THIRTY YEARS OF TV COMEDY'S GREATEST HITS: TO LAUGHTER WITH LOVE (TV)
Summary
This two-hour salute to television comedy spans the years 1950 to 1980. Highlights include the following topics, people, and programs: "The Overture of Laughter" mimed by Dick Van Dyke and Howard Hesseman; a definition of laughter by Van Dyke; "The Dick Van Dyke Show"; "The Bob Newhart Show"; "The Honeymooners"; "Make Room for Daddy"; "Maude"; Carol Burnett; Sid Caesar; Ernie Kovacs; Burns and Allen; sex on television; Bob Hope with soldiers in Korea; Flip Wilson and Bing Crosby; Carl Reiner on writing comedy; "Benson"; "Mr. Ed"; "Chico and the Man"; "The Andy Griffith Show"; "Barney Miller"; "The Jeffersons"; Ed Wynn and Buster Keaton; Richard Pryor; "The Tonight Show"; and "Laugh-In." Reiner concludes the program with a presentation of the "Golden Dozen" television comedies. Includes commercials.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: November 25, 1980 Tuesday
- RUNNING TIME: 1:55:27
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T82:0256
- GENRE: Comedy
- SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy; TV - History; African-American Collection - Comedy
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV, 1980
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Alan Landsburg … Executive Producer
- Merrill Grant … Executive Producer
- Ed Simmons … Producer, Writer
- Dawna Kaufmann … Associate Producer
- Meris Powell … Associate Producer
- Michael Stokes … Associate Producer
- Norman Abbott … Director
- Buz Kohan … Writer
- Arnie Kogen … Writer
- Tom Waldman … Writer
- Irma Kalish … Writer
- Aaron Ruben … Writer
- Carl Reiner … Writer, Host
- Bea Arthur … Host
- Jane Curtin … Host
- Howard Hesseman … Host
- Dick Van Dyke … Host
- Gracie Allen
- Beatrice Arthur
- Carol Burnett
- George Burns
- Sid Caesar
- Bing Crosby
- Bob Hope
- Buster Keaton
- Ernie Kovacs
- Bob Newhart
- Richard Pryor
- Flip Wilson
- Ed Wynn