This CBS
sitcom ran only one season from September 11, 1966 until August 27, 1967 and starred Jack Mullaney and Frank Aletter as two sixties astronauts who break the time barrier and end up in prehistoric times.
It's About Time (3 min. video clip) was produced by Sherwood Schwartz, creator of The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island (then in its third year on CBS).
The astronauts take up with cave dwellers played by the great Joe E. Ross ("OOH, OOH" - Officer Tooty from 'Car 54, Where Are You?' and numerous Hanna-Barbera cartoons) as Gronk, Imogene Coca ('Your Show of S
hows') as his wife, Shad; Mary Grace as daughter Mlor; Pat Cardi as Breer, their son; Cliff Norton as Boss; Kathleen Freeman as Mrs. Boss and Mike Mazurzsky as Boss's henchman Clon.
Like 'Gilligan's Island', situations were played for broad laughs and the show was u
niversally panned by critics but loved by children.
Frank Wilcox joined the cast in January as the astronaut's commanding officer when the show shifted directions mid-season to try to build ratings. The cave people and Astronauts returned in the space craft to 1967, and the focus of the show shifted to stars Coca and Ross as they encountered a rough time adjusting to 20th century New York City.
Frank Aletter previously starred in a one-season sitcom called "The Cara Williams Show" in 1964.
It's About Time Theme Song
sitcom ran only one season from September 11, 1966 until August 27, 1967 and starred Jack Mullaney and Frank Aletter as two sixties astronauts who break the time barrier and end up in prehistoric times.It's About Time (3 min. video clip) was produced by Sherwood Schwartz, creator of The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island (then in its third year on CBS).
The astronauts take up with cave dwellers played by the great Joe E. Ross ("OOH, OOH" - Officer Tooty from 'Car 54, Where Are You?' and numerous Hanna-Barbera cartoons) as Gronk, Imogene Coca ('Your Show of S
hows') as his wife, Shad; Mary Grace as daughter Mlor; Pat Cardi as Breer, their son; Cliff Norton as Boss; Kathleen Freeman as Mrs. Boss and Mike Mazurzsky as Boss's henchman Clon.Like 'Gilligan's Island', situations were played for broad laughs and the show was u
niversally panned by critics but loved by children.Frank Wilcox joined the cast in January as the astronaut's commanding officer when the show shifted directions mid-season to try to build ratings. The cave people and Astronauts returned in the space craft to 1967, and the focus of the show shifted to stars Coca and Ross as they encountered a rough time adjusting to 20th century New York City.
Frank Aletter previously starred in a one-season sitcom called "The Cara Williams Show" in 1964.
It's About Time Theme Song
This oldie goldie had all the elements that a kid growing up in the1960's could possibly want. At least all that this shy, egg headed ape who had an unusual sense of the ironic and a penchant for the ridiculous could want. It had space travel, the theory of relativity, dinosaurs, cavemen and strangely compelling images of robustly proportioned cave women being dragged by their hair int darkened caves. Whatever for I couldn't possible tell. But it did seem like an very stimulating pastime.
I think you will all agree,
they just aren't making T.V. like this anymore.
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