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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
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