STAY TUNED - THURSDAY NIGHT TV FALL 1959

What you would've watched on a typical Thursday night on ABC, CBS and NBC in the fall of 1959.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Gale Storm
• Donna Reed
• Real McCoys
• Pat Boone
• Untouchables
• Ernie Kovacs
• To Tell the Truth
• Betty Hutton
• Johnny Ringo
• Dick Powell
• Playhouse 90
• Law of the Plainsman
• Bat Masterson
• Johnny Staccato
• Bachelor Father
• Ford Show
• Groucho Marx
• Lawless Years

[Escul1960]

What a great lineup of shows....*sigh*...those were the days.

BTW - anyone else wish Mark Burnett had never been born?....lol

[hebneh]

The pie-in-the-face to the earnest, pretty girl in "Take A Good Look" - which even knocks her wig off - is completely unexpected and hilarious.

The rotating starburst at the start of "Playhouse 90" is just exactly like some plastic ornaments we got for Christmas 1960.

People tend to get all nostalgic when they watch stuff like this, but in truth, TV in the old days was not all "classic". There were a lot of stupid, boring, and lousy shows then too.

[lonedove1981]

Where I grew up we didn't have ABC until 1964 or 65, we pulled in some Canadien stations and Channel 29 from Buffalo. All together for a total of five channels!!

[cjzzzzz]

# 3 was the real wilma rudolph!!!

[1985OldSkool]

There were 19 shows on Thursday night during the start of the 1959-60 TV season, including seven new shows (although "The Big Party" wasn't featured in the video).

Nine of those shows were cancelled by season's end, including "Playhouse 90" and "The Gale Storm Show" (a.k.a "Oh! Susannah"), and four of the seven shows that debuted on Thursday nights.

[scifiradioguy]

Nice to see early "Peanuts" animation before "A Charlie Brown Christmas."

[bigblondman1]

i remember everyone of those shows. ive watched them all at one time or another. what memories. i even had a crush on donna reed, then later shelly faberes. and of course i was always crazy about annette funicello. i had to get in line, because there were 50 million other guys too.

[Jayee123]

And these were all on just one night!!! And on top of that, "The Wizard of Oz" would start its annual showings in 1959.

[TimelordR]

The only downside to TV back in the 50's were a proliferation of cookie-cutter Westerns & mindless sitcom fluff. Sad though that Johnny Staccato never caught on & got cancelled too soon.

Also, i'd rather be watching high quality shows like Playhouse 90 than the "Reality TV" sewage that gets served on a daily basis. Thanks for the video.

[Ballsarama]

Look how young Betty White, Carson, and Kitty Carlisle are on CBS's To Tell the Truth. Kitty is even younger in "A Night at the Opera" with the Marx Bros. I think, for entertaiment, and as kids, we all were "hooked" on TV. With the limited media avenues in the late '50's and '60's, aside from Movies, records, and the radio...it was the only game in town. I do remember spending a lot more time outside playing and doing sports than the kids do today.

[fromthesidelines]

At the time, Charles Schulz signed a five-year deal with the Ford Motor Company, allowing them to use his "Peanuts" characters in their advertising {print, radio and TV}, and from 1959 through '61, in special animated introduction sequences for "THE FORD SHOW STARRING TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD".