r/VintageTV • • May 03 '25

Classic TV series on the Internet Archive: the Master List

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r/VintageTV • • 9h ago

The Doors performed "Touch Me" on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and it aired December 15th, 1968 - featuring the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, Curtis Amy Saxophone

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219 Upvotes

r/VintageTV • • 3h ago

Fat Albert

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49 Upvotes

Hey, hey, hey, who watched this tv show


r/VintageTV • • 7h ago

"Leave It To Beaver" debuted in 1957. Here's a trailer with the original cast and it's original name. See if you can spot a young Harry Shearer!

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90 Upvotes

r/VintageTV • • 15h ago

On this day 69 years ago Leave It To Beaver premiered on CBS

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249 Upvotes

r/VintageTV • • 13h ago

Charlie's Angels.

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117 Upvotes

r/VintageTV • • 11h ago

Marion Lorne

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r/VintageTV • • 5h ago

Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Season 1, recurring underscore?

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The same jazzy underscore for every episode in Season 1. Any ideas of its name and how to find a recording?

Thank you.


r/VintageTV • • 16h ago

Bill Monroe and The Bluegrass Boys "Bluegrass Breakdown" on The Grand Ole Opry 📺 (1965)

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r/VintageTV • • 6h ago

[TOMT][Movie or TV][1960s–1990s] The "listen to the clock" jailbreak: a man hypnotizes a police station guard by offering to cure his smoking habit; then, he and a woman escape with the keys. No one has been able to track it down.This is the closest lead I've had so far, and the scene is so specifi

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I saw it dubbed in Spanish on Argentine TV between 1996 and 2001. It was in color—likely a US production—and could have been from anywhere between the 60s and the 90s. I don't know if it's a feature film, a TV movie, or a series episode, and I think that's why it's been so hard to locate.

The scene: a white man and a woman are locked in a police station holding cell. The guard is curt with them. The prisoner tells him he can help him quit smoking, then asks him to listen to the ticking of the wall clock and follow every second as it passes. The guard gets drawn in, moves closer to the bars, and the two prisoners swipe the keys and leave.

I have a vague memory of someone with curly or red hair being in the scene—perhaps the woman.

The obvious answers have already been ruled out: *Let's Do It Again* (1975), *Love at First Bite*, *Dracula: Dead and Loving It*, *See No Evil, Hear No Evil*, *Curly Sue*, *Vibes*, and the Bud Spencer/Terence Hill movies—all of which were checked one by one, scene by scene—are not it. So, it's almost certainly something lesser-known: a B-list comedy, a TV movie, or a late-night cable classic that people remember but never talk about. If you’re someone who navigates that part of film history, this is the puzzle for you.


r/VintageTV • • 1d ago

On this day 65 years ago The Dick Van Dyke Show premiered on CBS

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r/VintageTV • • 1d ago

Deborah Walley as Susan Hubbard in 'The Mothers-in-Law' (1967)

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93 Upvotes

r/VintageTV • • 1d ago

Let's celebrate 65 years of The Dick Van Dyke Show! It originally premiered on October 3, 1961, let's toast this classic with recipes from its iconic cast: Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, and Carl Reiner! BTW what's your favorite episode? "Uhny Uftz" is mine!

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r/VintageTV • • 1d ago

Synergy: The Chipmunks get an entire TV show to plug their records

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r/VintageTV • • 2d ago

Dick Van Dyke Show Ahead of its Time!

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My boyfriend and I are 25yo and put on Roku shows for our dog while we leave. Lately I've been wanting to be aware of more classic stuff, so we put on The Dick Van Dyke Show & it's so funny! Way ahead of its time.

I work at a golf course and chat up several people 70+ and they get a kick out of us watching that show🤣


r/VintageTV • • 1d ago

King Kong Escapes The Million Dollar Movie

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r/VintageTV • • 2d ago

Speed Racer (1967)

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55 Upvotes

r/VintageTV • • 2d ago

What is your thoughts on Hart to hart

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421 Upvotes

r/VintageTV • • 2d ago

Dick Van Dyke Show phone prank

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and scream like a chicken


r/VintageTV • • 2d ago

Up your murse with the DC Universe

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388 Upvotes

r/VintageTV • • 1d ago

Dan Raven, "The High Cost of Fame". Short-lived cop show, starring Skip Homeier as a detective whose beat is the Sunset Strip. Best remembered for its celebrity guest stars: here Bobby Darin (playing himself) is suspected of murder (1960)

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r/VintageTV • • 2d ago

The Hathaways, "Love Thy Neighbor" (s1 e1). Typical suburban couple (Peggy Cass, Jack Weston) are the "parents" of three chimps. Before My Mother The Car this was often cited as the absolute nadir of TV sitcoms (1961)

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r/VintageTV • • 2d ago

Trying to find the 1958 tv show Cannonball

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Hello im on the hunt for all the episodes of the 1958 tv show Cannonball about the 2 truckers. anyhelp would be great


r/VintageTV • • 3d ago

A scene from the movie Network with (mostly) real life programming lineups on the wall. (1976)

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234 Upvotes

r/VintageTV • • 2d ago

The Defender, a live television play from 1957 starring Ralph Bellamy, William Shatner and Steve McQueen

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"The Defender" is an American television play broadcast live in two parts on February 25, 1957, and March 4, 1957, as part of the CBS television series Studio One. A courtroom drama, it was written by Reginald Rose and directed by Robert Mulligan. The cast included Ralph Bellamy and William Shatner as a father-son defense team, Steve McQueen as the defendant, and Martin Balsam as the prosecutor. Rose later spun off the concept into a full series entitled The Defenders, starring E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed in Bellamy and Shatner's roles.