Anyone remember a tv show that came out about a year
or two after Gilligan's Island started called "It's about Time"?

It was a 1/2 hour comedy about these two astronauts who
accidently went back in time in their space capsule
and had to live among the primitive prehistoric people?

It was very short lived series but I thought it was hilarious.

God I loved the 60's

Oh yeah, I remember it well.....Joe E. Ross and Imogene Coca.

I loved it as a kid and, unfortunately, I can still sing the theme song! Can barely remember my bank account number, but I can do the theme song from It's About Time. hoooboy, that's sad.

Joe E. Ross is one of those guys that immediately cracks me up. Rupert Ritzik and Gunther Toody are two of my favorite TV characters.

hey guy's if you go to e-bay and put in its about time you can buy all 26 episodes for 39.95 on 2 dvd's just fyi

Hey, thanks for the tip. It's not a studio release yet. It's probably someone's home grown dvds they burned from old tapes. I'm not sure I want to buy those. I can wait for the digital remastered from the studio.:thumbsup:

If you find it on ebay, and you can't find it on amazon, chances are it's a boot, and 98% of the time when someone is selling a product in "Asian edition" then it's also a boot.

If you waste your money on those, because of shoddy manufacturing they self destruct within a few years

I've got a few old tapes of this show taken from 16mm prints. Pretty stupid really. About like Gilligan's Island but not as funny. The show also had a hot sexy cave woman named Ursula.

I've got a few old tapes of this show taken from 16mm prints. Pretty stupid really. About like Gilligan's Island but not as funny. The show also had a hot sexy cave woman named Ursula.
I thought the show was pretty dumb too -- and I was 13 then. IIRC, in the second season they switched the premise and time-warped the cave people into the 20th century. Didn't help.

BTW, does anyone remember "My Mother the Car" -- the "Plan Nine from Outer Space" of TV sitcoms?

I thought the show was pretty dumb too -- and I was 13 then. IIRC, in the second season they switched the premise and time-warped the cave people into the 20th century. Didn't help.

BTW, does anyone remember "My Mother the Car" -- the "Plan Nine from Outer Space" of TV sitcoms?

TRIO ran the first (only) season of "My Mother The Car" a couple of years ago and, yes it was bad.

I grew up in the 60s in an area where we only had two TV stations until I was 10 years old. Because of this limitation, one of the stations carried both NBC and CBS and had to pick and choose from both networks for the nightime schedule. A CBS show would end, they'd do a couple of commercials, and an NBC show would come on. As a kid, I didn't know there was anything unusual about this but I would get incredibly frustrated when I would read the TV Guide and see listings in other towns for shows that weren't carried in my area like My Living Doll, Captain Nice, Mr. Terrific, and (gasp) Star Trek. I didn't see Trek until it was syndicated in the 70s and actually have never seen an episode of those other shows.

The same thing was true for syndicated kids shows - what you saw as a kid really seems to depend in part on what region of the country you were in. My local stations never aired Japanation like Astro Boy, Eighth Man, and Gigantor, or any of the Gerry Anderson stuff like Thunderbirds or Captain Scarlet, or even the American limited animation package Marvel Super Heroes.

Kids today wouldn't understand. I mean, I wouldn't even try to explain it to 'em.

Kids today wouldn't understand. I mean, I wouldn't even try to explain it to 'em.

Years ago I tried to explain to the 6 year old daughter of a girl that I was seeing at the time, that when I was a kid, we only had three channels and no Nick or Disney, I got pretty much the same dubious reaction as if I had said I used to ride a dinosaur.

TRIO ran the first season of "My Mother The Car" a couple of years ago and, yes it was bad.

I grew up in the 60s in an area where we only had two TV stations until I was 10 years old. Because of this limitation, one of the stations carried both NBC and CBS and had to pick and choose from both networks for the nightime schedule. A CBS show would end, they'd do a couple of commercials, and an NBC show would come on. As a kid, I didn't know there was anything unusual about this but I would get incredibly frustrated when I would read the TV Guide and see listings in other towns for shows that weren't carried in my area like My Living Doll, Captain Nice, Mr. Terrific, and (gasp) Star Trek. I didn't see Trek until it was syndicated in the 70s and actually have never seen an episode of those other shows.

The same thing was true for syndicated kids shows - what you saw as a kid really seems to depend in part on what region of the country you were in. My local stations never aired Japanation like Astro Boy, Eighth Man, and Gigantor, or any of the Gerry Anderson stuff like Thunderbirds or Captain Scarlet, or even the American limited animation package Marvel Super Heroes.

Kids today wouldn't understand. I mean, I wouldn't even try to explain it to 'em.

You didn't miss much with Captain Nice or Mr. Terrific. Loved them as a kid. Saw an episode of each some years back and it was pretty unbearable. Haven't seen My Living Doll since I was a kid. All I remember is Julie Newmar wearing nothing but a man's shirt.
One show I remember from the 60s that no one else can seem to remember is The Secret Life of Henry Phife. Starred Red Buttons as a dead ringer for a James Bond type spy. When the spy gets killed the government doesn't want the opposition to know so they get Phife to pretend to be the spy. Phife was a nervous Don Knotts type guy. Fred Clark was the agent who would come to Phife to send him on a mission. Phife would always refuse to do it, "Uh-uh, I ain't gonna do it". He would always break down and agree after a flag waving patriotic speech by Clark. He was always running into old girlfriends of the spy who thought he was the real guy.

"Captain Nice" was a great show, with a theme by Vic Mizzy.

Look, it’s the man who flies around like an eagle
Look, it’s the enemy of all that’s illegal
Look, at the muscles on his arms, they’re like hammers
Look, it’s some nut who walks around in pajamas
That’s no nut boy!
That’s Captain Nice, nice, nice, nice, nice!

I didn't see many of the "Mr. Terrific" shows, but the ones I did see were not too bad.

A scientist both wise and bold set out to cure the common cold
Instead he found a power pill which he said most certainly will
Change a lamb into a lion like an eagle he'll be flyin'
Solid steel will be like putty it'll work on anybody.

Then it was found this power pill made the strongest men quite ill
So the secret search began to find the one and only man
Who can take this power pill specific?
And turn into the most prolific, terrific, Mr. Terrific!

What they found made them squeamish for only Stanley Beamish
A weak and droopy daffodil can take this potent power pill
That sent him soaring through the skies fighting foes and fighting spies.
When he took the pill specific, He became the most prolific, hydrolific,
Mr. Terrific!

The theme isn't sung, but is recited.

I would like to see them again, a few years back a cable station showed a few of the "Captain NIce" episodes, and I think that they held up pretty well. I haven't seen any of the "Mr. Terrific" shows since they were first shown, and I was about 9 years old then.

David.

You didn't miss much with Captain Nice or Mr. Terrific. Loved them as a kid. Saw an episode of each some years back and it was pretty unbearable. Haven't seen My Living Doll since I was a kid. All I remember is Julie Newmar wearing nothing but a man's shirt.
One show I remember from the 60s that no one else can seem to remember is The Secret Life of Henry Phife . . .

"Captain Nice" and "Mr. Terrific" look pretty dated today. Like "Get Smart," they're firmly rooted in the mid-to-late 1960s, when "camp" and spy/superhero spoofs were trendy. As for "My Living Doll," I remember Julie Newmar wearing nothing but a bath towel with a serial number embroidered on it. (She played a robot, remember?)
And I believe it was "The Double Life of Henry Phyfe." I know — picky, picky, picky. . .

That was with RED BUTTONS, wasn't it?????- GJS

I haven't seen the others, but "Get Smart" still works today, even if it is an obvious period piece. Mel Brooks was, I believe, one of the head writers - that might explain why it can overcome the differences of the past 40 years. :dude:

Anyone remeber Lancelot Link secret chimp? Had chimps as actors.

I too can sing the It's About Time theme (well, the first line or two). Richard Benjamin starred as one of the astronauts, as I recall.

I also have the first verse of Mr. Terriffic stuck in my head for the last 40 years. My wife knows the last verse :lol:

My Living Doll!
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http://www.tvacres.com/robots_female_rhoda.htm

(Okay the still isn't from the show, but who cares!?)

The two astronauts were portrayed by Frank Aletter and Jack Mullaney. Gee.....uuuh....those two unforgettable names didn't stick in the memory bank?

You may be remembering Richard Benjamin from the 1967 tv sitcom HE & SHE.

Click on the link for a pic:

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And here's a little something for The NightSky:
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It's about time
It's about space
It's about time I slapped your face

It's about time
It's about space
It's about time I slapped your face

Not quite, here is the first theme:

It’s about time, it’s about space, about strange people in the strangest place.
It’s about time, it’s about flight, travelin’ faster than the speed of light.

About space people and a brave crew, as through the barrier of time they flew.
Pass the Roman Senators, pass an armored knight,
Pass the firing Minutemen, to this modern site.

It’s about time for you and me to meet these people of amazing feats.
It’s about two astronauts and how they educate a pre-historic woman and her pre-historic mate.



Then after the format change:


It’s about time it’s about space about strange people in the strangest place
They will be here with all of us dodging a taxi, a car, a bus.

Where will they go? What will they do? in this strange place where everything is new.
Will they manage to survive watch each week and see. Will they get accustomed to the Twentieth Century?

It’s about time For our good byes to all our pre-historic gals and guys.
And now, it’s about time (4X)

David.

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OOh! OOh!

- GJS

TRIVIA

Halfway through the one-season run, the plot was reversed in an attempt to bolster the show's ratings, which were not as spectacular as CBS had hoped they would be. The two astronauts, who had traveled back in time, now found a way to return to 1966 and took the stone-age family with them - so the rest of the run played out with Gronk, Shadd, et al trying to adjust to life in 1966-era NYC.


In the pilot, Imogene Coca's character was called "Shagg." When the producers were made aware of the fact that "shag" is a slang vulgarism in the U.K., they changed her name to "Shadd" - but didn't fix the pilot, which aired (as the premiere episode) as originally filmed.

Not quite, here is the first theme:

It’s about time, it’s about space, about strange people in the strangest place.
It’s about time, it’s about flight, travelin’ faster than the speed of light.

About space people and a brave crew, as through the barrier of time they flew.
Pass the Roman Senators, pass an armored knight,
Pass the firing Minutemen, to this modern site.

It’s about time for you and me to meet these people of amazing feats.
It’s about two astronauts and how they educate a pre-historic woman and her pre-historic mate.



Then after the format change:


It’s about time it’s about space about strange people in the strangest place
They will be here with all of us dodging a taxi, a car, a bus.

Where will they go? What will they do? in this strange place where everything is new.
Will they manage to survive watch each week and see. Will they get accustomed to the Twentieth Century?

It’s about time For our good byes to all our pre-historic gals and guys.
And now, it’s about time (4X)

David.

That was the schoolyard version

It's Howdy Doody time
It ain't worth a dime
So turn to channel nine
And let's watch Frankenstein

That was the schoolyard version

It's Howdy Doody time
It ain't worth a dime
So turn to channel nine
And let's watch Frankenstein
Speaking of schoolyard ditties, does anyone remember:

There's a place on Mars
Where the ladies smoke cigars
But the men don't care
'Cause they wear no underwear.

And do kids still sing that song about sipping cider through a straw? The last verse never made sense to me:

The moral is, my little dears,
Don't sip your cider, you sip
Dad's Old-Fashioned Root Beer!
Same old crap as last year!

Except the camp counselors wouldn't let us say "crap," so we said "junk" instead. Today, it's a relief to hear a child use the word "crap!"

In a land called France
Where the ladies wear no pants
The men wear glasses
To see the ladies ****

Whistle while you work
Hitler is a jerk
Captain Meanie broke his wienie
Now it doesn't work

On top old Smokey
All covered with mud
I found my true love
In a puddle of blood
With a knife in her stomach
And an axe in her head
I knew right away
My true love was dead

On top of old Smokey
All covered with sand
I shot my teacher
With a blue rubber band
I went to her funeral
I went to her grave
Instead of throwing flowers
I thre hand grenades

Big great globs of
Greasy, grimey gopher guts
Mutilated monkey meat
(forget the rest)

There was one to the tune of the Alfred Hitchcock tv show, only remember the last line:
The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out
Eating your guts like saurkraut

Come and listen to a story 'bout a man named Jed
He took Ellie May and her threw her on the bed
CENSORED

I dream of a genie
With a ten foot wienie
Showed it to the neighbor next door
She thought it was a snake
She hit it with a rake
Now it's only 5 foot 4

Hear about the new car called the Vomit?
It has throw-up seats and comes in six pukey colors.

When they were handing out brains
You thought they said trains
And asked for a slow one

When they were handing out looks
You thought they said books
And asked for a funny one

Does your face hurt?
It's killing me

You know what's gross?
Finding a hair in your tomato juice
Biting into a hot dog and finding a vein
Throwing your underwear against the wall and they stick

BOOKS THAT WERE NEVER WRITTEN
Underneath the Grandstand by Seymour Butts
Race to the Outhouse by Will E. Makeit

Did you hear they had to take John Wayne toilet paper off the market? It was rough and tough and wouldn't take crap off nobody.
They replaced it with Star Trek Enterprise toilet paper. It's real good as circling Uranus and picking off Kingons.

Last time I heard that I laughed so hard I fell off my dinosaur
That's about as funny as a submarine with screen doors

Haven't seen My Living Doll since I was a kid. All I remember is Julie Newmar wearing nothing but a man's shirt.
Like you need to remember anything else?!?! :eek:

Big great globs of
Greasy, grimey gopher guts
Mutilated monkey meat
(forget the rest)
Dirty little birdy feet
Great greasy eyes
rolling down the dirty street
And I forgot my spoon!

She came roarin round the mountain
Doin' 90 miles an hour
When the chain on her motorcycle broke.
She went sildin' cross the grass
With the muffler u........

uh.... never mind.


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It's no wonder as to why I feel I belong here on these forums!.....My kind of mentality........MY KIND OF PEOPLE!!!! :thumbsup:


Another book that was never published was "Antlers In The Tree" By Whogoosed Damoose"

Whistle while you work
Hitler is a jerk
Captain Meanie broke his wienie
Now it doesn't work
Hitler has only got one ball
Goering has two, but very small
Himmler has something similar
And Mr. Goebbels has no balls at all!
(From before my time, actually)

There was one to the tune of the Alfred Hitchcock tv show, only remember the last line:
The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out
Eating your guts like saurkraut
Whenever you see a hearse go by
It makes you think that you're going to die
They'll put you in a great big box
And cover you over with dirt and rocks
It's not so bad for about a week
But then the boards begin to leak
The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out
They crawl all over your nose and mouth
The worms crawl out, the worms crawl in
They crawl all over your eyes and chin
The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out
The worms play pinochle on your snout.
(I never understood that last line either.)

Come and listen to a story 'bout a man named Jed
He took Ellie May and her threw her on the bed. . .
Come and listen to my story 'bout a man named Jed
A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed
And then one day he was shootin' at some food
When up from the ground come Elly Mae nude.
(Spoken) Stripped, that is. No clothes on. Nekkid, ya hear?

Roll call:
Jack Cass
Fanny Cheeks
Oliver Klozoff
Anita Bath
Seymour Kuntz
Who's Dick Hertz?

Another book that was never published was "Antlers In The Tree" By Whogoosed Damoose"

"Spots on the Wall" by Hue Flung Poo

"Tracks in the Sand" by Peter Dragon

"The Glass Bottomed Bikini" by Seymour Crack

There's a whole bunch of un-published masterpieces that I remember from childhood.

Some of the people in my non-acquaitance were Mr. Neil Down and Ms. Hedda Lettus. Neither of them wrote that famous geographical tome "The Yellow River," by I.P. Daley. Nor, in fact, the legendary Soviet spy manual "Russian Torture Techniques," by Hubitcha Kokov.

A favorite "running song" from my youth, I have no idea of it's origins:

"The liquor was spilled on the bar room floor,
And the bar was closed for the night,
And out of a tiny hole in the wall came a mouse in the pale moon light,
Well, he lapped up the liquor on the bar room floor,
And back on his haunches he sat,
And all thru the night you could hear him shout,
BRING ON THAT BAD-@SS CAT!,
Well they brought out the cat,
And they had a little spat,
And the cat ate up on the mouse,
CHOMP CHOMP,
And the moral of this story is,
YOU CAN"T HAVE A DRINK ON THE HOUSE!"

Our Maintenance company,When I was stationed in Korea had a sign that read "Our credit manager is Helen Wait,If you want credit,You must go to Helen Wait!"

"Paging Mike Hunt. Is Mike Hunt here? Has anybody seen Mike Hunt?"

Looks like this is turning into a Bart Simpson thread. . .

Stranded....
Stranded on the toilet bowl
What do you do when your stranded
and theres nothin' on the roll.....

I wish I could remember those little poems that
Henry Gibson used to tell on Laugh-in. Right after My Mother the Car(voice of Ann Southern)
Who also remembers...
Pruitts of Southampton
Good Morning World(w/Goldie Hawn)
Iron Horse
Riverboat
Hawaiin Eye
who was the first 'group leader' for the Mission Impossible team?
I'm Dickens, He's Finster
What program did Lost in Space replace?
The Real McCoys
Judd for the defense
Sky King

Ohhhhh.....and:

Bat Masterson
Wyatt Earp
Wagontrain
Sugarfoot
Maverick
Rat patrol
Combat
Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

Stranded....
Stranded on the toilet bowl
What do you do when your stranded
and theres nothin' on the roll.....

I wish I could remember those little poems that
Henry Gibson used to tell on Laugh-in. Right after My Mother the Car(voice of Ann Southern)
Who also remembers...
Pruitts of Southampton
Good Morning World(w/Goldie Hawn)
Iron Horse
Riverboat
Hawaiin Eye
who was the first 'group leader' for the Mission Impossible team?
I'm Dickens, He's Finster
What program did Lost in Space replace?
The Real McCoys
Judd for the defense
Sky King

Steven Hill was the first leader of the Mission:Impossible Force the first season. He was also the first D.A. on Law & Order. Bailed on that show too. Hawaiian Eye with Robert Conrad was part of a trilogy of "hip" private eye shows from WB all on at the same time. Surfside 6 set in Miami with Van "Green Hornet" Williams and 77 Sunset Strip set in Hollywood were the others.
Another show I liked as a kid was Daktari starring Marshal Thompson. It was a continuation of the feature film Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion , same cast/same characters. I'll have to be satisfied with the copy I made of the film from TCM because I don't expect to show to ever surface again. Remember watching a show called Occasional Wife with Michael Callan. He played a bachelor executive who's company started a new policy that all employees must be married. He gets the pretty blonde in the apartment to pretend to be his wife whenever the boss came around. They were always climbing up and down the balconies outside their apartments.

Ohhhhh.....and:
Bat Masterson
Wyatt Earp
Wagontrain
Sugarfoot
Maverick
Rat patrol
Combat
Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
The only "Girl from UNCLE" episode I remember is "The Mother Muffin Affair", with Boris Karloff as the villain -- in drag.
Stranded....
Stranded on the toilet bowl
What do you do when your stranded
and theres nothin' on the roll.....
Does anyone remember singing:
Hadda go potty
Hadda go real bad
Couldn't find a toilet
So I went in my pants
Woolly bulls---,
Woolly bulls---.
Woolly bulls---, woolly bulls---,
Woolly bulls---.
I wish I could remember those little poems that
Henry Gibson used to tell on Laugh-in. Right after My Mother the Car (voice of Ann Southern)
Who also remembers...
Pruitts of Southampton
Good Morning World(w/Goldie Hawn). . .
Yeah, I wonder whatever became of that cute skinny blonde chick!

Tubby Tubby 2 x 4
Couldn't fit through the bathroom door
So he did it on the floor

McDonald's is your kind of place
They have no parking space
They throw food in your face
They feed you rattle snakes
McDonald's is your kind of place
They steal your licence plates
McDonalds is your kind of place

<< Yeah, I wonder whatever became of that cute skinny blonde chick! >>

That wuz Goldie Hawn

"Good morning Mr. Briggs, Your mission, if you decide to accept it..."

Then, when Hill left, it became "Good morning Mr. Phelps...")

I wish I could remember those little poems that
Henry Gibson used to tell on Laugh-in.

The moose is my friend.
My friend is the moose.
Please don't hurt the moose.
'Cause the moose is my friend.

<< Yeah, I wonder whatever became of that cute skinny blonde chick! >>

That wuz Goldie Hawn
I know it was Goldie Hawn. I was being ironic. Maybe we need a Smiley icon for "Verbal Irony."