I miss variety shows!- Page 3

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 2:14pm

Artscallion, isn't that a very young Debralee Scott?



madbrain---Love it!

Here's more Captain & Tennille!

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 2:17pm

Tina Cole was one of The King Cousins, and she was on My Three Sons. I remember, all the King Cousins (inluding the boys), doing a wonderful job with The Telephone Hour, from Bye Bye Birdie.

Anyone else remember when Carol Burnett would spoof The King Sisters, and the camera would pan down all these blondes (including Harvey in drag), and one of them would be Isabel Sanford, in a blonde wig? Very funny.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 2:18pm

Speaking of Burnett...
Here she is tearin' it up with SAMMY!

[madbrian]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 2:19pm

Elaine Stritch on The Dean Martin Show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqZnq0Poufo

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 2:24pm

JB2---for you!

It's the groovalicious King Cousins!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PkaSQIHn24A

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 2:32pm

The Jackson 5 on the Carol Burnett Show!

Their outfits are priceless. Orange and Brown.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=l8d3abOsHr4

[blueroses]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 2:37pm

Everything was orange and brown!

There were bad variety shows, too. Remember The Brady Bunch Hour?
Updated On: 11/5/07 at 02:37 PM

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 2:40pm

My all time FAVORITE.

The variety show to END all variety shows.

Literally.

And...

Here's another vid with a very young Janet Jackson and her brother Randy tap-dancing as Shirley Temple and Bojangles!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=c4VC7ZarROk

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 2:42pm

Thanks b12b, that was great. They really were groovalicious, weren't they?

[artscallion]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 2:42pm

And the Bradys had a fake Jan because Eve Plumb wouldn't participate.

Updated On: 11/5/07 at 02:42 PM

[LaurenB]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 2:49pm

This brings back memories.
The King Cousins doing The Top Twenty.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 2:51pm

Those damn Brady girls never got it together...Jan wouldnt do "The Brady Bunch Variety Hour" Cindy wouldnt do "A Very Brady Christmas" and Marcia wouldnt do "The Bradys"...so sad!

[blueroses]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 2:56pm

And Bobby married Martha Quinn!

[DG]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 3:03pm

I really want the Julie & Carol specials on DVD!

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 3:05pm

No love for Pink Lady and Jeff?

[blueroses]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 3:06pm

doodle, who the hell are they?!

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 3:12pm

They were one of the biggest flops in tv history...basically killing the genre. In 1980, a show was put together for a pair of pop singers from Japan known as Pink Lady...they were brought over, contracts were signed, etc....but they DIDNT SPEAK ENGLISH! So a hyper comedian named Jeff Altman was hired...I barely remember it, but I do remember it ended with the three of them in a hot tub before the credits.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 3:15pm

I remember them well, but yeah, no love for them, at all!

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 3:17pm

I dont remember this:

[blueroses]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 3:28pm

David Copperfield looks like Brendan Fraser in that drawing!

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 3:30pm

and you can see pink lady in the back...in the "oh" so short shorts....1980.

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 3:38pm

That's the best ad EVER.

I remember the Big Show. 90 minutes of WTF!?!

...and "much more!"

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 3:46pm

Dont forget that summer replacement (LOTS of bad stuff on in the summers) was "The Starland Vocal Band Show" with ...oh no...Jeff Altman again!!
David Letterman appeared and was a writer:

[BigFatBlonde]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 3:50pm

I miss them too!

Loved Shields and Yarnell!

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 4:06pm

Jeff Altman was kinda hot.


...in an "I shouldn't think he's hot" sort of way.