If you want to see this series, it's now out on DVD! Ships on or about Dec 6: Order the 50th anniversary collector's edition -- with new interviews, audio commentary by cast and crew, and even a limited edition postcard with a cast autograph. Come to my channel or go to dickensandfensterdvd with a dot and a com now.
I met John Astin at The Fan Expo here in Toronto, Canada August 2011. I told him I still remember I'm Dickens, He's Fenster. I think he was surprised when I mentioned this old show to him! He is a very nice gentleman!
I was seven when this came on TV, and I remember it distinctly. Hard to believe that a sitcom about inept contractors starring Marty Ingels and John Astin would be a hit, but flop it did. Belly flop in fact. I loved the theme music, but nowadays it makes my ears bleed.
This was just a few days before the Cuban Missile Crisis. Unfortunately, I was only five back then, so I was too young to understand what was going on back then.
CORRECTION: Procter & Gamble was the "primary" sponsor; Consolidated Cigar was the "alternate" sponsor. A two-volume DVD of the series [all 32 episodes] is schedule to be released next year!
I watched this show regularly as a kid and I thought is was funny. Kinda sad when it was cancelled. I think it aired on the ABC Television Network Friday nights after "The Flintstones".
As a seven year old kid I bought it completely. Looking back it's a little surprising they would cast Marty Ingels as a ladies man..... Unless I'm missing something... Ladies?
That was about the time when ABC-TV had first unveiled their "Circle" logo as seen at the end of this broadcast which was right at the beginning of the 1962-63 season.
ABC started to add sitcoms to it's Fall line-up during the '62-'63 season, like this, as well as McHale's Navy, trying to get away from the steady diet of dramas and westerns.
Yes, that's right, not to mention that also in the fall of 1960, the Flintstones had premiered as first a primetime adult comedy with commercials for Winston cigarettes for the first couple seasons. It was a more gradual process with new shows replacing old shows until finally in the fall of 1963, when the last remaining old shows, such as the Untouchables, 77 Sunset Strip and Hawaiian Eye were all replaced with new shows, thus naming the 1963-64 season as "The New ABC".
Looking back on this Ivory ad, now, I can see that it wasn't that the mother looked as young as the daughter but that the daughter looked as old as the mother!
Is there anything at all I can't find on YouTube? I never missed an episode of this show and I loved the theme song! I even sent for and received autographed glossies of John Astin and Marty Ingels. I was nine years old. After this show, I'd switch the channel to CBS for "Fair Exchange." (There's something I can't find anywhere, including YouTube.)
I always missed "McKeever & The Colonel". McKeever was a Bilko-type at a military school. Kind of like the great "Belles Of St. Trinians" film series from the UK
Oh ,yeah! Mckeever and the Colonel. One of my favorites as a kid. I can remember owning a Milton Bradley board game based on that show. What was the name of the school? Westfield?
A "one-season wonder" {ABC, Fridays, 9-9:30pm(et)}, created and produced by the man who once wrote for Jackie Gleason {"THE HONEYMOONERS"} and Phil Silvers {"THE PHIL SILVERS SHOW"}, and later became executive producer of "GET SMART!". Consolidated Cigar {El Producto} was the primary sponsor; Procter & Gamble {Ivory Liquid} was the alternate. It was a custom for the sponsor to flash their product in a corner of the screen during the closing credits...Ellen McRae later became "Ellen Burstyn".
If you want to see this series, it's now out on DVD! Ships on or about Dec 6: Order the 50th anniversary collector's edition -- with new interviews, audio commentary by cast and crew, and even a limited edition postcard with a cast autograph. Come to my channel or go to dickensandfensterdvd with a dot and a com now.
thetvtimemachine 3 months ago
To thetvtimemachine
Where can I buy the 1950's TV series "Topper"?
neatoauctions 1 month ago
why were there only commercials???
llazy1 3 months ago
I was just 7 when that show aired. I haven't seen it since it was prime time. That theme song is even dopier sounding now than I remembered it.
ramblerclassic400 4 months ago
I met John Astin at The Fan Expo here in Toronto, Canada August 2011. I told him I still remember I'm Dickens, He's Fenster. I think he was surprised when I mentioned this old show to him! He is a very nice gentleman!
holmsatlarge 6 months ago
The theme was done by Irving Szathmary who also did the theme to Get Smart.
bbutton 7 months ago
@top4Olives...No, it's not James Best. He was too busy performing in various popular television series...
nickellicker 8 months ago
I was seven too. I have vague memories of it because my older sister used to watch it.
JonathanDaddy 8 months ago
I was seven when this came on TV, and I remember it distinctly. Hard to believe that a sitcom about inept contractors starring Marty Ingels and John Astin would be a hit, but flop it did. Belly flop in fact. I loved the theme music, but nowadays it makes my ears bleed.
soulierinvestments 8 months ago
I thought I dreamed this one, because nobody else remembered it.
ferociousgumby 9 months ago
This was just a few days before the Cuban Missile Crisis. Unfortunately, I was only five back then, so I was too young to understand what was going on back then.
nanlisa 10 months ago
Dated the girl in the Ivory Liquid ad (back in the 60's)
TheJudgecrater 11 months ago
Is that James Best in the cigar ad?
top40lives 1 year ago
I was only in kindergarten back then.
nanlisa 1 year ago
@nanlisa I was 10!
holmsatlarge 10 months ago
@holmsatlarge I was 8!
littlemikey1954 4 months ago
The first appearance of the ABC circle logo!
Kartoonkid95 1 year ago
CORRECTION: Procter & Gamble was the "primary" sponsor; Consolidated Cigar was the "alternate" sponsor. A two-volume DVD of the series [all 32 episodes] is schedule to be released next year!
fromthesidelines 1 year ago
I watched this show regularly as a kid and I thought is was funny. Kinda sad when it was cancelled. I think it aired on the ABC Television Network Friday nights after "The Flintstones".
rolko52 1 year ago
As a seven year old kid I bought it completely. Looking back it's a little surprising they would cast Marty Ingels as a ladies man..... Unless I'm missing something... Ladies?
wttlf 1 year ago
There's talk of a DVD release soon.
It would be a joy to see this cult classic again.
Juliaflo 2 years ago
And we all know what program JOHN ASTIN would later be on(coincidentially on the same network, only 2 years later).....
vzeu019j 2 years ago
That was about the time when ABC-TV had first unveiled their "Circle" logo as seen at the end of this broadcast which was right at the beginning of the 1962-63 season.
tbear4pa 2 years ago
Advertising of the illegal and deadly tobacco drug at 0:53
tripjet999 2 years ago
Ivory Liquid commercial: Well maybe if the daughter didn't have a middleaged hairdo, she and the mother wouldn't get mistaken for twins. Sheesh.
sallieparker 2 years ago
I remember winning a t-shirt for answering a trivia question about that show.
ebf1957 2 years ago
ABC started to add sitcoms to it's Fall line-up during the '62-'63 season, like this, as well as McHale's Navy, trying to get away from the steady diet of dramas and westerns.
tbear4pa 2 years ago
That IS true, but don't forget, ABC before these two shows had "MY THREE SONS" as a sitcom, that premiered in 1960, and was on ABC around this time.
vzeu019j 2 years ago
@vzeu019j
Yes, that's right, not to mention that also in the fall of 1960, the Flintstones had premiered as first a primetime adult comedy with commercials for Winston cigarettes for the first couple seasons. It was a more gradual process with new shows replacing old shows until finally in the fall of 1963, when the last remaining old shows, such as the Untouchables, 77 Sunset Strip and Hawaiian Eye were all replaced with new shows, thus naming the 1963-64 season as "The New ABC".
tbear4pa 2 years ago
Looking back on this Ivory ad, now, I can see that it wasn't that the mother looked as young as the daughter but that the daughter looked as old as the mother!
MaryEmily0818 2 years ago
Really glad John and Marty are both still around. Really sad about Ms. Henry, though. She was great both here and as Amanda Bellows.
RoyFive 2 years ago
Is there anything at all I can't find on YouTube? I never missed an episode of this show and I loved the theme song! I even sent for and received autographed glossies of John Astin and Marty Ingels. I was nine years old. After this show, I'd switch the channel to CBS for "Fair Exchange." (There's something I can't find anywhere, including YouTube.)
solarvegan 3 years ago
I always missed "McKeever & The Colonel". McKeever was a Bilko-type at a military school. Kind of like the great "Belles Of St. Trinians" film series from the UK
teenonator 3 years ago
Oh ,yeah! Mckeever and the Colonel. One of my favorites as a kid. I can remember owning a Milton Bradley board game based on that show. What was the name of the school? Westfield?
olddude521 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this! Loved this show when I was in 5th grade.
RCane12 3 years ago
Johnny Jacobs was the show's announcer...
fromthesidelines 4 years ago
A "one-season wonder" {ABC, Fridays, 9-9:30pm(et)}, created and produced by the man who once wrote for Jackie Gleason {"THE HONEYMOONERS"} and Phil Silvers {"THE PHIL SILVERS SHOW"}, and later became executive producer of "GET SMART!". Consolidated Cigar {El Producto} was the primary sponsor; Procter & Gamble {Ivory Liquid} was the alternate. It was a custom for the sponsor to flash their product in a corner of the screen during the closing credits...Ellen McRae later became "Ellen Burstyn".
fromthesidelines 4 years ago 2
do you have any complete episodes of this series? if so, PLEEEEZ post...thx..been a long time..
grhdanny 4 years ago