews and niece seemed to like the show when they caught a bit of it a few years back. I enjoyed watching Sally talking about the cast- wouldn't it be great if Lynette was brought on Brothers & Sisters as Sally's best friend?!
@tomovox Yes I would love to see her again, I thought she was a very good actress. I think she was a teacher in a high school after she quit acting. And I would also like to find out what happened to Betty Conner, the woman that played her sister Anne, I tried googling her but it seems she's disappeared off the face of the earth.
@Sheri451 I came up against the same roadblocks too when trying to find out about the two ladies. I know Lynette did a stint on Petticoat Junction, and I think she also was in the movie "The Parent Trap" before she was on Gidget. Other than that, nothing turns up. (drats!)
It's impossible for humans to fly unless they wear a Flying Suit. The reason Sally Field could fly is because she wore wires and the wires couldn't be seen on TV.
Hard to believe the Flying Nun is now talking about osteoporosis in TV commercials today...shows you how innocent TV was in the 1960s...
"Bewitched" followed "The Flying Nun" on Thursday nights, and while the first interruption about the MLK assassination came during "The Flying Nun," non-stop coverage wiped out the rest of the Thursday night schedule starting with "Bewitched."
Unless my memory is wrong, it was during an episode of "The Flying Nun" in April, 1968, that the broadcast was interrupted to announce the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. I was 7 at the time but that's my memory.
Wow, April 4, 1968, was a Thursday and Flying Nun aired on Thursday nights during its original run. And, MLK was shot around 6 pm. So, I guess my memory is correct.
Search and read the article "Gidget Goes to the Convent". It explains everything about this show. Whether it served its purpose and led young people to the religious life is unclear, but the show does deserve alot of credit. It gathered together a top notch group of character actresses. When the show got things right, it had a great deal of heart and a social mind. It one of very few shows to have a racially mixed cast from the nuns to the children-none of whom were merely "tokens".
Who will star in the feature film? Sally of course will be the Mother. I think Miley Cyrus or one of those latina Disney stars like Selena would be a nice Betrille
FYI - the creator, Tere Rios, was a respected journalist, wife of a West Point career army officer and the mother of one of the first casualties of the Vietnam War. If Mrs. Rios "did acid" as you alledge, then she had every right to considering the fact that her son died being tortured by the NVA. It's just a fun story, nothing else. You're not supposed to take it seriously. It did inspire a number of girls to look into the religious life during a time when religion wasn't "cool".
I am very sorry for Mrs. Rios' son,, but even without having read the original comment to which you are responding, I first reaction when I saw this clip was -- man, whoever thought this up was doing some serious drugs! The whole premise is just SOOOO absurd! And SOOOO 60s (thus the drugs come to mind).
Sally Feilds was good in Sybil but I don't know about this. what if a airplane came flying in her direction... that would not be good. but sort of funny. This is so weird.
The Flying Nun used to be on before I went to school on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. To see her on the tropical isle and then have to go outside into zero degree weather made me sick. Great show.
I remember when this show aired on Friday nights on ABC, just before "The Brady Bunch" (1969-70). Then after the Brady Bunch, it was "The Ghost & Mrs. Muir". Those were the good old days!
@Widsy320 Why wouldn't they believe you? Also, how old are these friends of yours that didn't believe you? IF they're in there 40's or older, they should remember. It's funny how people don't remember songs or tv shows that are more than 10 years old.
I flew like that on acid once!
DA90027 3 months ago
Always loved the flying nun; this was one of the series on Skychannel in the 80's which made me learn English very fast!
dreamersfind 5 months ago
Sorry to spoil luvthoseclips' memory, but in the 1969-70 season THE FLYING NUN aired Wednesdays at 7:30, and THE GHOST & MRS. MUIR Thursdays at the same time. And on Fridays after THE BRADY BUNCH was MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (a TV version of the Frank Capra film).
tomservo56954 7 months ago
@tomservo56954 sorry to spoil your smug-on, but if you weren't around at the time and your only reference is fall schedules, you should refrain from "correcting" others recollections. From January to September of 1970 the ABC Friday lineup WAS Flying Nun, Brady Bunch, Ghost & Mrs. Muir, just as luvthoseclips said (4 years ago). You think the networks never moved any of their shows around from fall to fall or what?
TVonthePorch 2 weeks ago
@TVonthePorch I doubled checked some of my other sources--in January ABC canceled MR. DEEDS, and moved MRS. MUIR to its Friday slot...as well as the nighttime DATING GAME, making LMAD the Saturday lead off and FLYING NUN for Friday. They pushed back COURTSHIP OF EDDIE'S FATHER to Wednesday at 7:30 and put NANNY AND THE PROFESSOR in after it. I haven't anything to tell me what replaced MRS. MUIR on Thursday--I can check that next trip to the library.
tomservo56954 2 weeks ago
I LOVED My Flying Nun Lunchbox!!
savgal1211 8 months ago
The Church was actually behind "Gidget" ending so that "The Flying Nun"could be made.
DELSTAR1 9 months ago
This is from a time when TV was ,come home ,eat , take your brain out and watch something simple, with no stress or daily problems . Then fall asleep. All we have now is hurry up ,fix a house, cook and get fired, stressed ot logging and tree cutting ,and alligator shootings. Trucking on cliff edges and ice trucking. Nothing but stressed out hurry up or get fired programs , just what you need after work.
1952kid 1 year ago
I barely remember this, but it was on reruns back in 1974 when I was 6, and had a major crush on her.
Because it's never on anywhere, it was 20 years later before I found out Mama Gump herself was the Nun!
GarthanSaal444 1 year ago
jesus, what did my mom watch as a kid?
sk8freak51392 1 year ago
Had to be the most incredibly silly idea for a TV series in the history of television. But it flew (pun intended) long enough to actually be seen by some people.
RedwoodTheElf 1 year ago
@RedwoodTheElf Johnny Carson joked that NBC should counter with a show called SPACE RABBI.
tomservo56954 2 weeks ago
@DarkstarNV - You were scared because it was real, that`s not special effects there. Sally Field or whatever stunt person that is, is hanging from a crane by wire right over that steeple. I`m in my 40`s as well and just watching that even now scares the crap out of me basically because the only thing between life and death in that scene is a wire probably no thicker than my pinky.
JamesTKirkCobain 1 year ago
@JamesTKirkCobain You know, I was watching this again - thinking how much more real the flying "effect" looked than even the CGI stuff we can do today. Now I know why! She IS flying!
MagicalMysteryTube 1 year ago
@MagicalMysteryTube I always thought those flying sequences were incredibly well done. You can tell somebody was being flown around while hanging from a wire in quite a few scenes and it does seem a bit scary knowing this now that I'm in my 40's too. But even the "blue screen" effects looked mighty more convincing than CGI effects, which tend to look very cartoonish.
tomovox 9 months ago
@JamesTKirkCobain @DarkstarNV ??? Dai, coraggio! e ricordatevii: "When lift plus thrust is greater than load plus drag, anything can fly"
sweetredredwine 1 year ago
Only holy nun's brush with Colgate!
Aeolis7 1 year ago
I saw this show as a kid, but I'd forgotten how silly it is! Great stuff!
stpetric 1 year ago
@stpetric Sally said she HATED this show. She loved Gidget though. She said she wished IT stayed on the air, but the morons at ABC cancelled it.
Sheri451 1 year ago
@Sheri451 When you watch Gidget even now, it's an icredibly well-done show. When they started showing re-runs in the 80's, a lot of us guys were digging it on our summer vacations- and it was all because Sally was so good in the role. ABC was nuts to let it go, but it speaks volumes about Sally's appeal that they were SCRAMBLING to get her into another show. It speaks even more that Sally is the only reason The Flying Nun worked at all.
tomovox 9 months ago
@tomovox I love Gidget. I was just a baby when it premired so I have no memory of when it was originally on, In the 1980s when they first showed reruns I was hooked on it. I have the DVDs of it, She said on an interview on there that she loved the cast members, especially Don Porter and the man that played her brother-in-law.
Sheri451 9 months ago
@Sheri451 Hi Sheri, we are in the same boat because I was born in '66, so those 80's reruns were my first knowledge of the show. I bought the DVD set too. I'm really impressed that for a show that ran only a year, it seems more popular now than it was then! Even my nephews and niece seemed to like the show when they caught a bit of it a few years back. I enjoyed watching Sally talking about the cast- wouldn't it be great if Lynette was brought on Brothers & Sisters as Sally's best friend?!
tomovox 9 months ago
@tomovox Yes I would love to see her again, I thought she was a very good actress. I think she was a teacher in a high school after she quit acting. And I would also like to find out what happened to Betty Conner, the woman that played her sister Anne, I tried googling her but it seems she's disappeared off the face of the earth.
Sheri451 9 months ago
@Sheri451 I came up against the same roadblocks too when trying to find out about the two ladies. I know Lynette did a stint on Petticoat Junction, and I think she also was in the movie "The Parent Trap" before she was on Gidget. Other than that, nothing turns up. (drats!)
tomovox 9 months ago
@tomovox I remember her in The Parent Trap.
Sheri451 9 months ago
I'll take a flying nun over a molesting priest ANY day of the week...
zkg 1 year ago
My dog has flying nun ears!
fodderoni 2 years ago
Give us all that hat and let us avoid going to airports.
000266617 2 years ago
@000266617 Hardy har har har.
Juliaflo 2 years ago
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BrionyCoote 2 years ago
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Today's nuns are working on stealth hats. They'll disguise themselves in burkas and fly over pakistan in search of Bin Laden =o)
Perktube1 2 years ago
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Perktube1 2 years ago
Sally Field could fly because her bones were hollow! now she can't because she takes Boniva lol.
Perktube1 2 years ago 3
It's impossible for humans to fly unless they wear a Flying Suit. The reason Sally Field could fly is because she wore wires and the wires couldn't be seen on TV.
GreatAuntCayce 2 years ago
LOL
*rimshot*
biigzen 2 years ago
Yeah Sister Bertrille better keep that
friggin' hat off these days. She's liable to
come in for a landing and BREAK A HIP!
4freespeech 2 years ago
Hard to believe the Flying Nun is now talking about osteoporosis in TV commercials today...shows you how innocent TV was in the 1960s...
"Bewitched" followed "The Flying Nun" on Thursday nights, and while the first interruption about the MLK assassination came during "The Flying Nun," non-stop coverage wiped out the rest of the Thursday night schedule starting with "Bewitched."
bongomanfromdalou 2 years ago
wow, That's interesting trivia. I wonder what other shows on the other channels were interrupted.
Perktube1 2 years ago
..."Colgate, it's new, it's improved, it's fortified"..lol
sporty04 2 years ago
La nonne volante ! Ecroulé de rire !
beatenboy2 2 years ago
Sally Fields is ageless,thanks to Boniva.
TheKingofpizza 2 years ago 2
The boys in my class debated whether she could really fly or not.
000266617 2 years ago
her hat looks like a design by Burt Rutan. =oP
Perktube1 2 years ago
This original opening proves how butchered the syndicated opening of the Flying Nun really was, thanks for posting this!
jed6271 2 years ago
Unless my memory is wrong, it was during an episode of "The Flying Nun" in April, 1968, that the broadcast was interrupted to announce the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. I was 7 at the time but that's my memory.
NoirFan01 2 years ago
Wow, April 4, 1968, was a Thursday and Flying Nun aired on Thursday nights during its original run. And, MLK was shot around 6 pm. So, I guess my memory is correct.
NoirFan01 2 years ago
....relax...you're soaking in it!...........
Krupa08 2 years ago
and by Palmolive Dishwashing Liquid..softens hands while you do dishes:)..lol
sexymama1966 2 years ago
i thought the orginal was "oscar-mayer and co. present"?!
willomina1990 2 years ago
they were too:)
sexymama1966 2 years ago
i thought so.....thanks for confirming!!
willomina1990 2 years ago
Search and read the article "Gidget Goes to the Convent". It explains everything about this show. Whether it served its purpose and led young people to the religious life is unclear, but the show does deserve alot of credit. It gathered together a top notch group of character actresses. When the show got things right, it had a great deal of heart and a social mind. It one of very few shows to have a racially mixed cast from the nuns to the children-none of whom were merely "tokens".
DELSTAR1 2 years ago 2
This is really, REALLY funny. My dad showed it to me...it's so entertaining!
stripedsockscat 2 years ago
That show was my first memory of Sally Field.
oldgordo61 3 years ago 2
i have flying dreams..lol
sexymama1966 3 years ago
Fortified with what? lol!
daughterrevolution 3 years ago
It was fortified with MFP!!
Don't ask me what that was, but I remember the ad.
oldgordo61 3 years ago
MFP = "Maximum Fluoride Protection"
jchsf94109 2 years ago
Brought to you by Colgate-it's enough to make you buy Crest. hahaha
somersetdc 3 years ago 2
I wonder if she ever skidded off the runway?
DA90027 3 years ago
That's what can happen when you take too much "Boniva"
primeralives 3 years ago 10
so wrong but its so funny..lol
sexymama1966 3 years ago
@primeralives Oh my gosh! That one cracked me up!! LOL Nice.
MagicalMysteryTube 1 year ago
Who will star in the feature film? Sally of course will be the Mother. I think Miley Cyrus or one of those latina Disney stars like Selena would be a nice Betrille
Knugabug 3 years ago
America Ferrera, of course.
hey -- I bet Sally Field sold a lot of toothpaste in her day --
daleroes 3 years ago
Too heavy to get off the ground.
Spartacus217 3 years ago
SHE CAN FLY......OH BOY......LSD.
hamslice151 3 years ago
..This is funny... what a bizarre concept, a Flying Nun.... I think the creator of this ate some of the bad Acid going around in the 60's.... :)
AudDiTee 3 years ago
FYI - the creator, Tere Rios, was a respected journalist, wife of a West Point career army officer and the mother of one of the first casualties of the Vietnam War. If Mrs. Rios "did acid" as you alledge, then she had every right to considering the fact that her son died being tortured by the NVA. It's just a fun story, nothing else. You're not supposed to take it seriously. It did inspire a number of girls to look into the religious life during a time when religion wasn't "cool".
Dogsledfan 3 years ago
This was in reply to AuDiTee's ill-informed comment below.
Dogsledfan 3 years ago
I am very sorry for Mrs. Rios' son,, but even without having read the original comment to which you are responding, I first reaction when I saw this clip was -- man, whoever thought this up was doing some serious drugs! The whole premise is just SOOOO absurd! And SOOOO 60s (thus the drugs come to mind).
asy4 3 years ago
weird. Made me want to flie so badly when I was a kid.
3589546 3 years ago
Sally Feilds was good in Sybil but I don't know about this. what if a airplane came flying in her direction... that would not be good. but sort of funny. This is so weird.
filmwannabe2009 3 years ago
The Flying Nun used to be on before I went to school on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. To see her on the tropical isle and then have to go outside into zero degree weather made me sick. Great show.
umass84 3 years ago
the singing nun, and now the flying nun, love it and still awaiting for the final season.
sexymama1966 3 years ago
holy crap freaking amazing
relientk93 3 years ago
How high do you have to be to come up with something like this?
kikoman3 3 years ago
And believe it or not, "The Flying Nun" was lauded by Catholic organizations who say Sr. Bertrille "humanized" religious orders...
hard to believe that Sally Field has gone to selling once-a-month Boniva on "The Price is Right..."
bongomanfromdalou 3 years ago 2
I thought this show was saposed to be sort of a rip off of the the movie The sound Of Music a Nun that sings and dances.
Rollman1 3 years ago
Is true that the "Flying Nun" was the incarnation of "My Mother the Car?"
thanksforthemusic 4 years ago
It is from a book called
The Fifteenth Pelican.
GinaAlexandra 3 years ago
Thankyou. I was being silly. I looked up the author on Wikipedia, what an interesting and courageous lady...
thanksforthemusic 3 years ago
I remember when this show aired on Friday nights on ABC, just before "The Brady Bunch" (1969-70). Then after the Brady Bunch, it was "The Ghost & Mrs. Muir". Those were the good old days!
luvthoseclips 4 years ago
"The good old days" is right! I miss them dearly!!
rmr2001 3 years ago
Amazing!...It does exist!...All my friends thought I was on LSD when I told them about "The Flying Nun"
Widsy320 4 years ago 14
Hahahahaha, that is awesome because I just told somebody about it and she thought I was mixing stuff up and that I was crazy!!!
Sanakeuh 4 years ago
That's sooo funny. Do your friends believe you now?? Have a great day.
BeanyboBean 4 years ago
I laughed when my mother told me there was a show called The Flying Nun. I told her I would go on YouTube to see if I could find any clips...LOL!
littletink03 3 years ago 2
@Widsy320 Why wouldn't they believe you? Also, how old are these friends of yours that didn't believe you? IF they're in there 40's or older, they should remember. It's funny how people don't remember songs or tv shows that are more than 10 years old.
Beautifulmusiclistnr 1 year ago
awesome!..thank you
sexymama1966 4 years ago
I don't think I've ever seen that.
jess4metoo 4 years ago
This is tough to find, thanks for posting it!
keithcop 4 years ago 2
Colgate-Palmolive co-sponsored "THE FLYING NUN" on alternate Thursdays during its first season (1967-'68), along with The Quaker Oats Company.
fromthesidelines 4 years ago