Jerry Lewis steps before the TV cameras for his first special in three years. This one man show incorporates some popular routines from his night club act, a few from previous TV appearances, plus some new material.
15 satirists look at the foibles and follies of TV. Targets include commercials, news correspondents, convention coverage TV themes, weather reports, and insulting interviewers. Satirists include Bernadette Peters, Dennis Allen, Arthur Alpert, Sudie Bond, MacIntyre Dixon, Charlotte Fairchild, John Heffernan, Tony Hendra, and Nick Ullett, Nagle Jackson, Paul Larson, Paul
Melton, Maggie Peters, Jaime Ross, and Virginia Vestoff.
February 6th, 1969-May 1st, 1969
Actor-singer Dean Jones is the host for this weekly melange of satire aimed at every facet of American life.
Guests: Martin Landau and his real-life wife Barbara Bain, both of "Mission Impossible." Martin plays a mafia bigwig faced with the problem of integrating The Brotherhood. (his target: Scoey Mitchell, one of the show's regulars). Barbara, framed in black, recites Pete Seeger's " Where Have All The Flowers Gone?" against a newsreel montage of historical events. Series regulars include Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon, (lampooning modern life), singer Gerri Granger(who joins the company in the weekly vaudeville show segment), and commentator Alex Dreier, (spoofing documentaries.)
Created and produced by Saul Iison and Ernest Chambers, who originated "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour."
The show ran from February 6th, 1969-May 1st, 1969. In late March, the show became "The Dean Jones Variety Hour." Both formats proved unsuccessful and the series was dropped after a thirteen week run.
Series premiere.
Actor-singer Dean Jones is the host for this weekly melange of satire aimed at every facet of American life.
Guests: Marlo Thomas and Carl Reiner join Dean Jones and the "World" company. Marlo finds a lesson in human relations in a box of Valentine candy. Carl spoofs French singers. The finale salutes fifty years of US-Soviet relations. Series regulars include Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon, (lampooning modern life), singer Gerri Granger(who joins the company in the weekly vaudeville show segment), and commentator Alex Dreier, (spoofing documentaries.)
Created and produced by Saul Iison and Ernest Chambers, who originated "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour."
The show ran from February 6th, 1969-May 1st, 1969. In late March, the show became "The Dean Jones Variety Hour." Both formats proved unsuccessful and the series was dropped after a thirteen week run.
Second show of the series.
Actor-singer Dean Jones is the host for this weekly melange of satire aimed at every facet of American life.
Guests: Dean Jones welcomes Art Carney, Tom and Dick Smothers, and Alice Ghostley. Satirical targets: dropouts, discrimination and political extremism. Tom and Dick turn a simple song into "controversial material" and join Dean in a folk singing spoof. Series regulars include Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon, (lampooning modern life), singer Gerri Granger(who joins the company in the weekly vaudeville show segment), and commentator Alex Dreier, (spoofing documentaries.)
Created and produced by Saul Iison and Ernest Chambers, who originated "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour."
The show ran from February 6th, 1969-May 1st, 1969. In late March, the show became "The Dean Jones Variety Hour." Both formats proved unsuccessful and the series was dropped after a thirteen week run.
Third show of the series.
Actor-singer Dean Jones is the host for this weekly melange of satire aimed at every facet of American life.
Guests: Bubby Ebsen, Barbara Feldon, and Robert Curry. Series regulars include Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon, (lampooning modern life), singer Gerri Granger(who joins the company in the weekly vaudeville show segment), and commentator Alex Dreier, (spoofing documentaries.)
Created and produced by Saul Iison and Ernest Chambers, who originated "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour."
The show ran from February 6th, 1969-May 1st, 1969. In late March, the show became "The Dean Jones Variety Hour." Both formats proved unsuccessful and the series was dropped after a thirteen week run.
Fourth Show of the series.
Actor-singer Dean Jones is the host for this weekly melange of satire aimed at every facet of American life.
Guests: Kate Smith, Carol Robinson, Ken Greenwald. Series regulars include Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon, (lampooning modern life), singer Gerri Granger(who joins the company in the weekly vaudeville show segment), and commentator Alex Dreier, (spoofing documentaries.)
Created and produced by Saul Iison and Ernest Chambers, who originated "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour."
The show ran from February 6th, 1969-May 1st, 1969. In late March, the show became "The Dean Jones Variety Hour." Both formats proved unsuccessful and the series was dropped after a thirteen week run.
Fifth show of the series.
Actor-singer Dean Jones is the host for this weekly melange of satire aimed at every facet of American life.
Guests: Janet Leigh, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Carol Robinson, Ken Greenwald. Series regulars include Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon, (lampooning modern life), singer Gerri Granger(who joins the company in the weekly vaudeville show segment), and commentator Alex Dreier, (spoofing documentaries.)
Created and produced by Saul Iison and Ernest Chambers, who originated "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour."
The show ran from February 6th, 1969-May 1st, 1969. In late March, the show became "The Dean Jones Variety Hour." Both formats proved unsuccessful and the series was dropped after a thirteen week run.
Seventh show of the series.
1972-1973 Syndicated half hour return of Jonathan Winters who ad libbed through each episode with with guest stars.
Regulars of the show were Marian Mercer and the Soul Sisters.
Flip Wilson is host for this comic look at aging in an hour of satiric vignettes and music. Guests: Valerie Harper, Barbara Feldon, Roscoe Lee Browne, Joan Darling, Rosemary DeCamp, Art Linkletter, Richard Schaal, Rose Marie, Harold J. Stone, Dick Patterson & Harry Morgan.
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