It's About Time

[ClassyCo]

IT'S ABOUT TIME is one show that has completely slipped my mind. It aired on CBS during the 1966─67 television season. The series was created by Sherwood Schwartz, the creator of GILLIGAN'S ISLAND for the same network.

Anyone familiar with this show? The complete series is out on DVD, so I'm seriously considering buying it.

 

[ClassyCo]

Here's the DVD available on Amazon. At the time of this posting a brand new copy is $19.96 (US).

Amazon.com: It's About Time: the Complete Series : Frank Aletter, Jack Mullaney, Imogene Coca, Joe E. Ross, Pat Cardi, Mary Grace, Cliff Norton, Alan Dewitt, Jan Arvan, Frank Wilcox, Kathleen Freeman, Mike Mazurki, Leslie Goodwins, George Cahan: Movi

Amazon.com: It's About Time: the Complete Series : Frank Aletter, Jack Mullaney, Imogene Coca, Joe E. Ross, Pat Cardi, Mary Grace, Cliff Norton, Alan Dewitt, Jan Arvan, Frank Wilcox, Kathleen Freeman, Mike Mazurki, Leslie Goodwins, George Cahan: Movies & TV

www.amazon.com

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

I remembered the theme song even though I hadn't seen the show for 50 years. Same for THE MOTHERS-IN-LAW.

Amazing, because I'm almost 30.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

 

[Crimson]

I've never seen more than a few clips of this show, but it looks terrible; little wonder it didn't last.

The only interesting thing about the show is that its opening credits combined the two big fads of 60s sitcoms: the animated sequence and the jingle that explains the premise. Did any other show have both? Most that I recall had one or the other.

 

[ClassyCo]

"You can learn more from a failure than you can successes."

 

[DallasFanForever]

Nice interview and a very smart man. He’s right that the show might’ve done better if it came out two years later. I never thought of that.

 

[Seaviewer]

Schwartz's knowledge of the space program is woeful. Glenn never landed on the moon; he was the first American in orbit in 1962. McDivitt never landed on the moon either.
When It's About Time started in 1966 the Gemini program was still full swing. The capsule vaguely resembled the two-man Gemini spacecraft. I think the same prop lands in the lagoon in one episode of Gilligan's Island.
Also, I Dream of Jeannie successfully satirised the space program starting in 1965. The Space Race was huge all through the 60s.
I think Schwartz needs to look elsewhere to explain the failure of It's About Time.

 

[Crimson]

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