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Longest television program titles

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azumanga

While we're talking about the shortest TV titles in the thread that deals with one-word names (though no doubt "V" would be included for the shortest TV show title in general), what TV show can you think of has the longest name for a TV program.

One I can think of (and inspired me to start this thread) is this hit program from North Korea:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let's_trim_our_hair_in_accordance_with_the_socialist_lifestyle

That series also doubles as one of the weirdest shows on TV (which is another thread for another time).
 
A 1951 ABC series: "Your Kaiser-Frazer Dealer Presents
Betty Furness In 'By-Line'." Needless to say, newspaper
listings usually just said "By-Line." (Wonder if she was
demonstrating Westinghouse refrigerators on "Studio One"
on CBS at the time?)

When Dodge and Plymouth sponsored Lawrence Welk,
the Saturday show was titled "Lawrence Welk's Dodge
Dancing Party"; the Monday (later Wednesday) show
was "Lawrence Welk's Top Tunes And New Talent," later
"Lawrence Welk's Plymouth Show."

For a couple of seasons in the '60s Jackie Gleason's show
was known as "The Jackie Gleason Show: The American
Scene Magazine."
 
short lived sitcom (adapted from a movie) with a long title -"The Wackiest Ship in the Army."

"Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"

Too bad Dr. Strangelove was never adapted for TV. The whole title: "Dr Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."
 
"Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color"/
"The Wonderful World Of Disney"

"Arthur Godfrey And His Friends"

the full title of a certain talent show: "Ted Mack
And The Original Amateur Hour"

and the full title of the ABC news program which
became "Nightline": "The Iran Crisis: America
Held Hostage"
 
If local TV counts...I may have one....

from Winchester, Virginia's WINC/Comcast cable 6....the high school sports show...

"The Winchester and Frederick County Coaches Corner Show and Play by Play with the famous Joe Pasquali".

That was the official title from its debut in 1968 until 1979 when the cable company expanded into nearby Clarke County, VA at which point the title was shorten to just "Coaches Corner". Also Pasquali then morning guy at local WINC-AM, his ratings were dropping so he wasn't really all that famous by that point.
Pasquali retired from broadcasting and cable when Clear Channel fired him in 1999. Trivia..some movie fans may remember Joe Pasquali as the "dj" on the radio playing Sam Cooke's You Send Me as Jessica Lange and Ed Harris were dancing in the parking lot in the 1985 Patsy Cline bio..."Sweet Dreams".

Interesting just last week Comcast pulled the plug on Coaches Corner after 41 years. Reason? They just didn't want to do it anymore.
 
Too bad Dr. Strangelove was never adapted for TV. The whole title: "Dr Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."
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Could be worse...They could make a series out of "Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan".

As far as real shows..."CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" or "Homicide: Life On The Street".
 
"The Lorenzo and Henrietta Music Show".

"Claudia, The Story Of a Marriage"(1952 obscure soap opera)

"The Half Hour Comedy Hour"

"Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour"(not the same show)

"The NBC Major League Baseball Game of the Week"(according to the opening voice-overs in the late '80s.)

"The Summer Brothers Smothers Show"(unless Brooks and Marsh transposed 'Smothers Brothers', that was the title of one of their 1968 summer replacement...which starred Glen Campbell, and spawned the similarly long-winded "Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour"

"Dean Martin Presents The Golddiggers in London"(1970) and, in 1972, "Dean Martin Presents the Bobby Darin Amusement Co." (Yes, after all that verbiage, they saved space by abbreviating 'Company'!) ???

"Monday Night Football" for years was officially identified as "ABC's NFL Monday Night Football".


When I first read Brooks and Marsh, I couldn't believe they went to the trouble of listing the full title of 'Byline'...and it was just a cross-reference to the shorter entry!
 
...wot?!!? Nobody's yet mentioned You Can't Do That on Television??? Green Slime to the lot of ya! ;D ...
 
If Saturday Night Fever had been given the same title as the magazine article on which it was based, the title would have been Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night! Couldn't you just picture that monstrosity of a title on your local movie theater's marquee sign? ;D

Robert Stigwood wanted to call it just Saturday Night* and the Bee Gees wanted to name it Night Fever (after their song of the same name), but they compromised on Saturday Night Fever.

*Stigwood also wanted them to rename and re-record their song "Stayin' Alive" as "Saturday night, Saturday night," but the Gibb brothers wouldn't hear of it.
 
azumanga said:
While we're talking about the shortest TV titles in the thread that deals with one-word names (though no doubt "V" would be included for the shortest TV show title in general), what TV show can you think of has the longest name for a TV program.

One I can think of (and inspired me to start this thread) is this hit program from North Korea:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let's_trim_our_hair_in_accordance_with_the_socialist_lifestyle

That series also doubles as one of the weirdest shows on TV (which is another thread for another time).
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What if Prince had had a special (or a series) during the time that he was using that unpronounceable symbol as his name? ;D I don't have that character anywhere on this keyboard! ;D
 
firepoint525 said:
azumanga said:
While we're talking about the shortest TV titles in the thread that deals with one-word names (though no doubt "V" would be included for the shortest TV show title in general), what TV show can you think of has the longest name for a TV program.

One I can think of (and inspired me to start this thread) is this hit program from North Korea:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let's_trim_our_hair_in_accordance_with_the_socialist_lifestyle

That series also doubles as one of the weirdest shows on TV (which is another thread for another time).
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What if Prince had had a special (or a series) during the time that he was using that unpronounceable symbol as his name? ;D I don't have that character anywhere on this keyboard! ;D
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It would have been "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince Special"...which is how he was referred to at that time, since that symbol couldn't be spoken either.
 
Lkeller said:
What if Prince had had a special (or a series) during the time that he was using that unpronounceable symbol as his name? ;D I don't have that character anywhere on this keyboard! ;D
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It would have been "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince Special"...which is how he was referred to at that time, since that symbol couldn't be spoken either.
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...last I heard, he couldn't get his records pronounced on the radio in the last dozen years, either ;-) ...
 
Lkeller said:
firepoint525 said:
azumanga said:
While we're talking about the shortest TV titles in the thread that deals with one-word names (though no doubt "V" would be included for the shortest TV show title in general), what TV show can you think of has the longest name for a TV program.
One I can think of (and inspired me to start this thread) is this hit program from North Korea:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let's_trim_our_hair_in_accordance_with_the_socialist_lifestyle
That series also doubles as one of the weirdest shows on TV (which is another thread for another time).
Click to expand...
What if Prince had had a special (or a series) during the time that he was using that unpronounceable symbol as his name? ;D I don't have that character anywhere on this keyboard! ;D
Click to expand...
It would have been "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince Special"...which is how he was referred to at that time, since that symbol couldn't be spoken either.
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Well, that wouldn't be any fun! ;D

I remember, eons ago, Bryant Gumbel promoting an appearance by him on the Today show, holding up a cue card with that symbol on it, and pointing to it, and saying "(grunting noise) will be on the show tomorrow!" ;D

And that whole "the artist" thing was just feeding into Prince's already massive-sized ego!
 
Ultimajock said:
Lkeller said:
What if Prince had had a special (or a series) during the time that he was using that unpronounceable symbol as his name? ;D I don't have that character anywhere on this keyboard! ;D
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It would have been "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince Special"...which is how he was referred to at that time, since that symbol couldn't be spoken either.
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...last I heard, he couldn't get his records pronounced on the radio in the last dozen years, either ;-) ...
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Mix 92.9 here in Nashville (still) plays "1999," but they won't touch anything else by him! ::) Interesting, considering that they are an AC station! :eek:
 
Obviously this wasn't the real title or the longest program title, but the working title in promotional materials for "Sesame Street" prior to its November 1969 launch was the "Preschool Educational Television Show" (if that would have been used, could the title eventually been shortened to the acronym "PETS"?).
 
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