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#18837: LUCY-DESI COMEDY HOUR, THE
1959-02-09, CBS, 60 min.
William Frawley , Desi Arnaz , Lucille Ball , Red Skelton , Vivian Vance

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.               
#19297: LAUGHS FOR SALE
1963-10-27, ABC, min.
Louis Nye , Bill Dana , Hal March , Bob Cummings , Pat Harrington, Jr.

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.        

                                                                                   
#19078: LAUGHS FOR SALE
1963-11-17, ABC, min.
Jim Backus , Dick Martin , Dan Rowan , Shecky Greene , 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.        

                                                                      
#19077: LAUGHS FOR SALE
1963-11-17, ABC, min.
Jim Backus , Shecky Greene , Gordon MacRae , Hal March , Sheila McRae

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                                                         
#18849: LENNY BRUCE
1968-00-00, , min.
Lenny Bruce

The 1968 concert at Berkeley.           
#8434: LAUGH-IN
1969-10-13, NBC, 60 min.
Henry Gibson , Dan Rowan , Dick Martin , Arte Johnson , Alan Sues , Gary Owens , Jack E. Leonard

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.          
#5308: LAST LAUGH AT THE 60'S
1970-01-08, WABC, 52 min.
Mike Nichols , Elaine May , Carol Burnett , Don Adams , Mort Sahl , John Byner , George Schlatter , Richard Pryor , Buck Henry , Allan Sherman , Don Rickles , Richard Benjamin , Tiny Tim , Pat Paulsen , Godfrey Cambridge , Lorene Yarnell

A music and comedy revue of the 1960's.
#8435: LAUGH-IN
1970-02-16, NBC, 60 min.
Henry Gibson , Dan Rowan , Dan Blocker , Arte Johnson , Lily Tomlin , Alan Sues

January 22nd, 1968-May 14th, 1973

Fast-paced hour of comedy starring the comedy team of Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.   

                    
#8470: LIFE WITH LINKLETTER
1970-02-19, NBC, 30 min.
Art Linkletter , Jack Linkletter , Slappy White , Steve Rossi , John Guedel , Morton Hunt

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.             
#8437: LAUGH-IN
1970-10-05, NBC, 60 min.
Dan Rowan , Dick Martin , Arte Johnson , Ken Berry

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. 

                                              
#8436: LAUGH-IN
1971-09-13, NBC, 60 min.
Raquel Welch , Dan Rowan , Dick Martin , Buffalo Bob Smith , Howdy Doody

January 22nd, 1968-May 14th, 1973

Fast-paced hour of comedy starring the comedy team of Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.   

                                 
#16703: LAUGH-IN
1971-10-11, NBC, min.
Dick Martin , Dan Rowan , Buffalo Bob Smith

January 22nd, 1968-May 14th, 1973

Fast-paced hour of comedy starring the comedy team of Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.    

Guest: Buffalo Bob Smith.                          
#17414: LOTSA LUCK
1973-09-10, NBC, min.
Dom Deluise , Kathleen Freeman , Beverly Sanders , Wynn Irwin , Arthur Swan , Jack Knight

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.                
#6359: LUCILLE BALL SPECIAL STARRING LUCILLE BALL AND JACKIE GLEASON IN RENEE TAYLOR AND JOSEPH BOLOGNA'S "THREE FOR TWO"
1975-12-03, CBS, 52 min.
Jackie Gleason , Lucille Ball , Renee Taylor , Joseph Bologna

Lucille Ball & Jackie Gleason, in a trilogy of comedy-dramas as three different couples in the trio of playlets, concerning three aspects of marriage.
#8441: LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY
1976-01-27, ABC, 30 min.
Henry Winkler , Penny Marshall , Cindy Williams

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.          
#5024: LOVE, LIFE, LIBERTY, AND LUNCH
1976-05-18, WABC, 52 min.
Cyril Ritchard , Alan King , Zero Mostel , Peter Ustinov , Dick Shawn , Alan Arkin , Kay Mazzo , Christopher Hewett

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.
#8438: LAUGH-IN: SPECIAL
1977-09-05, NBC, 60 min.
Henry Winkler , Bette Davis , Ralph Nader , Robin Williams , Marjoe Gortner , Kareem Abdul-Jabbar , Lenny Schultz , Antoinette Atell , June Gable , Ben Powers

In 1977, Laugh-In returned to television with a series of specials without Dan Rowan and Dick Martin. It was headlined each week by guest stars.          
#8439: LAUGH-IN: SPECIAL
1977-10-10, NBC, 60 min.
Beatrice Arthur , Antoinette Atell , Rodney Allen Rippy

In 1977, Laugh-In returned to television with a series of specials without Dan Rowan and Dick Martin. It was headlined each week by guest stars.                       
#8480: LUCILLE BALL SPECIAL, THE: "GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER?"
1977-11-21, CBS, 60 min.
Vivian Vance , Jimmy Carter , Gale Gordon , Lucille Ball

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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