Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Monday, September 1, 2008
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Alan King (1987)
I have a rare and obscure pre-fame Alan King LP that I'll be posting at some point in the next few weeks.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Friday, August 22, 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
Sunday, August 17, 2008
The 25,000 Pyramid with host Bill Cullen and guests William Shatner and Joanne Worley (1978)
Shatner plugs this cornball LP at the start of the show. You'll notice that his "space gun" is actually an upside down tripod. Also, if nothing else - skip to the 8:50 mark for Joanne Worley's clue.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Friday, August 15, 2008
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
What's My Line with mystery guest Danny Kaye (1957)
To keep this site from being overwhelmed by the sudden glut of What's My Line mystery guest spots flooding YouTube, I will only be embedding those featuring famous comedians or full episodes when they appear.
Wheel of Fortune (1976)
The sound ain't great but it's interesting to see an episode of Wheel of Fortune from 1976 hosted by a young Chuck Woolery (who looks like a Jack Burns character). I don't blame you if can't sit through the whole thing. I didn't.
Monday, August 4, 2008
What's My Line with panelist Groucho Marx (1959)
Groucho spars a bit with Bennett Cerf's failed attempts at humor and laborious rambling (as did Henry Morgan every now and then). By the way this is the 1000th post on Classic Television Showbiz and probably the 500th with questionable grammar.
The Doris Day Show featuring Rose Marie and McLean Stevenson (1968)
I can't believe they let Doris on national television with such an awful tan. This is a two-parter, but you'll have to wait a little bit to see the next installment of this episode as simultaneous Guba embeds really fack with the formatting of this blog for some reason.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Thursday, July 31, 2008
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1965)
A rare color episode of Ozzie and Harriet - and although the colors bleed - it isn't a colorized episode. This was near the end of the show's run.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Suspense starring Bob Hope (1949)
Paul Frees announces that Bob Hope stars in this week's episode of that greatest of radio dramas: Suspense. The episode Death has a Shadow. Bob plays it straight and intense like... for one of the few times in his career. Listen.
The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1971)
Generally I rely on YouTube and occasionally Guba, Veoh, GoogleVideo and Dailymotion for the videos posted on Classic Television Showbiz. I've avoided popular sites like AOLvideo and Hulu because they are not available in Canada - and i'm not about to embed something that I myself can't even watch. However, I recently discovered a way around that and if you are using a computer outside the United States like me then you'll want to go here and figure out what you need to do to watch these videos. It's remarkably simple. After you've done that you'll not only be able to watch this episode of The New Dick Van Dyke Show, you'll also be able to watch several full - mostly high quality - episodes of Adam 12, Dragnet '68, Chico and the Man, The Dick Van Dyke Show, McHale's Navy, The Barney Miller Show, The Bob Newhart Show, The Partridge Family, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant, Starsky and Hutch , F Troop, Lost in Space and several others on AOL and Hulu. Unfortunately you do have to sit through a preliminary thirty second advertisement and the odd middle thirty second ad when watching them - so make sure you have your computer's mute button close at hand. Also, once you install the AnchorFree software it'll prompt you to "choose a sponsor" but it's fairly harmless, it will just create a small ad box at the top of your page that you can easily close by clicking on the 'x'.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
What's My Line with guest one of the guys who played Bozo the Clown (not Larry Harmon) (1969)
I posted the first half of this here before but now game show YouTuber AdamNedeff has posted the second half and it's interesting. It features the guy who just appeared as Bozo the Clown without his make-up. Not sure if this is the only episode of What's My Line in which the exact same guest appeared as the challenger in two consecutive installments.
Friday, July 25, 2008
What's My Line with mystery guests Robert Mitchum, Rhonda Flemming, Charlton Heston, Van Johnson, Fred Astaire, Eva Gabor, Mamie Van Doren etc.
I know it has kinda been the What's My Line/Hollywood Palace hour here at the site of late, but I'm kinda at the mercy of what appears on the internet in a given week and this just what's been popping up. I wish the YouTubers would just post the entire episodes of What's My Line as I don't get GSN, and even if I did, I have a lot of trouble sitting through their endless commercials.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Shelley Berman (1984)
Berman is almost unrecognizable in one of his rare times doing stand-up on eighties TV.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
Sunday, July 20, 2008
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Diary of a Musician featuring Jack Carter and Fraser Macpherson (1967)
A Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary chronicling the life of a band leader at Vancouver's then premiere supper club The Cave. Once upon a time Vancouver was a cool showbiz mecca of sorts, the testing ground for the new acts of crooners and comics before they opened in Vegas. Sadly the town is a mere shell of its former self these days.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Away We Go with George Carlin (1967) - Footage Offline - 10/12/10
Here are three different segments from the 1967 summer replacement Away We Go featuring George Carlin. Away We Go was named after Jackie Gleason's catch phrase as the program was the summer replacement for The Jackie Gleason Show. It was Carlin's first full time television job and he worked as a featured performer and staff writer. When the Gleason program returned in the fall, Carlin was set up easily to make a pair of stand-up performances.
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