The tv was the center of the house. I dont remember a time without tv. By 1960, essentially every household in america had a television. It was a new way of bringing the world to you. When Something Big happened on television it really did happen to the entire country and impacted the entire country at the same time. Keep an awakened eye on the world. Suddenly television was the main event. Everything else changed even the way you went about the business of getting someone elected president. David, would you hit the oneminute button. 30 seconds and the cut please. In 1960 the knicksenkennedy debate was a first in television. A lot of people were watching that night and it introduced a lot of people to kennedy. The tight shot on camera one. Hear me now speaking in is that about the right tone of voice. Good evening, the television and radio stations of the United States and their when the networks offered a debate, kennedy immediately said yes because he was sure he could do better than nixon. I think mr. Nixon is an effective leader of his party. I hope he would grant me the same. The question before us is which point of view and which party do we want to lead the United States. Mr. Nixon do you have a comment on that statement . I have no comment. If you are live on television and there is a camera right here there is no place to hide. Once you see a guy sweating when asked a question, are you sure he is the leader for you . That the the question before the American People and only you can decide what you want this country to be and what you want to do with the future. I think were ready to move. If you saw it on television, clearly kennedy won that debate. It was the beginning of a new form of political craftsmanship. You could structure the message appropriately for the tv camera you were in and if you couldnt, you were toast. Please give a warm hand to mr. John kennedy. May i ask you a tough question right off the bat . Whether im democrat or republican . Television was now the medium that mattered. It wasnt before 1960 and it was every day after 1960 after those president ial debates. Try to find a western. Once everyone had a tv set in their living room and advertisers got a grip of how effective a way it was to sell products what you were doing is trying to create entertainment that would appeal to as many people as possible. Eat your brussels sprouts. I cant. No excuses. Leave it to beaver was something that a lot of families understood. Its the first show that was ever shot from the perspective of a child. Beaver. Most people have had a lot of the experiences that the beef or wally had and everyone in their life has an eddie haskell. Some dumb kid fell in his soup. Good evening, mr. Cleaver. Some poor unfortunate child is trapped up there. Everyone has that moment when they were so embarrassed and thought they would never get over it but they did. Tonights special report from the scene of the 1961 emmys. Whether its a situation comedy or western or drama, i think its the quality of the show itself thats important. The Andy Griffith show a kinder, gentler place. The core of the Andy Griffith show was this rock at the center of it. Wisdom. I have taken parts of the people i know in my life and put them into andy taylor. I hope there comes a time when you have to stop the play acting and tell the truth. Dont you believe me, pa . Dont you, pa . People appreciate emotional honesty. They appreciate it more than laughs. Its great the you can achieve both simultaneously and the Andy Griffith show did that often. For a sitcom it shows unexpected depth. The second dance number should come before the big sketch. I dont know. I like it. Now i like it. Me too. Now i like it too. What do you know . Look at that tie youre wearing. I only wrote what i knew about which was my life. And if youre writing about that, nobody can say thats not true. It is true, im living it. On the Dick Van Dyke show we could relate to them because these are real people. Women are honest and direct. No. Courageous we all have the same needs, feels, relationships with husbands and wives. Thats the comedy we did, the problems of living. How much do you like that baby . Dont tell me you are jealous already. The season opening episode for the 1963 season was seared into my head. Our wives had a baby in the same day and the hospital was very busy. They thought they got the wrong baby from the hospital. So he calls the parents of the other kid and thinks you know, we may have your kid and you may have our kid. Hi, were mr. And mrs. Peters. Come in. Mrs. Peters, wont you come in . It was beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Here theyre tackling a subject without tackling it. Why didnt you tell me on the phone. Miss the expression on your face . The network worried about the fact that the africanamericans might be upset by it. The network was always a little behind. There is always somebody back there who doesnt have badouble ls balls. In the hollywood, the cowriter, carl reiner, Dick Van Dyke. I wish somebody had told me. I would have worn my hair. Honestly, the offseason isnt ive got a lot to do. Thats why i got my surface. Its great for watching game film and drawing up plays. Its got onenote, so i can stay on top of my todo list, which has been absolutely absurd since the big game. With skype, its just really easy to stay in touch with the kids i work with. Alright, russell you are good to go alright, fellas. Alright, russ. Back to work led to the one jobhing you always wanted. At university of phoenix, we believe every education not just ours should be built around the career that you want. Imagine that. 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There was only three networks, there was only one late night show, really, jack parr they dont understand what how we do this show. We just keep talking with no script. I know, it is agony. Jack parr invented the Late Night Television talk show. You feel confident . There is not a man in the world to beat me. Im as good as liberace. Jack had in his corner his personality. His fabulous, complex, frightening, neurotic, but in other cases, enthusiastic, informed personality. It made for great television. How much time have i done . I dont have a watch either. How much . Has it been charming . Ill quit now, then. Heres Johnny Johnny carson inherited the tonight show but he made it his own. It is going to be wild tonight, i can always tell. He hosted a nightly party. Are you married . Oh. And if his buddies came, and they started playing together you felt like what it must have felt like to go to las vegas at 3 00 a. M. And have the rat pack come out. No, but where is the guy you talk to . It was a beautiful thing to watch a guy working at his best. Okay. Bingo. Get your axe and lets go. [ laughter ] if you watch it closely, he is gauging how much longer he can wait to let the laugh die before what he says will be irrelevant to what happened. And he gets it just on the nose. It is beautiful to watch. I didnt even know you were jewish johnny was the best audience in the world. And he loved comedy. The woman is watching him from the corner of her eye and says to him what are you looking at . The guy says im looking at that ugly baby. Thats a badlooking baby, lady. Johnny was there listening for you. He wanted you to score. And when you scored, he scored. I said now calm down. He said madam, the Pennsylvania Railroad will go to any length to avoid having differences between the passengers. Perhaps it would be more of a convenience if we rearranged your seating. And as a small compensation, if you come with me to the dining car, well give you a free meal. Maybe well find a banana for your monkey. [ laughter ] im dick cavitt, funnier than chet hutley, and as pure and honest as new jersey. You could get people like Norman Mailer and woody allen. My only new years resolution this year, i think im going to try to sleep through the nixon administration. You have authors on there. Heavyweight boxers. There were conversations. When you mentioned the National Anthem and talk about playing it in any unorthodox way, you immediately get a guaranteed percentage of hate mail from people who say how dare that is not unorthodox . It isnt unorthodox . No, no, i thought it was beautiful. There you go. I just thought anything that is interesting ought to have a place on a talk show rather than young pretty actresses who use the word excited in every sentence. Youre not frequently seen on television. Is that by choice . It is the most impressive medium. It is the medium that will either save america or send it down into demise, there is no question. Im getting out of it myself. Really . Well be right back after this. What you do is book the best possible guests from different kinds of businesses, maybe not everybody in show businesses, some politics, some newspaper people. Get them all on the stage together and hope something works. But it is a great show, a great platform for people who have something to say. The point is they take these scripts out of the drawers. They change the things around. Maybe it doesnt work on green acres but that is why night after night you turn on these serials and they saul seem they came out of the same bread box. Back then you had copy cats. You had the adams family and then the munsters, you have bewitched. And then i dream of jeanie. If one person is doing this fan fastal hit fantastical hit, were going to do that. Now, is that considered a crime . Im afraid not. There are not laws to protect us against bad tv shows yet. So youre safe. Well, thank you. What im surprised by are some of the shows i cant even imagine the pitch meetings for. Like hogans heros. Its a story about american prisoners of war in a nazi concentration camp which doesnt sound like its exactly a funny comedy. Why dont they trust us . That shows you how weird the 60s was right there. There is another one of our fine shows this year. Pit stop moving story of an effeminate race car driver, who was really an astronaut for the mafia. 9 30 eastern time, 8 30 central time, quarter after 2 00 pacific time. Fame, makes a man take things over fame, lets him loose, hard to swallow fame, puts you there where things are hollow the evolution of luxury continues. The next generation 2015 escalade. Fame and it feels like your lifeate revolves around your symptoms, ask your gastroenterologist about humira adalimumab. Humira has been proven to work for adults who have tried other medications but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohns disease. 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Someone whose poor performance is slowing down the entire organization. Im looking at you phone company dsl. Check your speed. See how fast your internet can be. Switch now and add voice and tv for 34. 90. Comcast business built for business. Cbs presents this program in color. I didnt have Color Television until i was 16 years old. Yes, i lived like an animal. The following program is being brought to you in living color on nbc. Getting the color tv was huge because suddenly we could watch walt disneys Wonderful World of color on sunday nights. Which was just an acid trip of a show. We just could not believe it. Tinker bell going bing, bing, bing, and it was like special effects, par excellence. The world is a carousel of color it also happened just coincidently at the time when what we think of as the mod 60s came in, colors were all over the place just as tv could start to take advantage of them. Hi. Well, glad you could make it. I remember saying stay tuned for gidget next, in color. In color on abc. It was a Big Marketing thing. Color tv was a huge step forward as far as the technology went. And yet, i think of lost in space. It started off as a black and white show and went to color. It didnt get any better when it went to color. Dr. Smith, youre alive. Of course im alive. Do i look like a corpse . The period has a reputation for it have as a kind of candy. It seems like an aggressive innocence to it. You are only to blow that in an emergency. This is an emergency, youre standing on my foot Gilligans Island made no sense whatsoever logistically. How is the professor able to build all this stuff but not build a damn raft . It makes no sense if you pull any Single Thread on it but it was just the kind of show designed to live forever in syndication. Who are you looking for . A nun, who else. Are you kidding . Flying nun is a crazy show. Like, what is that about . Look, it is very simple. You see i only weigh 90 pounds and the combination of my cornet and the wind lifts me. Which was just complete nonsense. Lets face it. It was the height of the 60s, and everybody was eating granola and dropping out and doing god knows what else, and i wasnt. Hello, central . Im switching to my eyeglasses. Put a hold on my wallet but keep my shoe open. Television more than ever in the 60s was a place to escape to. Lets go. Seemed like it was sort of almost a willful respite from the stuff that was going on in the world and in real life. Here is a bulletin on cbs news. There has been an attempt as you know on the life of president kennedy. He was wounded. In an automobile driving in the early 60s, television was by and large seen as something as a back water to print journalism. And even to radio. But the kennedy assassination was the moment that Television Journalism came of age. Continue fullday coverage of the president ial funeral. And the final procession more and more people were depending on television to give them the Headline News of the day. 330 americans were killed in combat last week in vietnam. But the number of wounded, 3886 was the highest of any week in the war. Most of the 1960s, the contrast between what you saw in your entertainment and what you in the news was, you know, planetary. Never has this descent been as emotional. As intense. In the 60s, it was one thing after another. Each year it was filled with important events. Governor wallace has ordered 500 Alabama National guardsmen into tuscaloosa. At the moment, they are under his control. Whether it was the Civil Rights Movement or it was the kennedy assassination or the space race, when there was a huge thing that happened, it happened on tv. The witness to the violence, said it seemed to be unprovoked on the part of the demonstrators. Television became the fire in which the whole tribe gathered around to listen to the elders telling them what was going on. Police reinforcements moving down the street now. [ chanting ] [ chanting the whole worlds watching ] i missed you, too. Ou. Hi buddy. Mom awesome dad i missed you. Oh. Daddy. Chevrolet and its dealers proudly support military appreciation month. With the industrys best military purchase program, for all that have served. Youve reached the age where you know how things work. This is the age of knowing what needs to be done. So why let erectile dysfunction get in your way . Talk to your doctor about viagra. 20 million men already have. Ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex. Do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain; it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. Side effects include headache, flushing, upset stomach, and abnormal vision. 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But that was part of the charm. Here he is, ed sullivan thank you. No matter who controlled the tv set on the other nights, on sunday night at 8 00, you were going to watch ed sullivan. Now, ladies and gentlemen, a very ed sullivan was a phenomenon. He was a powerful force. Quiet, please. The beauty of the sullivan kind of variety show is that if you didnt like something, Something Else would be around in four minutes. No. No. Why . It is very difficult. Easy. Advertisers wanted everybody. And so they got everybody. A little kid and his grandparents to watch the same show. They would have an elephant on, and then the next thing somebody doing shakespeare, and the next thing, a comic. There would be an acrobat and then an opera singer the next bit, which was true variety. Go downtown things will be great when youre downtown anything that was current was on the ed sullivan show. A Young Richard pryor. Joan rivers. Rodney dangerfield. Everybody wanted a showcase. If you got on sullivan you could talk about it. Did you see sullivan . My whole life i dont get no respect, no respect from anyone. As a performer you couldnt get a better place to sell your product. When i started out they would say variety is a mans game. Its dean, milton berle, jackie gleason, but variety is what i know. I felt it was in my genes to do this. She had been so good on the garry moore show, she always knew she could sing and dance and be funny. On my show, i would do prat falls and jump out of windows and get pies in the face, and it was heaven. I think it is you know, i still see a rerun of Carroll Burnett show, and i say theyre funny there has never been a better threewall sketch show ever. And the best in bed, too, remember . You never went to bed with well. Not supposed to curtsy, youre supposed to bow. Well, i get dizzy when i bend over. When tim conway came on his goal in life was to destroy harvey. Heres tim with our own Harvey Korman as a new dentist with his very first patient. We used to have a pool back stage, not as to whether harvey was going to break up, but how far along he would get on a sketch before he broke up. Novocaine. Okay here. Novocaine. Take a firm hold of the hypodermic needle. Right. They never knew what he was going to do. But they knew it was not going to be what they expected. When they did the dentist sketch none of that was rehearsed. Yeah, be right with you. Poor harvey was helpless, tears coming down. And tim swears that harvey wet his pants during that sketch. I dont know why that worked so well. Watching two actors break character and just crack each other up. Should not be as entertaining. But somehow when it is tim conway and Harvey Korman doing it, i could just watch that stuff forever. I just thought if we have fun, the audience will. Were going to go out there and do what we do best and it worked. You can plan it and write it and rehearse it. 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You certainly saw that with the Twilight Zone. It was a very cinematic show. This is not a new world, it has patterned itself since the beginning of time. Rod serling who created the Twilight Zone realized he could through a lens of fantasy or Science Fiction he could tell stories about racism, he could tell stories about fascism. Tonight, i shall talk to you about glorious conformity. It was a way to deal with a lot of the issues that america was starting to go through at that time. But in a fantastic setting so that there is some divide between you and the show. They sent four people, a mother and father and two kids who looked just like humans. But they were not. The Twilight Zone had these little oh, henry like little twists and was allowed to have happy endings. They picked the most dangerous enemies they could find and it is themselves. Now sixth months a fugitive, this is Richard Kimball a new identity and for as long as safe, a new name. The fugitive was a character study. Beware the eyes of strangers, keep moving. Everybody wanted to see what happened to the fugitive. Im about ready to give up. When it ended, it broke the viewership records set by the beatles on ed sullivan. It was one of the first tv shows that actually went somewhere. You know, youngstown is not exactly on our course. In a lot of ways, television was showing slices of the world that people may have never seen before. Route 66 was an innovative show because it was actually filmed on location. So the audience was exposed to things that were not their exact orbit. Space, the final frontier. You know, there is a little bit of the mayberry aspect to the world of star trek. Follow me here. People want to believe that such a place can exist. The idea of a future in which a lot of the biases and the fears of the past has evolved out of us. Where i come from, size, shape or color makes no difference. There is one episode where some of the members of the crew were taken over by these mental giants. This psychokinetic power of yours, how long have you had it . They forced captain kirk and and lieutenant ohura to kiss. It was the first interracial kiss on television. Nbc asked me if i would do my own special. And i had always adored harry belafonte. We decided to do one duet called the path of glory. It is an antiwar song and we just felt strongly about it. I just touched his arm. The sponsor went crazy. My star doesnt touch a black mans arm. Petula clark said, im not doing it over, and it is my show and it is going out that way. We werent having any of that nonsense, no way. So it went out the way we wanted it to go out. I didnt really have any other problems with sponsors but that sort of gave me a taste of what could happen. A car thats moving fast and clean and strong get the Leather Seats you cant go wrong in the tv business, the 60s was probably about the last decade during which the sponsors had a really iron grip on content. Brought to you by dash. Even if they tried to keep tv this white homogenous whole milk product, the world found its way in. It just had to. Whats the trouble, driver . Cant you ever remember to bring a silencer . It ruins the liner in my suit. With i spy, robert culp and bill cosby were equals. Cosby is this pioneer in terms of a black male lead in a drama. He made race a nonissue. Because hes undeniable. The winner is bill cosby. Bobby and i tried to put forth an example of the way it should be, racially, in this country. We need more people in this industry to put forth that message and let it be known that the bigots and the racists, that they dont count. Thank you. As television changed, it was helping all americans to understand that this is what america looks like. Frankly, youre not exactly what i expected. No . No, not from what i read yet. Did you expect me to be older or younger . Julia was going to be the first time a black woman starred in her own television show. Has mr. Colton told you . Told me what . Im colored. What color are you . She was a black woman raising her own son. It has a universality that is just something new. And you keep out of mischief. Ill just watch the old tv. Good. In the 60s, america was exploding in a way that needed to be reflected on tv. Stand still dragnet came back in the late 60s and friday was now in a very different world than he had been in in the black and white days. And suddenly there were the dirty hippies. Jack webb would lecture you about the dangers of marijuana smoking and crazy drug culture. Theyre trying to deal with the Counter Culture but they dont understand it. So it is basically the stereotypes of what the hippies were like. And it plays exactly like that. Keep your nose out of my purse. Keep yours out of the acid. Next time i will. With diabetes, its tough to keep life balanced. I dont always have time to eat like i should. Thats why i like glucerna shakes. They have slowly digestible carbs to help minimize blood sugar spikes. [male announcer] glucerna. And it feels like your lifeate revolves around your symptoms, ask your gastroenterologist about humira adalimumab. Humira has been proven to work for adults who have tried other medications but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohns disease. In clinical studies, the majority of patients on humira saw significant symptom relief, and many achieved remission. Humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. Serious, sometimes fatal events, such as infections, lymphoma, or other types of cancer, have happened. Blood, liver and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening Heart Failure have occurred. Before starting humira, your doctor should test you for tb. Ask your doctor if you live in or have been to a region where certain fungal infections are common. Tell your doctor if you have had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have symptoms such as fever, fatigue, cough, or sores. You should not start humira if you have any kind of infection. Ask your gastroenterologist about humira today. Remission is possible. Move this country safely through the 1960s. There was tremendous anxiety and fear. 25 russian ships are on route to cuba on what may be a collision court. Jfk said to his brother, what if there is a nuclear war and our children die. Who is going to blink first. Stop children whats that sound everybody look whats going down whatever the president does, he risks nuclear war. Nbc presents, rowan and martins laugh in. Our country would be much better off with a strong leader. I know but sinatra cant do everything. When laughin came along we never seen anything that was kind of like grownups acting goofy and hip that way, you know. They had girls dancing in bikinis and the joke wall. Whos in there with you . Cool hand luke. And it was nothing but jokes. I was at the hospital. Anything serious . A black widow bit me. If never would have happened if hed been a gentleman. We took it to the network and the network said, what the hell is this . This makes no sense. I said, right. Hi, you two. They acknowledged the hippie generation, yet the hosts were in tuxedos smoking cigarettes. They were still your parents. But other people let loose on the show were this kind of young vaudeville. Hey. Its sock it to me time. She socked it to herself. We knew that sock it to me didnt mean sock it to me. Right . So we thought, oh. Sock it to me. Sock it to me. Haha. Sock it to me. It wasnt on a subversive as it sounds. Yes it was. No, it was fun. Sock it to me . It was the first time president ial candidates ever appeared on a comedy show and that may have got him elected. And ive had to live with that. Anyway the family that watched laughin together really needs to pray together. Just happening right now, about right now, that was the greatest thing ever. The fusion of politics and comedy and Everything Else into one television show. When we take over, im going to look out for you. The subjects that were verboten, we dont talk about these things, were starting to come up in tv. Because it was well executed, it changed everything. This is the smothers brothers comedy hour. Production 124 air, take one. Good evening and welcome to the smothers brothers show. If rowan and martin and the smothers brothers are the new stars of tv comedy, it is the comedy itself rather than the comedians which is more often in the spotlight. These two programs tried to influence people by comedy techniques that breakthrough the traditional song and skit routines and with subject matter often on the cutting edge of what is new. Our government is asking us as good citizens to refrain from traveling to foreign lands. Okay. All you guys in vietnam, come on home. Times were changing so quickly. And the 60s. And we didnt change them. We just reflected them. What are you doing . Getting ready to go to college. Cbs gave the smothers brothers that show because they were cleancut folk satirists. They wore blazers. They could sing well. They were funny. Mom liked you best. You lower your voice. Mom liked you best. They told us what they thought we could do and what we should do and it was totally wrong. Tommy said, i would like to do a show where we could be relevant. If we could get a war without blood and gore i would be the first a go but until then mr. Mcnamera im just 18 and i always carry a purse if you were in Counter Culture started making these shows and they dont want to play by the rules that other people did before then but who would expect the smothers brothers of all people to be the ones raising this much of a fuss. Good script. I would hold my breath every time they did the show. I knew the Network People were befelling their trousers with fear. Nothing funny in this. Yeah, boys, were through censoring your show. They said that the social subjects we touched on were not appropriate for the 9 00 family viewing hour. They came up with any excuse to make it difficult. And i came up with any excuse to push it. Yeah. Cbs would like to give us notice and some of you dont like the things we say but were still here oh, yeah were still here they were going to speak truth to power. And they were not compromising. You have something important . Something very important to say on american television. A lot of times we dont have the opportunity to say anything important because on american television, every time you try to Say Something important well, whether you can say it or not, keep trying to say it. Thats whats important. You get that . Theres no way in the world if anything is meaningful and truthful that youre not going to offend someone. Youve got to be able to say what it is. Say how it is. And take the consequence. Cbs announced today that the smothers brothers comedy hour will not return to the Cbs Television network next season. Network president robert woods said it became evident that brothers, quote, were unwilling to accept the criteria of taste established by cbs. Cbs news efforts to reach the brothers for comment have been unsuccessful. I was angry. But we never regretted it. We never did regret it. What do you think television, honestly, do you think its good . Yes, i do. Particularly for what it is. For the amount of hours that it gives you for enjoyment. Either education or for pure entertainment, its remarkably good. What television did in 60s was to show the American People to the American People. Until then, we did not truly know much about each other. We knew only what we had seen, which was very little. And what we had read, which was even less. A few years ago i thought it was the end of the world. No, its just the beginning. I think people looked at television for answers, maybe. That world is just confusing. Its going to hell all over the place. Maybe something on here will help. There was no denying the shift and attitudes towards sex, towards race relations, towards politics. It was all televised. That i will faithfully execute the office. That i will faithfully execute the office. When it works, television conveys impression and evokes memories. When it works well, television makes us feel. Good morning. Its tminus 1 29 53 and counting. Television created the sense of National Unity around cultural events. Okay, neil, we can see you coming down the ladder now. You can turn on the machine and be somewhere else. Looking good. Television changed absolutely everything. Beautiful view. Beautiful view. Isnt that something . Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com beautiful, right . We can already indulge ourselves into something special, such a beautiful day. We can already indulge ourselves into something special, such a beautiful day. Pony ride. Absolutely. Now we are coming to your most beautiful fascination side of russian legacy. The birches. Ah. The forest of birch. Ah, what a place
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