Insight with special guest star Albert Brooks (1968)

Classic Television Showbiz's Late Late Show: Riot on Sunset Strip (1967)

Hits-a-Poppin (1967)

The Love-Ins featuring Joe Pyne (1967)

The Joe Pyne Show with guest Paul Krassner (1967)

The Mae Brussell Show with guest Paul Krassner (1972)

This is Al Capp feautring Gilbert Sheldon and Spain (1970)

The Merv Griffin Show with guests Dennis Hopper and WIllie Mays (1971)

This - like so much talk show footage of its era - is compelling as heck. I could watch talk show footage from 1965 through 1975, every day, all day and never get bored. Man, can you imagine a cable channel with nothing but Paar, Cavett, Douglas, Griffin and Carson reruns? Throw in some Tom Snyder, Les Crane and Joe Pyne for good measure? This footage is of particular interest for you adherents of Peter Bisskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (which should mean all of you). Dennis Hopper talks about the reception of his notorious The Last Movie and interacts awkwardly with a panel that includes James Brolin, Willie Mays and Diane Baker. What a trip, man.

The David Frost Show with guests Jerry Rubin and the Yippies (1970)

Tragedy or Hope (1970)

Watch out, America. The hippies are coming!

Feast of Friends - Jim Morrison and the Doors (1970)

Firing Line with guests Ed Sanders and Jack Kerouac (1968)

This is almost too much to handle.  

The Huntley Brinkley Report (1970)

The Lawrence Welk Show (1969)

For the season opener, Larry Welk tries to hip(pie) it up for the kids.

Democratic National Convention on NBC sponsored by Gulf Oil (1968)

The Phil Donahue Show with guest Jerry Rubin (1970)

Donahue was rather wise to question the sincerity of Yippie Jery Rubin in this interview. Just six years later, Rubin cleaned himself up and joined Wall Street rejecting his former life as a Yippie. Ironically, Donahue would come to emulate the anti-war politics that Rubin was somewhat of a poster child for in the late sixties. "Let's not be afraid of ideas," says Donahue near the end of this episode. Phil was extremely perceptive. Rubin occasionally makes some valid points, unfortunately, as Donahue noted, they were rather short on sincerity - and high on obnoxiousness. Read Rubin's yuppie treatise Growing Up at 37 (1976, Warner Books) for more on his transformation into a Ronald Reagan Republican.

Frost on Sunday with guests Jerry Rubin and various Yippies (1969)