I’ve been cleaning out some old papers from my parents basement and have uncovered a number of Mets related items, including this TV and Radio Highlights listing from the Thursday, September 16, 1965 edition of the New York Journal-American.
You can watch the Mets play the Reds at 1:55pm on Channel 9 – or if you prefer you can listen to the game on WHN.
After the game you can watch this new British group the Rolling Stones on Shindig. I don’t know about you but I think they may just be a one-hit wonder.
Pass me a Rheingold please!
i recall in the 60’s the mets were on wjrz radoi. i remember the pre game show with bob brown. and mets press box with don crique on ch. 9 at 7:30, then kiners korner at 7:45. the opening was the number nine spinning around with the colors of the number changing. at the end of the mets highlite opening you would see a glass of reingold being poured into a glass.
Dan,
I have to say that your news paper clipping is pure gold on many levels. We’ll talk about the baseball stuff first. After all it’s the Mets Police blog. By looking up the “Series Premiere” of the show Laredo
, which I found on IMDB, we can date the clipping as being from the Wednesday, September 16, 1965 edition of New York Journal-American newspaper. The Mets would beat the Cincinnati “Redlegs”
by the score of 7-3. Al Jackson, in this game, pitched seven scoreless innings before giving up a 3 run homer in the 8th. However, the Mets were never in danger in the ballgame as first baseman Ron Hunt homered and catcher John Stephenson homered twice (3 run homer in the 3rd, and a solo homer in the 8th) in the game. Since the game was in color, was this the first season that some Mets games were broadcast in color?
Looking at all the TV listings it would appear that this was “Premiere Week” for all of the networks back then. You’ll notice that in the listings they reference that some fans of certain shows will be able to see them (Daniel Boone, My Three Sons) in color. You see, the mid-sixties, the major networks (with the exception of NBC) were just beginning to air some shows regularly in color, and NBC would be airing the entire prime time in color. My Three Sons
, in fact left, ABC to go to CBS, when ABC couldn’t commit to airing the show in color.
Another thing about My Three Sons, is that this was the episode
that Robbie (Tim Considine) would be “married off “the show, as he did not renew his contract. Around the same time, Ernie (Barry Livingston) was being phased into the show as Steve Douglas’ adopted son.
Finally we have the TV debut of The Manchurian Candidate (the superior version with Frank Sinatra) as well as the debut of Dean Martin’s variety show
. First off, back in the sixties it was a BIG event to air a 3 year old film on TV, since there were no DVD’s, video stores, cable or Pay-Per- View and the like then. Also, this was the time when the major film studio started to allow more recent films to be aired on TV, as they (the studios) feared that TV would erode the film receipts. As for Dean Martin this would be the first year in a ten year run for his show. By 1974, in the shows last season, it would evolve into the more familiar “Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
”. Dean’s roasts started first as a continuation of his variety series, but the following years they would air monthly and the yearly until 1984.
I do want to apologize if I have taken this post way off topic, but things like old TV listings interest me greatly. Sorry, if my ramblings put you to sleep. 😉
Here’s hoping everything is formatted properly.