"The Tomorrow Show" with Tom Snyder is NOT AVAILABLE FOR SALE.
October 15, 1973-January 28, 1982.
An hour-long talk show hosted by Tom Snyder. Network television's first entry into late-late-night programming on weeknights Monday thru Thursday, usually broadcasting on tape 1 AM to 2 AM. "Tomorrow" was expanded to 90 minutes on September 16, 1980.
Tom Snyder editorializes on the National Lampoon Magazine article about him. The article states "Snyder loses control, eats guest!"
He also comments on John Ehrlichman.
David Frost, Tom Snyder's sole guest, is interviewed during the entire show .
Subjects range on a myriad of topics including:
-Richard Nixon interviews scheduled to be telecast shortly, which were originally signed to be produced on August 9, 1975 with the stipulation that they were to be done with sole control of content, including questions to be asked.
-Reaction to critics feeling that Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather or Tom Brokaw should have been doing these interviews and not David Frost.
-Temptations to be aggressive with tough questions to Nixon garnering responses that would be new information to the public, and to deal with other subjects beyond Watergate.
-How David Frost pulled off such a contract, and beating out the Networks.
-Indebtedness to Metromedia and to Herb Klein related to the Nixon-Frost interviews.
-Feelings about Nixon receiving so much money for revealing "horror stories."
-Spending a fortune on this series...six months research, 500 individuals interviewed, acquiring archival footage...
-Plan to televise these Richard Nixon one on one interviews either in November or December 1976, at first thinking to do on Film, later deciding to do them on Video Tape.
-Discussion on Frost playing Las Vegas which he states was an "extraordinary experience."
-Currently loving to do lecture tours...related to "That Was the Week That Was."
-What it is like working for the BBC.
-Frost discussion of "Star Value" and how difficult it is to generate money to do variety shows.
- Why ITV is more viewed than BBC.
-Reasons why the BBC reigns only when a news crisis occurs.
-Four letter words allowed on British television. Frost mentions one and it is deleted on the sound track of this broadcast.
-Are people in Britain interested in gossip? Private lives of entertainers...
-The British Press
-Money for producing product more a concern in Britain than in the United States.
-Frost talks about his engagement to Diahann Carroll, their relationship. Numerous anecdotes.
-The importance of keeping a sense of humor.
-The power of television.
-Currently doing 18-20 shows a year. Staying very active.
-David Frost praises the film LEADBELLY, which he is an executive producer. "An important film by Gordon Parks."
AND MORE...