NBC NETWORK - - 1965-66 Season Preview Ad Sales

[rapingurchurches]

the first cell phone seems to been a shoe.

[aharoldcampbell]

Please turn off all shoe phones before the concert begins.

[fromthesidelines]

I've discovered the name and origin of the "symphonic" piece used at the beginning: even though a different orchestral piece was used in the "GET SMART" pilot that finally aired, the one heard at :23 is the climax of "American In Hungary", and sounds exactly like a 1958 recording [of European origin, no doubt] released on a "bargain label" called "Acorn" in 1959, credited to "John Johnson and His Orchestra" .

[nanlisa]

This was from when I was in third grade. Some of these shows haven't been seen in years. It was nothing but good clean fun. No reality shows. No violent crime shows like CSI New York or CSI Miami.

You can also say that Don Adams had the first cellphone. And of course back i1965, there was no such thing as cellphones.

[fromthesidelines]

Yes, this WAS seen on NBC, 'musicom'- Monday, September 6, 1965 at 7:30pm(et), a week before the new season began. A newspaper ad promoting this special on the TV page of the NEW YORK TIMES the evening it aired confirms it. In 1965, "WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR" was on the network's Sunday night schedule (it got a VERY brief mention at the end).

[sixtieskid062]

Great! Makes me remember when television premires were an event.

[fromthesidelines]

Compared with the latest NBC "Fall Preview" (with the unfunny Joel McHale as "host"), this is more entertaining than the network's entire 2009 fall schedule! And what does THAT tell you about network television these days?

[Superbatfan]

A lot!! Today's garbage can't compare with yesterday's classics.

[rndllhllw]

Nice work. keep it up. mean time come for social media marketing for esteembpo**com

[jsbach15]

Ben Gazarra in Run for Your Life was superb!

[CadillacL]

This just doesn't get any better. Wish shows/promos were like this today. We

think too much today to get this today.

[Demoist]

did u know when they where doing this max found out his wife had a baby

[daleroes]

That first sequence is hilarious. It wouldn't work on TV today because it requires a small amount of patience and concentration to take in the escalating gags which culiminate in utterly unanticipated gunfire -- remember he is in a Concert Hall during performance and at first it seems a ringing telephone alone is disruptive. It is too involved and elaborate to simply be called "slapstick."

Does this style of humor still exist anywhere?

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[Feewaybill57]

My kids didn't get the joke. In 1965, no one could ever imagine a telephone ringing in a theater.

[luridplanet]

This is pretty irreverent at times. I can't imagine that this version was seen on TV.

[rocky10628]

Nice to see the Mona Mccluskey clip - it was shown on my local station, Yorkshire Television in England in 1968/9.

[nanlisa]

I stand corrected. On Hank, Katie Sweet played Dick Kallman's sister. It was Linda Foster who played his girlfriend, Doris Royal.

[dnm728]

7:18 when Don Adams (as Maxwell Smart) snaps his fingers, the Laramie Peacock music plays.

[kamenstien]

Fantabulous. Thanks musicom67!

[camirincon16091991]

ese programa es el superagente 86 estara en las salas de cine.

[catholicpriest1]

His shoe phone was the forerunner of today's cell phone.

[fromthesidelines]

There wouldn't have been a "Living Color" bumper at the beginning (and a "Color Presentation" tag at the very end) if this had been seen by just the affiliates, 'Zeb'. This was the first of NBC's three consecutive fall preview specials that aired between 1965 and '67; beginning with the 1968-'69 season, "fall preview" specials were produced for affiliates' gatherings only {including the 1969 edition, "NBC'S NEW ONES FOR '69-'70", featuring Hugh Downs and Joe Garagiola}.

[TimL2005]

I can offer definite proof that this special WAS aired for the public. Here is the text of a TV Guide Ad (Cleveland Edition) for Monday, September 6, 1965: ON SEPTEMBER 13 WKYC-TV 3 BECOMES YOUR "FULL COLOR" STATION Newscasts*Daytime Programs*Feature Films 96% of the NBC Evening Schedule*"Woodrow* In Full Color on TV 3.

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[TimL2005]

For A Preview of "NBC Week" See Comedian Don Adams in "A Secret Agent's Dilemma" (Or A Clear Case of Mind Over Mata Hari) Tonight at 7:30 PM in Color.

(NBC snake logo on the side and the peacock pictured on the bottom)

[fromthesidelines]

As I've mentioned before, 'musicom', this fall preview show WAS telecast on September 6, 1965 [7:30-7:56pm(et)], a week before "HULLABALOO"'s season premiere in that time period....but it was the ONLY time the "NBC Advertising Department" was credited with producing this kind of special!

[OldZeb]

I'm gonna' have to side with musicom67 that this was prepared for the affiliates.

I recall that in the time spot you mention there was broadcast an "NBC Week" promotional, but only for the prime time programs. It was more detailed -- such as featuring footage of Nina Wayne in Camp Runamuck.

[fromthesidelines]

The network decided to go "top heavy" with more situation comedies for the 1965-'66 season, 'Foreman'. Most of NBC's 1964-'65 schedule was a "bust"; of the new shows introduced that season, only "THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.", "DANIEL BOONE", "FLIPPER", "HULLABALOO", and "BRANDED" were renewed for the fall of '65....

[ForemanFan]

Like in a lot of seasons, a lot of these new shows only lasted for one season.  What happened at NBC the previous season that it decided to order so many new series?

[ForemanFan]

Like in a lot of seasons, a lot of these new shows only lasted for one season. What happened at NBC the previous season that it decided to order so many new series?

[moonjumpr]

I'm just guessin', but I think CBS must have been such a juggernaut with their new and semi-new 64-65 shows (Petticoat, Munsters, Beverly Hillbillies, etc.) that it blew quite a few NBC shows out of the water that year.

[jberton1060]

I was starting kindergarten at the time these shows were on...to this day I could not figure out how the kids on "Daisies" could HANDLE Lad A Dog, no less keep that mutt fed!

[nanlisa]

Don Adams, aka Maxwell Smart, may have had the world's first cellphone.

[m1049]

A phone ringing in an auditorium! Hilarious!

[nanlisa]

A few weeks ago, I saw a couple of video clips from Hank, which starred Dick Kallman. Although I know now, I never knew that he was murdered back in 1980. Also, the girl who played his sister, Linda Foster, was also married to TV's Ben Casey, Vince Edwards.

[nanlisa]

Well anyway, I last saw the reruns of Please Don't Eat the Daisies on WWOR, Channel 9 in New York, back in 1994. I'm so sorry that it only lasted about two years. It was a very good show, and it should have stayed on the air a little bit longer. I do remember seeing Patricia Crowley more recently on Roseanne and The Weakest Link. And Mark Miller is also actress Penelope Ann Miller's father.

[nanlisa]

I had just started the third grade that year, and I do remember some of those shows: Camp Runamuck, Mona Mc.Cluskey, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, My Mother the Car, and Hank.

In 1997, TV Land had aired the reruns of My Mother the Car, and it had been at 25-30 years since I last saw this show. That house on Please Don't Eat the Daisies way too big for a family of six and a sheepdog.

I think the other shows just simply faded into oblivision.

[fromthesidelines]

George Burns' producion company was responsible for "MONA McCLUSKEY", and it withered against "THE CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES" and "PEYTON PLACE" on ABC. No one knows where those episodes are these days....

[parkman35]

Ah Please Don't Eat The Daisies!" Lad a Dog that big English Sheep Dog1

[nowdid]

The most American sounding American accent EVER!

Rest In Peace Don Adams

[KazuyaPrower]

In case any of you don't know, the host is the late Don Adams, voice of Inspector Gadget.

[GOODWIL7]

Dear 50's And 60's Fans

I Was Not Even Born Yet I Was Born December 12,1965 And Please E-Mail Me Tonight

Dellie Goose

[nanlisa]

A phone ringing at a concert in the 60's. This was long before cellphones.

[surfstyley]

no it wasn't Maxwell had his shoe phone

[NowhereMan1966]

I got a big kick put of his cellphone (er shoephone) going off at a concert, it is so late 1990's/21st Century, a classic and a prediction of things to come.

[SterlingSolomon]

This was not meant for general release to the viewing public I assume. Yes?

[musicom67]

Affirmative.

[retrotvluver]

Thanks for posting this--I never saw this special when it first aired. IMO, "My Mother The Car", which I watched almost regularly, doesn't get my vote for the worst NBC sitcom that season--"Mona McCluskey" does. (The very idea--a marriage where the headstrong husband doesn't want his wife's $5000-a-week salary to intrude upon his measly $500-a-month salary. G-R-O-A-N!)

[fromthesidelines]

There was a very brief mention of "WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR"- as the series was titled on NBC from 1961 through '69- in the list of returning shows at the end, 'Homeof'. Note that Don Adams is already shilling for "GET SMART"'s primary sponsor, Salem cigarettes, by pulling his pack out and smoking one....

[Chicago10281]

Maxwell Smart Said "That's a pretty, crummy looking peacock" when it's just a duster!

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

Are they're any promos for Disney's "Wonderful World of Color" during the film?

[musicom67]

If I'm not mistaken, that was an ABC Show... It was the "Wonderful World of Disney" which was on NBC in the 70s....

[byrd56]

@musicom67 When the Disney show premiered on ABC in 1955, it was called "Disneyland", then "Walt Disney Presents". In 1961, when it moved to NBC, it was renamed "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color", then renamed "Wonderful World of Disney" in 1969, three years after Walt's passing.

NBC was ahead of the curve as the network that pioneered color TV, unlike ABC, due to its resources and "third network" status.

[TheGeminiStudios]

@musicom67 Wonderful World of Color started on NBC in 1961

[LucindaLC]

Maxwell Smart had one of the first cell phones, and they were annoying in public places then!

[fromthesidelines]

Here's some additional info: Mel Brandt and Fred Collins were the announcers at the beginning and end;

Perry Como's "KRAFT MUSIC HALL" specials aired once a month on Mondays this season, in Andy Williams' time period {he was sponsored in 1965-'66 by Kraft Foods, also}; "THE SUNDAY SHOW" returned as "THE FRANK McGEE REPORT" early Sunday evenings [6pm(et)] in October....

[707320i]

thank you, brings back so many memories.

[gli7utubeo]

Wonderful, fascinating stuff. Any similar material would be welcome. Thanks also to the background info in the comments.

[fromthesidelines]

This was actually shown on NBC on September 6, 1965 as their "Fall Preview" special [they presented them for three seasons in a row until 1967]...and the ONLY one credited to the "NBC Advertising Department". The reason "JEANNIE" and "CONVOY" were filmed in black & white were due to (1) Screen Gems/Columbia's refusal to film "JEANNIE"'s initial season in color {too expensive, they claimed}; and (2) Universal only had b/w World War II stock footage for use in "CONVOY".

[Ikarmely]

Thanks for your information. I really like this video.

[terehend]

Great find! Although this says the schedule was in all-color, there were two black & white shows on NBC that season: "I Dream of Jeannie", of course, and "Convoy", a World War II show that bombed out after 13 weeks. And that season was when the AFL really arrived, thanks to its move to NBC and Namath's big contract. ("My Mother, the Car". What were they thinking?)

[brithgob]

Max's shoephone ringing at the concert sure predicted the future, didn't it?

[WoodyL]

Very good find! Thanks for posting.