Tag: 1960s television

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. was mandatory viewing in our house. My dad was a Marine sergeant, so there was no missing…

It’s Saturday morning in 1965. You’ve got a bowl of your favorite cereal in front of you, the cartoons are…

This was a little before my time, but I certainly remember my parents and other adults saying, “What is this,…

I remember Branded, but what sticks with me most isn’t the stories—it’s that theme song. And I also remember that…

Seeing Mighty Mouse selling vitamins takes me right back to an era when our Saturday-morning cartoon heroes seemed capable of…

I remember this song like it was yesterday, played dozens of times a day on ABC to promote the new…

If you grew up watching television in the 1950s or ’60s, cigarette commercials weren’t unusual or something that jumped out…

When I think of My Favorite Martian, I really don’t remember watching it as a first-run show — I remember…

I think one of the reasons Rocky and Bullwinkle still holds up is that when we watched it as kids,…

This may be one of the strangest—and most wonderfully 1968—things I’ve come across in a while. That’s Liberace getting “groovy”…