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Jack Paar question

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oldschooler1

Hey, Ultimajock...

Does that jack Paar DVD set have any of his shows -- or clips of his shows -- in color, on videotape? I have only the "American Masters" 2-hour show that ran on PBS a few years back -- on DVD -- and unfortunately, NONE of it is in color -- except for maybe 15 seconds of home movies he shot in Africa. Everything of him is B & W kinescope. His Tonight Show was shot in color from about 1960-on (I'm pretty sure), and so was his Friday night primetime show. But I've never seen any of his stuff in the original color videotape.
 
...everything on the Shout! Factory Paar DVD set is in black&white -- and, in fact, the December 11, 1963 program with Judy Garland and Robert Morley in London has at the opening a picture of a zebra and Paar announcing the show is in "living black and white." NBC reused the then prohibitively expensive videotape and gave Paar the copies of the kinescopes that were sent to various stations that had a secondary affiliation with NBC at the time. NBC and ABC's kinescoping services also account for most of the surviving episodes of "Hullabaloo" and "Shindig" as I understand it. ABC kinescoped Dick Cavett as late as 1968 -- the "Here's Dick Cavett" prime-time compilation of clips from his morning show survives as a b&w kinnie, and the appearance by Joanne Carson on the morning show survives as a color kinnie (both are on the "Comedy Legends" Cavett DVD set)...
 
Hope the Paar collection has the "water closet" story he did. Relatively speaking, such upheaval over such a trivial matter. But it shows how times and morals have changed so drastically regarding content.
 
nuzguy said:
Hope the Paar collection has the "water closet" story he did. Relatively speaking, such upheaval over such a trivial matter. But it shows how times and morals have changed so drastically regarding content.
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...it has some folks, including Hugh Downs, talking about it, but not the clips in question per se. Since the material that the set drew upon was owned by Paar outright, and it was being put together around the time that his health began failing, I suspect he simply wanted his last public work to emphasize the positive points of his career...
 
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