The Mike Douglas Show with guests the Happy Days cast

The Mike Douglas Show with guest Donna Summer (and Gabe Kaplan)

I always prefer finding clips of music acts on old talk shows being interviewed rather than just seeing them perform. Here we have disco diva Donna Summer on The Mike Douglas Show in 1977. The panel includes Gabe Kaplan nodding in silence with the rest of the Welcome Back, Kotter cast.

The Mike Douglas Show with guest Moe Howard - Footage Offline - 10/20/07

This is one of Moe Howard's final appearances on television as he died not too long after. Seventies icon Ted Knight is here as Mike's week long co-host and we also see an appearance from Soupy Sales! From June 8, 1973 and September 11, 1973.

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The Mike Douglas Show with guest Patrick Duffy

Most know him from Dallas, younger folk may remember him from a sitcom he co-starred in with Suzanne Sommers called Step By Step. This is long before any of that. Of all The Mike Douglas Show footage sitting out there in the netherworlds, why is this one of the only things we can come up with? Jesus.

If you really care to continue with Duffy, then follow these links where you can watch part two, part three, and part four.

The Mike Douglas Show with guests Moby Grape

The Mike Douglas Show from 1971. Forgotten actress Lois Hunt is sitting on panel before the set by psych-rockers Moby Grape. Douglas introduces them as The Moby Grapes and also accidentaly cuts them off prematurely. The group featured the Jefferson Airplane's original drummer Skip Spence, who we see here good and blurry. The band broke up not long after this appearance.

The Colgate Comedy Hour with guest Buddy Rich - The Jerry Lewis Telethon with guest KISS

Drumming legend Buddy Rich and Jerry Lewis battle it out in 1955 on this episode of Martin & Lewis' Colgate Comedy Hour.

Looking at this site you might guess that I'm some kind of crazed KISS fantatic. Nothing could be further from the truth. There just happens to be a lot of footage on the internet of KISS in classic showbiz environs. Here is KISS making a brief plea on the 1979 Jerry Lewis Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy!

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson: Stump the Band (1975)

A nice couple minutes of "stump the band," from a 1975 episode of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Eventually Carson and the crew would only do this segment when they had a guest cancel at the last minute.

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson - Late Night with David Letterman - with guest Albert Brooks - Footage Offline 6/06/08

Here we have a pair of Albert Brooks appearances. One on Late Night with David Letterman in 1985 and the other on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1991. Albert Brooks, brother of Super Dave Osborne, was also the son of Parkyarkarkus, a comedic character on the old Eddie Cantor radio show.

Follow this link to listen to some of his classic comedy LP, Comedy Minus One on The Generation Exploitation Podcast.

Albert Brooks' real name is Albert Einstein, Super Dave Osborne's real name is Bob Einstein, and their father's real name was Harry Einstein. Probably the craziest thing about Albert and Bob's show business father was his death. He died in the greatest old timey showbiz way imaginable. In 1958 he succumbed to a heart attack at a Friar's Club Roast of Lucille Ball. He sat at the dais next to Milton Berle and collapsed into Berle's lap. Now that's showbiz, baby.