Discovery '68 - ABC Sunday Morning Kids Show - 1968

[Yepprd]

In the 60's color TVs were in the high $400's!!!! Using an internet inflation calculator, that's $3953 if bought today..that means a color TV in the 60's was worth a relatively decent used vehicle!!

[jshalom65]

I remember the weird graphics in the intro and the jaunty theme music (so 60's !)

[SwingAge22]

This music and this TV show brings back such warm memories of childhood. Incredible........I remember the early days of the show the best: Discovery '66, '67 and '68.

[raelraven2]

Wow! I love it! Such great memories :)

[Sheri451]

I don't remember this program. But I was only five then, plus we were always at church on Sunday Mornings. Now I can remember coming home from evening Sunday services and watching Walt Disney and Lassie.

[bellier20]

Let it go? You're the mouth breather that keeps spamming me. Go get something resembling a life.

[bellier20]

Yeah, you're right, you "just don't know." Don't tell me, you're one of those twats who just shows up to take a dump on whatever happens to be sitting around, right? So you think programming from '68 isn't up to your standards. Then WTF are you doing here? Piss off and go find something you like.

[jazzbo13]

Award winning. Looks like it was done by a 6 year old with a camera phone.

[bellier20]

@jazzbo13 The STORIES were the award winners, not the intro. Besides, this was 1968 ... kids weren't born with iPads coming out of their asses yet ad the hand-drawn cel animation is great. You don't know much, do you?

[jazzbo13]

@bellier20 Go back to your flip book and crayons, jackass.

[bellier20]

@jazzbo13 You wouldn't know quality if it came up and bit you in your pimply ass, I don't care how many iPads you jerk off over.

[jazzbo13]

@bellier20 You again? Hey, just because it’s old, doesn’t make it a classic. Just like you showering 7 times a day doesn’t make you feel clean.

[jazzbo13]

@bellier20 You again? You've got a real hard on about this show. Hey, just because it’s old, doesn’t make it a classic. Just like you showering 7 times a day doesn’t make you feel clean.

[jazzbo13]

@bellier20 It seems that you are a little bit too attached to this obscure, little YOU TUBE clip from over 40 years ago. Maybe it’s radiation from sitting too close to the television. Maybe your mother tied you to your high chair with an extension cord and forced you to watch hour after hour of “classics” while she slept off a liquid lunch. Maybe you didn’t get a color set until 1971. I don’t know.

[jazzbo13]

@bellier20 Whatever happened, it obviously left an unspeakable and indelible impression on you. Do everyone and yourself a favor. Double up on the Prozac, get out of your mother’s basement, and get into the real world. Take a walk to your favorite comic-book store! Have lunch at a Subway! Experience that first touch of a woman!

[jazzbo13]

@bellier20 Most importantly, let it go. You sound like someone that has a social and mental deficit.

[Mrilovekay]

wow this really blew my mind.... the music! i remember it!.... a tight little

ensemble piece... great riff lines... walking bass and what is that?.... is that Dave Brubeck on piano? how cool... what? did ABC have a bunch of jazz musicians picking up extra work after playing in smokey jazz clubs all night? i was years away from my first joint...  just a kid sitting in front of a b&w philco tv set taking in some very cool 60's tail end of beat generation hip

[4thtroika]

Far out!

[number1scatterbrain]

I loved the theme. Probably my first exposure to jazz, when I was a child in the 1960s.

[Zoomer30]

Won't you be by neighbor? With a sound track like that it's not suprising that Excedrin was invented in the 60s.

[altfactor]

The jazzy theme music made the show worth watching!

Is it true that Virginia Gibson was the aunt of Charles Gibson??

[mrsgstd]

Wow, I remember watching this every Sunday morning, all the way back when it was "Discovery '64." I was so young, I had no idea what the '64 meant! Hard to believe there was actually a time when network TV had some merrit.

[leonthedog]

Don't remember this show, but I DO remember enjoying Bullwinkle more than Sunday School. Probably why I turned out agnostic. Thanks for the post.

[citizenterryk]

@leonthedog bullwinkle definitely was the case with me.......Bullwinkle and Beany & Cecil were infinitely more relevant than the fundie spew i was subjected to when i had to go to Sunday School......

[lazyel]

Wow! Thanks friend for the upload. I am 50 years old now and i last heard this tune in the early 70's. Man i still remember it. Great! Fanatastic! Thanks again.

[TheStanbabe]

The first episodes of"Discovery"were broadcast live from The Ritz Theater in NYC and on location..the rest of the shows were done on location.

[Shoknifeman]

Wow, I knew I wasn't imagining this show's existance! I am 7yrs old again!!

[Kramden429]

Now that Disney owns ABC, why don't they see about putting "Discovery" on DVD (if not season sets, then just "best of" episodes)?

I submitted this show to TV Shows on DVD.com and voted for it; I'm not sure how many votes "Discovery" has now.

I remember watching this show after "Bullwinkle" on Sunday mornings; it aired at 11:30 A.M. on WXYZ-TV, Channel 7, in Detroit (then an ABC-owned-and -operated station).

I remember our Dad would watch "Discovery" with me and my younger sister, too.

[Neville6000]

@Kramden429: This show has no relevance to today (most of the info is outdated) and could easily be seen on the Discovery Channel or any of the specialty channels on now (unfortunately, Discovery Kids was got rid of) or PBS for free.

[143AC]

Does anyone have the very first "Discovery"shows with Mr.Frank Buxton and Ms.Virgina Gibson?

[143AC]

Dear Gladasaya,

Actually..the very last live kids tv show that ABC TV produced was"Animals/Animals/Animals!"w­ith Mr.Hal Linden,Ms.Lynn Kellogg and

Mr.Roger Karrass.

[56BUICKRiviera]

I remember changing the channel. Im sorry I was never able to enjoy this show when I was a child. Loved Bullwinkle however.

[misshoodectomy]

all we had was wonderama.

[fordude60]

I remember this show very well. Watched it every Sunday morning, first on WVEC Channel 13 in Norfolk, VA, and later on WLVA Channel 13 in Lynchburg, VA (now WSET). We still had a black & white set (1960 GE 25") so I never saw it in color unless I was somewhere else.

[rdcuff]

PS...I also like seeing the ABC Color Presentation intro...that wasn't used all that often since most ABC shows had their own lead-ins with the tag line "in color" added.

[rdcuff]

This was a Sunday staple in our house in the mid 1960s. We'd get home from church by 10:40 or so...in time to watch The Bullwinkle Show at 11 and Discovery at 11:30. Definitely worth watching.

[gladasya10]

The last of the Sunday kids shows was "Kids Are People, Too". The original host was Bob McAllister of "Wonderama" fame. Almost immediately he got into creative differences with ABC and was fired from the show. He was replaced first by Michael Todd, who was later replaced by Randy Hamilton. The show premiered in September 1978. One of the more popular segments was "Dear Alex & Annie", where Alex & Annie (Bing Bingham & Donna Drake) answered letters about teen problems. Show ended in 11/1982

[brabon1]

good lord...i remember this show

[Nancydah]

i remember discovery 66 with corpusle the blood hound!

[johnbell58]

I am 51 and i remember that show - a travel magazine - the music stuck in my head ever since - i think i remember a discovery 66

[akampfer]

There was an obit in the 10/15/09 issue of the New York Times along with a picture and they mentioned his producing Discovery as well as Mr. Wizard. He was 87.

[akampfer]

Sorry, I forgot to mention the obit was on the producer Jules Power.

[nanlisa]

I definitely remember this show.

[4gnrations07]

geez i forgot about this until i started humming the song before i heard it & surprised i had it right!

[143AC]

Dear Gymnastix, The other host/performer/narrator and interviewer of

Discovery with The JFK hairstyle that you're trying to

recall..is Miss.Gibson's first co-host..Mr.Frank Buxton.

[143AC]

Dear Baysadaye, In NYC..we saw wonderful fun kids tv shows

on WABD/WNEW TV Ch.5 they aired Wonderama

and on WPIX TV Ch.11 they aired Let's Have Fun!

on Sunday mornings during the 1950's,60's & 70'.s.

[fromthesidelines]

This aired on Sunday mornings at 11:30am(et), right after repeats of "THE BULLWINKLE SHOW". It stayed on as long as it did because someone at the network's news division was genuinely interested in "quality" children's programming. In 1971, it was succeeded by a more contemporary series, "MAKE A WISH", hosted by Tom Chapin [Harry's brother}, through 1976.

[micmac99]

Make A Wish was in turn replaced by "Animals Animals Animals" with Hal Linden. Then ABC replaced it altogether in 1981 with "This Week", ending nearly two uninterrupted decades of weekend morning "edutainment" shows.

[jupitr2]

This show was on Sunday mornings and aired before 'Mr. Magoo' or 'Bullwinkle' and those goofy 'Fractured Fairy Tales'.

Loved to watch this as it was a lesson in something that didn't really seem like a lesson. Loved the music too! Thanks so much for snagging this off Ebay and taking the time to convert, upload and share it with all of us. This Youtube thing truly is extraordinary in how we can communcate and share rare stuff like this. What a flashback!

[bassethound1]

OK am I nuts in remembering a Saturday TV show, possibly hosted by Bill Bixby, that featured a different US state every week?

[studebaker62]

Somehwere in my pysche I had buried this tune in the deepest recesses of my mind. Thanks(?) for dredging it up - I know can't get it out my head - its a major earwig! Makes me wonder what else is buried deep down there as well...

[Freenbean]

It would be interesting to view an episode to see how well it hold up.

[madsixtian]

Thanks loads Baysadaye for posting this!!! I remember this show - this is the first time I've seen the beginning and ending in years!!!! Thanks for bringing back some fun memories!

[maleadmirer]

This is a treat to view the intro and closing credits of the show DISCOVERY. How were you able to find the intro and closing credits of DISCOVERY?? Thanks for posting it.

[baysadaye]

I found two 16mm episodes of "Discovery" on eBay several years ago. Thanks for your interest.

[gymnastix]

Will you upload the complete episodes here on Yube?

Gosh, I remember when this show was titled "Discovery '63" and "Discovery '64." The show lasted several seasons and I recognized the theme song instantly.

There was another host of the program, along with Virginia Gibson, I can picture him, with a JFK-like haircut, kind of resembled actor Vic Morrow (of "Combat" fame).

[Freenbean]

there were two male co-hosts: Frank Buxton (the first 4 seasons) followed by Bill Owen (the final 5 years)

[auntbecky]

i think they might even have had jules bergman on occasion.

[JGT30]

Thanks Baysadaye, for posting this...Ahh, such memories of waking up Saturday mornings in the late 60's at 7AM to watch this show on ABC. Today similar things are shown on the Discovery channel as well as the History channel. Thanks for posting also the closing song. I remember humming that tune a lot as a kid in the late 60's.