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1968 (Forty years later...)
Front-Ranger:
Wow, thanks for posting this, John!
Jeff Wrangler:
I turned 10 years old in May 1968. My memories are mixed. I have fond memories of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, and I remember being terrified by the events following Martin Luther King's assassination. :-\
Ellemeno:
I was going to a French school in the middle of New York City at the time. Most of the politics going on around me was kept from me. I was still only almost nine years old. A year later, when more was unravelling, I was paying attention. But I loved Rowan and Martin, and the Smothers Brothers.
Back to Mason Williams - as is the way with YouTube, after watching the one you posted, John, I then clicked on this one, filmed in 2006. He explains how he came up with the Smothers Brothers' theme song (predicated on deliberate mistakes), and then plays an explication of them being taken off the air, to the tune of "Those Were the Days."
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7pwW2xmyto[/youtube]
Aloysius J. Gleek:
Thanks, All!
Thanks, Elle!
Can you believe--Mason Williams looked like this in 1968?
:laugh:
Oh my. The years are not so kind to us at all, at all!
You really have sent me carooming into Memory Lane; I loved the hysterically satyrical That Was The Week That Was (oh yeah, I'm old, all right!)--can you believe broadcast television was ever like this? So smart? Look:
From Wikipedia:
January 10, 1964, to May 1965: The pilot featured hosts Henry Fonda and Henry Morgan, guest stars Mike Nichols and Elaine May, and various supporting performers including Gene Hackman. The series had a recurring cast that included David Frost, Henry Morgan, Buck Henry and Alan Alda, with Nancy Ames singing the ever-changing lyrics to the opening theme song; regular contributors included Gloria Steinem, Tom Lehrer and Calvin Trillin. The announcer was Jerry Damon. Also appearing as a guest was Woody Allen, performing some of his stand-up comedy act; the guest star on the final broadcast was Steve Allen. After the series' cancellation, Lehrer recorded a collection of his songs that were used on the show, That Was The Year That Was, which was released by Reprise Records in September 1965 and became a major hit LP.
Wow.
Amazing.
(If I could find the original broadcasts, I wonder if I could now get the clever, clever references that once flew right past my eleven year-old head? Probably not!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Was_The_Week_That_Was
Ellemeno:
I couldn't find "That Was the Week That Was" on YouTube. Imagine! In this day of instant media gratification. So then I went to its IMDb page, and posted in its forum, and there were no other posts, about what I hear is a great show. As they say these days, WTF?
Here are the rest of the amazing cast members, according to IMDb:
Paul Sand ... Himself (2 episodes, 1964)
David Frost ... Himself (1 episode, 1964)
Phyllis Newman ... Herself (1 episode, 1964)
Buck Henry ... Himself (1 episode, 1964)
Pat Englund ... Herself (1 episode, 1964)
Bob Dishy ... Himself (1 episode, 1964)
Nancy Ames ... Herself (1 episode, 1964)
Alan Alda ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Steve Allen ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Woody Allen ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Sandy Baron ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Tom Bosley ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Roscoe Lee Browne ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Art Carney ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Moose Charlap ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Betty Comden ... Herself (unknown episodes)
Bill Cosby ... Himself (unknown episodes)
MacIntyre Dixon ... Himself (unknown episodes)
David Doyle ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Andrew Duncan ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Stan Freeman ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Elliott Gould ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Adolph Green ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Stanley Grover ... Himself (unknown episodes)
George Hall ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Margaret Hamilton ... Herself (unknown episodes)
Kim Hunter ... Herself (unknown episodes)
Wally King ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Mina Kolb ... Herself (unknown episodes)
Julius LaRosa ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Richard Libertini ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Charlie Manna ... Himself (unknown episodes)
John Marriott ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Millicent Martin ... Herself (unknown episodes)
Elaine May ... Herself (unknown episodes)
Bob McFadden ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Audrey Meadows ... Herself (unknown episodes)
Doro Merande ... Herself (unknown episodes)
Henry Morgan ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Robert Morse ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Mike Nichols ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Dick Noel ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Louis Nye ... Himself (unknown episodes)
'Killer' Joe Piro ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Tom Poston ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Lovelady Powell ... Herself (unknown episodes)
Elliott Reid ... Himself (unknown episodes)
William Rushton ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Mort Sahl ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Richard Schaal ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Allan Sherman ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Victor Spinetti ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Leslie J. Stark ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Larry Storch ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Burr Tillstrom ... Himself (unknown episodes)
Eugene Troobnick ... Himself (unknown episodes)
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