WFLD-32 America 2 Night 1978

[@ajn465]

Great work preserving these.

[@davidstein9129]

Thanks for posting this video. This is is absolutely hysterical.

[@keithcrampton1438]

I FORGOT HOW WONDERFUL THIS SHOW WAS BECAUSE I WAS WORKING MY ASS OFF FOR AMERICA!

[@jamesdamico9284]

Remember looking forward to watching this every night back while I was in high school Just brilliant . Wish more people new about it

[@fletchkeilman2205]

They would show it on nick at nite when I was little. I always thought Martin Mull was funny as hell

[@jeffdawson2786]

Before I had a VHS player, I taped most of these on cassette, listening to them so many times like a radio show that I memorized them. Frank DeVol’s band was incredible.

[@frankmoyer5822]

I recorded every episode of Star Trek on reel to reel. I had two black and white TV. One had no picture and one had no sound.

[@djmaverick12]

Really? 😲 Me too.

[@keithcrampton1438]

WE LOVE BARTH GIMBEL AND JERRY HUBBARD BECAUSE THEY ALWAYS MAKE IT A PARTY

[@frankmoyer5822]

So glad to see Charleton Heston had a real sense of humor.

[@kengeorgejones6855]

Loved this show. RIP Fred Willard.

[@danbrennan7348]

Hey dick, er Richard weed. Waddabout C. Heston? Huh, huh? Died St.Helen, Michigan.

[@elizabethkummerle6933]

Thanks so much for posting..have never gotten enough of martin since i saw him perform with his traveling furnature

[@johnevans5434]

Simply brilliant!

[@hklinker]

This and Fernwood 2-Night were very early send ups of tv talk shows. Cable tv hadn’t made it too far in 77-78.

[@driloc]

It was difficult seeing Mull without Willard after this! You could trace this humor back to Bob & Ray, and the Smothers Brothers! SCTV also fit the format! RIP Mr Mull....Thank you for the laughs.

[@cosmogoy1895]

I'LL TAKE JERRY HUBBARD OVER ALL THE LATE NITE TALK IN 2022.....

[@jajajuju2034]

Fox news considers this a serious talk show.

[@tommythevenot7617]

CNN considers this high brow entertainment.

[@ethnographic1]

It is

[@kurtb8474]

This is MSNBC's main source for their news.

[@andrewa9694]

how did they get a big name like Charlton Heston?

[@sclogse1]

Cocktail party friends.

[@LATVERIAN1]

Heston was a fan of the original show.

[@Musicradio77Network]

This doesn’t have the TAT logo, but it’s nowhere to be seen, but it’s hiding somewhere.

[@i-a-g-r-e-e-----f-----jo--b]

That was amazing, thanks for posting!

[@kc0lif]

Charlton heston

[@suemick8709]

Program consultant Harry Shearer in the credits.

[@JeffBostick222]

Somehow the talent on here reminded me of the Gong Show

[@PogoQmcmi]

The first late-night show to lampoon late-night shows. "Fernwood 2 Night" and "America 2 Night" were summer replacements for "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" and it's successor "Forever Fernwood". I used to watch this show regularly, although I didn't catch a lot of the dry humor at the tender age of 13. Seeing it now gives me a whole new appreciation of the great writing, the excellent characterization of Martin Mull and Fred Willard, not to mention the genius of Norman Lear (these shows were his brainchild). Truly a classic!

[@ShmuckOnWheels]

Exactly the same here. The summer of 77, I was 12 and my cousins turned me on to The Gong Show then Fernwood 2 Night. I missed a lot of the humor but still laughed my ass off at the easy goofy stuff. Watching it now takes me back while appreciating all the things that went over my head. I could watch this all day and night. But good God, the commercials...

[@PatrolOfficer161]

Never forgot the humor of this show. Charlton Hestom was quite a sport for doing this.

[@fletchkeilman2205]

WFLD 32....Is that Chicago? So it was taped off a late night showing?

[@larryaldrich4351]

Delicate content for 1978 with an epidemic in the near future.

[@jimjoe9945]

Strange they would have that perverse conversation with those kids there. Even though they're acting. I guess hollywood has always been hollyweird.

[@jamieschmidt939]

First episode from Mon. 4/10/78

[@tahoepoet]

America2Nite, but Fernwood2Nite ran dozens of episodes in 1977.

[@tahoepoet]

Hey-y-y-y-y, they shorted those kids 25 seconds! Watch! 2 good 2 last ! ooh... this one IS offensive! (enjoy 'em whilst U can!)

[@willisknapick4405]

Kids are still there. Hope their brains are still intact! I mean the kids at the other end of the couch of course.

[@MrMatteNWk]

Produced by Jason Seaver and program consultant Principal Skinner

[@l.a.gothro3999]

Barth Gimble and my dad had the same taste in clothes. Problem is, my dad was 20 years older than him back then.

[@mikeyg8002]

As funny as the Jerry Hubbard character was , they gave him far too much to do in America 2night, which threw the show off balance and made it a little too irritating. I think that’s why it never lasted longer than a year. Because looking back on this and on Fernwood 2night, these were groundbreaking. Everything that came after it copied it, including Letterman, especially Conan O’Brien… What a great show this was.

[@InFamousProductions]

they recycled the gong show

[@gusbuss1]

Anyone have the rolletti sherwood wedding?

[@micmac99]

Classic. Have not found this yet on KZbin Did NOT appreciate the humor at the age of eight.

[@525Lines]

The nighttime 32 lineup was pretty excellent. Saturdays? I kind of think this came on before midnight special.

[@georgemaster9979]

Pure cheese!

[@NevalstersTelevisionOddities]

Henlo

[@lpdog82]

what the hell were those little kids doing there listening to these men talk about all that stuff, wild for 1978

[@darrylh1971]

OVS: Did you just remove the 1978 Y&R episode you uploaded recently?

[@kengeorgejones6855]

Unfortunately those tend to be taken down very quickly by KZbin. I hope he may put up some other soap material though...

[@margaretgarnto6272]

Do you have the America 2 Night episode with Vincent Price as a guest star? I would like to see that episode on KZbin, and I hope and pray that it won't get deleted. Yours truly, Margaret Garnto.