Woody Allen Bob Hope Tonight Show 1971

[@Davett53]

Its 2023 and Wow, in...1971,....I was a sophomore in high school, learning to protest the war in Vietnam, checking the girls out in their mini-skirts, beginning to wear bell-bottom trousers, and learning to roll joints. Good times!

[@subversivelysurreal3645]

‘I just resent you saying that you write, direct, produce, and star…’cause I think you’re silly. Who’re you gonna blame?’ great timing, and so much fun watching Woody Allen with someone he really admired. and laughing…it just occurred to me that i never saw Woody laugh before.

[@sethwiseman1017]

Wow. I’ve never seen Woody so in awe of anther person. He worships Bob Hope.

[@reaganwiles_art]

W.A. is surely one of the funniest people I've seen on TV. His ad-lib is outrageous.

[@dirtydave2691]

He is sharp as heck. He and Bob Hope spar pretty good. I never realized they were close professionally.

[@FranktheTank70]

You should let him babysit your daughter.

[@markmcgowan5656]

He is not funny at all

[@jamesmack3314]

@@markmcgowan5656 apparently you have a low or nonexistent sense of humor to say that

[@rickmag321]

@@jamesmack3314 I agree. Unless he’s just trying to be intentionally controversial…. but if not, I agree with your comment

[@jamesmack3314]

I don't care about all the BS that revolves around Woody...the man is funny,super talented,and never boring.....he's entertained me for almost 50 years so long live Woody!! Ps...Play it again Sam is hilarious

[@brettsanders616]

Yeah I agree I think he's getting a bad rap Mia not being totally honest imho

[@davidamigos.davidamigosnwa4522]

Brett Sanders sure. Just review the facts.

[@johnboy6594]

Agreed

[@carlo2384]

@@davidamigos.davidamigosnwa4522 to what facts are you referring?

[@5piecekit]

Play it again is one of my favorite movies. Btw ( I'm no longer at 415- 348- 5421.... I'm now at 510-452- 5412. Lol!! )

[@ChadQuick270W]

Superb!! Anything from the New York Tonight Show is very rare. Thanks so much for sharing this with us 👍

[@timothyrogers3673]

johnny must have really been impressed to let woody host the tonight show in 1971.

[@DiegoGils]

I am here because I'm reading Woody Allen's book in 2021. ANYONE?

[@SuperC888]

Apropos of Nothing. Just finished his audiobook today!!

[@Gregorskorino]

Yeah!

[@redmed10]

Bob Hope and woody on the same show. Doesn't get much better than that.

[@Patrick-il4es]

"If you come from a broken home, it's a family picture."

[@vanglover6030]

I loved seeing this Tonight Show episode from 1971 with the commercials that were part of the broadcast.

[@justinherbert9146]

Woody with his hero Bob Hope -- Woody really admired many of Bob's films and his performances - I wish they had done the entire show with just Bob because Jimmy Coco was overbearing -- I worked with Woody and he was really a very nice guy to the cast and the crew, very down to earth and likable.

[@SelfReflective]

"Dubonnet - it all started in France; where else?" - Priceless!

[@subversivelysurreal3645]

there were so many ads that the USA just doubled it’s coronaviris deaths.

[@subversivelysurreal3645]

yeah, i thought that was illegal on tv back then, but it was the raw meat that stunned me the most. (i wasn’t’ aware that Lipton sold it in a box.)

[@SelfReflective]

@@subversivelysurreal3645 You think the meat was raw? I don't know, maybe they dehydrated it or something.

[@SelfReflective]

This was 45 years ago, watching this, the show and the commercials is like time-travelling.

[@billduris464]

"Bufferin goes to your head faster than aspirin."

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Letterman sort of kept this going.

[@jessewolf7649]

Now 52 years!

[@jessewolf7649]

@@RideAcrossTheRiverno

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@jessewolf7649 Yes, very

[@geniusmchaggis]

i LOVED the guest host days! WOODY ALLEN hosting the tonight show? wow. john and yoko guest hosted mike douglas for an entire week back in the 70s...can you imagine?

[@BabyFaceBren]

imagine, lol

[@evanwolf6618]

Co-hosted

[@carlo2384]

I believe it was Dick Cavett not Mike Douglas.

[@bobtaylor170]

@@carlo2384 , no they co - hosted Mike Douglas' show.

[@geniusmchaggis]

@Mike Schwinn VERY COOL mike.. .im old enough to have seen it but i was too busy to watch daytime TV (mike douglas) at that time... yes they did... the gov bugged his phone.. but john fought back ... and won... i suspect that YOKO was the brain... SHE knew what to do . i suspect that it was SHE that organized the governmental processes that resulted in john being accepted as a green card citizen... after all SHE is a multi-billionaire today... she aint no slouch as a capitalist wheeler dealer....

[@amv7m]

What a wonderful show, guests and host. So funny, so natural and light hearted. They’re all funny with such ease. Truly “the good old days.”

[@dovegrey1]

Aha! Vindicated! My brother and their wives think I'm crazy when I said there was a "GP" rating BEFORE there was a "PG"...and I remember the "M" rating as well for "Mature", which I guess was perhaps a forerunner for "PG-13" , since Woody talks about "Take the Money and Run" being an "M" instead of an "R". Love the opening graphics---I was too young to watch it in '71 and didn't get to watch until after Johnny moved to the West Coast. This is such a treat! Back when talk shows were great and took longer than an hour...too much rushing with guests and when the guests (even if they weren't "famous", Johnny had a lot of fun with the potato chip lady, etc.).Thanks for including old ads--so fun. What a great episode!

[@acousticshadow4032]

Wow, what scintillating convo goes on at your house...zzz

[@subversivelysurreal3645]

Woody voice, ‘…yeah-I-don’t know if you’re aware of it, well obviously not, but they invented this thing a few year ago, it’s called: Google.’

[@dovegrey1]

@@subversivelysurreal3645 Ooo, get the aloe vera, I done been burned twice! Geez, you'd think people would have something better to do with their time, but this being the internet, anonymity allows others to show off and lord it over everyone. Thanks, I knew about Google, but I also knew about these ratings waaay before that service existed since I love movies and trivia that goes along with it. Have a great day!

[@MartinSage]

Thanks Bob for all your USO shows.

[@matthewakian2]

This is such a treat, seeing Woody and Bob together.

[@robertpoen5383]

Hope rudely interrupts Woody and steps on his lines several times because Woody always got much bigger laughs.

[@rickmag321]

@@robertpoen5383 I don’t agree. It is the hosts role to let the guests have the priority to be funny. And I believe Woody when he says that he basically idolized Hope

[@sethwiseman1017]

Very clearly Woody does. He has talked about Hope many times and you can especially see the influence in his early comedies.

[@theselector4733]

This was a GREAT Show. And as a bonus I learnt how to make beef stroganoff.

[@FlixMr]

Wow two absolute LEGENDs

[@BuckyBrown-lt4ry]

No, just one. And he is on the left.

[@tubularbill]

Woody Allen has always said his comedic hero was Bob Hope.

[@tacomadc]

Woody wrote a lot of jokes for Bob when he was barely 20 years old.

[@flaggerify]

tubularbill Definitely used the cowardly hero trope.

[@davidamigos.davidamigosnwa4522]

bassdoc really? Did not know that.

[@BuckyBrown-lt4ry]

@@flaggerify No one, no one, played that type of character better than Hope in his day.

[@flaggerify]

@@BuckyBrown-lt4ry Agreed! The Cat and the Canary being a highlight.

[@jchow5966]

This was terrific!!! Thanks!

[@rudyrobles1296]

I wish they had a Woody Allen film festival in Austin.

[@publicaccount1589]

interesting to see woody allen when he had all this energy and everything was to come.

[@Geovrz]

Truly

[@laurencegoldman4639]

Did you see that 747 Coach lounge on American Airlines spot? How far we’ve come.

[@kennethlatham3133]

What a difference a box-cutter can make, huh.

[@Handletaken4]

Christians have nice things

[@rifham]

Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Europe . Remember seeing that commercial when I was a little kid. For years I thought "on Broadway" was a Hungarian song.

[@jchow5966]

Wow!!! This is epic cutural history/entertainment!!! Thank you!!

[@chrisfreeman9960]

These early '70's '"Tonight Show" recordings are so fascinating, because they're so rare. Carson had a revolving group of substitute hosts for years, and I don't know if those shows were ever shown in reruns. Carson's shows were definitely shown in reruns. So if the programs where the guest host was shown only once, it would that show a real rarity. And then ask: WHO had home taping devices in 1971? Virtually no one. This program was either gotten from a network copy, or was recorded on a very early home taping device. As far as I knew, home taping devices began to appear in the mid-'70's. And were considered a luxury item until the mid-'80's. I know I've gone on a bit about the history of home taping devices, and not talked about this show itself. But as time went on, Woody got busy making movies, and stopped appearing on television altogether. And eventually Carson only had two guest hosts, period, Joan Rivers and Jay Leno. (And you know how Joan Rivers was eventually excommunicated from Carson's life in every way possible). Which makes these earlier revolving guest host appearances so unique, and rare. Anyway, I thought the show was fascinating. I knew that Woody was a huge Bob Hope fan. I knew that the show would be interesting. He obviously was enthralled by one of his biggest idols.

[@garyrasberryjr.552]

Johnny would rotate a lot of different guest hosts. Joey Bishop (even after Joey had his rival ABC show), David Brenner, John Davidson, Burt Reynolds, Bob Newhart. Frank Sinatra even took to the desk for a show in the 1970s (all the guys - except Carroll O'Connor - wore tuxes). Back then, it was the only thing rolling hot on late night TV (save for Dick Cavett, which was a bit more high-brow than Carson). CBS basically ran movies and reruns after the Merv Griffin late night show went off the air By the 80s, it was Leno, David Letterman (before he got his own show) and Rivers with an occasional star filling in.

[@coyoteboy5601]

Keaton: 'Would you like to perform sex?' Allen: 'I'm not sure I'm up to a performance, but I'd be happy to rehearse with you if you like.' SLEEPER

[@jadentrez]

Did you see Bob Hope say, "Not while I'm talking -- I'll walk off!" when the crew was calling for a commercial break? Woody stepped in with a nice save.

[@paulpitt52]

James Tressler I think he was dead serious about it too.

[@davidamigos.davidamigosnwa4522]

What minute and what save?

[@dirtydave2691]

@@davidamigos.davidamigosnwa4522 25:16.........he seemed a little pissed. "Your all here from Jack Par". As a major employee of NBC (Bob Hope) I bet someone got an ass chewing for that.

[@kenmario6284]

Hope was obviously kidding. He had been in television since inception. He knew that the sponsor is more important than the guest.

[@garyrasberryjr.552]

@@paulpitt52 Bob had carte blanche at NBC (he basically had a lifetime contract and used to have specials on a regular basis). I think he demanded to be the first guest anytime on Carson and then leave midway through a show (usually with the excuse that he had to leave for a performance). Johnny was not fond of Bob because Johnny liked to be spontaneous (great with ad libs) whereas Bob had to stick to a script (Watch some of his USO specials and you'll see the cue cards and woe if someone went off script). It was said that Bob couldn't ad-lib a fart at a baked bean eating contest (He might be able to come up with a few, but the longer things went he got flustered). There's a great radio clip where Groucho Marx was a guest with Bob and was unhappy to be waiting around, so Groucho began to ad-lib and Bob was unable to keep up and get back on track.

[@michellesault7977]

This is totally priceless..way Laughter is good medicine..peace

[@Anthony-hu3rj]

Woody was channeling Dick Cavett through his own idiosyncronicities.

[@andrewfrankovic6821]

Twice as much of the pain reliever that doctors recommend most. More than enough is always the best policy.

[@tonym994]

easy to forget this show was in N.Y..

[@redmed10]

that voice over guy in the adverts must have made milions. great adverts - who knew at one time cakes were good for you and seed tape, wow , the thought just blows my mind.

[@jamesmack3314]

Seed tapes...I prefer chia pets!!

[@mgoldman60]

Woody must have found out he was playing the lead in Play It Again shortly after this program.

[@jamesmack3314]

My all time favorite Allen film...absolutely hilarious

[@northerly86]

Woody is in love with Bob and I love both of them.

[@user-ly8bq3tx5j]

got any thoughts on Dylan ?

[@michaelg1060]

Who wound up here VIA "Play It Again, Bob" from SCTV?

[@RonaldBrown59]

Great show, thanks for sharing.

[@danfuller478]

8:20 Seed Tape. What a concept! Broadcast of May 6th, 1971. James Coco was really wired.

[@lukepate8749]

Thanks for this,love it.Subbed and scribbed !!!!

[@tonym994]

thank you, AA big time. how I could not've seen this is beyond me.back then , if you missed it you;d wait six months for summer reruns.then you pass out. VCR's were not yet around either.

[@1060michaelg]

Tony....People forget that back when we were coming up (I was born in '60) if you missed a show, there was a fairly good chance you would never get another shot. Same for the movies in the big movie palaces (an experience I wish everyone could've had!)...if you didn't catch a movie, which may have had a 2 week run, less if it was a dud, and if a hit it was "HELD OVER 5th SMASH WEEK!" So many movies I missed because I said, "I'll see it on Saturday only to find out the Marquee had another flick playing that Friday. You had to get off your tail and catch 'em before they were gone, usually forever. So many titles from late 60's and early 70's don't even exist anymore, not even on DVD.

[@philmfan]

Major flashbacks watching this. For some reason, ever since I was a kid I've made fun of a German saying "On Broadway" without remembering where it came from. Now I see it must have been from that radio commercial. We never missed The Tonight Show, even on school nights (a very permissive household).

[@1967PONTIACGTO]

Ha! Me too! ond broadvaaaay!

[@gargantuaism]

I'm still stunned the Hostess Cupcake commercial ends with the line "Good nutrition they need"! Were you allowed to say ANYTHING on a commercial back then? OK as for Woody, something very amusing watching him in this hosting position. I love watching old talk shows, notice you don't hear the studio audience screaming in hysterics and applauding like morons after everybody says something? The talk shows today are unwatchable because those dumb audiences are trained to scream and laugh and applaud through the whole damn thing.

[@kennethlatham3133]

THANK YOU! Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who notices that! I've been observing that 💩for years. Try comparing the studio audiences of the original Saturday Night Live in the '70's. If something ain't funny---that audience don't laugh. Apparently, producers realized over the years that it was cheaper to seed the audience by hanging an applause sign and posting a cheerleader, than to hire and maintain competent comedy writers. The first thirty seconds of Kimmel's stupid show sound like a 757 taking off---on the tarmac.

[@jchow5966]

I am still a WA fan. OLAY IT AGAIN SAM is still one of my fave movies. ☮️

[@SHALAt22]

Interesting to include the old commercials.

[@ErnieJJr1476er]

[e-mail] Nugget. We Love Ours Who Grew In Life together In a lonely world ending Amazing Bicentennial Time up to Now, 46yrs till The U.S. 76ers Tricentenial. Wow, Cool Share & Recording 4 Us All from "Thank You" More Alive now & 4evermore.

[@redmed10]

Love the adverts.

[@iizthatiiz]

Original air date May 6th, 1971

[@MrCrispian]

BILLY GRAHAM ANOTHER STRANGE INDIVIDUAL

[@KidMillions]

Great show.

[@josephcalderon906]

Yes, this is first nine years (1962-1971) in downtown manhattan.

[@josephcalderon906]

+Randy Defloon I sit corrected,thanks for corrected me.

[@evanwolf6618]

Mid-Town

[@bonscott602]

I'll always remember Coco's laugh in the new leaf when Matthau told him he was broke.

[@shivasirons6159]

Woody kinda lit up at the mention of 17 year old girls.

[@jamesmack3314]

You know he probably did have a thing for younger girls but so what most people that have a problem with that are hypocrites because let’s face it most older men have no problem thinking about or gawking at younger girls as long as they’re not under age but hell playboy used to have 18-year-old so there you go

[@endtheliesnow5906]

It's funny that Woody said that the family can take the children to see his movie, ""Bananas"" . I remember that the Catholic church condemned the movie.

[@jamesmack3314]

Very funny movie..especially Cosel narrating their lovemaking!!

[@redmed10]

Woody said more about usa politics in that one film than hundreds of books and documentaries by others since.

[@peterschlipf9114]

..when Woody mentioned people were "online" to get in, he didn't mean the Internet, right?:-)

[@christopherallen9580]

what do you think?

[@subversivelysurreal3645]

i learned so much-i never knew that kleenex invented : folding.

[@robertgaunt59]

Most ad lib lines are well rehearsed

[@KenLieck]

This is too funny! I was just watching a clip of Bob Hope guesting on Brock Linehan's "Stars In One" and he was going on about James Coco being fat and how he shouldn't eat so much cuz he looked just like Dom DeLuise! That must have been in response to this or was taped shortly after this -- hilarious stuff...

[@suzukiradical929]

They are talking about Japan. I'm glad😊

[@fionafinch348]

Isn't that Chuck Woolery doing the FAB laundry detergent commercial?

[@kahlodiego5299]

OMG I had those same hot pants.

[@littleripper312]

I like the watermark in the centre of the video covering their faces

[@kennethlatham3133]

What faces?

[@kindablue1959]

Was thinking about how the quality of this video is about as good as it was when I first watched these shows as a youngster, under my blanket on a small 13" TV, with a single earphone, afraid to pull out the TV antenna 'ears' too much so as not to be noticed.

[@Jarek_73]

What a lovely memory, thanks for sharing!

[@TheHandsomeman]

Bob Hope has the strongest American accent ever, yet he is British.

[@bbser]

a very young Chuck Woolery in a very old Fab commercial

[@VickiTakacs.]

The created logo showing repeatedly in the middle of their faces is very annoying.

[@keithperreur-lloyd7844]

HERE HERE !

[@kennethlatham3133]

HEAR HEAR!

[@joannaedwards6325]

Ye s. SO DISTRACTING!!

[@t87699]

What? No politic propaganda, no anti-Republican jokes, no sycophantic audience hysterically screeching every time the host makes an attack? Surely this can't be late night TV.

[@jamesmack3314]

Shocking

[@robertchallen]

And no lame right wing whining

[@kennethlatham3133]

@@robertchallen As opposed to the CLASS ONE, high-octane, professional, pharmaceutical-grade, incessant whining, p*ssing & moaning from Dumbocrats, coast-to-coast.

[@tarnopol]

Bob and Woody get going around 19:30.

[@Rodin99]

the coronet theater, now demolished, so this has to be NYC and I thought by the seventies this was in LA. but the opening graphics show NYC, too .

[@TheDarthEddie]

The Tonight Show moved to California about a year after this show was broadcast. It was recorded in NYC from the Steve Allen years until 1972 then remained in L.A. until Jimmy Fallon took over as host a few years ago.

[@QuaaludeCharlie]

Publishers Clearing House , Big Checks , Balloons , I remember Ed McMahon :) QC

[@SkribbalOfficial]

❤❤

[@knownpleasures]

I wonder did Bob hope use Reynolds Wrap to clean his golf clubs?!?

[@Lisa-di1wi]

Unfortunately in those days, I couldn't stay up that late. I had to get up early for school the next morning.

[@bjsmith5444]

That last guest is very bitter isn't he? Bob Hope didn't come backstage, Woody didn't give him a part.

[@sysuiu4533]

I forgot about the joke that Johnny was never there and always had guest hosts.

[@garyrasberryjr.552]

Groucho had one on the Kraft Music Hall roast of Johnny about. He said he watched the show three times. First time, Jerry Lewis was guest host, second time, Harry Belafonte was guest host and the third time, Groucho was guest host. Groucho said "I've never known Johnny Carson to host 'The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson' We're honoring a man who doesn't show up to work." followed by "He could be Mayor." (Mayor of New York John Lindsay was sitting next to Johnny).

[@spudwas]

WOW, not SCTV with Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas imitating Bob Hope and Woody Allen! Instead, it's the real deal.

[@bonscott602]

I saw a bob hope movie once and it hit me. I thought, am I crazy or was woody influenced by hope? As well as Groucho.

[@Rnyargd]

Aired May 6, 1971

[@maynardsmoreland]

Game show host Chuck Woolery, pre-Wheel of Fortune, at 27:20.

[@jamallugo6544]

and very pre Scrabble

[@paulpitt52]

Truly FAB!

[@kennethlatham3133]

"Naturally Stoned!"

[@joannaedwards6325]

And Chuck was just as handsome in his older years.😜

[@charleswinokoor6023]

Talk about rare.

[@tonym994]

this is a comedy summit. the old guard (Bob Hope) and the new. Woody Allen .Hope lives up to the hype w/ zingers thru the air, jokes at the ready ''.Bananas'' was wacky in it's time but still hilarious today

[@jamesmack3314]

Yes..and play it again Sam was hilarious

[@kevinbergin9971]

James Coco died of a heart attack at the age of 56.

[@BIgBass255]

You could tell his breathing and heart labored.

[@buck9668]

May 6, 1971

[@maddymud]

I wonder if this chat lead Woody to do “What’s up Tiger Lilly”?

[@sethwiseman1017]

That film had already been released by the time of this program. I thought it was interesting he didn’t bring it up. I know Woody is a bit embarrassed by the film

[@VicMartino]

Woody Allen is lucky he is talented but more lucky in his career. Now Bob Hope on the other hand is a true all around talent who really paid his dues.

[@redmed10]

Woody wrote jokes for Bob Hope. Woody has always admitted he's been very lucky and that at any other time he would have been a hatstand.

[@joannaedwards6325]

Hope talented??? Just rich enough to buy writers and ANYTHING else he wanted. Conspiracy theories about the ULTRA program that drugged and programed girls to be sex slaves have told that Hope had one. Research it.

[@VicMartino]

@@joannaedwards6325 HUH? WTF! Yeah ok Joanna now go take your meds lol.

[@joannaedwards6325]

@@VicMartino Hope's sex slave was rescued and restored by a professional de programmer. Then she volunteered to take her story public. I saw her talk and she was totally rehabilitated and quite sane. Her remembrances from living in the Hope's Taluka Lake home in The San Fernando Valley in Calif. were clear and believable. I can't remember her name nor the name of her rescuer as this was many years ago. The name of that group with Ultra in it's name can be found if anyone does the research into that specific conspiracy. They also were into infant abuse in that the brain washing techniques they used were absolutely CHILD ABUSE. Make fun of me all you like I fkg don't care. What I do care about is some monster like Bob Hope getting a free pass only because of money and celebrity. Things like this do happen. The conspiracy theorists may not always have the truth but in this case it was not a theory. It was real. I know because I was a housekeeper for Hope's Taluka Lake neighbor and walking to my car when I worked there I had spoken briefly with that sad young woman. So it was a shock to see her when she escaped and was giving her public talks. I said to myself, " OMG I know her!! She's Hope's live in 'dogwalker'! All true.

[@VicMartino]

@@joannaedwards6325 Yeah yeah sure sure sure. Tell me more. No please don't!

[@arnoldwegstern5124]

Woody is a talented clarinet-player as well. He should work togehter with the clarinet-gigant Martin Schmidt-Hahn

[@MiltonJenkins]

This is the show 'bidness' I was raised on. You can't get anything like that today, the audience attitude and times won't make it possible. I would not trade it for today's non-culture.

[@kevinbill9574]

I remember once Lisa Simpson saying of freeform jazz "you have to listen to the notes they're not playing". When the other dude was talking about how wholesome and intelligent 17 - 18 year old college girls are, you have to listen to what Woody isn't saying

[@liduck52]

I attended a show in July 1971. Luckily Johnny was there.

[@lisalindsey277]

Vitamin fortified Hostess cupcakes? lmao

[@jamesmack3314]

Pure sugar

[@joannaedwards6325]

Back in the 30s and 40s tobacco companies told ppl that tobacco was good for ppl. Medicinal???? Wow.

[@tacomadc]

Woody is not a very good host but he's still an engaging and interesting figure. He's really fan geeking out with Bob Hope lol.

[@d.e.b.b5788]

As you saw, Ed picked up the slack; he was an experienced host in his own right. He did host the show on his own a few times, but I think that was before Johnny came on; probably during the period between Jack Paar left and Johnny began.

[@BuckyBrown-lt4ry]

Hope was his idol.

[@nicmart]

Vespray was a pesticide.

[@stephendeluca4479]

Never a good idea to have 3 competitive comedians on the same panel together. No straight man, no space, no laughs-- just interruptions. You can see how valuable Carson was to this show when you see shows like this one.

[@389383]

Woody at 7:27

[@paulpitt52]

Will Law I guess he always liked them at that age

[@BabyFaceBren]

and 04:27

[@davidamigos.davidamigosnwa4522]

It's just humor.

[@browningautomatic2393]

GOOD SHOW ! SATURDAY 8/6/22 AUGUST 6, 2022

[@skiphoffenflaven8004]

Watching the commercials from back then (which I do remember watching when I was a youngster) one can surely see the sickness of American marketing, the consumer-zombie horde beginnings, and the initiation of the loss of real-world sanity, soon to be foisted on humans-to-be-fake-plastic-things.

[@dixonpinfold2582]

Instant soup, coffee filters, headache pills, and aluminum foil wrap. Sickness? Zombie? Horde? Insanity? I think your language for this stuff is a little florid. However, it proves beyond a doubt that you are a splendid person of advanced moral insight nonetheless, and that in itself makes me feel much happier on this earth. I do thank you!

[@voiceguy3635]

Bob Hope reminds me of Kelsey Grammar--and vice versa.

[@DomFalance]

Was this intro used until the move to Burbank?

[@epaddon]

This animated NY opening started around 1970 I think and they also used it when the show made two final road trips back to NY in November 1972 and May 1973. Interesting how the band also plays Johnny's theme even when Woody comes out something they would *never* do by the late 70s.

[@DomFalance]

So the Burbank road trips used the shot of the desk as the intro?

[@michaelkrauss3499]

Dom Falance qqqqqqqqqqqqqq

[@johnnyangel3683]

I was mad at Johnny when they moved to Burbank permanently.He never came back to New York.But Doc said "the studio was bigger and sad to say everyone was leaving New York"!True and very sad! He was right.

[@liduck52]

@@johnnyangel3683 Johnny wanted to move to California and get a house there. They did come back to NY in May of 1973 for some shows but that was it.