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When Mission: Impossible premiered on CBS
posted by klondike6STAFFMOD on February 21, 2021 at 11:18 AM
Mission: Impossible premiered on CBS, Saturday, September 17, 1966. What else was on television that night, and what shows was it up against, when Prime Time started at 7:30 pm?
CBS: 7:30 – The Jackie Gleason Show; 8:30 – Pistol ‘n’ Petticoats; 9:00 – Mission: Impossible; 10:00 – Gunsmoke.
NBC: 7:30 – Flipper; 8:00 – Please Don’t Eat the Daisies; 8:30 – Get Smart; 9:00 - Saturday Night At The Movies, Donavan’s Reef with John Wayne.
ABC: 7:30 – Shane; 8:30 – The Lawrence Welk Show; 9:30 – Hollywood Palace; 10:30 – Felony Squad.
Why bother to look all this up? It’s a great blast from the past. How many remember these other shows and how active are their message boards today?
SOURCE: TV Guide Magazine Archives
Reply by LansingFan
on December 2, 2021 at 9:42 PM
I lived in Ireland from April 1967 to July 1969 (when an U.S. Senator rescued us). The very first tv I saw when I was back in America was Mission Impossible.
Reply by LansingFan
on December 2, 2021 at 9:56 PM
My mom was from Ireland. In 1967 she decided to take me and my four siblings and go back to Ireland. We lived with my grandmother and my uncle Patrick (who turned out to be a violent paranoid schizophrenic). Pat threw us out of the house, and we kids ended up being sent to an Orphanage called Goldenbridge, which was so horrible that a lot of news reports have been done about for the last 50 years.
Anyway, my paternal grandmother contacted a Republican Senator from California named George Murphy, who got us back to America.
Reply by SecretaryIMF
on May 5, 2022 at 10:44 PM
@lima-2: I met Dennis Cole back in the mid-1980's when he made a personal appearance at the shopping mall where I worked in mall security. He was very nice, and a fellow southpaw.
Reply by SecretaryIMF
on May 5, 2022 at 11:29 PM
From what I understand, starting in 1966 ALL American network television series were filmed and shown in color. For some series that had been on before 1966 and had been filmed and shown in black and white the transistion to color really helped (one example: Bewitched). Others, not so much. My nominee for the second category is Twelve O'Clock High.
The first season of Twelve O'Clock High, starring everyone's favorite irascible WW2 Army Air Force Brig. General Frank Savage was on from 1964 to 1965 in b&w. After Quinn Martin and the ABC television network made one of the stupidest decisions in television history and fired Robert Lansing for no good reason (that's my story, and I'm sticking to it), and cast Paul Burke as the new lead Col. Joe Gallagher (Fun Fact: Mr. Burke said in an interview that after he replaced Robert Lansing in Twelve O'Clock High, he not only got hate mail from Mr. Lansing's fans, he got hate mail from his OWN fans!) for season two 1965 to 1966, also in b&w. Possibly because this was a series about WW2, Twelve O'Clock High looked terrific in black and white. Then came season three, or more accurately, season 2 1/2, in 1966, which consisted of I believe 17 episodes in color. Twelve O'Clock High looked horrible in color. Something just looked OFF. Especially when compared with series like Mission Impossible that looked so well done in color.