1966-03-13, WNBC, 52 min.
Musical-variety special with a rural twist.
1966-09-28, WABC, 50 min.
At the onset of his performing television career, a young Dick Cavett is host on this comedy musical revue telecast. Guests include Ann Elder, Ronnie Schell, Larry Hovis, Pat McCormick, Bob Lind, Thurston Frazier, Delos Jewkes and the Doodletown Pipers. This unscheduled telecast replaced the scheduled programming for this date.
1966-10-24, WNBC, 27 min.
September 12, 1966-December 26, 1966. Country and western singer Roger Miller hosted his own half-hour musical variety series.
1966-12-05, WNBC, 27 min.
September 12, 1966-December 26, 1966. Country and western singer Roger Miller hosted his own half-hour musical variety series.
1967-03-03, WABC, 52 min.
September 14, 1966-May 11, 1967. This was an umbrella title for a potpourri of assorted specials. This tribute to Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart includes some of the team's best songs for stage and screen. Performers: Petula Clark; Bobby Darin; Count Basie and his orchestra; the Supremes, the Mamas and the Papas, and the Doodletown Pipers, vocal groups.
1967-07-09, WCBS, 52 min.
July 2, 1967-September 3, 1967.
Our Place was an American musical variety show that aired on CBS during the summer of 1967. The official "host" was one of Jim Henson's early Muppets, Rowlf the Dog. The show's other regulars were comedians Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber and the singing Doodletown Pipers.
Jim Henson showcased some of his early Muppets, the most regular member of the Our Place cast being Rowlf the talking dog. He actually co-hosted the show with B&S. Talk about a big break for Rowlf! Our Place kicked open the door for the mutt who'd later find greater fame in a 1970s series featuring him and his other Muppet pals. Jack Burns, would be head writer for the first season of The Muppet Show (Syndicated, 1976-1981).
Each episode featured a guest, Carol Burnett receiving the honor in the debut which aired Sunday, July 2, 1967 @ 9:00pm EDT. Other guests included Arthur Godfrey, Woody Allen, Soupy Sales, Nipsey Russell, Eddie Albert, Dick Shawn, Shelley Berman, Cyril Richard, and Joel Gray.
The executive producer was Bob Precht who produced The Ed Sullivan Show and was also Sullivan's son-in-law. Bill Angelos and Buz Kohan wrote and produced the show and John Moffitt was the director.
NOTE: With the exception of the third broadcast (July 23, 1967 with guest Dick Shawn), uploaded in six parts (51:30) in 2008 on you tube, no other example of the other nine shows is known to exist in any broadcast form (video, audio, transcript) in the archives of UCLA Film and Radio, Paley Center for Media, Library of Congress, Museum of Broadcasting.
1967-07-16, WCBS, 52 min.
July 2, 1967-September 3, 1967. Hosted by Rowlf the Muppet. The comedy duo of Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber and the Doodletown Pipers were also featured.
1967-07-23, WCBS, 52 min.
July 2, 1967-September 3, 1967. Hosted by Rowlf the Muppet. The comedy duo of Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber and the Doodletown Pipers were also featured.
1967-07-30, WCBS, 52 min.
July 2, 1967-September 3, 1967. Hosted by Rowlf the Muppet. The comedy duo of Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber and the Doodletown Pipers were also featured.
1967-08-06, WCBS, 52 min.
July 2, 1967-September 3, 1967. Hosted by Rowlf the Muppet. The comedy duo of Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber and the Doodletown Pipers were also featured.
1967-08-13, WCBS, 52 min.
July 2, 1967-September 3, 1967. Hosted by Rowlf the Muppet. The comedy duo of Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber and the Doodletown Pipers were also featured.
1967-08-27, WCBS, 52 min.
July 2, 1967-September 3, 1967. Hosted by Rowlf the Muppet. The comedy duo of Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber and the Doodletown Pipers were also featured.
1967-09-03, WCBS, 52 min.
July 2, 1967-September 3, 1967. Hosted by Rowlf the Muppet. The comedy duo of Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber and the Doodletown Pipers were also featured.
1967-11-12, WCBS, 52 min.
June 20, 1948-June 6, 1971. Television's longest-running variety show ran on Sunday nights for twenty-three years. Its host, Ed Sullivan.
1968-02-25, WCBS, 52 min.
June 20, 1948-June 6, 1971. Television's longest-running variety show ran on Sunday nights for twenty-three years. Its host, Ed Sullivan.
1968-03-26, WCBS, 52 min.
September 25, 1962-June 23, 1970. One of television's most inventive and popular comedians, Red Skelton hosted his own series for twenty years, seven of them in a one-hour format, "The Red Skelton Hour" on CBS. Skelton began his television career on NBC September 30, 1951 with a half-hour filmed variety series lasting until June 21, 1953. He then began his CBS affiliation, and began hosting "The Red Skelton Show," a half-hour variety show broadcast live until October 18, 1960, and subsequently on videotape. This series aired from October 13, 1953, continuing until June 26, 1962. From July 21, 1954 through September 8, 1954, "The Red Skelton Revue" was broadcast live on CBS in a one-hour format. Red Skelton returned to NBC in a half-hour taped format for his final series. "Red" as the show was known, premiered September 14, 1970. The first four broadcasts included introductions by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew (September 14, 1970), Dean Martin (September 21, 1970), Jack Benny (September 28, 1970), and Johnny Carson (October 5, 1970) who got his big break writing for Skelton in the early 1950's. Red Skelton's last first-run regularly scheduled television program aired on March 15, 1971.
1968-06-19, WNBC, 52 min.
September 13, 1967-May 12, 1971. The 1967 version of "The Kraft Music Hall" was an hour show, which lasted four seasons. It was hosted by a guest celebrity each week.
1968-09-29, WCBS, 52 min.
September 15, 1968-December 22, 1968. Variety hour hosted by Phyllis Diller, featuring Norm Crosby and Rip Taylor.
1968-10-27, WCBS, 52 min.
June 20, 1948-June 6, 1971. Television's longest-running variety show ran on Sunday nights for twenty-three years. Its host, Ed Sullivan.
1968-11-24, WCBS, 52 min.
June 20, 1948-June 6, 1971. Television's longest-running variety show ran on Sunday nights for twenty-three years. Its host, Ed Sullivan.
1968-12-24, WABC, 52 min.
September 24, 1968-May 20, 1969. This was the "Our First Christmas" broadcast. Television's only musical comedy series. "That's Life" starred Robert Morse and E.J. Peaker. Also featured were Shelley Berman and Kay Medford.
1969-10-19, SYN, 60 min.
Frank Sinatra Jr. in his first television special, filmed in and around Las Vegas.
The 25-year-old tours the strip (singing "Downtown") views the awesome sandstone formations at Valley Of Fire State Park ("The World Is Full Of Beautiful Things"), performs with his band ("Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You") ("Quiet Nights") and is joined on stage by his father for ("All Or Nothing At All") one of Frank Sr's early hits.
In guest appearances: Jack Benny, Sammy Davis Jr. with an energetic song and dance at Hoover Dam; Nancy Sinatra ("Light My Fire"); The Doodletown Pipers ("Cool Water") ("The Happening"):Arte Johnson doing his zany Laugh-In characterizations, comic Jack E. Leonard, and The flying Thunderbirds, precision Air Force aerobatic team.
1970-11-29, NBC, 90 min.
John Wayne and an all-star cast tell the story of America.
Host: John Wayne.
Duplicate of 9357.
John Wayne's first TV special is a journey through American history with music, comedy, and more than two-dozen guest stars.
John's guests include Jack Benny as a citizen asking George Washington (Lorne Greene) about that dollar he supposedly threw across the Potomac, Bob Hope and Ann-Margret entertaining the troops at Valley Forge, printer Red Skelton discussing dissent with apprentice Tom Smothers, Lucille Ball as Miss Liberty, and Bing Crosby as Mark Twain, philosophizing with freed slave Frederick Douglass (Roscoe Lee Browne).
Also: Michael Landon as Peter Minuit, buying Manhattan Island from Indian Dan Blocker, Dean Martin as inventor Eli Whitney, Celeste Holm and Dennis Weaver as the parents of young Abe Lincoln, brothers Rick and David Nelson fighting on opposite sides in the Civil War, Phyllis Diller as a 19th-century presidential candidate, Dan Rowan and Dick Martin as the Wright Brothers.
Songs: Johnny Cash: "Ribbon Of Steel," Glen Campbell: "This Is A Great Country," Roy Clark: "Oh Suzanna," Leslie Uggams: "Clementine," Doddletown Pipers: "The Declaration." All: "God Bless America."
1970-11-29, NBC, 90 min.
John Wayne and an all-star cast tell the story of America.
Host: John Wayne.
1970-12-16, NBC, 26 min.
Bing Crosby is joined by The Doodletown Pipers, Jack Wild, Melba Moore and the Crosby family in this Christmas special.
NOTE: At 26 minutes into this broadcast the master1/4" tape exhibits audio aberration issues which cannot be corrected.
Only the first 26 minutes of this broadcast can be reproduced.
1971-07-20, WNBC, 52 min.
July 20, 1971-September 7, 1971. This summer variety hour was hosted by the Carpenters- sister Karen and brother Richard- and also featured trumpeter Al Hirt, singer Mark Lindsay, comics (Tom) Patchett and (Jay) Tarses, and the New Doodletown Pipers.
1971-07-27, WNBC, 52 min.
July 20, 1971-September 7, 1971. This summer variety hour was hosted by the Carpenters- sister Karen and brother Richard- and also featured trumpeter Al Hirt, singer Mark Lindsay, comics (Tom) Patchett and (Jay) Tarses, and the New Doodletown Pipers.