Old School Late night TV

[high fly]

<p><font size="2">Anyone remember chip Monk's program? Seems to me he'd have people on there and they'd be stoned and still try to show that even being bombed, they could have a decent conversation.</font></p><p><font size="2">Then there was Tom Snyder and Sammy Davis Jr's shows.</font></p><p><font size="2">I used to love ol' Tom, always trying to be everyman, and always making mention of the crew, as in, &quot;I was talking to cameraman Bob about this the other day...&quot; and also when he'd bunch up those massive eyebrows when trying to make a serious point.</font></p><p><font size="2">With Sammy, he'd break into that wheezing laughter, move like a blind man and stomp his feet at the slightest amusing line. He'd also proclaim guest after guest was his &quot;Main Man.&quot;</font></p><p><font size="2">And let's not forget David Suskind, who would have on all kinds of oddballs and he'd treat them seriously and respectfully.</font></p><p><font size="2">And then there was Kirschner and Wolfman, and how we'd sit through one insipid act after another&nbsp;to see Black Oak Arkansas or or Slade....</font></p>

[PapaBear]

I used to love Tom Snyder. I was a huge fan of Charlie Rose, too. I remember when Rose interviewed Charles Manson. That interview freaked me the Hell out!

[Don Stugots]

<p>for me late night TV was,</p><p>as a kid:&nbsp; the odd couple, the honeymooners or Johnny Carson</p><p>as a teenager:&nbsp; Nick @ nite</p><p>now: sleep&nbsp;</p>

[WhistlePig]

I used to watch Tom Snyder, too! I have the episode on dvd when Johnny
Rotten was on talking about his new "company" called P.I.L. What a little ass
he was!

I would stay up late for Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, hoping they'd have
someone good on. I'd also listen to Dr. Demento on the radio in the middle
of the night -- what a great show that was!

And remember the show "Fridays" with Michael Richards and Melanie
Chartoff?

[PapaBear]

<strong>WhistlePig</strong> wrote:<br />I And remember the show &quot;Fridays&quot; with Michael Richards and Melanie Chartoff? <p>I had a HUGE crush on Melanie Chartoff.</p>

[mendyweiss]

When &quot;High Flight &quot; would come on and the t.v would turn off and become snow, I felt I was the last person alive still awake !! Touch the face of God !!!!

[riverofpiss]

<p>Not very old school but I loved The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn.&nbsp; He was the funniest man on TV while he hosted that show.</p><p><a onclick="return fitsInWindow();"><img src="http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/8315/craigkilbornpg5.jpg" border="0" alt="img256/8315/craigkilbornpg5.jpg" title="Click to visit ImageShack for Image Hosting!" width="182" height="218" /></a></p>

[epo]

<p>Big fan of Tom Snyder.&nbsp; I'll occasionally even joke about &quot;firing up a colortini&quot; and watching the pictures while they flew through the air!&nbsp; The incredible thing was he had that Midwestern-boy disarming quality that allowed him to drag some darn good interviews out of his guests.</p><p>Damn...I'm starting to sound like the Blowhard now!&nbsp; </p>

[Chigworthy]

There was some show called &quot;Night Flight&quot; or something.&nbsp; I think they occasionally played skits featuring that play-doh catastrophe Mr. Bill.

[WhistlePig]

I just remembered some other shows I'd watch late into the night when I
was a kid -- especially in the summer. Reruns of "Then Came Bronson" with
Michael Parks, "Private Secretary" with Ann Southern and "Emergency" with
the lovely Randolph Mantooth.

[babydiaz]

I loved the Oddcouple/Honeymooners combo as a kid.

[Judge Smails]

<p>SCTV</p><p>Up All Night with Gilbert Gotfried or Rhonda Shear</p><p>Mystery Science Theater 3000</p><p>Skin-e-max movies</p><p>Scrambled Wometco Home Theater channel</p>

[tele7]

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[riverofpiss]

<strong>Judge Smails</strong> wrote:<br /><p>SCTV</p><p>Up All Night with Gilbert Gotfried or Rhonda Shear</p><p>Mystery Science Theater 3000</p><p>Skin-e-max movies</p><p>Scrambled Wometco Home Theater channel</p><p>All great picks!</p>

[Wallower]

<p>night after night with allan havey</p><p>lancelot link (secret chimp, da na naa)</p><p>mst3k </p>

[SinA]

Night&nbsp;After&nbsp;Night with Allen Havey.&nbsp; I was too young to really get it, but I could tell it was good.

[Judge Smails]

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[Fat_Sunny]

<p><font size="2">Yeah, Fat Loved Saturday Night TV.&nbsp; There Was Dance Fever (With Denny Terrio And Motion), And Then Late, Late&nbsp;Was Don Kirschner's Rock Concert, But In Between Was The Best TV Show Ever!</font></p><p><font size="2"></font></p><p><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000H6SY1O.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="500" /></p>

[Brooklyn Stroonze]

<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;<img src="http://www.planetshowbiz.com/floyd/images/hohum1.jpg" border="0" width="635" height="537" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/images/640/kennyeverett_3.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="480" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://sctvguide.ca/episodes/images/sctvcast_season1.jpg" border="0" width="380" height="359" /></p>

[Fat_Sunny]

<font size="2">Uncle Floyd!?!?!?&nbsp; That Is Soooooo Jersey!&nbsp; You Probably Also Watched <strong><em>Steampipe Alley</em></strong> With Mario Cantone; Fat Did!</font>

[A.J.]

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

<p><img src="http://www.joefranklin.com/joe.jpg" border="0" width="260" height="214" /></p><p>The Joe Franklin Show&nbsp;</p>

[Furtherman]

<p>This was a local Philadelphia show but does anyone remember Saturday Night Dead?&nbsp; Hosted by Stella, &quot;the maneater from Manayunk&quot;.</p><p><img src="http://www.goulfinger.com/goulha2.gif" border="0" width="100" height="125" />&nbsp; </p><p>She would show cheesy B horror movies but also do wacky skits.&nbsp; I loved it!</p>

[drusilla]

night stand with dick deitrich

[ralphbxny]

I loved the honeymooners!!

[high fly]

<p><font size="2">There was one flick they used to show on &quot;Night Flight&quot; I liked. It was called <em>Jekyl and Hyde, Together Again.</em></font></p><p><font size="2">Seemed like they only showed that one or something called <em>Country Man</em> that had this black fella wearing nothing but a loincloth runnning up and down hills along dirt roads in Jamaica.</font></p><p><font size="2">David Suskind was an acid trippers dream, what with some of the charaters he would have on. He had quite a bevy of transsexuals as guests, as well as the first gay&nbsp;NFL player to come out of the closet. He played for your Washington Redskins, lessee who can get it without cheating...</font></p>

[lintpit]

<font size="2">I used to sit on the stairs and watch <em>Mary Hartman,Mary Hartman, SWAT, and Charlies Angels. My parents thought they were way too racy for my impressionable young mind.</em>I used to like SCTV ande FRIDAY. The best skit ever ...young Bees at summer camp. The other and perhaps favorite was Georgia Championship Wrestling on TBS.</font>

[J.R.]

<p>What I really remember was the old local commercials. Especially the early 80's . Stuff like those Coronet Baby Furniture commercials with those two brothers and their mother. Their catch phrase was &quot;And no talking Orangutans!&quot;. Others were those for Puppy City in Brooklyn&nbsp;, Brothers 3 Pools, The Pocono Gardens Lodge&nbsp;or Petland Discounts.</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by J.R. on 2-19-07 @ 5:12 AM</span>

[tele7]

<p><img src="http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/images/cd/large/Love_American_Style_SM11250.jpg" border="0" width="300" height="300" /></p><p>If you remember it, the theme song will be stuck in your head for a while.&nbsp;</p>

[legroommusic]

<p>I remember after Showtime at the apollo they had a show called &quot;qwik witz,&quot; an early form of whose line is it anyway which featured wayne brady then there was a show with lorenzo lamas called &quot;dancin' to the hits&quot; which had scantilly clad dancers dancing to 70's/early 80's tunes. I don't know if anyone stayed up that late. </p><p>Also friday the 13th series without jason, instead a redhead and her cousin in a cursed antique shop was on late at night. I liked that show and the highlander.&nbsp;Highlander was good on fox, then it moved to CBS and became too &quot;channel 2ish.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[lleeder]

<font face="wingdings,zapf dingbats" size="3">I miss when television would end or if you woke up too early all you saw was that test pattern thingy</font>

[StupidGirlllll]

<p><font size="3">when i used to wake up in the middle of the night to the TV on I would love to watch old medical shows like Emergency Room, or marcus welby MD. I discovered the man from U.N.C.L.E. on late night tv</font></p>

[J.R.]

<strong>babydiaz</strong> wrote:<br />I loved the Oddcouple/Honeymooners combo as a kid. <p>Good Call on that one. That was a great hour of tv on WPIX channel 11 in the late 70's</p>

[johnniewalker]

<strong>drusilla</strong> wrote:<br />night stand with dick deitrich<p>&nbsp;I just looked this up on imdb.&nbsp; I used to watch this every night. &nbsp; It was so hilariously stupid, but great.&nbsp; </p>

[hedges]

<hr color="cococo" align="left"></font><strong>SinA</strong> wrote:<br>Night&nbsp;After&nbsp;Night with Allen Havey.&nbsp; I was too young to really get it, but I could tell it was good.<hr color="cococo" align="left"><p></p>

I thought this show was great. Another show I used to watch when I was younger, living in D.C. in the 70s, was called "Creature Feature" on channel 20. They showed old horror movies.

[BACH16207]

<strong>Alice S. Fuzzybutt</strong> wrote:<br /><p><img src="http://www.joefranklin.com/joe.jpg" border="0" width="260" height="214" /></p><p>The Joe Franklin Show&nbsp;</p><p><font size="2" color="#333399">The Best Sleep Aid Ever Made. I would watch this and be a sleep before the first break.</font></p>

[BLZBUBBA]

My favorite TOM SNYDER show was when he had that dolt Willard Scott on with special musical guest...THE PLASMATICS. He and Willard were going ape-shit when Wendy O Williams broke out a chainsaw and started cutting this baby-doll in half while singing "BUTCHER BABY...OH YEAH!"