CBS Fall Preview Show for 1961 Part 3/3

[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - Camelot just started...The Cuban Missile Crisis was only a year away...It was the dawn of the sixties! This was the CBS Network's half hour promotional rollout of their 1961 fall schedule. Some shows and personalities you know well, others you never knew existed. Sit back and reminisce.

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[storrs19]

Excellent. Much better than any fall lineup on any network now, that's for damn sure.

[themredweirdoshow]

"This year will be our greatest year..."

"With some specials that will be really special..."

Now THAT'S some imaginative ad copy, folks!

And I almost choked when "lawyer" Burr had to read this horridly corny line: "I can't argue THAT case, Della." Hee-hee!

[Scullymouse]

"Well, overtime will be one of my big problems again this year." *LoL* So sweet!

[oldyuma]

John Provost (Lassie) teaching us young kids

morality....Ed with his "Really big Sheww"

Clint Eastwood did a guest spot on Mr Ed

lonnnnggg before he was a star....

This is all back when CBS(the eye) was

worth watching...ah well..the years roll on...

[oldyuma]

A horse is a horse of course...

Kennedy and Khrushchev...those were,....

and are, the shows of our times...

SGT Carter(Gomer Pyle) kicking butt..

Pallidan,(Richard Boone) took names,

and kicked ass...

[oldyuma]

Donna Douglas(pre-Bev Hillbillies)...

and it's fun...fun...fun..till your daddy

takes the T-Bird away...

[fromthesidelines]

This is the schedule for Sunday (Eastern Time): 5:30 G.E. COLLEGE BOWL 6:00 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY [Walter Cronkite, host/narrator] 6:30 MISTER ED 7:00 LASSIE 7:30 DENNIS THE MENACE 8:00 THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW 9:00 GENERAL ELECTRIC THEATER [Ronald Reagan, host/occasional performer; the scene shown here is from a January 1961 episode, "The Devil You Say"] 9:30 THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM 10:00 CANDID CAMERA 10:30 WHAT'S MY LINE? 11:00 CBS SUNDAY NIGHT NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE {15 min.}

[fromthesidelines]

And this season's host of "EYEWITNESS", CBS News' weekly half-hour devoted to a current topic in the news (sponsored by Firestone Tire & Rubber Company) was none other than Walter Cronkite.

[fromthesidelines]

"THE INVESTIGATORS" (produced by MCA/Revue) was short-lived [13 episodes]- it was part of a "package deal" they made with CBS for their Thursday night schedule that fall ["THE NEW BOB CUMMINGS SHOW" and "FRONTIER CIRCUS" were the other shows]. Robert Young's "FATHER KNOWS BEST" was in repeats that fall, and "WINDOW ON MAIN STREET' was his new series, which lasted one season.

[bigred997]

The only show I didn't remember was The Investigators.

And did Robert Young star on 2 shows concurrently? I'm confused on this.