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  • Sally Field in the 60's 

  • @TheCommonManUSA: What's to fear?

  • bewitched, i dream of jeannie, & the flying nun - - that's the holy trinity right there.

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  • Sister Bertrille would still be flying, but in 1977 or so she met Junior Justice, son of the sheriff of Texarkana. She left the order to marry Junior, but then got cold feet and left him at the altar. She ended up meeting a bootlegger named Bandit and helped him transport Coors beer to GA and later on bring Charlotte the elephant from Miami, FL to Austin, TX. Wow, has she had a crazy life or what?

  • @ridgerunner721601 you forgot to mention that she developed 13 different personalities and became a union organizer.

  • @wallofvideo LOL....Very true. : )

  • Dear friend of mine! I know you will like this! Yes, you know who you are! Right M.?

  • .......

  • How much LSD did they take back then >_>

  • @waveringthoughts Really?

  • She should have used her powers for evil.

  • she could be mother of batman

  • @therumas No she can't Batman's mom got shot!

  • Sally Field is SO CUTE!!!! I REALLY like the theme music. I will have to buy a season. It looks like fun :-)

  • WTF IS THAT?

  • @mat5637 It's a little something we like to call the '60s. Everyone was tripping, including television producers.

  • Drsinister,that was kinda smart ass to say to her,but I didn't think they would still be wearing those iconic habits. The Daughters of Charity order quit wearing those at least here in the US almost 50 years ago! Oh SGH28N try a threater shop,they should have the whole habit .

  • I just love this version of the theme song. It has a little more of a Latin beat than the frist theme . I would also love to see some of the old tv shows from the 50 & 60's in color on DVD. Like I Love Lucy, Munsters, Patty Duke & others.

  • I went down to brazil the other day, saw one of these nuns and asked her if she could fly me out of here. She scowled at me and called me a heathen...

  • I want one of those hats...

  • I always understood this was the opening when the show went into syndication...I've see the original with the Colgate-Palmolive logo, that just lists the cast without putting a name with a shot of the performer.

  • one of them is my great-grandmother!

  • The Flying Nun was okay, I guess, but if you ask me, the pinnacle of '60s television had to be that laugh-fest, tummy-riot of a show My Mother The Car. Who ever conceived that gem of prime-time, broadcast entertainment was an absolute genius!

    Alright, I’ll shut up now.

  • I wonder what the guy was trippin on who came up with the idea for this show? Mescaline, LSD, Psilocybin? Maybe all three.

  • @ff85258 it was a just a more care free time.. people didn't have all the hang ups they do now, because they are on the drugs you just mentioned!

  • @ff85258

    Marie Teresa Ríos, who wrote the 1966 book "The Fifteenth Pelican."

  • How this ever got on TV is beyond me? Around the mid 60s TV got dumber and dumber.

  • How high were the producers of this show to come up with "The Flying Nun."

  • why do nun cover up their whole body and head? it reminds of Muslim women.

  • @nefrinhayat Ever see a nun with skin cancer? Me neither.

  • I always thought she was secretly a witch, but then I was from the south and didn't actually know any Catholics.

  • @kmarshstpete Dont fool yourself. Much (but not all) of the catholic doctrine reeks of paganism and withcraft.

  • Drugs were not illegal when this was on the air.

  • @TheCommonManUSA I'm guessing you were raised Catholic?

  • These writers were definitely on LSD when they came up with this idea.

  • Someone's had a little too much to drink...

  • I loved this show. little nieve i know but i wanted her to get with Carlos after all she was only a novice.

  • Flying nuns carrying their separate bum loads, so much for vietnam (presently going under the name afghani-nam)...

  • Wow. Really?...who came up with the idea for this?..and who provides their drugs?

  • At least they could have hid the cord in the opening.

  • After watching this....all I can say is The 60s were a fucked up time........

  • This was an excellent tv show

  • idk whether to be scared or lol O,o

  • We started out in the 60's with a story about nuns and Sidney Potier in "Lilies of the Field", The Singing Nuns and their hit song"Dominique", "Sound of Music" with Julie Andrews aspiring to become a nun, Sally field in "The Flying Nun" and then finally the trendy wine "Blue Nun".

  • She touches down and picks up two academy awards.

  • damn,

  • Sally Field was literally hanging from a crane!

  • this tv show is a reference to some real life situations that happened about 100-300 years ago. some of them involve prince charles and his experiences and insight regarding some paranormal happenings.

  • @the60sKid Thanks for the background on the author, never knew that..just knew when I was a kid I lOved to watch this show. You know? back in the day when there was a time and place for everything and writing (crap like) some of what's below would be totally unheard of...

  • from the book....

    The daughters of charity at the Convent Santanco were shocked. a nun doesn't fly! But Siter Bertrille upset more rules than the rules of gravity, and soon the convent, the mother superior and the town of San Juan were shaken by her antics. Basis for the Hit television series, this wonderful story of a flying nun is modern classic of humor chosen by Best-in Books and a selection of the Catholic Digest and Catholic Family Books.

  • This show WAS based on a book published in 1966 by Marie Teresa Ríos who was Puerto Rican - American and a devout Catholic . She served as a pilot for the Civil Air Patrol in WWII and became a writer after. The book was dedicated to her son who was captured in Vietnam and was executed by his captors as a POW while serving there in 1965.

  • Boy, they really went all out on that title card at :03.

  • Marge Redmond bragged about how she used to eat Sally Fields little pussy for hours on end before the taping of this God awful show.

  • I'm envious of those people looking up her skirt

  • I watched an episode of this and there's not enough actual "flying" going on. The real name of this show should be "Flying?... NONE"!!!!

  • is this for real? lawls

  • For some reason, the first 13 seconds of this are horrifying when you're stoned.

  • same here jsicolts, i even became a flight attendant, damn when you want to fly you find a way to do it

  • ahhh i remember this show as a kid..

  • Who the FUCK thought it would be a great idea to make a show about a nun who could for some reason fly??? I like how in every episode, no matter the problem, it could always be resolved by the anti-gravity abilities of Sally Field.

  • @kris242 This is part of mental programing to rredeculize religion!

  • At about :49, she looks like she's going to barf. Of course, if you were flying upside down, you would feel that way too;)

  • Sally Field needed Boniva back then even. Her bones were so hollow and light that she could take flight. But be careful, for being a flying nun could become habit forming

  • @wdm1219 "habit" forming. I get it. LOL!

  • @wdm1219 I lol'd.  Well played sir, well played.

  • @wdm1219 LOL!! I loved that show when I was a Lil kid!! Boniva and Take Flight!!

  • @wdm1219 You need Jesus. PEACE.

  • @BigBlackRod I do indeed, each and every day. Me and everybody! Peace on you too brother & God bless!

  • "When lift plus thrust is greater than load plus drag, anything can fly."

  • @the60sKid Oh, I get it . . . Thrust . . . load . . . some sort of a sexual reference? And the flying is equated to an orgasm? Or maybe I'm just a pig . . .

  • @elc1960 No, just a PIG. That is the "Silly" explanation given in the show to EXPLAIN "Why"she could fly.

    And from your some of the comments here your in GOOD company of having you mind in a gutter like SO many people who have to tie a SEXUAL context to EVERYTHING.

  • @the60sKid Lighten up, dude. I was alive back then and remember the show well. My remark was merely a joke. I remember Sally Field saying the "lift plus thrust" line many times during the show's run. You didn't see me make reference to "camel toe" like some of the others here, did you? Of course not. In fact, I made a comment further down the page defending the show when someone (algavin47) made a remark about the show being the stupidest of all time.

  • I remember watching these reruns back in the summer of 1974. I was only 6, and the only reason why I even remember this show is because the nun was my first tv crush. The Bionic Woman, Wonder Woman, and Charlie's Angels were two years away.

  • nobody want to see something like this.... a flying NUN---> the new[(best)] SUPERHERO

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  • uh, wha?

  • Carlos was a hottie...

  • That nun should stop smoking so much weed!

  • Aaah ,the wonders of boniva!!

  • @JarheadPatriot0311 LOL! And I thought only Red Bull gives people wings... (Apparently not; a good attitude, Boniva, and Sally Field do it too)

  • They should remake this

  • makes about as much sense as Batman and Superman.

  • Wonder if NORAD ever picked her up, the way they do with Santa Claus every Christmas?

    A NASA friend of mine said she had to have a JATO up her ass in order to fly (whatever that is).

  • that old grey haired pervert who every Sunday morning right before they would sit down (in her case lean back) he would catch the "breeze" of the sacred air (her pus*y fumes and start drooling real thick while Sally leaned back with the boxing glove "rubbing" her lips,hips,snips and sweet smelling "schmips" that's german for pus*y lips and then the show would go on in a much friendly atmosphere with Sally laughing all the way to the bank with a soaking wet "soothing" snatch while the camera man!

  • Well, the more i think about it the picture becomes much "clearer" -- After reviewing the beginning of this clip with her spinning around in mid-air and after reviewing it with my high powered "1967" spy like magnifying glass, she isnt wearing any panties -- She appears to have a boxing glove (Everlast) stuffed real "hard" right down the middle of her snatch and this would account for the "brutal" sesions of poundings she would endure each time she would go in the back room with ***GO UP PLEASE

  • Of course she could fly! Look how aerodynamic those habits were!

  • The disastrous effects of too much BONIVA on Sally Field.

  • i thought the flying was the guy from vsauce

  • The flying nun is a constant joke between me and my friend only it's just a normal nun outfit and we use it either on windy days or when we're extremely bored.

  • I bet she used to spread her legs real wide open every Sunday morning to stay in shape !!! 

  • @DavePaulsen1  lolool

  • Horrifying ! (the first 11 seconds) all I see is a nun tumbling down from the sky.

  • Horrifying !!! This is the world we evolved from ?

  • and who said today's TV has gotten worse ?

  • What sort of undies does she wear when flying?

    NUN ;-)

  • A nun that flys.. sure, why not? Hell, it's the 60's. Everyone was high anyway....

  • @ccipollini1984

    Sally herself made a joke about this on "Laugh-In."

    

  • I'd never heard of this until today. It looks as plausible and well thought through as 'Lost'.

  • The concept that people actually loved shows this innocent is lost on today's youth who watch TV to enjoy human vivisection, serial killing, and soft porn, all to the latest pop hits.

  • I always liked Sally Field. Even as an older woman she is still incredibly attractive.

  • I'm not a religious zealot and I don't mean to set off a tediously pointless slanging match on YouTube, but isn't the whole idea behind this 60s show just a teensy bit too silly? Would anything like this ever get made today, with or without the delightful Sally Field?

  • @nmlt5398 that's why it was fun. TV used to be fun.

  • @cinematedman I take your point that tv used to be fun, as well as the comments from other posters about the innocence of it all in days gone by. I only just remember the programme from the original time, and I don't mean to be negative - all I'm saying is, when I see clips like this now, I am genuinely amazed how someone managed to pitch this quite off-the-wall idea to a tv network and get it accepted and actually made!

  • @nmlt5398, what are you talking about?Silly, senseless stuff if being put on the air all the time!! All the good shows get cancelled so some piece of crap show that is utterly ridiculous can take its place!!! Besides, its only for entertainment purposes. If you don't like a show, then you didn't have (or have to in the present tense) to watch it.That is why all the good quality shows get taken off. Everyone wants the super silly, stupid shows on.

  • @ProudKansan08 I didn't say I didn't LIKE it, just that it seems to me now (as it did at the time, though I was very young) that it was a little too far-fetched, despite being warm and funny. It's true good stuff gets cancelled for poor quality stuff all the time, but what's good and what's poor is all a matter of opinion, I suppose.......

  • I remember watching this show as a kid and thinking Reverend Mother was a wicked control freak, always angry and ruthless. Now, she seems pretty laid back for a manager of a convent.

  • I think we could update this series a bit and make it a smash tor 2011. Call it "The Flying Jesuit" - a priest at a midwestern Jesuit university parties a bit too much in the dorms and, after climbing upon the roof to take off like Superman, discovers he actually can fly.

  • LOL my dad all ways says the flying nun i laugh out loud

  • Let me guess where this concept came from. A producer was on drugs at church, saw nuns, and imagined one to be like superman and could fly. And then after his staff shared a bowl with him, they suggested some comedy.

  • @StanBennet No, the concept actually came from a book, written by Tere Rios.

  • ...meow...(...did everyone see that article on Osama Bin Laden, I just did not think of the Flying Nun, but going green...)

  • QUE KOOL!!!

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  • Hard to believe that's Forest Gump's mom.

  • La chrétienté faisait recette.

  • Nuns. flying to a town near you!

  • I'm playing nun bowling

  • it IS GIDGET!

  • Ths was one of my favorites . I wanted to fly like that . LOL

  • I used to pretend i was the flying nun. at 12. Now i'm just an old queen.

  • @jsicolts honey.. all of us gals use to pretend we were the entire Thursday night line up... Flying Nun, Bewitched and That Girl... for years I wore my sunglasses on top of my head like Ann Marie from That Gerl... and also flew around the yard like Sister Bertrille... it's the right of passage for all of us old queens!!!

  • @bearguy217 You have no idea how much you posting your comment meant to me. I thought I was all alone in this world back then when I, a young boy, wanted to be just like the Flying Nun, Samantha, and yes of course, That Girl.

  • when she would fly...i would look up her skirt....she had do.do..stains...

  • This theme, along with those from "That Girl!" and "Bewitched" are classic examples of the lush arrangements of 1960 TV themes. A classic!

  • @kawachi you called it! Henry Mancini, et al. Great orchestrations for TV programs. Not to mention all the jazz greats who worked on TV themes.

  • @kawachi The Fling Nun & That Girl themes are by the same man, Dominic Frontiere. His wiki is astounding !!! From childhood accordion prodigy playling Carnegie Hall at 12 to winding up in the Federal Pen after scamming USD 500,000 scalping 16 THOUSAND 1980 super bowl tix ( his wife owned the LA Rams). Nice article on him at Space Age Pop as well. Come check out my 700 playlists covering the music of every year since 1900. Aded this to the 1967 playlist. chuck

  • I find this TV show an abomination and an affront to Christ.

    Just kidding.

    If you want a really good read, pick up the American Heritage coffee-table book "History of Flight." Within the first chapter is a tale of "The Flying Monk of Cupertino." - the legend of a monk who purportedly flew in the witness of credible observers ; all in the 16th century.

  • I find this TV show an abomination and an affront to Christ.

    Just kidding.

    If you want a really good read, pick up the American Heritage coffee-table book "History of Flight." Within the first chapter is a tale of "The Flying Monk of Cupertino." - the legend of a monk who purportedly flew in the witness of credible observers ; all in the 16th century.

  • bazdmeg kerestem gyógyszert :DDDDDDDDDDDDDD

  • WTF!? O_____o

  • Why didn't her cornette just blow off? Was it nailed to her head?

  • @mrdivot22 staples

  • i remember watching this show, and always loved the music, and excellent score!

    but my thinking about it now, what an insanely goofy concept....lol. kinda makes it all the more fun...

  • @persebra Yup, the score is great. And the concept is completely silly. That's why we loved it.

  • Talk about a bygone era! But a damn fun one to live in: those really were the days!

  • @scotnick59 they sure were. And impossible to explain to people who didn't experience them, like trying to explain snow to a lizard at the equator.

  • So this is the guy Lady Gaga was singing about ;) Alejandooooo!

  • the flying nun...the story of a girl so frighteningly anorexic she defied gravity. they don't make 'em like this anymore!

  • @lorimneal

    97lbs. for a girl that's 5'2" isn't anorexic.

    This was the 60's. The era I grew up in. Fantasy based stories dominated TV at the time. It was ridiculous, but we understood that, and enjoyed it for what it was.

  • @b30307 inorder for an actress of sally's stature to play 97lbs on screen she would have had to be at LEAST 10 lbs under that weight. Knowing actresses, she was proly 20lbs underweight. Don't you know how Hollyweird works, ESPECIALLY in the 60's? that would have put her, a grown woman, at 5'2" & 77 lbs. In third grade I was roughly 5'1" and 85lbs. My family called me Bonezilla. Dig?

  • @lorimneal So are you saying that todays version would be the "Christian boat anchor" :-)

  • @lorimneal No She wasn't Anorexac, It was the Nun's Helmet she Had to wear. it was to Heavy it lifted her up in the air.

  • @lorimneal She wasn't frighteningly anorexic because before she did The Flying Nun, she did Gidget, and she wore bikinis in Gidget, and she didn't look anorexic. Also, while she was filming The Flying Nun, she was pregnant with her first son. 

  • @Beautifulmusiclistnr Obviously, the guy who said that she was anorexic was trying to be funny. Clearly, she was a nascent saint.

  • Ok Steve..it was during the 60's..people were on hallucinogenic drugs..

  • How Cute!!!!!!!!!!!

  • hahahaha flying nun!!!!

  • she won two academy awards.

  • I did like The Flying Nun when it was first on.Of course I also admire Sally Field for going further in films and television.She wouldn't be typecast!

  • Thats impossible! you're a nun, you're not suppose to fly!

  • Quite possibly the stupidest show of all time.

  • @algavin47 "Stupidest show of all time"? Not by a long shot . . . I remember "My Mother, the Car" about a guy whose Mom dies and is reincarnated as an old-time automobile. Or "Dusty's Trail", which was Gilligan from "Gilligan's Island" in the Old West. "The Flying Nun" doesn't even scratch the surface of stupidity. And don't even get me started about TV commercials - a 100 foot tall green man selling peas and corn? A white knight on horseback selling detergent?

  • @phmike69

    I know what you mean! I wanted to find where Mr. Ed lived just so I could talk to a talking horse and I also wanted to find the neighborhood from "Mother in Laws" because I wanted to spend one day with those 2 funny families. Oh our young innocent minds!

  • Sally Fields rues this series

  • If you're going to fight, pick a spot and go fight --if not shut up and get off the internet. You guys are the worst. BUnch of loudmouthed hairless pussies talking crap and hiding behind anonymity and your mom's saggy labia.

  • trippy.

  • If it meant I could fly, I wouldn't mind being a nun...

  • i watched this when I was a kid and wondred how she kept the hat on. like with glue?

  • Whoever created this program must have been tripping on acid.

  • @lezfriend no, just had imagination, something sorely lacking today.

  • @theschizoidman ... you couldn't be more incorrect. 

  • Oh well, if St Teresa of Avila could levitate, why not Sally Fields?

  • Monja, vuele!

  • I love this show do'nt make 'em like this no more.

  • I loved the episode where she smashed into the side of a 1967 Buick Wildcat, and her points were all frigged up. Godamm and sunovabitch such a beautiful car. !

  • Wow! Our Girl Scout protege cookie mom was just nominated for Flying Leader Of The Year! What an honor! Thank you all!!!!!

  • Gee, all this ugly fighting and quibbling over a theme song to a funny show. Come on, now. Everyone take a deep breath and take a chill pill. As far as I'm concerned, there is no reason for such a hotly, and nasty debate to be going on. Its just a song, after all, not a documentary.

  • @ProudKansan08 some people love fighting, they live for it. Don't try to change them, only they can change themselves. Ignore them, enjoy life and hope they do too, someday.

  • i used to watch this show as a kid...so cute!

  • Thanks for the memory! If I remember right, Sister Bertrille only weighed 97 lbs and it was the combination of her weight, the hat to her habit, and the winds that blew on the island where the convent was that allowed her to fly at certain times. This is television when it still had real talent and ideas. And doesn't Sally Field still look great today even though she used Boniva! : )

  • @OKSteve best comment ever XD

  • @OKSteve Close! Sister Bertrille weighed only 90 lbs.but the rest is right!

  • @OKSteve , "real talent and ideas"????? The Flying Nun???? Surely you jest. Television viewers by this time were literally starving for the revolution that was about to happen in television, starting with All in the Family and Mary Tyler Moore -- literate sh