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#11467: 20TH CENTURY-FOX HOUR, THE

1957-09-04, KNXT, 60 min.

October 5th, 1955- September 18th, 1957 (CBS)

One of the first television ventures by 20th Century-Fox, this hour dramatic anthology series alternated on Wednesdays with The US Steel Hour for two seasons. Peter Packer produced the series and Joseph Cotton hosted it during the first season.

This Episode: " The Great American Hoax," by Paddy Chayefsky, adapted by Devery Freeman.
Ed Wynn portrays a 65-year-old devoted printer who is automatically retired from his firm. Feeling dejected and unwanted, John Hodges retires to the park where he hits upon a daring plan. In order to regain his job, he decides to impersonate the mysteriously remote president of his former company. (Film).

Cast:
John Hodges- Ed Wynn
McKinley- Walter Abel
Alice- Kathleen Crowley
William T. Stinson- Conrad Nagel
George- Jesse White
Della- Peg LaCentra
Joe Elliot- Jerry Paris
Paul Erikson- Richard Deacon
First Chess Player- Harry Ruby
Second Chess Player- Benny Rubin

SELECTIONS FROM ORIGINAL GRAY AUDOGRAPH DISC RECORDINGS, RECORDED OFF THE AIR, REPRESENTING SEVEN CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF KNXT LOS, ANGELES BROADCASTING, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 THRU 7, 1957.

These LOST CBS broadcasts represent an unprecedented one complete week, sign on to sign off, September 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1957 (130 hours on 130 8 & 1/2" diameter discs with a capacity to record 32 minutes per side (side one and side two had the potential capacity to record 64 minutes).

These discs were obtained in Los Angeles by Phil Gries, creator and owner of Archival Television Audio, Inc. in 2011. They were originally found in an establishment, located in Burbank, California, selling old records dispersing its inventory as they went out of business, a few years before.

The rarity of this type of media to record television is not known to have occured beyond a few incidents, as stated below, at any other time, which make this collection of TV Audio Airchecks, recorded on Gray Audograph discs, an amazing surviving artifact.

The sound quality varies with different broadcasts. After a period of almost three years, processing and digitizing these 130 two sided discs, there is recognition of the rarity of some of these broadcasts providing one of a kind surviving Television Audio Airchecks and are extremely desirable regardless of some of the extraneous sound artifacts heard on some of these tracks which were painstakingly processed and transferred one by one to optimize the sound quality and proper pitch.

NOTE:

To listen to a seminar Phil Gries presented at an ARSC presentation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 2014, about these Gray Audograph Discs...their genesis, discovery and contents, go to the ATA website www.atvaudio.com and click on ARSC which can be found within the right column on the ATA Home Page.

GRAY AUDIOGRAPH (1946 - 1976)

History:

The Gray Audograph was a dictation disc recording format introduced in 1946 by the Gray Manufacturing Company in the United States. It recorded sound by pressing grooves into soft vinyl discs, like the competing, but incompatible, SoundScriber and VoiceWriter formats.

Audiograph discs were blue thin plastic flexible discs, recorded from the inside to the outside, the opposite of conventional phonograph discs. Another difference compared to phonograph discs (78, 45, 33 & 1/2) was that the audiograph was driven by a surface-mounted wheel, meaning that its recording and playback speed decreased toward the edge of the disc (like the Compact Disc and other digital formats), to keep a more constant linear velocity and to improve playing time.

The mandatory speed variation correction requires playback on an Audograph player, which ATA possesses and has modified, allowing line out output connections, direct line, to the input of any other recording format device.

Gray Audograph discs were available in three different sizes. The 6-inch diameter disc offered 10 minutes of recording time per side, the 6 & 1/2" disc offered 15 minutes per side. The
8 & 1/2" disc, which is extant in the ATA archive, offered 30 minutes of recording per side.

ALONG WITH THE DICTABELT RECORDER, A GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER MACHINE CAPTURED THE ACTUAL LIVE SOUNDS RECORDED OF GUN SHOTS AT THE TIME OF THE JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION. THESE AUDIO SOUNDS WERE USED IN THE REVIEW BY THE UNITED STATES HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS.

THE GRAY COMPANY CEASED MANUFACTURE OF THE GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER IN 1976.

#7229: JACK BENNY PROGRAM

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1960-11-06, CBS, 00 min.

October 28th, 1950- September 15th, 1964 (CBS)
September 25th,1964-September 10th, 1965 (NBC)    

Jack Benny's half-hour show mixed variety and situation comedy with a company of regulars: Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, announcer Don Wilson, Dennis Day, Mel Blanc, and Mary Livingston.

#952: EMMY AWARDS:16TH ANNUAL

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1964-05-25, WNBC, 94 min.

Hosts for the sixteenth annual Emmy Awards are Joey Bishop in Hollywood and E.G. Marshall in New York. Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore introduce this special telecast. Humorous excerpts from past Emmy Award telecasts are played. A galaxy of celebrities appear including Danny Kaye, Hugh Downs, Chet Huntley, Rod
Serling, Patty Duke, Jane Wyatt, Carl Reiner, David Janssen, Jerry Paris, James Franciscus, Dean Jagger, David Frost, John Daly, Don Defore, Shirley Booth, Tom Gries, James Drury, Roberta Shore, Polly Bergen, and Mel Brooks who with Reiner does a "2000 Year Old Man" skit. Other personalities appearing include Inger Stevens, Richard Deacon, Gene Barry, Ruth White, Zina Bethune, Shirl Conway, Garry Moore, Jack Klugman, Vince Edwards, Shelley Winters, Nat King Cole, Johnny Carson, Milton Berle, Lorne Greene. The cast from "That Was The Week That Was," Elliot Reid, Nancy Ames, Pat Englund, and David Frost satirize the 1963-64 television season. Jack Benny presents the Emmy Award for Program of the Year, "The Making of the President." Mel Stuart and David L. Wolper accept the award.

#10555: GYPSY ROSE LEE SHOW, THE

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1966-12-05, SYN, 8 min.

1965-1967 (SYN)

Thirty-minute talk show starring host, Gypsy Rose Lee.

Gypsy Rose Lee, who is generally credited with introing the idea of gab as an adjunct of peeling, is still talking on this ABC-TV syndicated strip now being distributed by Seven Arts. 
This show debuted on KGO-TV in San Francisco (the station that produces it) in April and was picked up by KABC-TV in Los Angeles
a month later and is now on WBKB-TV Chicago. 
Miss Lee is a greatly uninhibited and somewhat undisciplined hostess, both factors which provide the best and worst of the show. She's quite well-informed and widely experienced and has a considerable knack of showing interest in and contagious appreciation of her guests.

Guests: Woody Allen, Richard Deacon.

#15467: MOTHERS-IN-LAW, THE

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1967-12-24, NBC, 29 min.

September 10th, 1967-September 7th, 1969 (NBC)

A half-hour sitcom about two next-door neighbors whose children intermarried. It starred Eve Arden, Roger C. Carmel, Richard Deacon, and Kaye Ballard, Desi Arnaz was the executive producer of the series and occasionally made appearances as bullfighter Raphael del Gado.

#5103: BOB HOPE SPECIAL, THE

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1969-09-22, WNBC, 52 min.

Some of Bob's fellow comedians join him for an hour of comedy.

#8790: MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW, THE

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1972-04-20, SYN, 90 min.

1963-1982 (SYNDICATED). Mike Douglas hosted one of television's longest-running talk shows (19 years). Each week Douglas was joined by a different co-host. In 1967, "The Mike Douglas Show" became the first syndicated talk show to win an Emmy Award.



Broadcast from 1963-1978 in Philadelphia
Broadcast from 1978-1982 in Los Angeles

Co-Host: Connie Stevens

#5457: STEVE MARTIN: COMEDY IS NOT PRETTY!

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1980-02-14, WNBC, 52 min.

Steve Martin's second comedy special.

8 records found for Richard Deacon

#11467: 20TH CENTURY-FOX HOUR, THE

1957-09-04, KNXT, 60 min.

#7229: JACK BENNY PROGRAM

1960-11-06, CBS, 00 min.

#952: EMMY AWARDS:16TH ANNUAL

1964-05-25, WNBC, 94 min.

#10555: GYPSY ROSE LEE SHOW, THE

1966-12-05, SYN, 8 min.

#15467: MOTHERS-IN-LAW, THE

1967-12-24, NBC, 29 min.

#5103: BOB HOPE SPECIAL, THE

1969-09-22, WNBC, 52 min.

#8790: MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW, THE

1972-04-20, SYN, 90 min.

#5457: STEVE MARTIN: COMEDY IS NOT PRETTY!

1980-02-14, WNBC, 52 min.