Now it is time to grow up. The tv was the center of the universe. I dont remember a time without tv. By 1960, essentially every house 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 our country at the same time. Keep an awakened eye on the world. Suddenly television was the main event. Everything else changed, even the way in which you went about somewhere like the president. Were sold out. David. Will you hit the oneminute button, please . 30 seconds and the cut, please. In 1960, the nixonkennedy debate was the first in television. It was introduced to a lot of people and it introduced them to kennedy. Can you hear me speaking . Is that the right tone of voice . Good evening. The television and radio stations of the United States and their affiliated stations are proud to provide when the networks offered a debate, kennedy immediately said yes, because he was sure he could do better than nixon. I think mr. Nixon san effeis effective leader of his party. I hope he would grant me the same. The question is, which point of view and which party do we want to lead the United States . Mr. Nixon, would you like to comment on that statement . I have no comment. If youre live on television and the camera right here, there is really no place to hide. Once you see a guy sweating whether asked a question, are you sure hes the leader for you . Thats the question before the American People, and only you can decide what you want, what you want this country to be, what you want to do with the future. I think were ready to move. If you saw it on television, clearly kennedy had won that debate. Gentlemen, thank you very much for permitting us to present the next president of the United States on this unique program. It was the beginning of a new form of political craftsmanship. You could structure your message appropriately for the tv camera and you could have huge impact. If you couldnt, you were toast. I would like to give a real tonight welcome to senator of massachusetts, mr. John kennedy. [ applause ] may i ask you, so that i dont look too naive, a tough question right off the bat . Whether im a republican or democrat . People realized that television now was the medium that mattered. It was 1960 and it was every day after 1960 in those president ial debates. Oh, honey, lets not watch that. Try to find a western. All right. Once everyone had a tv set in their living room and advertisers had fully grotten a grip on how this was a way to sell products, the very definition of what you were doing was to create entertainment that would appeal to as many people as possible. Beaver. Eat your brussels sprouts. Gee, gamaam, i cant. My stomach is stuck to my muscles. Leave it to beaver was the first show shot from the perspective of a child. Beaver. Most everyone has the experiences beaver had, and everyone has an eddie haskell. Good evening, mr. Cleaver. Some unfortunate child is trapped. Everyone has that moment when they were so embarrass and had they thought he would never get over it, but they did. Tonights special report is the scene of a 1961 emmy. Whether it was the scene of a comedy, a western, a drama, its the quality of the show itself thats important. The Andry Griffith show, mayberry, was a kinder, gentler place. It would be hard not to want to live in mayberry. There was this rock at the center of it. Calm wisdom. I have taken the best part of myself and people ive known all my life and put them into andy taylor. Ope, 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 if you can achieve both simultaneously, and the Andy Griffith show actually did that very often. For a sitcom, it shows unexpected depth. What we think of the new format, the dance numbers should come before the big sketch. Gee, i dont know. I like it. Now i like it. Yeah, me, too. I like it, too. What do you know . Look at that tie youre wearing. I only wrote what i knew about, which is life. 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 believe the actions of the characters because we could relate to them. This wasnt a genie in a bikini on someones mantel. These were real people. Women are more honest and direct . No. Theyre more courageous . We have these real feelings, husbands with relationships with wives. This was the comedy of living. Baby, how much did you like that baby . Oh, rob, dont tell me youre jealous already. The season episode opener was seared into my head. My wife and i had a baby the same day in the hospital, and the hospital was very busy, mr. Peters. What am i getting at . They thought they got the wrong baby from the hospital, so he calls the parents of the other kid and thinks, we may have your kid, you may have our kid. Hi. Were mr. And mrs. Peters. Come in. Mr. And 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 . And miss the expression on your face . The network worried about the fact that the africanamericans might be upset about it. The network was always a little behind. There was always somebody back there who doesnt have bawl bawls, bawls. I wish someone would have told me. I would have worn my hair. Bring you more ways to helps reduce calories from sugar. 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Go ahead. Knockknock. Whos there . There was only three networks. There was only one late night show, really, it was jack parr. We just keep talking. Its agony. Jack parr developed the Late Night Television talk show. You feel confident theres not a man in the world to beat me . Jack had, in his corner, his personality, his fabulously interesting, complex, frightening, neurotic, and in other cases, enthusiastic and informed personality. It made for great television. How much time have i done . I dont have a watch, either. Has it been charming . Ill quit now, then. Heres Johnny Johnny carson inherited the tonight show but he made it his own. Its going to be a wild nightment i can alwanigh night. I can always tell. He hosted a wild party. Are you married . If his buddies came and they started playing together, you felt like what it must have felt like going to vegas at 3 00 in the morning and have the rat pack come on. Where is the guy you talk to . It was a beautiful thing to watch a guy working at his best. Get your ax and lets go. If you watch it closely, hes 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. Its beautiful. [ laughter ] i didnt even know you were huey. Johnny had the best audience in the world. And he loved comedy. She watched him out of the corner of her eye and he said, what are you looking at . And the guy said, im looking at that ugly baby. Thats a badlooking baby, lady. Johnny was there listening for you. He wanted you to score. When you scored, he scored. He said, madam, the Pennsylvania Railroad will go to any length to avoid having differences between the passengers. So perhaps it would be more to your convenience if we were to rearrange your seating. And as a small compensation from the railroad, if youll accompany me to the dining car, well give you a free meal. Maybe well find a banana for your monkey. Im dick cavett, funnier than rich huntley. The dick cavett show was amazing. You could get people like woody allen. You would have authors on, heavyweight boxers, there were conversations. When you mentioned National Anthem and talk about it playing in an unorthodox way, you immediately get a percentage of hate mail. Thats not unorthodox. It isnt unorthodox . No, i thought it was beautiful. I just thought anything thats interesting ought to have a place on a talk show rather than young, pretty actresses who used the word excited in every sentence. Youre not frequently seen on television. Is that by choice . Well, of course, it is the most impressive medium of all. Its the medium thats going to either save america or send it down into demise, there is no question about it. Im getting out of it myself. Well be back after this. What you do is book the best possible guests from different kinds of businesses. Maybe not everybody in show business, some politics, some newspaper people. Get them all on a stage together and hope that something works. Its a great show, a great platform for people who have something to say. The point is that they take these scripts out of the drawers, they change things around. Maybe it doesnt work on green acres but on many of these shows, night after night you turn on these serials and they all seem like they came out of the same bread box. Back then you had lots and lots of copycats. You have the Addams Family and then you have the munsters. If one person is doing this fantastical hit, were going to do that. Is that considered a crime . Im afraid not. There arent any laws to protect us against bad tv shows just yet, so youre safe. Thank you. What im surprised by are some of the shows that i cant even imagine the pitch meetings for, like hogans heroes. Its a story of war in a nazi concentration camp which doesnt sound like a funny comedy. Why dont they trust us, schultz . That shows you how weird the 60s was right there. 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Tinkerbell going bing, bing, bing, and it was like special effects par excellence. The world is a carousel of color it also happened, just coincidentally, 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. Next wednesday night in color on nbc. 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. Lost in space started off as a black and white show and then went to color. It didnt get any better when it went to color. Dr. Smith youre alive of course im alive. Die look like a corpse . Tv hcould be like some kind f candy. There was an innocence to it. Gilligans island makes no sense logistically. How is the professor able to build all this stuff but not build a damn raft . Look at this stick of crude dynamite i made. It makes no sense if you pull any Single Thread on it, but it was the kind of show designed to live forever and ever in syndication. Who are you looking for . The nun, who else . Are you kidding . Flying nun is a crazy show. What is that about . Look, its very simple. See, i only weigh 90 pounds and the combination of my cornet and the wind just lifts me. It was complete nonsense. It was the height of the 60s and everyone was eating granola and dropping out and doing god knows what else, and i wasnt. Hello . Im switching to my eyeglasses. Keep a hold on my wallet but keep my shoe open. Television more than ever in the 60s was a place to escape to. It seemed like it was almost sort of a willful respite from the stuff going on in the world in real life. Heres a bulletin from cbs news. There has been an attempt, as you perhaps know now, on the life of president kennedy. He was wounded in an automobile driving until the early 60s, television used large scenes as something of a backwater to print journalism and even the radio. The kennedy assassination was the moment that Television Journalism came of age. Well continue full day coverage of the president ial funeral and 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, 3866, was the highest in any war. What you saw in entertainment and what you saw on the news was 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 cars in tuscaloosa. Whether it was the Civil Rights Movement or the kennedy assassination or the space race, when there was a huge thing that happened, it happened on tv. 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Everybody had a variety show. Everyone was different because of who was filming the show. Dean martin was just so loose, he acted as though he was doing the whole show drunk without a rehearsal. This is a Real International show, now. Where else could you see a smooth italian and a slippery pole . He was funny. He was really, really funny. He always looked as if he was always a bit lost. People thought it was because he was tiddly, but that was part of the charm. Here he is, ed sullivan thank you. No matter who controlled the tv set the other nights of the week, on sunday night, 8 00, you were going to watch ed sullivan. Ed sullivan was a phenomenon and he was a powerful force. The beauty of the ed sullivan show, if you didnt like something, Something Else would be along in four minutes. Advertisers wanted in on it, so they got everybody. A little kid and his grandparents would watch the same show. They would have an elephant on, then somebody doing shakespeare, the next thing, a comic. There would be an acucrobat andn opera singer, which was true variety. Things would be great when youre downtown everything that was current was on the ed sullivan show. Rodney dangerfield. Everybody wanted a showcase. If you got on sullivan, you could talk about it the next day did you see sullivan . 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, its milton burle, jackie gleason. But variety was in my genes. I felt it was my duty to do this. She had been so good on the gary moore show, she always knew she could sing and dance and be funny. On my show, i would do pratfalls and jump out of windows and get pies in the face. It was heaven. You know, i still see a rerun of the Carol Burnett show and im like, god, theyre funny. That was the greatest show ever. She was great in bed, too, remember that . Youre not supposed to 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 brand new dentist with his very first patient. We used to have a pool backstage not as to whether harvey was going to break up, but how far along he could get in the sketch before he broke up. 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. Ill be right with you. Poor harvey was helpless, tears coming down. Tim swaears 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. That should not be as entertaining. But somehow when its tim conway and Harvey Korman doing it, i could watch that stuff forever. I just thought if we have fun, the audience will. 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Yep. And hes reached a state of confusion that he no longer knows if hes watching the action or participating in it. You unlock this door with the key of imaginaion. Beyond it is another dimension. There was desire on the part of writers and producers to push the envelope and stretch the medium. You certainly saw that with the Twilight Zone. It was a very cinematic show. This is not a new world. Its patterned itself after every dictator that has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. Rod serling who created the Twilight Zone, he could tell stories about racism, he could tell stories about fascism. Tonight i shall talk to you all about glorious conformity. It was a way to deal with all of the issues that america was starting to go through in that time, but with a fantastic setting so there is some divide between and you the show. They sent four people, a mother, a father, and two kids who looked just like humans. But they werent. The Twilight Zone had these little oh henrylike twists on it. It wasnt allowed to have happy endings. They picked the most Dangerous Things they could find, and it was themselves. Now six months into the future, this is Richard Kimball with a new identity. A it was kind of a somber character study. Everyone wants to see what happens to the fugitive. The actual question is, how long is it going to go on . Im about ready to give up. Im tired. When it ended, it broke the viewership record set by the beatles on ed sullivan. It was one of the 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 people they had never seen before. Route 66 was an innovative show because it was actually filmed on location, so the audience was being exposed to things that werent part of their local orbit. Space, the final frontier. You know, there is a little bit of the mayberry aspect to the world of star trek and thats going to sound like an odd analogy, but follow me here. People want to believe that such people 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, signs, shape or color, it 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 lieutenant hura to kiss. Tchls the first interracial kiss on television. Nbc asked me if i would do my own special, and i had always adored harry bellefonte. I did one duet called the path of glory. Its an antiwar song and we both felt very strongly about it. I just touched his arm. A sponsor went crazy. My star doesnt touch a black mans arm. Petulla clark says, im not doing it over. Its my show and its going in 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. The car is moving fast and clean and strong get the plymouth beach, you cant go wrong in the tv business, the 60s was probably the last decade during which the sponsors had a really iron grip on contact. Brought to you by dash. Even if they tried to keep tv this white, homogeneous, whole milk product, the world found its way in. It just had to. Whats the trouble . Cant you ever remember to bring a silencer . In i spy, cosby is this lead. He made race a nonissue because hes a denyer. The winner is bill cosby. Bubby and i try 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 . Not from what i read here. 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 the young black woman who had been educated raising her son alone. It had a euuniversality of something that was just new. Ill quit watching tv. 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 that he had been in in the black and white days. Suddenly there were the damn, dirty hippies. Jack webb would educate you on marijuana smoking and the culture. It was basically their stereotypes of what hippies were like and it played out like that. [woman] so beautiful. [man] beautiful just like you. [woman] oh, why thank you. [burke] and we covered it, november sixth, twothousandnine. Talk to farmers. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum nbc presents laugh in. Our country will be much better off with a strong leader. I know but sinatra cant do everything. Wed never seen anything that was grown ups acting goofy and hip that way. They had girls dancing in bikinis and the joke wall. Whos in there with you in. Cool hand luke. And it ways nothing but jokes. I was at the hospital. Anything serious . A black widow bit me. It never would have happened if hed been a gentleman. The network said what the hell is this . They said this makes no sense. I said right. They acknowledged the hippy generation yet the hosts were in tuxedos smoking cigarettes. They were still your parents but the other people let loose on the show were this young vaud vill. Sock it to me time. Hey. She socked it to herself. We knew that sock it to me didnt mean sock it to me. So we thought oh, oh. Sock it to me. Sock it to me. Haha. Sock it to me. It wasnted a submersive as it sounds. It was fun. Sock it to me . It was the first time president ial candidate had ever appeared on a comedy show and that may have got him elected and i had to live with that. Anyway. A family that watches laugh in together needs to pray together. Itser about right now that was the greatest thing ever. A fusion of politics and comedy and Everything Else into one television show. When we take over im going to look out for you. We dont talk about these things were starting to come up in tv and because it was well executed, it changed things. Take one. [ applause ] thank you so much. Good evening and welcome to the smothers brothers show. It is the comedy itself rather than the comedians which is more often in the spotlight. These two programs have consciously tried to break through the traditional song and skit routines and by subject matter often on the cutting edge of what is new. Theyre doing is us to refrain from traveling to foreign lands. All you guys in vietnam, come home. The times were changing so kwekly and the 60s and we didnt change them. We just reflected on them. What are you daing . Im getting ready to go to college. Cbs gave the smothers brothers that show because they were clean cut satrists. They wore blazers they could sing well, they were funny. Mom liked you best. They told us what they thought we should do and could do and it was totally wrong and tommy came in and said wed like to show where we can be relevant. Until then mr. Mcnamara the people in the counterculture start making these shows and they dont want to play by the rules other people did before then. But who would expect the smothers brothers to be the ones raising the fuss . I held my breath every time they did the show because i knew what the Network People were befouling their trousers with fear. Nothing funny in this. Were threw sensoring your show. They said the social subjects we touched on were not appropriate for the 9 00 family viewing hour. They came up with any excuse to maek make it difficult. They would like to give us snow and some of you dont like to think we say but were still here. Oh, yeah, were still here. They were going to speak truth to pour and they were not compromising. You have something important. Something very important to say. We dont have an opportunity to say anything because its American Television and every time you try to Say Something important well, whether you can say it or not, keep trying to say it. Thats whats important. Theres no way in the world if anythings meaningful and truthful that youre not going to offend someone. Yousk rr got to be able to say what the is and how it is and take the consequence. Cbs announced that the smothers brothers comedy hour will not return next season. Network president robert wood said it became evident that the brothers were unwilling to accept the taste acquired by cbs. Effort tootoo meet them for comment were unsuccessful. We never did regret it. What do you think of televisions, honestly . Do you think its good in. Yes, i do. For the amount of hours that it gives grou enjoyment either in education or for Pure Entertainment is remarkably good. What television did in the 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. Now its just the beginning. I think people looked for tv to answers. Its going to hell all over the place. Maybe something on air will help. There was no denying the shift in attitude towards sex, race relations, politics. It was all televizzed. That i will faithfully execute the office. Television evoked memories. When it works well, television makes us feel. Good morning. Its t minus one hour, 29 minutes, 53 seconds and counting. Television created a sense of National Unity around cultural events. You could turn on a machine and be somewhere else. Looking good here. Boy. Television changed absolutely everything. Beautiful view. Isnt that something . Averages Supreme National effort will be needed to move this country through the 1919 skiths. Across the world soviet missiles areomied at the United States. Whatever the president does he risks nuclear war. The lines are now drawn. 25 russian ships are on route to cuba in what may be a collision course. No way of knowing whether western civilization will live or die