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VIDEO VAULT: COMMERCIALS OF THE '60s

You can download and play these old time classic TV commercials from the '60s...remember Green Giant? "In the valley of the jolly...Ho, ho, ho! Green Giant!"

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The Forest Rangers was a popular made-in-Canada adventure television series. This 30-minute show ran weekly from 1963 to 1966. The story takes place in the Town of Indian River in Northern Ontario where a bunch of young kids live and who just so happen to be junior forest rangers. The weekly show saw these junior forest rangers in adventure and suspense and sometimes even in humorous situations. As result, the Forest Rangers became one of Canada's truly successful family shows -- the show was sold to 40 countries world-wide. Click on the image for more information about the program.

Dr. Who, a very popular science fiction television program that originated in the early sixties was produced in Britain. Its intended viewing audience was for children between the ages of 9-13 but the show's popularity gained momentum with the adult audience as well. Dr. Who became Britain's longest running sci-fi television show. Click on the image and link to the BBC for a historical time travel on the program.

ABC Television wanted a TV show to compete against CBS's popular "The Twilight Zone" and so they came up with "The Outer Limits". The show actually had two working titles before it went into final production: "Please Stand By" -- which was dropped in fear that TV audiences might confuse it with a real emergency and a second title they considered was "Beyond Control." Eventually they settled with "The Outer Limits". At a cost of $150,000 per episode, the show focused on a variety of sci-fi themes: the evils of biological engineering, the dangers of nuclear power plants, aliens, slavery, and government intrusion on citizens. The show's background music was popular with ABC executives that almost every note was replicated for two other television series: "The Invaders" and "The Fugitive". The Outer Limits first aired on September 16, 1963 and last aired on January 23, 1965. Click on the image to hear the shows opening remarks.

The North African desert campaign of World War II was the sun-drenched setting for this action drama shot on location in Spain. As Sergeant Sam Troy, Christopher George led his desert rats, an elite four-man squad, against the Germans' 'Desert Fox', General Rommel. Even though the audience never knew who won the war, the show generated plenty of suspence, as the Rat Patrol staged daring raids, braved sandstorms, and battled Arab tribesmen as well as the German Army's Afrika Korps. The Rat Patrol first aried on ABC television on September 1966 and last aired on September 1968. If you click on the image above to learn more about the Rat Patrol, please use the TABS located on the right-hand side of the web page to navigate around after you have entered the site.

Ten years into the future a glass-nosed atomic powered submarine patrols the depths of the seven seas, fighting forces of evil both human and alien. Retired Admiral Harriman Nelson (Richard Basehart) director of the top-secret Nelson Institute of Marine Research, and Captain Lee Crane (David Hedison) headed the crew of the 'Seaview' -- a specially equipped submarine developed by Admiral Nelson. A sister sub, the 'Polidor', had been introduced in the first episode, but she was sunk in the third. Four years after, the men of the 'Seaview' helped to quash such threats from the deep as giant orchids quivering with alien energy, mysterious beings from lost worlds, a colony of Nazi automations, and villians like Dr. Gamma and the wily Professor Mutiple. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea first aired on September 1964 and last aired on September 1968. Click on the image to the official Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea web site hosted by the Irwin Allen News Network.

Lost In Space first aired in September 1965 and last aired on March 1968. The show was produced by Irwin Allen, the same creator of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Click on the image for an excellent Lost In Space web site!

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