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We're going to have our third part of TV shows we watched in the 1950s.
I'm a little part of the 50s.
These are some of the shows could you name them.
The first one was the untouchables.
They were.
Okay, so let's start about TV shows for the 50s.
Thank you, Don.
These are great memories we all share as baby boomers,
the excitement of TV and those early TV shows.
Carol and I already did the Kitty shows,
such as the Mickey Mouse Club,
and we did the shows we watched with our families
like Lawrence Welk and I Love Lucy.
By the way, all these programs are on Don's podcast.
So, Tunisian sometime if you would.
But today we are including crime shows,
contestant shows, and quiz shows from the 50s.
Right, Carol?
Let's start with crime, Jim.
Okay.
And then let's start with Dragnet.
And you guys could do this with me.
Don, don, don, don.
Don, don, don, don.
Yes, we need your low voice.
With Jack Webb.
Yes.
I listen to the old time radio show all the time.
I love the old Dragnet, and the radio,
which were very similar.
Yeah.
The TV shows, except there's no picture.
Yeah.
One difference.
But yes, we can still hear Jack Webb's voice too.
Their crisp voice.
We can see the office.
Do you remember the office?
It was two desks with two black rotary dial phones.
That's what the detectives needed in those days.
And then for a detective Friday and his buddy,
Frank Smith or Bill Ganon,
the phrases that we still have,
little on the plots, but the phrases,
making it so real.
You guys might want to join in with me, but this is the city.
Los Angeles.
California.
California.
I carry a badge.
My name is Friday.
Do you remember the number of the badge?
714.
He was so serious.
Yes.
And then he does this chronological things to make it so real.
It was September 13th.
We were working the day watch out of homicide.
That's it.
Yeah.
And then he does this time thing to make it so real.
For instance, 932 AM.
We were at the Suspects home.
1045.
We entered the Suspects garage.
Right through the whole detective scene.
You know what the thing though was and about that.
And it was very, we accepted it because we, most people,
well, people don't really know what it was like.
And now with these live PD shows,
you know what it's really like.
And it's nothing like that.
And it is nothing like that at all.
When the cops come to someone's house,
but we didn't know because there was no live PD.
You didn't know what that was going on.
Ben Alexander was the original blind.
Yeah.
And later Harry Morgan came on when they do the 1968 remake.
Right.
Yeah.
But Joe Friday never changed.
Always that.
Never changed.
Deadpan.
Yes.
Yes.
Never any emotion.
Rarely smiled.
Yeah.
No.
It was show.
Yeah.
He pretty right.
And then the conclusion on March 25th,
the trial was held in the County of Los Angeles.
The suspect is now serving his term in the state penitentiary
at San Quentin.
And I think San Quentin to this day,
it sounds like the most horrible place in the world.
Is it still operating?
Yeah.
Now, yeah.
And Johnny Cash gave a concert there.
And then the final part of the episode,
that golden anvil coming down and hitting the sign.
March 7th.
Yeah.
And then the next episode of the Dick Van Dycho,
when Dick Van Dycho is dealing with a crime in it,
whatever the police solved it.
And he says, I guess this is a March 7.
And I called it.
What do you mean a March 7?
And what do you do in the case of Solve?
He said the case of Solve.
But March 7 was the production company.
Yeah.
Nothing more than that.
No, we still remember.
It's a March 7th.
Yeah.
March 7th.
Yeah.
And that golden anvil.
And then all this time, this was sponsored.
Well, most of the time by Chesterfield,
which Jack Webb smoked.
Oh, yeah.
Remember that?
Yeah, endorsed.
Yeah, sure.
Yeah.
Another phrase from that show was, remember this one done?
Just the facts, ma'am.
Nothing but the facts.
Just the facts.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah.
And speaking of facts, Perry Mason was also a long running crime show.
That centered around the courtroom, though,
instead of the police station.
Perry Mason ran from 57 to 66, very long running show.
It was a legal drama starring, of course, Raymond Burr.
He was always budding heads with Hamilton Berger, the DA.
As far as I know, he never lost his case.
Yes, he lost one case.
Did he lose a case?
One case to Hamilton Berger.
No kidding.
And one case.
Wow.
Okay.
Other characters on the show were Della Street, Paul Drake,
Lieutenant Trag, and a few other replacements.
But Della and Paul always worked together with Perry
to clear an innocent person of murder.
And if you remember at the very end, somebody always breaks down.
The Perry Mason moment.
Yeah.
And confesses to the crime.
Yeah.
They still use that when I was date line or 2020.
They always say, and then there was the Perry Mason moment.
Yeah.
There you go.
And did you know, Don, that Raymond Burr made over $18,000
an episode back in the mid 60s?
That's jump change.
Well, today.
Carol and I figured out you're certainly worth that too.
Yeah.
We want you to know that figure.
You're the only two that think so.
So what movie did Raymond Burr make just before Perry Mason came on the air?
He made a classic movie that's still watched today.
TCM runs it all the time.
He made the English language version of Godzilla.
Oh, that's right.
Yes.
Just before Perry Mason came on.
That was because there was the Japanese version.
And they wanted to make an Americanized version.
So they brought Raymond Burr in.
I mean, Godzilla.
The original Godzilla.
I am with the two most informed men you can have about every minute of television.
No, just about Godzilla.
Another good show.
Carol was.
Well, we had the music for this two things done.
Alfred Hitchcock presents.
Good evening.
See, thank you, Don.
Yes.
He walks into a shadow.
We can't remember that.
We can see the face.
We can hear the voice.
It's still on.
You can watch it all the shows are still on by the way.
So that good evening and all.
We expected suspense.
And this started in 55.
It was on CBS at first and NBC later.
Sunday nights and then Tuesday nights.
And in my research, I wanted to mention my very deep research for this program.
Jim.
Alfred Hitchcock supposedly got 129,000 each episode.
Oh, my God.
Well, he also directed some of them.
No, I guess a few he did.
Yeah, he directed at the beginning, he directed them.
Yes.
But just the names of the episodes, let alone the actual plots.
Sounds scary.
I got to give these writers so much credit.
Here's some titles.
Lams to the slaughter.
And unlocked window.
Premonition.
The glass eye.
And then one that I guess you can find today.
And I have to say I didn't try.
One episode was called the Sorcerer's Apprentice.
Oh, the Mickey Mouse cartoon from Fantasia.
True.
Well, that was the Sorcerer's Apprentice.
Well, but this doesn't sound like Mickey Mouse, which I did not know.
But that's where it comes from.
Okay.
Well, this was denied by NBC or CBS.
Because I guess it was like, you know, how you saw a person in half as a fake.
Oh, yeah.
This was the real thing.
They decided it was too gruesome.
Favorite Alfred Hitchcock episode.
And I saw it not too long ago.
They run it.
It's every night on Channel 19 on the cable.
Yes.
Network that TV not TV land.
I figured what the channel is.
They run it every night.
TV.
We TV.
Yeah, they run it every night.
And there was one where this woman beats her husband to death
with a little like a lamb.
I saw that.
And then the cops come and she serves them the leg of lamb.
Yes.
And they can't find the.
Yeah.
Yeah.
She takes it out of the other lambs to the slaughter.
So that title was scarier than the actual production.
But it was just so clever.
And that was with Val get us.
Yeah.
They can't find the murder weapon.
Yeah.
They just ate it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
To the side.
Good.
All right.
Hold on just a sec.
We can continue with the Carol G.
We all know and loved.
Jim Monsieur, Carol G.
And Fortier here.
We're talking about some of the TV shows of the 1950s.
This is part three.
We talked about Dragnet, Perry Mason.
Alfred Hitchcock.
Mm-hmm.
His daughter was in one of his movies.
Do you remember what his daughter was in the movie?
I bet you do.
Yeah.
Well, I know.
Yeah.
So I'm asking the question.
Do you know?
No.
Her name is Patricia Hitchcock.
His daughter.
And she was in psycho at the very beginning.
She's the secretary at the desk.
Mm-hmm.
Where Janet Lee works is to steal the money.
Yeah.
From the real estate company.
His daughter's working at the desk.
Yeah.
She's been in a couple of TV shows too over the years.
No major parts.
Mm-hmm.
But it's Patricia Hitchcock.
Yeah.
She isn't some of the TV episodes as well.
Yeah.
In his movies, he always had a cameo.
Yeah.
I remember that.
Yeah.
That was the big thing you try to catch where he is.
Where was he?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Quick quick Alfred Hitchcock note.
Then we'll continue.
In the movie, Rare Window.
One of the best Alfred Hitchcock movies ever.
He's in the scene with a piano player.
Mm-hmm.
You remember the piano player was in one of the windows there?
Yeah.
You know who the piano player was?
His name was Ross Bagdissarian.
Uh-huh.
Later, he changed his name to David Seville on the chipmunks.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Wow.
I guess he did make your acting.
He made a fortune with the chipmunks.
Yeah.
All right.
Our next show.
Next show.
Who remembers the untouchables?
They ran from 59 to 63.
That was a crime drama about Elliott and S fighting crime in Chicago during the 30s.
It starred, of course, Robert Stack.
And it was narrated by a guy with a very distinct voice.
Walter Winchell.
Now, Nest was a prohibition agent who helped bring down big Al Capone or otherwise known as Scarface
and his bootleg empire.
Lots of action and lots of violence.
Of course, Nest's men could not be bribed or bought.
Thus the term untouchables.
Now, the other guy you went after on a lot of the episodes.
Frank Nitty.
Frank Nitty.
Yeah.
I think Bruce Gordon.
Bruce, he had the perfect Frank Nitty.
He played Frank Nitty on all his episodes.
That's right.
And then there were the very popular contestant shows.
You know, we like to watch the average Joe on TV.
And that's what these shows provided, right, Carol?
Yes.
We switched from crime to contestants.
So we're going to feel a lot more lighthearted right now.
And what comes to mind is, Groucho Marx, you bet your life.
Early 50s, he began.
And we'd know Groucho, just like Alfred Hitchcock or Jack Webb,
the gravelly voice, the mustache, the glasses, the bow tie,
and how great he was at being witty and on the spot.
Say the secret word when $100.
Funny you should mention that.
That's exactly right.
Can you imagine from crime to contestants,
how now we were waiting for the doctor come down when we were off?
Now his show really wasn't about the contest.
It was about the interviews he did with people.
Right.
Yes.
That was the best part of the show.
The contest was secondary.
Yes.
He was just repartee or something as he got to know them and put them at ease.
So here's one episode I watched lately.
The secret word, which, of course, we knew it was all.
OK, how's somebody going to say, well,
and would you believe one of his contestants,
she operated her own a laundromat.
So he was, I think legit, he didn't know what a laundromat was.
So this was a lengthy series of back and forth about what a laundromat had.
And she had to explain to him that there were all these machines on the wall.
Ah, and the duck came down.
And the duck came down.
Say, this is a great word.
You win $100.
$100.
Now another thing about Groucho and these contestant shows that phrase,
this was filmed in front of a live audience.
If you see some of those people on the audience.
That's just what I was going to say.
There are strange-looking people.
Well, also dressed, you know, suits, eyes.
Very older people.
There were never a young people on the audience.
Right.
They were as dressed with their pearls.
Yep.
It's a look back to the 50s right there.
That's how they look back then.
That's right.
Yeah.
Nobody yelling anything out.
No.
No.
No.
And then DeSoto.
A DeFunk card dealer or card maker now,
but DeSoto brought all this to us.
So we heard that over and over.
And they always had those signs in back with this bell, like Gerrit Hall.
There was always in the background.
Oh, yeah.
They always had to see the sponsor on there.
Yep.
In one episode, there was an insurance salesman,
who claimed he could sell insurance to anyone.
So Groucho picks a random number out of the phone book.
And he's proceeded to sell insurance.
And his opening words were, I remember this.
Madam, I'm going to put you on the payroll.
So right away, she's interested, you know.
Very smart.
I don't think he was successful, though.
I think she hung up eventually.
Okay.
Hold it right there.
Yeah.
We're talking to Carol G. and Forte and Jim Acerre
about TV shows from the 1950s.
TV shows to the 1950s.
We did the police dramas like Drag Dad Perry Mansion.
Alfred Hitchcock, The Untouchables.
And we're talking about the contestant shows like the Groucho Marks.
You bet your life.
And what are we up to now?
Well, we're going to do people are funny with art link letter.
Now, that show ran from 54 to 1960.
Contestants were asked to carry out stunts to prove that.
Of course, people are funny.
Some stunts lasted for weeks or even months.
One example was a contestant had to converse on the phone
with a complete stranger picked from the phone book,
of course, at random for several minutes
without the other party hanging up,
which would be almost impossible to do.
Oh, Don could probably do that.
No, not today.
First of all, there's no phone books.
You could do it.
That's true.
Unrecognized number.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And the other person had to get his picture in the local paper
and art link letter was say, no,
I don't want you to rob a bank or anything like that.
So they were always very unusual stunts.
But this is different than art link letters house party.
Oh, that's correct.
That came later on.
Yeah.
Right.
And kids say the darnedest things are something.
Yeah.
That was part of the house party.
You interviewed the kids at the end.
I think so.
Yeah.
We have a few other contestant shows.
And of course, we had the very popular,
very popular quiz shows as well.
But Carol's going to tell us about another contestant show.
We'll continue on with Queen for a day.
Would you like to be Queen for a day?
From the famous full-eye rooms in Hollywood,
one of the world's greatest show places.
The National Broadcasting Company presented for the Queen
for a day, the Cinderella show.
Sorry.
Jack Bailey.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
There was Jack Bailey.
How are you?
I'd like to make one for a day.
We had really hard luck cases up there.
You know, Jim and I, Jim, aren't we lucky to be under Don's
direction here?
Oh, yes.
She's one of us.
Just during Paul Harvey instead of concentrating 100% on Paul Harvey,
Don was looking for Jack Bailey and Queen for a day.
I was just giving away my secrets.
I'm like, I'm like the Wizard of Oz behind the curtain.
And you pull up what we need.
And you just pull the curtain back.
Right at the right moment.
Yes.
Well, anyway, this was another one filmed in front of a live audience,
starting in 56, yes, with Jack Bailey.
Now, you know, was this good or bad, but all the viewers that my mother
and I loved it, but for contestants with sob stories.
And boy, some of them, they were sad.
I looked at one the other day.
And do you know what this woman wanted?
She had a 15-year-old son who had had heart surgery and was doing okay.
She wanted a record player for him.
That was her wish as Queen for a day, a record player.
Well, anyway, we heard the wishes and then the audience,
that live audience, the applause meter.
They would applause and pick the Queen that way.
And then Jack Bailey's voice with getting the red velvet robe and the crown.
But this was, besides what the women needed, medical bills paid,
maybe a new washer, a record player.
But this was the era of appliances.
And everyone was going to get a new washer and dryer.
Your hair dryer.
A hair dryer.
True.
My life is falling apart.
But your hair is going to look away.
Yes.
Yes.
That was the age.
And I saw that they even gave out flatware.
Now, that's a phrase I haven't heard in years.
Flatware.
That's silverware.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So cases, probably, Gorum or Onida, flatware for anyone.
But also, I think today, this is kind of, they say it's a,
it was a floor runner of reality shows.
But we certainly sympathized.
And Jim, I think you said, even your family would break down even.
Oh, yeah.
It never hurts with many sob stories, you know, on TV.
I mean, they were all legitimate, but picking the right one, you know,
was really hard.
Right.
How'd they do that?
Remember that?
Yeah.
Would they applause me?
Would they applause me?
Yes.
Right.
Right.
Now, another one, Jim, is a lot of money involved.
Oh, yes.
A $64,000 question that ran from $55 to $58.
Contestants had to answer general knowledge questions.
The final question had a top prize of $64,000.
And back in the mid to late 50s, that was a lot of money back then.
Actually, it was the number one program in $55.
And did you know, Carol, that Dr. Joyce Brothers was the first woman?
Yeah.
To win the $64,000.
Really?
Of course.
And of course, the honeymooners, they take off on that.
Oh, that's right.
Yes.
Big, big Ralph.
Big, big Ralph show.
Yes.
And he was, Ralph Cramden was going to, he studied everything.
Yeah.
He studied music.
He studied everything.
I know he was going to be out of it.
Yeah.
And Ed Norton used to start his, every time Ed Norton played the piano to start,
he did, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.
Swony River.
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.
And Ralph yelled at him every time.
He always started with Swony River before he played the piano.
So he played the piano piece.
And what was the first question of the 60 points?
Who composed Swony River?
And they said, let's play a little bit of it.
And Ralph says, that's Swony River.
And he said, who composed it?
Ed Norton.
Ed Norton.
But that was, that was based on the $64,000.
That's right.
That's right.
Actually, it was sponsored by Revlon.
It's interesting to note that their CEO often interfered with production.
And they were getting rid of contestants.
He didn't like.
Amazing.
That was hands-on.
That's right.
When did the big scandal start with the quiz show?
That's coming.
Oh, we get to that right now.
Yes, that's coming.
I don't want to rush it.
Yep, yep.
Another finale.
Yep.
Another program or a quiz show known for the big money, of course,
was the price was right.
Still on today?
Yes.
A different, different format, though.
Yes, yes, yes.
Let's begin.
The first one, 1956, also filmed in front of a live audience.
I'm stuck on that phrase.
And then talking with Jim, how many times do we watch this,
where we would recognize this phrase?
This was a, Mark Goodson, Bill Toddman, product.
Yeah.
I remember this.
No.
Now, this was Bill calling the host, the host, with Don Pardo to begin with as the MC.
And sponsors, Unilever, which was Whisk, Dove Bars, Handy Andy,
and Imperial Margarine.
But these four contestants had to come up each one closest to the price of the article
without going over the top.
Yeah, they were all lined up and on a desk, right?
All four people.
Yes.
And they keep going, keep going.
Until they hit freeze.
Are they?
Yeah.
I'm sorry for interrupting.
No, we want, we want, you're part of our team now.
We want your interruptions.
Yeah.
You keep us going here.
And by the way, do you notice Bill Cullen never walked on that show?
Really?
Because he had cerebral palsy.
No.
And he couldn't walk.
He had a bad, so they just never had him walk.
On any show he was ever on.
Yeah.
Huh.
Well, you had so much to our research dot.
Yeah.
Like Floyd DeBarber, an Andy Griffith, remember that?
Yeah, he had a stroke.
Yeah.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Really.
Well, the prices right got to be known for its big prizes.
Sometimes they gave away an entire house in a new subdivision,
in ground swimming pool, mink coats.
And so prizes were a big part of.
Oh, imagine giving away mink coat today.
Don't wear it.
Yeah.
And then we have truth or consequences, Jim.
Oh, yes.
Yes.
That's an interesting one.
Truth or consequences.
You literally had two seconds to answer an almost impossible question.
That's right.
And then, of course, you all failed.
Then you had to do crazy and zany stunts.
And front of everybody, right on live TV,
which was really embarrassing.
A couple of them that I looked at was a man was dressed in a bear suit.
And he was supposed to give his wife a hug.
He thought that she was dressed in a bear suit, too.
But actually, he was hugging a real live bear.
Amazing.
Another stunt was two older women had to give an elephant a bath.
Oh, my.
And they even named it town after the TV show.
That's right.
In New Mexico.
Truth or consequences.
New Mexico was named after the show.
Yep.
And it's still there.
Yes.
Another good show to watch back then, of course, was I've got a secret.
Now, that was a panel game show ran from 52 to 67.
A panel of celebrities tried to determine a contestant secret.
It was hosted for a long time by Gary Moore.
Some of the famous celebrities were included Jane Meadows, Henry Morgan, Betsy Palmer, and a few others.
And the secret was something that could have been either embarrassing, humorous, amazing, or unusual.
Some of the guests that were on there with their secrets were Colonel Sanders.
His secret was I started my restaurant with my first social security check.
That really I did.
Yes.
Another one was Pete Best.
Of course, one of the original Beatles.
His secret was I was one of the original Beatles.
He was the drummer.
Yes.
Before Ringo came on.
I think we should have a truth or consequences.
And I asked you guys the question.
What?
Vivian Vance was once a guest on I've got a secret.
And her secret was she had these kids who were part of a memory thing at school.
Yeah.
One of the kids was my sixth grade teacher son.
Goodness.
Yeah, it was a live show.
Mm-hmm.
And that morning, I think it was on Sunday Monday night.
And Monday morning, he said my son's going to be on I've got a secret tonight.
And we were all watching.
And his kid didn't get one question right.
No.
And the next day he never mentioned the show.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
We're watching this kid.
We're all excited.
There he is, Mr. Martinone.
He's kid.
He didn't get one rep.
Vivian Vance brought him on the show.
I'll be darned.
Yeah.
Another show was called 21.
But that sort of changed things somewhat, right, Carol?
Well done.
You said, what about the scandal?
This is it.
Yeah.
We've been waiting for this.
Yeah.
21.
My mother and I watched this.
We were so mesmerized with it.
There were a million viewers at one time.
This show began.
Hold on.
We're going to keep the audience at bay right now.
Oh, yeah.
Suspects.
Our live audience.
Yeah.
Give them a bay for just a second.
This is not filmed in front of a live audience.
Well, it's a live audience out there, so we're listening.
Yeah.
All right.
We love you, I.J.
Jim and Carol are here.
We're talking about TV shows from the 50s and 60s.
21 was the show that put the quiz shows out of business for a while.
It sure did.
Because we had the big scandals.
Let's talk about it.
Yes.
And I were just as disappointed as anybody shocked.
So this began in 1956 and the host was Jack Berry.
Now, there were two contestants.
And they were each put into an isolation booth.
And they had headphones so that they knew the question and they gave their answers.
But the other contestant, of course, knew nothing.
And the questions were from 100 categories.
And it was just amazing, amazing what these two contestants knew.
So there came a point where a man around 30, a regular looking guy,
his name was Herbert Stempel.
He was already at 64,000 in some.
And it was possible that the $100,000 mark was in his future.
He won, behold.
He was beaten by this quite nappy looking professor from Columbia University, Charles Vandorn.
So Charles Vandorn swept America with how brilliant he was.
He was even on the cover of Time Magazine.
But this is what happened.
The rest of the story.
The rest of the story.
Okay, Paul.
Herbert Stempel had been more or less cast aside and he became the whistleblower.
It was all rigged.
And if you read online as I just have been very interested in doing,
if you look him up and see his story and the whole background on this,
he was even dressed to look a little bit down and out.
Everything was rigged.
It turned out that the first episode had been a flop with neither candidate able to answer these hard questions.
And so it was decided to rig it from then on after the first episode.
So low and behold, there was never any jail time.
There were never any huge finds.
One thing I read said that there were no laws about quiz shows.
They didn't break any laws.
Yeah, there were no laws about it.
But even President Eisenhower had been a fan and was disappointed and enraged.
So Herbert Stempel goes down as the whistleblower but and both men lived into their 90s.
But I think with a future that was not at all what they wanted, more or less like infamy.
Well, and the movie made was quiz show with Ray Fines playing Van Doren and was a Van Doren.
Charles Van Doren.
And Herbert Stempel was played by John Tutorial and he was the whistleblower.
It's an excellent movie quiz show.
If you want to if you want to check it out, if you go to the library, I think they have an MTV D there.
It rocked America, didn't it?
I don't remember it.
It was from a little toddler walking around playing with elevator buttons on my grandmother.
And switching gears a little bit to something more for the guys.
We had the Friday night fights.
That was something to watch every Friday night boxing matches sponsored by, of course, Gillette.
And you could watch Sugar Ray Robinson, Floyd Patterson, Rocky Marciano, Archimur and many more.
And that was always held at the Madison Square Garden every Friday.
It was mostly a guy thing but there were a lot of women who were very emotional watching those fights as well.
And of course we had wrestling.
We had famous wrestlers like Yukon Eric, Farmer Marlin, Haystacks Cowloon.
You know what he weighed over 600 pounds?
Can you imagine being in a wrestling ring with him?
Sit not yet.
Yes, that's right.
He could even move.
Yeah, that's right.
And later on we had the Crusher and Dick De Bruiser, of course, the Vashon Brothers.
And we all knew it was fake, but we still watched it.
We still enjoyed it.
So yeah, that was mostly for guys.
Now we're going to switch gears to our next month topic.
And that is going to be, what is it?
Elmwood Plaza.
Elmwood Plaza.
That's right.
That was...
Many stores.
Yes, that's right.
The magnificent Elmwood Plaza, the shopping mecca of the world and its heyday.
That opened up in 1956 by the way.
You remember some of the stores, Carol?
Well, who could forget Goldblast?
Goldblast, right?
Well, we were so excited that Goldblast had arrived.
We also had many stores there for shoe shopping for women's clothes.
Yeah.
Cresquis.
Yeah.
Cresquis became...
K-Mart.
K-Mart.
That's right.
Didn't Goldblast have a big fire in there or something?
They did.
Right.
Yeah, I saw pictures of it.
Yeah.
I was living here.
And here's a phrase that Elmwood Plaza used.
Plenty of free parking.
As addicted to downtown stores.
Plenty of free parking.
Yeah.
And they still have plenty of free parking.
Yeah.
That's right.
I had a little bit of a quiz for you guys.
Not a quiz.
That's where the wrap it up was some stuff from the 1950s.
Sure.
These were the top TV shows in 1959.
Okay.
Gunsmoke was number one.
Okay.
Wagon Train, have gunful travel.
Three Westerns.
All Westerns.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Then the Danny Thomas show, the Red Skeleton show, Father Knows Best.
77 Sunsets.
Oh, that was a great one.
Yeah.
That was a great one.
Let me your comb.
Yeah.
The price is right.
You mentioned.
Yeah.
Wanted dead or alive and Perry Mason.
Yes.
Wanted dead or alive, starring Steve McQueen.
Steve McQueen.
That's right.
So he got started.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And he left that because he wanted to do the Magnificent Seven.
And he would let him out of his contract.
And he said, I'm not showing up.
Oh, really.
Yeah.
That was it.
TV premieres in 1959.
The Bell Telephone Hour.
Bonanza premiered in 1959.
Laramie.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, yes.
These were finalies in 1959.
TV shows that ended their run.
Confession on ABC.
Never heard of it.
No.
Behind closed doors on NBC.
Your hit parade on CBS.
Okay.
The restless gun on NBC.
Dregnet on NBC.
Now it came back in 1968.
Well, okay.
Jack Webb.
Yeah.
The Dregnet ended its run in 1959.
And the Mickey Mouse Club.
And that it's run in 1959.
Well, this tells us, Don, sometime in the future, we have not even scratched the surface of
some of the TV shows, including Westerns.
Another list that we saw, all the top 20 of 1965 or something were all Westerns.
So that's we're going to cover Westerns.
Twilight Zone.
It's the classic the Twilight Zone.
Yeah.
If the sci-fi channel runs 24 hours of the Twilight Zone with every holiday.
They run them all.
Right.
One year they did it in order, which is really good.
And there were a lot of one hour Twilight Zone.
Yeah.
They did one season with one hour.
Yeah.
But they're all great.
There's no losers of the Twilight Zone.
Sometimes when I get into an elevator to this date, there's a quick thought about, where
is this going to go?
Yeah.
Back to the Twilight Zone.
Where Jim Gaffigan says, basically, it's a casket on a string.
After they get into it.
Yeah.
You guys are just great.
I love this stuff.
We love having you join us.
Yeah.
Well, this was great.
And taking it back, even though the 50s wasn't really my era, I came in a little later.
But I do remember some of the shows that were out of the house and everything.
And you guys are great.
So, Elmwood Plaza, that's going to be in one month.
Yes.
So, when do you, every says to me, well, when do they do any of the SC Johnson shows again?
So, when are you doing the SC Johnson shows again?
Well, it's temporarily unhold because we're spending a lot of energy doing the radio thing here,
but we'll get to that.
No, I want the SC Johnson shows.
We do have a show in mind that's starting in the works in August.
In August.
Oh, good.
And it's going to be held in a smaller venue, but at the atonement, the former atonement church.
And it'll be associated with preservation was seen, but totally for the public and free.
So, that's August coming up.
Excellent.
Thank you, guys.
Sure.
Thank you, Doug.
Jimisier, Carol, G and 14.
Don't forget Carol's book, which is called.
My heart leads me home.
Great book.
Go, go.
Demand it at your local bookstore.
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Demand it.
All right, guys.
Thanks a lot.
Okay.
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