I like everything about this video clip. From the frothy xylophone and harp music to seeing Rod Serling in light moments. I have looked at all the clips for this show and wish they had saved some of the episodes. I used to watch this as a kid along with Password and they both made me smarter.
Actually, several hundred videotaped episodes DO exist. Like the color 1960's CBS episodes of the daytime "Password", the NBC "You Don't Say!" went into syndicated reruns with episodes from 1966 to 1969 beginning in 1970. (They used to air in New York on WNEW-TV channel 5.) They are still apparently in storage, still looking for a syndicator and storage, and still need to be converted to digital format. I believe they are owned either by Ralph Andrews, Paramount Televesion or both.
Why would they be using 'color kinescope' in the mid 60s? Color videotape was the standard at that time, and color kinescope was abandoned the minute the started using color videotape. This might be a fraud.
Kinescope was cheaper and the tapes were erased and re-used for other broadcasts. When the shows actually were shot and aired, it was videotaped, but on the rare occasions that daytime programming was PRESERVED for after the airing, it was usually done on kinescope.
Okay, but I still don't think they would have used 'color' kinescope in the mid 60s. The practice was to use black and white film for kinescopes in the sixties, since they were only being saved as a record of the broadcast, and color would have been a lot more expensive. Many of the color shows from the 60s, such as 'Hullabaloo' only exist as b&w kinescopes. If this is indeed a color kinescope from the 1960s, it is the first example I've seen of one, and thank you for posting it.
Networks still used color kinescopes in the 1970's! The last episode of Concentration was preserved on a Kinescope before its tape counterpart was erased!
Do you know where I could find out more about this? When you Google color kinescope the only mentions are for lenticular color kinescopes, used for a short time in the mid-1950s, right before color videotape. 'Hullabaloo', an NBC color show, has only B&W kinescopes for many of the episodes. It's hard to imagine that color film would be any cheaper than videotape, especially since they were only making the copy for his history. Unless they were making them for another reason. The Armed Forces?
I dont know why they would make a color kinescope, because they made b/w kinescopes for netowrk affiliates that aird in b/w. but color? IDK about color
Networks were still reusing color videotapes and would save kinescopes because they were cheaper back then. I imagine that the kinescope was color because most tv, at least on national networks, was in color by 1969.
Rod was somewhat of a ham, and would appear on game shows from time to time, including "YOU DON'T SAY!" {he briefly appeared as host of the first syndicated edition of "LIAR'S CLUB" some time after this aired, in 1969}. "Baxter Ward" was one of L.A.'s best known local newscasters at the time....
The word "a" is not a conjunction, Rod (2:28). It's an article.
wmlfan9 1 year ago
This is probably where they got the idea for "WHEW!".
georgef551 1 year ago
I like everything about this video clip. From the frothy xylophone and harp music to seeing Rod Serling in light moments. I have looked at all the clips for this show and wish they had saved some of the episodes. I used to watch this as a kid along with Password and they both made me smarter.
wb3b2b1 2 years ago
Actually, several hundred videotaped episodes DO exist. Like the color 1960's CBS episodes of the daytime "Password", the NBC "You Don't Say!" went into syndicated reruns with episodes from 1966 to 1969 beginning in 1970. (They used to air in New York on WNEW-TV channel 5.) They are still apparently in storage, still looking for a syndicator and storage, and still need to be converted to digital format. I believe they are owned either by Ralph Andrews, Paramount Televesion or both.
Noveltooner 2 years ago
Jaye P. Morgan, of course, is best known for being a regular panelist on the 1970s "Gong Show".
altfactor 3 years ago
Is anyone in this clip still living?
zekepig 3 years ago
Can't speak for the contestants, but Tom, Jaye P., and announcer John Harlan are still here.
AdamNedeff 3 years ago
what in the world is little sir echo?
kes1963 3 years ago
@kes1963 It's the title of a song. However, I when looked it up at Wikipedia, I wasn't able to get much info about it.
disneyfan81 1 year ago
Damn, Rod was really worshiping the sun god.
torgman 3 years ago
Why would they be using 'color kinescope' in the mid 60s? Color videotape was the standard at that time, and color kinescope was abandoned the minute the started using color videotape. This might be a fraud.
treborrekrab 4 years ago
Kinescope was cheaper and the tapes were erased and re-used for other broadcasts. When the shows actually were shot and aired, it was videotaped, but on the rare occasions that daytime programming was PRESERVED for after the airing, it was usually done on kinescope.
AdamNedeff 3 years ago
Okay, but I still don't think they would have used 'color' kinescope in the mid 60s. The practice was to use black and white film for kinescopes in the sixties, since they were only being saved as a record of the broadcast, and color would have been a lot more expensive. Many of the color shows from the 60s, such as 'Hullabaloo' only exist as b&w kinescopes. If this is indeed a color kinescope from the 1960s, it is the first example I've seen of one, and thank you for posting it.
treborrekrab 3 years ago
Networks still used color kinescopes in the 1970's! The last episode of Concentration was preserved on a Kinescope before its tape counterpart was erased!
secondchance1977 3 years ago
Do you know where I could find out more about this? When you Google color kinescope the only mentions are for lenticular color kinescopes, used for a short time in the mid-1950s, right before color videotape. 'Hullabaloo', an NBC color show, has only B&W kinescopes for many of the episodes. It's hard to imagine that color film would be any cheaper than videotape, especially since they were only making the copy for his history. Unless they were making them for another reason. The Armed Forces?
treborrekrab 3 years ago
I dont know why they would make a color kinescope, because they made b/w kinescopes for netowrk affiliates that aird in b/w. but color? IDK about color
secondchance1977 3 years ago
Networks were still reusing color videotapes and would save kinescopes because they were cheaper back then. I imagine that the kinescope was color because most tv, at least on national networks, was in color by 1969.
jehobden 2 years ago
@treborrekrab Its videotape alright, but probably a bad print or a poorly preserved copy of what was authentic mid-60s color videotape.
dallaskenn 7 months ago
this is a show that would be interesting to see a remake of
kes1963 4 years ago
FYI Lew Alcindor is the birth name of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
dnm728 4 years ago
Rod was somewhat of a ham, and would appear on game shows from time to time, including "YOU DON'T SAY!" {he briefly appeared as host of the first syndicated edition of "LIAR'S CLUB" some time after this aired, in 1969}. "Baxter Ward" was one of L.A.'s best known local newscasters at the time....
fromthesidelines 4 years ago
Baxter Ward would also later be L.A. County Supervisor for two terms. And doesn't Rod Serling look like Greg Morris?!
disneyfan81 4 years ago