Hello:
I have a blog dedicated to vintage broadcasting in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio..Last September I did a post on "NBC Week" in September 1965, which includes Don Adams' In "A Secret Agent's Dilemma" an NBC Week Preview on September 6, 1965..This plays like a "sneak preview episode" of Get Smart, which wouldnt premiere until September 18..


http://clevelandclassicmedia.blogspot.com/2008/09/september-1965-nbc-week.html

Note:any of the pictures in the blog are clickable for better readability.

That was entertaining. Thanks for posting.

That was awesome :) :thumbsup: :thumbsup:


Back when television mattered.

A few shows that aired on NBC during 1965-66:

Hank
Mona McCluskey
Camp Runamuck
Wackiest Ship In The Army
John Forsythe Show
Mister Roberts

I wonder if these shows are gone forever, or if there's a chance they'll be seen again on TV or perhaps get a new life on DVD? It would be great to see all of these old, one season wonder types of shows again. It pains me to think that films of all these shows are possibly sitting in a vault somewhere going to rot and no one cares to do anything about it. :(

A few shows that aired on NBC during 1965-66:

Hank
Mona McCluskey
Camp Runamuck
Wackiest Ship In The Army
John Forsythe Show
Mister Roberts

I wonder if these shows are gone forever, or if there's a chance they'll be seen again on TV or perhaps get a new life on DVD? It would be great to see all of these old, one season wonder types of shows again. It pains me to think that films of all these shows are possibly sitting in a vault somewhere going to rot and no one cares to do anything about it. :(



Man dont even get me started on this one.

Man dont even get me started on this one.

I actually recall for a time "Camp Runamuck" airing daily on Nickelodeon Cable Network at 5PM ET Monday-Friday in the 1980's..Almost certain that by 1965, all prime time series were archived..So the shows mentioned should be avilable..Just a matter of a company wanting to release them at some point..

Also:I saw in listings of the late 1960's "Wackiest Ship" aired in syndication in Cleveland on WEWS-TV 5

I actually recall for a time "Camp Runamuck" airing daily on Nickelodeon Cable Network at 5PM ET Monday-Friday in the 1980's..Almost certain that by 1965, all prime time series were archived..So the shows mentioned should be avilable..Just a matter of a company wanting to release them at some point..

Also:I saw in listings of the late 1960's "Wackiest Ship" aired in syndication in Cleveland on WEWS-TV 5

Camp Runamuck also ran briefly on Comedy Central, back when it had classic shows worth watching, IMO. I taped at least one episode from that run, the plot involved the camp shrinking due to a botched extermination job and the counselors' trying to trick Commander Wivenhoe into thinking that the kids were bigger than the camp because of some special beans that they'd eaten. It wasn't a super plot, but I'd take it over most anything on that network now.

..."A Secret Agent's Dilemma" (9/6/65, 7:30-7:55pm(et)], was the first of three annual "fall preview" specials the network aired from 1965 through '67; the other two were Jack Burns & Avery Schreiber in "Two In A Taxi", filmed in New York [9/4/66, 3-3:30pm(et)], and Danny Thomas {with Jan Murray} in "Remember Next Year?", from Hollywood [9/10/67, 7-7:30pm(et)]. They were all supervised by the "NBC Advertising Department", and were "sustained" {no commercials}. All three were written and produced by Philip Minoff (the head of "NBC Advertising"), although the opening and closing sequences in "A Secret Agent's Dilemma' were lifted from the original unaired version of the black & white "GET SMART" pilot {that's why the special "shifted" to color towards the middle- "Well, that's a crummy-looking peacock"}.

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...'Mickey'; the only problem is, those series lasted one season, and they were deemed for the most part, in the eyes of the studios that produced them, as "unprofitable" for domestic syndication, and left most of them them "in the vault" (with the exceptions of "THE WACKIEST SHIP IN THE ARMY", which was indeed syndicated for several years off-network into the '70s {including WPIX-TV in New York}, and "CAMP RUNAMUCK", which found new life on cable in the '80s). "HANK" and "MISTER ROBERTS" were produced by Warner Bros., and Time-Warner sees absolutely no value is reissuing those series on cable- or on DVD- beause there's "no demand" for them. Same with "MONA McCLUSKEY" (produced by George Burns for United Artists TV; SONY probably has no idea that show exists in their UA library!) and "THE JOHN FORSYTHE SHOW" (co-produced by Forsythe and MCA/Universal; they just don't care about most of their "obscure" series). "MY MOTHER, THE CAR", though, as with "WACKIEST SHIP", did find some success in syndication through the late '70s.

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still better than the programming we are stuck with now.

I recall seeing Wackiest Ship In The Army on syndicated TV in the early 70's. It was aired as part of a block with other military sitcoms like Sgt. Bilko, McHale's Navy, Gomer Pyle, etc. Another short lived show from 1965 that I remember fondly is O.K. Crackerby!, that one aired on ABC. Starring Burl Ives, the show was created by Cleveland Amory, a critic for TV Guide at the time.