TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JOHNNY CARSON, THE {ANNIVERSARY REEL} (TV)
Summary
Highlights of this compilation tape include: Johnny Carson as a little girl is questioned by Ed McMahon; Carson and Charlton Heston recite limmericks; Jack Webb gives a capsule version of a "Dragnet" script; Carson portrays an elf at the feet of the Jolly Green Giant; Carson is given a massage by two bikini-clad Japanese women who walk on his back while Don Rickles makes sarcastic comments which ends in a splash-fest; Carson does a series of commercial spoofs, including one for Bleer detergent, contrasting the whiteness of Ku Klux Klan members' sheets (one being worn by Sammy Davis, Jr.); Carson portrays a scientist who experiments with his own concoction and turns into Tiny Tim; Carson gets into a fistfight in a Wild West saloon; Carson spoofs espionage series in a sketch entitled "Mission Improbable"; in a filmed segment, Carson flies with an aerobatic airplane pilot. The compilation ends with Carson in various costumes he has worn on the show (no sound for this segment).
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: September 15, 1970
- RUNNING TIME: 0:34:15
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: B:02497
- GENRE: Comedy
- SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy
- SERIES RUN: N/A
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Johnny Carson
- Ed McMahon
- Sammy Davis Jr.
- Charlton Heston
- Paula Prestiss
- Tiny Tim
- Jack Webb