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[Purple Wig]

Run for Your Life (1965–1968)​

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I love this show as you can see and there are 3 episodes posted on YouTube, but they are of such poor quality I will not post them here. To do so would be an injustice to such a wonderful series. 'Nuff said!

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Another show I always wanted to see. RTN was running it awhile back but no affiliate in my city. Managed to see a few decent quality uploads the better part of a decade ago, but those have long since been pulled.

 

[The 1960's]

Did you know it was actually a spin-off of another show, December Bride?

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[The 1960's]

Another show I always wanted to see. RTN was running it awhile back but no affiliate in my city. Managed to see a few decent quality uploads the better part of a decade ago, but those have long since been pulled.

Yes it traveled from retrotv to AntennaTV to COZItv. I DVR'ed and DVHS recorded from all three. Antenna was the worst quality and Cozi the best, but the latter hacked them to death. What horrid treatment for such a great series.

Currently retrotv looks like someone is broadcasting directly from their VHS deck, and in most cities it's on low-power channels that reach about 2-3 blocks.

 

[JohnHopper]

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The short-lived WWII series Blue Light (1966).

starring​

Robert Goulet​

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[The 1960's]

For the People (1965) Between Candor & Shame S01E05 (Mar.07.1965) Parts 1-6

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Touché Ruby Pearl

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[Mysto]

It wasn't just Lucy.
Now a days many think the only sit com we watched in the early days was I Love Lucy. Although it was a power house there were many other funny shows.
Stu Erwin - Trouble with Father 1950-52



Another show I remember watching as a kid

Beulah 1950-52

 

[Mysto]

One of my favorite shows as a kid was

You Asked for It - Art Baker 1950-58
Each week they would take mailed in requests and show interesting acts and sometimes expose's. As a young budding magician I enjoyed that they had a lot of magic acts.

I sent in a request once but it never aired. They did send me a grow it yourself peanut kit for requesting. (The show was sponsored by Skippy peanut butter).

 

[Bartman]

Yes it traveled from retrotv to AntennaTV to COZItv. I DVR'ed and DVHS recorded from all three. Antenna was the worst quality and Cozi the best, but the latter hacked them to death. What horrid treatment for such a great series.

Currently retrotv looks like someone is broadcasting directly from their VHS deck, and in most cities it's on low-power channels that reach about 2-3 blocks.

Run For Your Life was an NBC show so I wonder why it was never released on DVD, anyone hazard a guess?

 

[Mysto]

Run For Your Life was an NBC show so I wonder why it was never released on DVD, anyone hazard a guess?

There was a thread on Run for Your Life - The consensus is that it is a rights issue. The sales are usually so low for vintage TV that when the rights are in question nobody will make the effort. And as time passes, it gets worse. So sad - so many great shows.

 

[daddyora]

Mr. Lucky

 

[Mysto]

Mr. Lucky

I agree Coy - great show and great theme song.
At least the complete series is available but I would really like better copies.

 

[RBailey]

I've got to add one of the great situation comedies of the fifties. Here's a whole list of episodes from THE BOB CUMMINGS SHOW aka LOVE THAT BOB!

 

[Peter M Fitzgerald]

PANIC! (aka No Warning, 1957-58) a half-hour Alfred Hitchcock Presents-like suspense anthology, though framed with occasional Dragnet-like procedural narration, in the stentorian tones of Westbrook Van Voorhis (former voice of the 'March of Time' newsreels).

"The Priest" (Season 1, Episode 1; March 5, 1957), starring James Whitmore:




--The cameraman on this episode was film noir specialist Harry Wild (Murder My Sweet, They Won't Believe Me, Pitfall, His Kind of Woman, Macao, etc).

 

[Darby67]

This is truly one of the most enjoyable threads I've encountered on HTF in a long time. My thanks to OP Neal for starting it and to all the contributors to it for enlightening me about some true tv series gems!

 

[The 1960's]

It wasn't just Lucy.
Now a days many think the only sit com we watched in the early days was I Love Lucy. Although it was a power house there were many other funny shows.
Stu Erwin - Trouble with Father 1950-52

Very young Martin Milner in this episode and the very very very young Sheila James Kuehl (Zelda Gilroy) from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis!

 

[The 1960's]

PANIC! (aka No Warning, 1957-58) a half-hour Alfred Hitchcock Presents-like suspense anthology, though framed with occasional Dragnet-like procedural narration, in the stentorian tones of Westbrook Van Voorhis (former voice of the 'March of Time' newsreels).

"The Priest" (Season 1, Episode 1; March 5, 1957), starring James Whitmore:




--The cameraman on this episode was film noir specialist, Harry Wild (Murder My Sweet, They Won't Believe Me, Pitfall, His Kind of Woman, Macao, etc).

Good one! The first to use archive.org!!

 

[The 1960's]

This is truly one of the most enjoyable threads I've encountered on HTF in a long time. My thanks to OP Neal for starting it and to all the contributors to it for enlightening me about some true tv series gems!

That's really nice to hear. Thank you Sean! It wouldn't have happened without encouragement from Marv, so thank you to Mysto!

 

[JohnHopper]

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The short-lived private detective series The Outsider (1968).

starring​

Darrin McGavin​

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[JohnHopper]

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The short-lived burglar series T.H.E. Cat (1966).

starring​

Robert Loggia​

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[Mysto]

When I posted my favorite quiz program I failed to mention an interesting fact.
In the beginning (well of TV) there were 4 networks ABC-NBC-CBS-DuMont.
Pantomime Quiz (Stump the Stars) was one of only 6 programs to ever appear on all four networks. I knew that but I didn't know what the other five were so I looked it up.
Four were also programs I watched (I'll post them over the next couple of days) but one I had never seen before. It was also a quiz program:

Down You Go 1951-1956