More on this so-close one:https://thelandofwhatever.blogspot.com/2020/03/forgotten-tv-marty-feldman-comedy.html
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 May 2024 00:31 (four weeks ago) link
https://psychotronicpaul.blogspot.com/2007/02/greatest-tv-comedy-you-never-heard-of.html
https://www.metv.com/lists/12-forgotten-summer-replacement-tv-series-of-the-1970s
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 May 2024 00:34 (four weeks ago) link
Could have sworn Helen Reddy's show lasted longer.
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 May 2024 00:35 (four weeks ago) link
I must have heard "Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)" dozens of times during those eight episodes that summer.
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 May 2024 00:36 (four weeks ago) link
Was trying to recall The Hudson Brothers, had forgotten about their timeslot switcheroo.
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 May 2024 00:37 (four weeks ago) link
I was a big fan of the Hudson Brothers at age 6 but only of their Saturday morning “Razzle Dazzle” incarnation.
Almost sure I watched the Tony Orlando and Dawn one.
Joey and Dad sounds amazing. Unfortunately missed that one.
― Josefa, Saturday, 4 May 2024 00:45 (four weeks ago) link
Tony Orlando and Dawn became a "real" show and ran for three seasons I think.
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 May 2024 01:02 (four weeks ago) link
Sort of remember Joey and Dad. Would like to think Morbs would have remembered it. I still laugh to myself about something he once said about Joey.
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 May 2024 01:03 (four weeks ago) link
here
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 May 2024 01:05 (four weeks ago) link
Feel like this sort of interesting topic is running aground quicker than I’d like due to the slim pickings available here. This stuff doesn’t seem too well preserved or documented.
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 May 2024 01:10 (four weeks ago) link
Also finally noticed typo in thread title
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 May 2024 06:21 (four weeks ago) link
Doodletown Pipers mentioned upthread is now permanently associated with this Simpsons line for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU4MTfxY8X0
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 5 May 2024 16:26 (four weeks ago) link
Doodletown Pipers wiki page mentions that they also appeared on a Carpenters summer replacement show called Make Your Own Kind of Music.I have no real recollection of this show, especially the alphabet gimmick.
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 May 2024 22:33 (four weeks ago) link
If you need more names and vague remembrances:
http://www.tvparty.com/variety3.html
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 May 2024 01:50 (three weeks ago) link
That was great, thanks!
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 May 2024 02:17 (three weeks ago) link
Or should I say, Ken Berry WOW!
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 May 2024 02:18 (three weeks ago) link
WOW!! Now that's the kind of lame-ass variety show I spent my late teenage years avoiding like the plague!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 6 May 2024 02:55 (three weeks ago) link
lol, I had no idea so many '70s AM gold one-hit wonders had their own attendant short-lived variety series. Thank you for this eye-opening journey.It looks like it may have dropped in spring rather than summer, but I will nonetheless use this space continue my campaign to spread awareness of The Hanna Barbera Happy Hour, which is one of the most profound examples of coke psychosis I've ever seen on network television.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mstOiiJKHQQ
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Monday, 6 May 2024 10:58 (three weeks ago) link