This is incredible. Thought I was the only one who remembered this show. Just started watching. I remember the Jerry Lewis appearance.

I watched thus as a 1st grader. I love it. Thise girls are funny and sweet!

@clarencesmith3522

5 ай бұрын

It wasn't their fault the show failed them.

Television hit the skids with this! Genius in the 1950s with live tv dramas like playhouse 90, etc. and mindless crap like this decades later! Amazing!

I can just see Varney and Altman doing a few lines after the show going; man that Carson sketch was gold! we really stuck it to the man!

Fun fact: The Lost In Space robot was originally approached to be on the show, but he read the script and said “Danger!! Danger!!” and refused. So they went with Robbie. True story.

I'm surprised the footage still exists. I must have heard this song every day of the summer of 1980.

Jim Varney would become a HUGE star just a couple of short years after this and become Earnest P. Worrell...haha. he was still living here in Lexington also then. I've never heard of this show wow. Im loving seeing all these old shows. I wish they would upload more that incredible shows.

Originally telecast on April 4, 1980. This was the last show scheduled before NBC "pulled the plug" (the final show wasn't seen until its release on home video several years ago).

Jerry doing his attempt at humor from anger, it doesn’t work. Alice, sad, sad…a shell…

oh, so that's the legendary elephant story Mark Evanier wrote about lol

Generally considered the absolute nadir of network tv. I mean Jerry Lewis, Robby the Robot, Alice Cooper, Red Buttons, and two Japanese ladies who had no idea what they were doing/saying? Pink Lady, who were huge in Japan before the show, returned home to dwindling popularity.

This show was so awful that even the tape tried to eat itself . . . . .

@markchoma9822

4 жыл бұрын

lol

@alfonsogreen2722

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao ctfu

@fromthesidelines

Жыл бұрын

😆

I saw this show live. I was a alice cooper fan and was mad they just show a video from him and he wasn't really on the show although it was advertised as this weeks guest

@carolyns4519

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly good for him, he didn't have to suffer the embarrassment of actually coming on hehe! But yeah, that had to feel like a ripoff for the live audience.

@philipdefibaugh5683

2 жыл бұрын

So there was actually a video for clones? I thought this video for Clones was an exclusive to the show.

@tshea413

Жыл бұрын

He is singing live over the backing track, so maybe a “live” video for distribution to tv outlets?

@fromthesidelines

Жыл бұрын

Fred Silverman wanted "big name guest stars" to appear on the show. In some cases- as with Alice Cooper- they weren't available to tape the show itself.......so concert footage or music videos were used at the last minute.

@MdlAgedHeadbanger

4 ай бұрын

@@philipdefibaugh5683 That's a lot of early videos. Acts either couldn't make it to the show or didn't want to so they would film a performance and send it over for broadcast. Tom Petty covers it in the book I Want My MTV. They were asked to play Refugee on Merv Griffin but they had no interest in doing the show. They filmed a video to give to the show for broadcast. He said the video was filmed with the intent of one broadcast then never seen again.

Special guest appearance by Robby the Robot.

@fromthesidelines

Жыл бұрын

By 1980, Robby had become the world's most famous robot after his appearance in "Forbidden Planet". He was seen on *dozens* of TV shows over the years.......

"I am a dog. I am a man. I'm a dog-man; the Dogman of Chamonix! Ahwooooooo!!!" - Jeff Altman

@fromthesidelines

Жыл бұрын

"He *must* be. Look at him beg."

Red actually worked with the girls well. He has charisma with them. The problem is the poor writing that this show had.

@fromthesidelines

Жыл бұрын

Don't think the writers didn't try. Rudy DeLuca- who was the show's "comedy consultant" for a time- was frustrated Mie and Kei couldn't speak a word of English- but at least he had Sid Caesar help him with the sketches he did with them in the three shows Sid appeared on. Mark Evanier, Rowby Goren and Jim Brochu have also related just *how* tough it was to create comedy material for them, and to interact with Jeff. For this appearance, Jerry Lewis insisted on using his own comedy material {he didn't trust anyone else to write for him when being a guest on other programs}.

Pink Lady and Jeff have been talked about more after their cancellation then they ever got when it aired. There is a J-Pop group today called Black Pink.

@becomingwoman7257

2 жыл бұрын

Black pink is KPop

@wecontrolthevideo

2 жыл бұрын

@@becomingwoman7257 I stand corrected, I was thinking of “Perfume”

They should have gotten Bette Midler as a special guest. She was so good when she guest starred on the CHER show! These girls are funnier than Cher!

@fromthesidelines

Жыл бұрын

Bette was too smart to appear on the show. 😉 Or perhaps she *was* asked, and politely declined.

40:00 Jim Varney, Pre Ernest.

It's interesting to see a pre Ernest Jim Varney

8:08- ....and Doritos are *still* the best-selling tortilla chips today!!!!!

Perhaps I can fill in an educated guessing tech staff for this special since it was done at KTLA/Golden West: Unit Managers BRETT CRUTCHER, JIM ZRAKE Technical Director ROB OBERBILLIG Audio KEN BECKER Video DICK BROWNING, MATT ZADROGA Cameras HARVEY CLAVON, GREG COOK, DAVE HECKMAN, BRUCE OLDHAM, GARY WESTFALL, GEORGE WOOD

Very rare show, but boy is this a lousy recording!

@fromthesidelines

Жыл бұрын

Home VHS recording {six hour mode}.

@lovesvegas

Жыл бұрын

@@fromthesidelines There ya go!

@fromthesidelines

Жыл бұрын

Fortunately, the original master tapes of the series exist (no commercials, through).

Pink Lady, with intro wardrobe by Ace Frehley. Damn this show was terrible. To think this and Galactica 1980 were on at the same time. 1980’s TV started off with a whimper.

Horrible! A low for all involved!

I love Mei and Kei! And the song MONSTER!! But the opening sketch is awful. And. Why did vhs tapes have those lines and skips during the first few seconds of recording?!

What year was this?

@thezenitsufan1249

3 жыл бұрын

1980

53:51 - Is that Mark Linn-Baker in the GE commercial?

@fromthesidelines

Жыл бұрын

Nope.

@FerdinandCesarano

Жыл бұрын

​@@fromthesidelines - Are you sure? The guy who takes a photo of himself sure looks like good old Cousin Larry.

@fromthesidelines

Жыл бұрын

He may LOOK like Mark, but I believe it's not him.

Jerry, you’re not a singer. Got it?

@fromthesidelines

Жыл бұрын

That didn't stop him from recording two albums for Decca in 1956 and '57. 😏

Thank God I never heard of or watched this show

@fromthesidelines

3 жыл бұрын

It lasted five telecasts, during March and April 1980.

God, this show sucked!