Most of the stock music, believe it or not, is from various episodes of "THE TWILIGHT ZONE" {"Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room", "The Trouble With Templeton", "Elegy", "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim"}. This was indeed one of CBS' final black and white hour-long dramas- [the network only programmed about half of their prime-time schedule in color, beginning in the fall of '65, and 100% color in the fall of '66] and Irwin Allen went along with it for season one because, well, he was cheap...
This is actually a "sales reel", which the network used to "sell" the series, in advance, to various advertisers in the spring of 1965 [General Mills was one of them]. The narrator is Don Forbes, whom producer Irwin Allen considered his "good luck charm" after narrrating his 1953 documentary "The Sea Around Us', which won an Academy Award (Forbes originally appeared as the "News Commentator" in the unaired version of the pilot episode, from which this was taken).
Most of the stock music, believe it or not, is from various episodes of "THE TWILIGHT ZONE" {"Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room", "The Trouble With Templeton", "Elegy", "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim"}. This was indeed one of CBS' final black and white hour-long dramas- [the network only programmed about half of their prime-time schedule in color, beginning in the fall of '65, and 100% color in the fall of '66] and Irwin Allen went along with it for season one because, well, he was cheap...
fromthesidelines 2 days ago
This is actually a "sales reel", which the network used to "sell" the series, in advance, to various advertisers in the spring of 1965 [General Mills was one of them]. The narrator is Don Forbes, whom producer Irwin Allen considered his "good luck charm" after narrrating his 1953 documentary "The Sea Around Us', which won an Academy Award (Forbes originally appeared as the "News Commentator" in the unaired version of the pilot episode, from which this was taken).
fromthesidelines 2 days ago
All that money spent on production values and they couldn't film it in color. Typical CBS, which was foot-dragging in the switchover from B/W.
danzamphi 4 months ago
Absolutely loved this series as a kid
rag5206 5 months ago 3