1957-1959 (CBS)
"Lucy Goes To Alaska" was the eighth and final episode of the one-hour specials. The Riccardos and the Mertzes go to Alaska to do a show, with Red Skelton, to celebrate the state's admission to the union.
October 20th 1963-December 22nd,1963 (ABC)
Hal March hosted this comedy/variety show that ran for one season. Guest comics perform material submitted by fledgling comedy writers; after the performance, the material is evaluated and offered for sale.
Guests: Louis Nye, Bob Cummings, Bill Dana, Pat Harrington, Jr.
Host: Hal March.
October 20th 1963-December 22nd,1963 (ABC)
Hal March hosted this comedy/variety show that ran for one season. Guest comics perform material submitted by fledgling comedy writers; after the performance, the material is evaluated and offered for sale.
Guests: Shecky Greene, Jim Backus, Rowan and Martin
Host: Hal March.
October 20th 1963-December 22nd,1963 (ABC)
Hal March hosted this comedy/variety show that ran for one season. Guest comics perform material submitted by fledgling comedy writers; after the performance, the material is evaluated and offered for sale.
Guests are Jim Backus, Gordon MacRae, Sheila MacRae, Shecky Greene
January 22nd, 1968-May 14th, 1973
Fast-paced hour of comedy starring the comedy team of Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.
A salute to hospitals is the theme of the broadcast.
December 29th, 1969-September 25th, 1970.
Daytime show co-hosted by Art and Jack Linkletter featuring talks with schoolchildren and audience participation games.
On this rare extant complete broadcast, with commercials, audio air check Art Linkletter interviews author Morton Hunt, discussing his book, "The Affair, " related to his interviews of 92 people who have had extra marital affairs and why?
Steve Rossi and his new partner Slappy White are interviewed. They are considered one of the first interracial comedy teams. White recites a poem he introduced to President John F. Kennedy entitled, "The Brother Creed.":
Art Linkletter interviews four eight year old's asking many questions including, "Who would you have liked to be your parents?" One boy answers, Shirley Temple and Abraham Lincoln.
January 22nd, 1968-May 14th, 1973
Fast-paced hour of comedy starring the comedy team of Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.
The last half -hour of the broadcast only.
September 10th, 1973-May 24th, 1974 (NBC)
Blue-Collar sitcom based on the British Series, On The Buses. It starred Dom Deluise as Stanley Belmont, Kathleen Freeman as his mother, Iris, Beverly Sanders as his sister Olive, Wynn Irwin as her husband, and Arthur Swan and Jack Knight as the neighbors. Carl Reiner was one of the show's creators.
Series premiere.
On this episode: Olive's foot gets stuck in the toilet tank after trying to stand on the broken tank lid.
January 27th, 1976-May 10th, 1983
Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams star in this spin-off of "Happy Days." Henry Winkler appears in this debut episode. Complete with original commercials.
Series Premiere.
A strong cast in a quartet of comedy playlets.
In Murray Schisgal's "Natasha Kovolina Pipishinsky," Alan Arkin is a married lawyer who has been stepping out with a young Russian ballerina (Kay Mazzo of the New York City Ballet). Alan King is the friend who advises him against the affair.
In Neil Simon's "A Quiet War," Zero Mostel and Peter Ustinov play a Russian odd couple-a retired general and admiral who wage a war of words over what makes "the perfect lunch."
King portrays a rueful dentist in Herb Gardner's "Word of Mouth." While working on a patient (Christopher Hewett), the dentist laments his failed marriage and his unemployed son, who "found himself three years ago, and has ever since been deeply engrossed in losing himself again."
Ustinov (the hour's director) wrote "Swordplay," a Bicentennial entry set in a New England barn in 1776. Dick Shawn plays a lonesome Revolutionary who sneaks up on a Redcoat colonel (Cyril Ritchard)-for a chat.
Lucille Ball is joined by Gale Gordon, Vivian Vance, and President Jimmy Carter on this comedy special. Lucille plays Lucy Whittaker who decides to call President Jimmy Carter during his weekly radio show. The President tells Lucy he will be in her area and visits her for dinner.
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