1969 ABC Fall Preview Part 1

[sflachuck]

The New People = Lost?

[rebelrebel1721]

Boy, this video brings back some good memories.

[humbleradio]

Anyone recognize the announcer here? Sounds so familiar, sort of like Hal Holbrook, but he was way too big of a star back then to be doing VOs.

[pointerpals]

I thought it sounded like William Schallert

[humbleradio]

@007Crusoe And in ten years everything on your PC will be ancient, ten after that, some kid will be making the same joke you are. The nature of things, only faster and faster as computers now dominate our lives more and more.

[curlyfry44]

Wow....I completely forgot the abc movie of the week movie entro. this brings back so many memories of 1969 and 1970.....thanks for puttig this on

[mrspatrickcampbell]

1969 marked the most tragic event in homosexual history:

June 22, 1969

[darius595]

the movie of the week

[darius595]

a lot of those shows look pretty bad

[virnman]

Wow, they had a show just like Lost back in good old '69...I love it

[Neville6000]

@virnman: Unfortunately, it wasn't on TV long, just a few months (September 1969-January 1970) and 17 episodes

[cegross]

Just think! When these programs were on in primetime, shows like the Cattanooga Cats, Smokey the Bear and Casper the Friendly Ghost were running on their Saturday morning line up! Meanwhile, on NBC, H.R. Pufnstuff debuted, and on CBS, Scooby Doo Where Are You was on for the first time!

[itchycoopark2]

nice memories.. thanks for posting...

[vegas787]

beautiful graphics! and a really cool jingle....

[elvis3700]

Those were the days

[zamusicza]

How glad do you think the Lennon Sisters were to get a gig?

[fordman4444]

@zamusicza  I think with talent !!!

[mvp822]

Wasn't that Paul Williams singing the jingle?

[mvp822]

Wasn't that Paul Williams singing the jingle?

[jrdroptini]

Thank you for posting these television previews. I am 54, and it has brought back some fond memories.

[YummieLA]

TV was GREAT in 1969 - This brings back memories.

[ftsjr]

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I was 12 when these shows premiered, and I watched many of them. Music Scene, The New People and The Courtship of Eddie's Father were particular favorites of mine. Ah, the long-ago days of youth.

[Turkeydoodlers]

I'd watch these shows any day compared to the crap they have now

American idol suffering dancing with the stars to name 2 of many

[isselman2000]

Same junk they're showing today. Only poorer quality and not as well produced.

[craigblast]

Life was simple during these times.

[ratbasket]

Everybody was thinner in those days.

[JacksonPerdue]

.....meanwhile in the jungles of Vietnam........

[Spartacus217]

@JacksonPerdue Exactly!

[CanadaguyRudey]

@JacksonPerdue

soldiers were fighting for your freedom

[hankaaron1961]

@CanadaguyRudey The Vietcong were fighting for their freedom and independence.  We were dying for colonialism.

[debfan74]

I like how they took more pride in the shows they put out for people to watch...today they do not do this

[waverly2468]

Read the book "Trillion Dollar Meltdown" by Charles Morris, an excellent short summary of the decline of the economy over the last 50 years. He attributes a lot of the decline to the baby boomers--they made rebellion and drugs acceptable in the 60's, then when they started to enter the housing market in the 70's, that's when housing prices started to go up.

[acgillespie]

This was the begining of the end of the american dream, this is when the elites started brainwashing the american sheeple to keep us all divided and hating oneanother and there mission has been completed flawlessly, as a result, we can kiss our freedoms and our country good bye forever, thanks sheeple of america for being such gulible retards

[gchaed]

Yeah I say that all the time but no one listens they just think I'm crazy. But I'm not

[heebieandjeebie]

Glad I was born in 1963....awesome growing up back than...today world sucks!!!

[acgillespie]

Your right, I was born in 1960 and todays here in the usa does suck... It was all done by design by the elites to keep us all divided and fighting and being miserable human beings all for the love of profit from everything, courts, counsling, drugs, anger mngt, divorse,child suport fee's and on and on.

the usa is doomed and it was all done to a bunch of very stupid gulible sheeple who believe everything they see and hear.

Im ready for the next life cause this one really does suck

[auntbecky]

Like it didn't suck 40 years ago. No, my firend. Give me today over any time in the past.

[Nikes62]

ABC's biggest year that fall was "Marcus Welby, MD"...however, the network had been shown a pilot for a revolutionary new show that would change the face of TV...That show was "All in the Family", and CBS picked it up as a mid-season replacement the following year.

[tommyfuller103]

life was less complicted then!

[arai59]

Boy , you aint just a kidding.

[gchaed]

Jesus, what happened to TV?

[acgillespie]

The elites took contol, that is what happend to tv, how you like life in the USA today? sex. drugs.and rock n roll and now we are getting ready to kiss our country goodbye, thanks to the american sheeple

[SenorZorrozzz]

The Ghost & Mrs. Muir- was on NBC then went to ABC!

[RockinEd]

@SenorZorrozzz I only remember it on ABC

[SenorZorrozzz]

THEY WERE TRYING SO HARD TO BE HIP, GROOVY, TURNED ON...it didn't work!

[binkle1]

A lot of shows "went nowheah," as the actor says in "The New People!"

[tomloft2000]

Marcus Welby was a great show,and it's a shame The Courtship of Eddie's Father can't come back.

[binkle1]

I've gotten back into "Marcus Welby, M.D.," which airs on RTV here in central PA. The medical technology seems laughable now, but remember, it was cutting edge back then! Everybody wanted their doctor to be either (1) warm and compassionate like Dr. Welby or (2) hot and short-tempered like Dr. Kiley. Elena Verdugo was a sheer delight. I believe she won an Emmy, didn't she? Even worse: Robert Young was only three years older than my husband is NOW when the series started!!!!

[Juliaflo]

I would like to convince my fellow New Yorkers to carry RTV. I HATE TV Land.

[NowhereMan1966]

RTV, you must get it out of Johnstown. I get two RTV's, one here in Pittsburgh and I am in range of the one out of Steubenville, Ohio. RTV is much better than TV Land, even if it is run on a shoe string.

[PDS1990]

I would've loved to see The Brady Bunch back in 1969. Now it's 40 years later... TV Land's got them covered.

[frankd1965]

hard to imagine that the Brady Bunch debuted 40 years old

[Juliaflo]

@frankd1965 .....So did Marcus Welby, M.D.

[fuzztop11]

@PDS1990 It was great!! We even talked about the show at school. They were using the same books that we had. The producers did a good job of keeping up with what we kids thought was cool back then.

I'm glad I grew up then. It was a lot of fun being a kid then. (smile)

[lizgonz1019]

I was 13 years old in 1969 and I loved to hear the new theme songs of the ABC Fall Previews, especially this one... Coming In September on ABC... Thanks for posting it. You've brought back great memories.

[rladpm]

Believe it or not, treebarb and zibbyzubb, this is exactly what was shown , the whole thing at once. You'll notice the promo is about 20 minutes long ,. so when you add the commercial breaks, it filled the entire half hour slot. I was 8 years old when this preview was shown, all 3 networks had half hour specials every year, right around Labor Day. People looked forward to it, to see what was going to be on TV, since there were only 3 major networks. Today all the channels make it a non event.

[Treebard]

What amazes me (apart from the high quality of programming back then) was the LENGTH of this promo! Did people actually sit through this whole thing? What an amazing attention span people must have had back then! Can you imagine people even sitting still for this whole thing these days?

[zibbyzubb]

I don't think these aired on the networks in this length. I think these spots were produced for the local affiliates to see what the network had coming up, and perhaps as a tool for the affiliates sales departments to use to sell local advertising. I am sure the networks also used these to sell the national commercial spots. I remember 30 to 60 second spots advertising the fall schedules.

[elfinmajictime]

Yes they did air. We looked forward to them every fall.

[zibbyzubb]

They really did air these huh? Wow! I don't remember them. I do remember the short ones. Didn't they air them during the summer though? Well, at least I can see them here. I hope more get posted for all three networks. Thanks to those who have posted the ones we have. It was a good time.

[frankd1965]

this like Mr. Peabody's Waybak machine

[goplh]

Considering there were only 3 channels to choose from and no dvds, Internet, or video games, yes I suppose it's reasonable.

[acgillespie]

your so right, is it not amazing what a graet job RX drugs has done for the Human mind, Our country is nothing but a bunch of Zombies today and you see it in politics, Ceo's, our country is doomed because of it

[hanbone76]

I remember when the Fall Preview issue of TV GUIDE was something that I always looked forward to getting.Nowadays theres so much garbage on,I wonder what television would be like in 20yrs from now..

[hormelinc]

Wow Michael Parks looks a lot different now in Tarantino's movies (Kill Bill and Grindhouse).

[zibbyzubb]

You know, we only had three networks back then but TV was so much better than what we have now. That includes daytime TV too. I remember as a kid when the networks would start airing these promos for the fall programs, usually around mid July. While I was never excited to go back to school, the new TV shows always made September a lot more tolerable. Oh to have a time machine.

[nonner33]

I completely agree with you. Back in the day TV was an event; something to look forward tto and get excited about. Now it's nothing more than reality stars and background noise. Those were the days.

[DrHogfan]

youtube is a time machine.

[zibbyzubb]

Well, youtube is a great trip down memory lane but it can't put me in my old family room laying on the green shag carpet in my Batman PJs watching our old console color TV while my parents' blue 1968 Caprice Station wagon complete with wood paneled sides sits in the drive way. No, I would need a real time machine for that. If only.

[DrHogfan]

we were a little bit later on the green shag carpet but we did have some in the early 70's. This may not be a "time machine" but I am amazed at memories U2b brings back.

[fairnorth]

The network programmers and executives were at the top of their game. These were outstanding shows !

[TruEfuckinLegend]

is that why they lasted so long and are still remebered?

[zibbyzubb]

Yes, they are remembered by those of us who were alive then and watched these shows. Being that you are only 19, what is your interest here anyway other than to be rude and obnoxious. Go comment on Dancing With The Stars or the Bachelorette. Probably more your speed anyway.

[godadameve]

Man, looking back on this from the perspective of an 'old codger' at 6:03, Karen Valentine was EXTREMELY 'Doable'!

[godadameve]

Hey! Weird. Talk about history repeating itself...or more like Television eating itself! At 2:08 The NEW PEOPLE. Someone correct me, but isn't that just LOST 30 years before??

[50marioD]

ABC had the 90 minute Movie of the Week.One which was "The Ballad of Andy Crocker".This movie certainly hit home,as many,many vets had trouble adjusting to life back home.

[frankd1965]

The war in VietNam was going on when "The Ballad Of Andy Crocker" aired in 1969.

Lee Majors was Andy Crocker. A VietNam Veteran trying to deal with adjustment to civilian life.

[binkle1]

That theme song to "Movie of the Week" STILL gives me chills. It was SO far ahead of its time, with its sound and pre-CGI effects!

[frankd1965]

The "Movie Of The Week" was cutting edge programming back then

[waverly2468]

Yeah, that Movie of the Week theme is awesome. The "slit-scan" title was reportedly done by the guy who did the "slit-scan" effects at the end of "2001 a Space Odyssey."

[frankd1965]

@waverly2468 Douglas Trumball did the design for the opening and closing of the Movie Of The Week. Font used was peignot which was later used on the mary tyler moore show.

[fuzztop11]

@waverly2468

I love that Movie of the Week theme. It is so cool the way the melody moves. I remember that theme as a kid and thought it was so cool even then,

Man those were some great days to grow up in.

[acgillespie]

so very true and it was all done by design.

here we are 40 years later and look at how everyone is here now. this country has been destroyed by leting the elites drug us to death and kill our brains from being able to do critical thinking.. people today are just plain stupid and they have done it to themselfs by being very gulible and today our lifes suck because of it, kids today do not stand a chance unless there from the familys of the elites.

[frankd1965]

@50marioD Other films of The Movie Of The Week for the 1969/1970 season included Seven I Darkness, The Immortal, The Over The Hill gang, The Monk, Carter's Army, Wake Me When The War Is Over, The pigeon. They also go a lot of the entertainers from Hollywood's "Good ol days" such as Andy Devine, Ida Lupino, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Edward G. Robinson and others.

[LondonWeekendLesbian]

wow tv was certainly a different world back then

[PawlieGR]

Wow this was exactly 40 years ago this Summer!

[9aspengold5]

when TV was decent and grand to watch.

[ShermansAlley]

William Schallert on the voice over?

[ftsjr]

A great memory. Way back in 1969, before cable, I watched a lot of ABC. Many of these shows, in fact. In my Jr. High, The Music Scene, and The New People were voted the most watched shows in school. Unfortunately, due to stiff competition from CBS and NBC, neither show survived past January 70. Long ago days.

[frankd1965]

The Brady Bunch, Marcus Welby MD, Room 222, Love American Style, The Courtship Of Eddie's Father, and The ABC Movie Of The Week were renewed for the 1970-1971 season.

BTW The Brady Bunch, Room 222 & Love American Style are on DVD and The Lennon Sister had Jimmy "The Schnozolla" Durante"

[ftsjr]

With the exception of The Lennon Sisters, I was an avid watcher of ALL the shows that you mentioned. I also watched Mod Squad, The Odd Couple, That Girl, and Nanny & the Professor; ABC shows, all. Ah, the joys of childhood memories.

[frankd1965]

i have three DVDs of the 1969-1970 movies from "The Movie Of The Week" The films are "Wake Me When The War Is Over, The Over The Hill Gang and The Ballad Of Andy Crocker"

[ftsjr]

"The Ballad of Andy Crocker." That was a good movie. Since "The Big Valley" was on past my bedtime, that movie was the first time I ever saw Lee Majors. Also, Joey Heatherton was still HOT.

[frankd1965]

Those were the days. Andy Crocker aired at the time we were still engaged in the war in Vietnam

[frankd1965]

"The Ballad Of Andy Crocker" also starred Agnes Moorhead(Endora from Bewitched), Pat Hingle(Cat On A Hot Tin Roof), Motown Legend Marvin Gaye, Sausage king Jimmy Dean & Booby Hatfield of The Rightous Brothers.

BTW: Joey Heatherton often appeared on The old Dean Martin Variety show.

[xzane14]

Alot of Series never make past 4 or 5 episodes... If anyone remebers DELVECCHI TV series.. The Spin off from that show is HILL STREET BLUES..

Man where does the Time Go?

[cdfreester]

OMG, the New People is Lost!

And Charles Nelson Reilly! I had forgotten about that guy.

[brabon1]

ya...no shit

there is nothing new under the sun

[frankd1965]

He gained greater fame on the 1970's series "Match Game" with Gene Rayburn.

[msjosephine2]

Would you tell me where you get old tv clips like this?

[tvfats]

I was a local sales manager for an ABC station in California in the 70's and this was a yearly presentation film made for the affliate group as well as advertiser pitches...NO ONE could make promos like ABC in the late 60's and into the 70's...Last on the ratings ladder, ABC took chances and had the most creative TV fare for years...They were masters at co-promotion of their stars moving them into MOV's and other shows on the line up...The grand days of TV were then......Bring on the memories!.

[MGR1900]

Creative TV seems to be dying. Reality shows have all but replaced drama, science fiction, and mystery shows. It's time for a rebirth of creativity.

[tcpiii]

@MGR1900 I think creative tv is basically dead.

[MGR1900]

@tcpiii I just realized I don't watch any tv anymore except news. There's absolutely nothing on worthwhile.

[Studmasterify]

@MGR1900 Creativity has been convoluted by Pay TV in the US. From your after creativity on free to air look at the BBC

[cegross]

@MGR1900

Reality TV is science fiction, drama and mystery shows!

[Neville6000]

@MGR1900: Bullshit! A lot of shows on TV are dramas and comedies: it's just that most people like yourself only want everything to be as it was in the past, with all of the TV shows as unrealistic and as unsophisticated (Green Acres, Gomer Pyle, etc.) as ever.If you can't get into any of the sitcoms, dramas, cop shows, lawyer shows that are on now, I think it's YOU who have the problem and NOT the TV industry (remember, there is good and bad on TV of ALL ERAS, not just this one.)

[BobsWorld666]

Was this a film shown to ABC affiliates at some meeting?

[frankd1965]

Yes. I was shown around the end of the previous season. this was a preview of the 1969-1970 season which was shown around May.

[steadfastcoward]

I'd venture to say that 1969 may have been the BEST YEAR overall for ABC. The major problem was that it had a gaping hole in a few places, like IDAHO and most of OREGON to be specific where primary affliates were rare. ABC is somewhat to blame for not realizing that the then common system of offering TV affiliations to existing radio network stations was crippling them when those stations often did not have the money to open a television station and allocations weren't always favorable for them.

[frankd1965]

I grew up in San Francisco, California. We have EVERYTHING. especially the 1969-1970 season.

[steadfastcoward]

You had KGO! Of course you did : ) Was the FM still theirs then? Wasn't that what became Free FM (KITS?) or have I got the wrong frequency in mind?

[alarbman39]

Again, these were the days for classic network TV. Most of the shows now are junk, I mainly watch cable networks (CNN, History, Nat Geo, Weather Channel, etc). I still watch a lot of sports, and American Idol, Cold Case, and 24. But that's about it LOL...

[alarbman39]

"Movie of The Week" was a classic!

[frankd1965]

Sure was. Was cutting edge dealing with topics of the day and They did cast a lot of actors & Actresses from Hollywood's "Good Old Days". Helen Hayes, Ida Lupino, Phil Silvers, Andy Devine, Walter Brennan, Jack Albertson. Also up and coming stars to. Michael Douglas, Jeff Bridges, Beau Bridges, Sally Field.

[frankd1965]

typeface used on Movie Of The Week was Peignot.

[garthrussel]

The really sad thing is that I am old enough to remember a lot of these shows.

[frankd1965]

I do remember The Brady Bunch, Marcus Welby M.D., The Movie Of The Week.

[fromthesidelines]

The "problem" with "THE NEW PEOPLE" was its running time- it was the ONLY TV drama in prime-time that lasted 45 minutes [8:15-9pm(et) on Mondays, right after "THE MUSIC SCENE"], making it very difficult to schedule in future syndication on local stations. The fact that it lasted only 17 episodes also made it virtually impossible to syndicate the series. The episodes are somewhere in either producer Aaron Spelling's or ABC's "secret vault", waiting to be rediscovered....

[VirtualVikki]

I sure wish The NEW People was out on DVD. the only episode I have is a bad copy of the pilot. While life in that year may not have been all that great the television sure was great!

[warlaker]

It was great back then because TV was meant to be a getaway from reality. Now it mimics reality.

[TIPTON340]

the networks gave up doing previews back in the late eighties, but if they did shows would have a chance. Then a show had a whole

year to air to try to find an audience, now a week tops.

[lookingbill1]

man i can't still remember that tune just can't get tired of singing it...correction on my age I was 7 or 8 at that time when this aired.

[lookingbill1]

WOW THAT WAS FANTASTIC! Thank you for posting this I was about 8 or 9 years old when this aired.

[noahf67]

Is "The New People" on DVD somewhere?

It looked pretty good...

[Jeff98177]

I remember the ABC Movie of the Week music. Hard to believe this was 40 years ago!

[frankd1965]

Me too. sticks to you for years. The font used was peignot. They also had great movies like The Night Stalker, The Night Strangler, The Ballad Of Andy Crocker, How Awful About Alan and others

[frankd1965]

Font used on The Movie Of The Week was Peignot.

[PTH4Fun]

Hey, bobtwcatlanta. What's your full name and where do you live..?

[bobtwcatlanta]

I live in Atlanta. Dont want to give my full name.

[PTH4Fun]

Ah, Sorry about that. But my appologies to you sir.

[storrs19]

If only we had good shows now. Back then we had three channels all with great shows. Now we have 200 channels and nothing but garbage on all of them.

[JTPolo101]

Ain't that the truth

[zibbyzubb]

You got that right. Not only the the networks and cable channels show crap, but now it seems that all the channels exist for is to sell their airtime to those F'ing PAID PROGRAMMING spots a.k.a. infomercials. Damn the FCC for deregulating TV commercial time in the 80s. That is when the half hour informercials began. Remember that idiot in the sweaters? They called it Amazing Discoveries but it was basically a 30 minute commercial. What are we paying for cable for when they sell off their time?

[wildhokum]

Great! Thanks for posting these.