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"THE BEST OF LAUGH-IN" ON PBS THIS MONTH

gregg75

gregg75

This new one hour show will air nationwide (at various times) during March. The show began in 1967 (as a special) when family shows like ANDY GRIFFITH, GUNSMOKE and FAMILY AFFAIR were the normal tv fare. The special was so popular that it was made a regular NBC series and replaced the Man From U.N.C.L.E. at 8PM on Monday nights in January 1968.

The program was quite risque (for the time) in both comments and visuals. I'm not sure such a similar show would get the "green light" in today's world. We all saw what happened to SKINS.

Let's hope PBS does a better job than it did with some of the recent PIONEERS OF TV shows which
left many on this board scratching their head.
 
"Sock it to...me?"

(PAMS jingle) "Hail to the chief...Dick Nixxx-on."

Bonus points to whomever gets the jingle reference (not Laugh-In). ;)
 
"Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" was so unique and popular - I remember walking past a high school band practicing their marching and hearing the bandmaster tell the assembled musicians "if you get it right this time you can all go home in time for Laugh-In". A great roar went up. ;D

Along with the Smothers Brothers those were great times in TV.
 
gregg75 said:
[Laugh-In] was quite risque (for the time) in both comments and visuals. I'm not sure such a similar show would get the "green light" in today's world. We all saw what happened to SKINS.
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Of course, in 1969, the producers of Laugh-In tried something even more risque with "Turn On", which also featured fast, controversial humor, like "Laugh-In"; however, the jokes on that program were too-risque at the time, and many stations vowed to pre-empt the show the next week, with some pulling the show mid-way into the broadcast.

Of course, today the humor in both "Laugh-In" and "Turn On" would seem quite mild as compared to the other programs today.
 
I can remember the school lunch table on Tuesdays. We all had to discuss what we had seen
on LAUGH-IN the night before.................good times.
 
Something tells me that one season will not be represented in this special: the final (1972-73) season, after George Schlatter and Ed Friendly left, and hosts Rowan & Martin took over as executive producers.
 
oldiesfan6479 said:
"Sock it to...me?"

(PAMS jingle) "Hail to the chief...Dick Nixxx-on."

Bonus points to whomever gets the jingle reference (not Laugh-In). ;)
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It's gotta be Radio Free Nixon, courtesy of the late David Frye.

I have the two DVD sets of the show and it brings back some fun memories. It's too bad no other sets have been produced (at least as far as I know).
 
Bill DeFelice said:
It's gotta be Radio Free Nixon, courtesy of the late David Frye.
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You are correct, sir!

BTW, the WNIX "calls" in the album live on (for real) on 1330 in Greenville, MS
(1 kw-D, 500 w-N, DA-N).
 
wbhist said:
Something tells me that one season will not be represented in this special: the final (1972-73) season, after George Schlatter and Ed Friendly left, and hosts Rowan & Martin took over as executive producers.
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Laugh-In jumped the shark in 1972...five years before the original shark was even jumped. ;D
 
Kurt Toy said:
By the way, do the 1972-73 episodes exist? And will they ever be shown anywhere?
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One can only hope not. Not only had the show gone into the dumper by '72 , it was an ananchronism by that time anyway.
 
KeithE4 said:
Kurt Toy said:
By the way, do the 1972-73 episodes exist? And will they ever be shown anywhere?
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One can only hope not. Not only had the show gone into the dumper by '72 , it was an ananchronism by that time anyway.
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The 1972-73 shows do exist - but the reason we'll never see them is due to George Schlatter, who from what I understand filed suit to keep the Rowan/Martin-executive produced final season's shows from seeing the light of day.
 
OK, they've turned an hour program into a 90 minute pledge drive. But the pledge part has
a lot of cameo appearances which makes it better than the usual drives. The first one only
lasted about 5 minutes.

It's interesting all the catch phrases that came from the show.....sock it to me.....you bet your
sweet bippy, etc.

Back then everybody thought Goldie Hawn was just a dumb blonde, but now we know she was
just very convincing at it.

LAUGH-IN LOOKS AT THE NEWS must have shown Saturday Night Live how news could be funny.
 
wbhist said:
KeithE4 said:
Kurt Toy said:
By the way, do the 1972-73 episodes exist? And will they ever be shown anywhere?
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One can only hope not. Not only had the show gone into the dumper by '72 , it was an ananchronism by that time anyway.
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The 1972-73 shows do exist - but the reason we'll never see them is due to George Schlatter, who from what I understand filed suit to keep the Rowan/Martin-executive produced final season's shows from seeing the light of day.
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The last season eps. have Patti Deutsch. After Laugh-In left in 1973, her and Richard Dawson who joined Laugh-In after Hogan's Heroes was cancelled, would often team up on Match Game.
 
Needless to say I don't think George presented any of the last seasons in this special. Can't say as
I blame him, those last couple years really STUNK.
 
If anyone has seen the 1972-1973 episodes did they ever poke fun at President Nixon and Watergate? If so, then that's another possible reason they are not shown besides the absence of George Schlatter and Rowan and Martin being the executive producers plus the influx of new people joining like Richard Dawson and possibly any jokes made about Nixon and Watergate.

Speaking of which, wasn't Nixon's appearance on Laugh-In before or after he was President? That could explain a few things here and there of who was for Nixon on the show.
 
Nixon was on Laugh In before he was President. A lot credit has been given to the appearance restarting his political career.
 
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