Pioneers of Television series on PBS

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gsabc · #1 Post by **gsabc** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:14 pm

For those of you who haven't seen this, it's a series about early and not so early television shows. Each episode has covered a different genre - sitcoms (Lucy, Dick Van Dyke, Danny Thomas, Andy Griffith), late night talk shows (Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson, some interview bits with the Reeg, Joey Bishop's partner), and today's was variety shows (Ed Sullivan, Red Skelton, Flip Wilson, Carol Burnett, etc.). The shows, unfortunately, are light on substance - how can you do justice to those four sitcoms in a one-hour show, for instance? - but the clips and anecdotes are fun.

The reason I'm telling you all this is that the last episode, scheduled for next week, is on game shows. Jack Narz, Art Linkletter, Betty White and Peter Marshall have already appeared in interview comments about some of the other subjects. They showed a preview clip tonight with a black-and-white Bill Cullen.

In Boston, it's on at 8 PM. Check your local listings, as they say, for the timing in your neck of the woods.

mellytu74 · #2 Post by **mellytu74** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:10 pm

We are watching and enjoying the series very much.

gsabc · #3 Post by **gsabc** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:30 am

mellytu74 wrote:We are watching and enjoying the series very much.

Me, too. I break up every time I see that Carol Burnett sequence with Tim Conway talking about the Siamese elephants. "HNORK!" Just wish they'd had time to show it to the even more hysterical ending.