Desire desires and deserves. Okay, lets try to do it again and see what comes out this time. Television has grown faster than a teenager. Now it is time to grow up. The tv was the center of the house. I dont remember a time without t tv. By 1960, essentially every American House had a tv. It was a new way of bringing the world to you. When Something Big happened on tv it really did impact the whole country at the same time. And awakened the eye on the world. Suddenly, television was the main event. Everything else changed. Even the way in which you went about the business of getting somebody elected president. Didnt have cameras. David, will you hit the oneminute button please. The 30 seconds and the cut, please. In 1960, the Nixon Kennedy debate was happening that night. And it introduced a lot of people to kennedy. Hear me now speaking . Is that about 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 is an 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 leave the United States . Mr. Nixon, would you like to comment on that statement . I have no comment. If youre live and there is a camera right here on television, there is really no place to hide. Once you see a guy sweating when asked the question are you sure he is a leader for you . That is 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 front of political craftsmanship. You could structure a message appropriately. You could have a huge impact. If you could not, you were toast. I would like to give a real welcome to the senator from massachusetts, mr. John kennedy. May i ask you so that i dont look too naive, a tough question off the bat . Whether im a democrat or republican . People recognized television was now the medium that mattered. It was not before 1960. And it was every day after 1960 in those president ial debates. Dont watch that, try to find a western. All right. Once everyone had a tv set in their living room, and advertisers had fully gotten a grip on how this was a way to sell products the very definition of what you were doing was to create the entertainment that would appeal to as many people as possible. Beaver, eat your brussel sprouts. I cant, my stomach is glued to my throat. Now, no excuses. Leave it to beaver was something that a lot of families understood. The first show that was shot from the perspective of a child. Most people had a lot of experiences like the beaver had, and everybody has an eddy haskell. Good evening, mr. Cleaver, some poor unfortunate child is trapped up there. Everybody has that moment when they were so embarrassed and they thought they would never get over it. But they did. The scene of the 1961 emmys. Whether it is a western or whether it is a drama. I think it is the quality of the show itself that is important. The Andy Griffith show, mayberry, a kinder, gentler place, it would be hard not to want to live in mayberry. The core of the Andy Griffith show was this rock at the center of it. Calm wisdom. I have taken the best parts of myself and people that i have known all of my life and put them into the tape. 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 appreciated the emotional honesty and appreciate it more than laughs. It is great if you can achieve both simultaneously. And the Andy Griffith show did that very often. For a sitcom it showed unexpected depths. The second dance number should come before the big sketch. Gee, i dont know. I like it. Now i like it. I too do. 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. If youre writing about that nobody can say that is 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 was not a genie in a bikini on somebody, mantel. Women are more, more honest and direct . No, theyre more courageous . We all have the same needs and feelings and situations with husbands and wives. That was the common element. Living. How much do you like that baby . Oh, rob, dont tell me youre jealous already. The season episode for the 1963 season was seared in my head. My wife had a baby on the same day, the hospital was very busy. Mr. Peters. They thought they got the wrong baby from the hospital. So they calls the parents of the other kid and thinks you know, we may have your kid, you may have our kid. Hi, were mr. And mrs. Peters. 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 balls. Carl reiner, the winner, 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 whon a certified preownedan unlimitedmercedesbenz . Nty what does it mean to drive as far as you want. For up to three years and be covered . It means your odometer. Is there to record the memories. During the mercedesbenz certified preowned sales event now through june 2nd, youll get complimentary prepaid maintenance and may qualify for a twomonth payment credit. Only at your authorized mercedesbenz dealer. Live in the same communities that we serve. People here know that our operations have an impact locally. Were using more natural gas vehicles than ever before. The trucks are reliable, thats good for business. But they also reduce emissions, and thats good for everyone. It makes me feel very good about the future of our company. Nbr scott were concerned. You just fed your lawn earlier this spring and now youre at it again. Scott chuckles indeed, a crucial late spring feeding helps defend the grass against the summer heat to come. Nbr we knew that right guys . Oh yeah scott feed your lawn. Feed it i have got to tell you this one, you know those knock, knock jokes . Yeah, but theyre old now. I have got a real good one, a real funny one, go ahead, start, say it. Knock, knock. Who is there . There was only three networks, there was only one late night show, really, jack parr 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 that can beat me. Im as good as liberace. Jack had had in his corner his personality. His fabulous, complex, frightening, neurotic, but in other cases, enthusiastic, informed personality. It made for great television. I dont have a watch either. Has it been charming . 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. 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. That is a fair looking 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 in 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. 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. This year, i think im going to try to sleep through the nixon administration. There were conversations. When you mentioned the National Anthem and talk about playing it in any unorthodox way, you immediately get a percentage of hate mail. 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 exciting in their sentences. 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, people together, get them all on the stage and hope that something works. But it is a great show, a great platform from people who have something to say. The point is they take these scripts out of the draw. They change these things away. Maybe it doesnt work on green acres but that is why night after night you turn on these serials and they all 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. If one person is doing this fantastic 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 hero. It is a story about a nazi concentration camp, and a story about heroes. 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. Hey. Im ted and this is rudy. Say hi rudy. [ barks ] [ chuckles ] id do anything to keep this guy happy and healthy. Thats why im so excited about these new milkbone brushing chews. Whoa, im not the only one. Its a brilliant new way to take care of his teeth. Clinically proven as effective as brushing. Ok, here you go. Have you ever seen a dog brush his own teeth . The twist and nub design cleans all the way down to the gum line, even reaching the back teeth. They taste like a treat, but they clean like a toothbrush. Nothing says you care like a milkbone brushing chew. [ barks ] nothing says you care like a milkbone brushing chew. Ben well, that was close you aint lying let quicken loans help you save your money. With a mortgage thats engineered to amaze 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. 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 tvs could start to take advantage of them. Well, glad you could make it. I remember saying stay tuned for gidget next, in color. On 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 life alive. Do i look like a corpse . This is an emergency, youre standing on my foot Gilligans Island made no sense, how was the professor able to build all of this stuff but not make 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, are you kidding . It 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. It was the height of the 60s, and everybody was eating granola and dropping out and doing god knows what else, and i wasnt. Im switching to my eyeglasses. Television more than ever in the 60s was a place to escape to. Seemed like it was sort of almost a willful respite from the stuff that was going on in the world, from 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 the early 60s, television was by and large seen as something as a back water to print journalism. 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 wounded. It was in contrast to what you saw in entertainment, to what you saw on the news, was planetary. Never has this descent been as emotional. Each year it was filled with multiple events. Governor wallace has ordered 500 Alabama National guardsmen into tuscaloosa. 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, 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. [ girl ] my mom, she makes underwater fans that are powered by the moon. She can print amazing things, right from her computer. [ whirring ] [ train whistle blows ] she makes trains that are friends with trees. My mom works at ge. Sweets become salaries. An oven heats up a community la cocina, a small kitchen that kickstarts the careers of 41 entrepreneurs. 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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. But that was part of the charm. Here he is, ed sullivan no matter who controlled the tv set on sunday, 8 00, you were going to watch ed sullivan. Ed sullivan was a phenomenon. He was a powerful force. 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, it is very difficult. 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 a comic, an acrobat, and an opera singer. Which was true variety. Thing that was current was on the ed sullivan show. Rodney dangerfield. My whole life i dont get no respect, no respect from anyone. As a performer you couldnt get a better place to sell your produc 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 show. 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 Korman. 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. Think of a 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 rehea e 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. We just thought 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. You hoped for magic. It was carol, carol, the magic of carol burnett. 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 little things, anyone can do. It steals your memories. Your independence. Insures support. A breakthrough. And sooner than youd like. Sooner than you think. You die from alzheimers disease. We cure alzheimers disease. Every little click, call, or donation adds up to Something Big. Alzheimers association. The brains behind saving yours. Are you saying he is a tv addict . Well, perhaps he has been staring at this electronic blessing, the tv set for so long that his life became his. And he is at a stage of confusion that he no longer knows whether or not he is watching the action or participating in it. You unlock this door with the key of imagination. 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, it has patterned itself since the beginning of time. Rod serling who created the Twilight Zone realized he could tell stories about racism and 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 six months, the fugitive, this is richard kinmball with a new identity. 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 tv shows that actually went somewhere. You know, youngstown is not exactly on our course. They showed slices of the world people never saw 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 power of yours. How long have you had it . They forced captain kirk and the lieutenant to kiss. It was the first interracial kiss on television. Nbc asked me if i would do that. I had always adored harry belafonte, we had already decided to do one called 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 in that way. We were not 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. 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. Dont you everybody remember to bring a silencer. . With i spy, robert culp and bill cosby were equals. He made race a nonissue. Because he is undenial. 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 starring in her own television show. Has he told you told me what . Im colored. She was a black woman raising her own son. It was something new. And you keep out of mischief. Ill just watch the old 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 than he had been in in the black and white days. And somehow there were the dirty hippies. Jack web would lecture 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 your nose out of the acid, next time i will. How much protein does your dog food have . 18 percent . 20 . Purina one true instinct has 30. Active dogs crave nutrientdense food. So we made purina one true instinct. Learn more at purinaone. Com Olive Gardens latest iyou ration . You told us your number one olive garden dishes. Now theyre part of our 2 for 25 guest favorites featuring for the very first time your all Time Favorite dish, creamy chicken alfredo. 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Stop, children, whats that sound, everybody look whats going down whatever the president does, he risks nuclear war. Presenting, rowan and martins laugh in. Our country would be much better off with a strong leader. I know but sinatra cant do everything. When laughing 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. 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 v vodville. Hey. 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. Sock it to me. It wasnt on a submersive 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 verbotent, 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. Take 1. 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 often in the spotlight. These two programs tried to influence people with the comedy and skit routines and 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 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 should do and what we could do and it was totally wrong. Ill be the first to go, but until then with mr. Mcna mera. If you were in Counter Culture started making these shows and they dont want it play bit 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. 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 he 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. Now its just the beginning. I think people looked at television for answers, maybe. That world is just confusing. 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. When it works, television conveys impression and evokes memories. When it works well, television makes us feel. Good morning. T minus 1 29 53 and counting. Television created the sense of National Unity around cultural events. Good 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. Isnt that something . Stand by. The amount of watching television is five to six hours a day. Theres a reason for calling it the boob tube and idiot box. Lets change the channel. We want to rap about our scene. Yeah. Here is the news. We must give the american viewers the kind of tv they desi