FROM RAQUEL WITH LOVE {MICKEY ROONEY, JAMES COCO} (TV)

Summary

A musical variety television special hosted by Raquel Welch.

Highlights include: an opening sketch featuring reporters accosting Welch at an airport; a scene featuring Welch and Mickey Rooney, portraying a cab driver with seemingly magical abilities, implied to be an angel of some sort; a scene featuring Welch in a subway station performing a medley including “Broadway,” “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” “Latin From Manhattan,” and a dance version of “Take the ‘A’ Train”; a scene wherein Welch attempts to get an apartment via an intimidating interview, performing “Money Makes the World Go Round”; Raquel performing a version of “We Are Family” in a scene made to resemble a martial arts training class; Rooney and Welch performing “Heaven on Earth”; Welch performing “Don’t Rain on My Parade” while escaping from a straitjacket; a scene taking place in an otherworldly penthouse apartment with Welch and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Welch performing “A Quiet Thing”; and Welch and Rooney performing “They Can’t Take That Away from Me.” Commercials deleted.

Details

• NETWORK: ABC
• DATE: November 23, 1980 8:00 PM
• RUNNING TIME: 0:42:00
• COLOR/B&W: Color
• CATALOG ID: B:79918
• GENRE: Music/Variety
• SUBJECT HEADING: TV - Music/Variety
• SERIES RUN: ABC - TV, 1980
• COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

• André Weinfeld … Executive Producer, Writer
• Gareth Davies … Producer
• Dee Baker … Associate Producer
• Tony Charmoli … Director, Choreographer
• Raquel Welch … Writer
• Peter Matz … Music by, Conductor
• Raquel Welch … Host, Performer
• Mickey Rooney … Performer, Guest
• James Coco … Guest
• Douglas Fairbanks Jr. … Guest