Vic Mizzy - Phyllis Diller Show [REMASTERED STEREO] The Pruitts Of Southampton TV Theme Songs 1966
Ойын-сауық
Vic Mizzy was your go-to for those favorite, jaunty, comedically arranged TV themes you've always loved. After The Addams Family went off the air, that production company moved on to this show ABC's "The Pruitts of Southampton" (1966) - now remastered in sparkling Dyna-Stereo! READ MORE...
Vic Mizzy's music was everywhere, however, today's audiences may only hear his distinctive arrangements and music themes and cues in reruns of The Addams Family and Green Acres.
"The Pruitts Of Southampton" attempted to create a vehicle for stand-up comedienne Phyllis Diller to evolve into the next Lucille Ball.
The first season was called "The Pruitts Of Southampton" - and Vic Mizzy toyed with a new theme on some season enders. When ratings proved real bad, the second season became "The Phyllis Diller Show" with Addams' Family star John Astin taking on a role with Phyllis - and the "CLOSING THEME 2" became the new theme to the second season. The show ran from 1966 to 1967.
Of note, after this show's production, the theme to "The Phyllis Diller Show" would be re-used to the theme of "The Don Rickles Show" - which also didn't last long on television.
Of the many shows Vic Mizzy composed themes for, there are many forgotten ones such as:
Kentucky Jones
Temperatures Rising
Vic Mizzy also scored many Don Knotts comedy films of the 1960s including:
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
The Caper of the Golden Bulls
Did You Hear The One About The Traveling Secretary?
The Spirit Is Willing
The Love God?
Don't Make Waves
How to Frame a Figg
This restoration includes AI music stem tracks re-mixed with the mono source film soundtracks.
From wikipedia:
The Pruitts of Southampton is a situation comedy that aired during the 1966-67 season on the ABC network. The show was based on the novel House Party (1954) by Patrick Dennis. It was ABC's attempt to turn female stand-up comic Phyllis Diller into a sitcom comedienne very much in the wacky style of Lucille Ball.
The program starred Diller as Phyllis Pruitt, and featured Gypsy Rose Lee and Richard Deacon in supporting roles with Diller feeling the series was an inverted version of The Beverly Hillbillies. The show's producers originally sought comic actress Beatrice Lillie in the Diller role. Exteriors of the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina were used as the locale.
In 2002, TV Guide ranked it number 20 on its TV Guide's 50 Worst TV Shows of All Time list.
Premise
The Pruitts, a supposedly incredibly wealthy family living on Long Island in the Hamptons, have been approached by the Internal Revenue Service about overdue taxes. An audit revealed that the Pruitts were in fact broke. Rather than reveal this fact publicly and cause the economic depression which would presumably result, an improbably charitable IRS allowed them to continue living in their mansion and maintaining the pretensions of great wealth, which was difficult given their reduced circumstances. By mid-season, in order to raise more money, Phyllis Pruitt had opened the mansion to boarders, attracting a "nutty" collection of tenants as well, a group that included Paul Lynde as her hopeless brother, John Astin as her brother-in-law, and Marty Ingels as a handyman.
In the premiere episode, Phyllis Pruitt unsuccessfully tries to roast a turkey in a front-loading washing machine.
Development and history
The show was created by executive producer David Levy, who also served in the same capacity on the ABC television series The Addams Family from 1964 to 1966. When ABC canceled that show in the spring of 1966, a few Addams Family alumni were recruited for the Diller series. Vic Mizzy, who composed the finger-snapping theme song to The Addams Family, composed the musical theme for Diller's show as well.
According to Television magazine, The Pruitts of Southampton finished 77th among the 91 shows rated during the 1966-1967 season. It began the season airing on Tuesdays, opposite The Red Skelton Hour on CBS, which finished second in the ratings.
On January 13, 1967, with the episode "Little Miss Fixit", the program changed its title to The Phyllis Diller Show. John Astin, who played Gomez Addams on The Addams Family, joined the cast the same month, and the show began airing on Fridays. In addition, the series marked a reunion for Astin and Marty Ingels who had starred in the 1962-1963 ABC-TV sitcom, I'm Dickens, He's Fenster.
In the fall of 1968, NBC signed Diller to a weekly variety series hoping that the comedian would have the same kind of success that Carol Burnett had achieved for the rival network CBS. The program, entitled The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show, did poorly in ratings and was canceled after three months.
![The Flintstones Sing! - "Rise and Shine" Season 1 Theme Song [REMASTERED in STEREO!] - Hoyt Curtin](/img/d.gif)
Пікірлер: 48
I remember watching this show & the theme song made me laugh every time! Phyllis Diller was a killer!! 😂🎉❤
Vic Mizzy, the master of light, bouncy, and catchy themes.
I was just barely past kindergarten. I loved the show but of course it only made posterity in those “Worse of All Time “ lists and books . Phyllis Diller was a mega comedian and a natural .
@musicom67
4 күн бұрын
And I never saw it! Was never syndicated in NYC as far as I know.
I REMEMBER THIS SHOW I WAS 11. I LOVED IT THEN IT WAS GONE. SO NICE TO HEAR THE THEME SONG. SUCH NICE HAPPY MEMORIES 😊 RESPECTFULLY, FRANK
Loved the show and the clever theme song goes through my head constantly.
I never even knew about this show!
That Dyna-Stereo makes all the difference!
@randallkoch6215
9 ай бұрын
I also liked how back in the day, when they introduced some programs they would say, "In Color".
Your remastering of classic TV themes are fantastic!
How dcha do,my dear! What a lovely surprise to find this here! Great fun show! Too bad it didn't catch on. Believe exteriors were filmed at BILTMORE 🏰 💋
Good cast and good guest stars couldn’t keep it from being a lemon.
Phyllis Diller would do such as great job playing the part of Judge Aileen Cannon, the one whose slow walking the Trump's stolen documents case. I can just imagine Phyllis Diller giving her signature laugh while playing the part. With the new technologies, who knows?
Came back to enjoy this once again. Looking at credits see Eleanor Audley 🎉 great character actress who I believe did voice overs for Disney as well as numerous TV appearances! Also believe Phyllis live used to refer to her clothing being designed by PAUL of Pasadena and ? Hair styling by Mr Phyllis!
@randallkoch6215
9 ай бұрын
Eleanor Audley played Oliver Wendell Douglas' mother on "Green Acres".
The first song reminds me of the reluctant astronaut theme
Had to change the name, evidently there were some actual Pruitts who objected.
@musicom67
4 ай бұрын
Fun story, but think it was more the ratings sucked and they brought John "Gomez" Astin in to save the show, which he couldn't. Phyllis ain't no Morticia.
@jbp60
Күн бұрын
You are wrong. The show was failing and it was changed mid season with new cast members and a less fanciful name (and new theme music) in the hope of attracting a bigger audience but the efforts did not work.
This is one of those shows (It's About Time comes to mind) that probably looked wonderful on paper. The premise has plenty of comedic possibility (see Schitt's Creek), Phyllis Diller was a popular and talented comic at the time, and the production company had been very successful with The Addams Family. What could go wrong?
@musicom67
2 жыл бұрын
More I researched this it went through name changes, cast changes (John Astin) end credit theme changes 😄 then poof...
@robertorick6383
Жыл бұрын
@@musicom67 Many TV critics weren't too kind to the show either. They thought that the Pruitt's "IRS" storylines were preposterous. ABC TV had enough patience to let the show last nearly 30 episodes before pulling the plug in 1967.
@sharksport01
Жыл бұрын
It was Gunsmoke, nobody could compete with it.
@robertorick6383
Жыл бұрын
@@sharksport01 Neither could 'Gilligan's Island". It got cancelled in 1967 because CBS boss Bill Paley and his wife loved "Gunsmoke" and wished to keep it in it's time slot.
@David-yw2lv
5 ай бұрын
It was a big disappointment.Phylliis Diller didn't like it either.
Loved this show when I was a kid. Can we see a clip of Gypsy Rose Lee in it?
Very nice, thanks for sharing this. Does anybody know which house was used for the opening shots?
@musicom67
2 жыл бұрын
Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina
@sashineb.2114
2 жыл бұрын
@@musicom67 Thank you so much! BTW, have you ever wondered where the house is that they used for the opening of Maude? I've found an article with the address if you're interested.
Anybody notice that Phyllis’s costumer was, “Omar of OMAHA”?! That must be a joke. Those must be Diller’s own outfits.
The reason Phyllis Diller laughed like that: She was gone to a card game. The old man caught him eating in bed. He reminded the boy what his mother said. ????? You know, like this.
@user-oq5bv8ue4c
2 ай бұрын
I saw an interview with her, and she said that was her real laugh.
Dyna-Stereo hasn't quite got human vocals yet; it just sounds like they're in a tunnel.
@musicom67
9 ай бұрын
Yeah, you had to find one I didn't feel like iso'ing the vocals. It was about the music - but touche.
I wonder what happened to costume designer Omar Of Omaha . . .
Omar of Omaha. Has to be a joke.
@musicom67
2 жыл бұрын
I thought so too...I'd researched it. It was really fashion-designer Gloria Johnson's label - for real. Blame her for Phyllis' wild fashions.
Too bad the only things missing are the Filmways "Globe" logos.
@musicom67
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, don't ya know. They weren't attached to the clip. I like things complete too. Cheers.
You forgot The Pruitts. That was the working tittle of the show and the theme was very different, Yet great.
@jbp60
Күн бұрын
The Pruitts IS the opening and closing themes heard here followed by closing music only when it was retitled The Phyllis Diller Show.
Miss Dillers Wardrobe by Omar of Omaha (According to credits). Is that a joke?
@musicom67
5 ай бұрын
Google it. She was a real designer!
@geoffreyfox9801
3 ай бұрын
It was, and it wasn't. Oamr was a lady designer who did clothes for Phyllis!
Although I was just a kid, the annoying cackle at the start of the theme was a turnoff. I literally turned down the volume when the theme played but watched the show itself. It wasn't a very good show, but hey, we were kids and there was nothing else on TV we could watch at that time slot. It passed the time while my brother and I played with our toys in the den.
@musicom67
Жыл бұрын
I'd never seen the show until KZread... This was not syndicated in NYC ever that I recall as a kid of the 70s...
@jbp60
Күн бұрын
It was never syndicated in the US. It was last seen in 1967 on ABC.