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REDD FOXX SHOW {A.K.A. REDD FOXX} {BILL COSBY, SUZANNE SOMERS, RED BUTTONS} (TV)
Summary
One in this comedy/variety show hosted by comedian Redd Foxx. This episode’s guests include comedian Bill Cosby, actress Suzanne Somers, and comedian Red Buttons. Highlights include: a sketch featuring Somers as a flower shop clerk and Foxx as a customer; a piano-themed dance number; a sketch involving Foxx and Cosby as competing typewriter salesmen; a “nonviolent” sketch parody of the “Godfather” film series; a sketch entitled “Alphonse and Victoria,” featuring Foxx as one half of a contentious married couple; Cosby and Foxx as “The Dude and the Zootsuiter”; “Redd’s Corner,” featuring Buttons performing a comedy routine; and a doctor sketch gone awry due to a mix-up in sets. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: 1977/11/xx
- RUNNING TIME: 0:58:21
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: B:56911
- GENRE: Comedy/Variety
- SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy/Variety; African-American Collection - Comedy
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV series, 1977
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Redd Foxx … Executive Producer, Writer
- Allan Blye … Producer
- Bob Einstein … Producer
- Garry Blye … Associate Producer
- Donald Davis … Director
- Pat Proft … Writer
- Leonard Ripps … Writer
- Andrew Johnson … Writer
- Levi Taylor … Writer
- Stuart Birnbaum … Writer
- Matt Neuman … Writer
- Joe Shulkin … Writer
- Henry Wallace … Writer
- Lester Wilson … Choreographer
- Redd Foxx … Host
- Bill Cosby … Guest
- Suzanne Somers … Guest
- Red Buttons … Guest
- Bill Saluga … Cast, Ray J. Johnson
- Cathy Chase … Cast
- Bob Einstein … Cast
- Marilyn Joy (audio id only) … Cast
- Jo Marie Payton … Cast
- Velma Pelish (audio id only) … Cast
- Nancy Steen … Cast
- Slappy White … Cast