i didn t 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 disney s wonderful world of color on sunday nights, which was like just an acid trip of a show. we just could not believe it. tinkerbell 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.
these shows and they don t 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 held my breath every time they did the show. because i knew the network people were befouling their trousers with fear. nothing funny in this. yeah, boys, we re 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 don t like the things we say but we re still here oh yeah we re still here they were going to speak truth to power. and they were not compromising.
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 s 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 weren t. the twilight zone had these little o. henry-like twists on it was aloued to have unhappy endings. they picked the most dangerous enemies they could find, and it s themselves. now, six months a fugitive. this is richard kimball with a new identity and, for as long as it is safe, a new name. the fugitive was a character study. beware the eyes of strangers, keep moving. everybody wanted to see what happens to the fugitive.
young pretty actresses who use the word excited in every sentence. you re not frequently seen on television. is that by choice? well, of course, it is the most impressive medium of all. it s the medium that will either save america or send it down into demise, there s no question about it. i m getting out of it myself. really? we ll be 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 that something works, but it s 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 doesn t work on green acres, but with many of these shows, that s why night after night you turn on these serials and they all seem as if they came out of the same bread box. back then you had lots and lots of copycats. you hav
one year there were like 18 different variety shows. everybody had a variety show. it s the jimmy dean show everybody was different because of who was helming the show. everybody loves somebody some time 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 a bit lost. people thought that it was because he was tiddly.