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Question re "The Tonight Show" and other talk shows on AFRTS in the '60s-'70s

Ultimajock

Ultimajock

Question re "The Tonight Show" and other talk shows on AFRTS in the '60s-'70s

...I've noticed that the AFRTS kinescope that was used for the original DVD release of Return to Studio One, the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson from 1969 on which Bob Hope and Dean Martin "walked on" and George Gobel topped both of 'em with his "tuxedo" quip, only contains about 40 minutes of the show whereas the entire program would have run about an hour without the ad breaks (a 90-minute slot with commercials when aired on NBC). When AFRTS ran the show on their worldwide affiliates at that time, did they run the entire program or edit the content down to about a 40- or 45-minute slot? And did AFRTS run any of the other talk shows (particularly The Joey Bishop Show, the CBS or Metromedia versions of The Merv Griffin Show, The Dick Cavett Show, The David Frost Show and Tomorrow with Tom Snyder) that were produced in the United States during the period?...
 
Re: Question re "The Tonight Show" and other talk shows on AFRTS in the '60s-'70s

I vaguely remember watching AFRTS when my dad was stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines in the mid-60s when I was little. All I remember was their running little fillers between shows, like a 3 -4 minute film of a golf ball rolling endlessly from one locale to another, with "Holiday for Strings" or some similar tune.

In '76 I visited my brother for the summer, when he was stationed at another base (he was also in the USAF). He borrowed a 16mm projector and various films from the base library. One film was a Bob Hope special shot at the Air Force Academy. (In one sketch, Bob said he graduated next-to-last in his class: "there's one guy around here who's dumber than me." Then someone walks by in a cadet uniform wearing an Alfred E. Neuman mask.) The show was kinescoped, but three musical numbers shot on film were spliced in, probably not part of the original broadcast, but used to pad out the show for AFRTS: Neile Adams (Steve McQueen's first wife) singing "My Heart Belongs to Daddy," and Kay Starr singing two other songs.
 
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