Been trying to think of the title for years. All I could tell people was a few long-haired guys getting in and out of a van and singing and nobody knew what I was talking about.
I don't care what you guys say....I was 6 when this was out and I totally loved it...they made it just for kids like me and seeing this video brings back happy memories.
@ fromthesidelines and @ vividwatch47: Vividwatch is right; Prohaska was dead by the time this show came out, so this has to be a different bear (or at least a different actor). I hope this one was well paid in cookies. :)
@Serpico261 If you mean the little animated guy, I think he was suposed to be this mean cranky guy who's pissed about all the noise they're making ( notice he's wearing a nightgown & cap ), so he tries to sabatage things, .. but they always backfire.
Wow, I remember this... and now wonder if this counts among the longest TV themes to ever intro a show? Seems like two modern things owe something to this: Kenan Thompson's "What Up Wit' Dat" endless theme SNL sketch, where there's so much theme there isn't time for any show. And, The Cleveland Show, where all the characters are paraded out, "and even a bear."
I loved Rod Hull and his Emu. He died fixing his antenna? I tend to suspect the Emu.
Cool! Hip! Mod! Pop! Hilarious! This show made my Saturday mornings when I was a kid, because it was funny in a dumb way, in that it was trying to be a dumb program, and made a mockery of its own dumbness. In other words, it was good clean fun. The Hudsons' songs were so-so (one of them plagiarized from the Stones' "Honky Tonk Woman"), but the Fabulous Freddie ("No thanks, we're trying to cut down"), Rod Hull and Chucky Margolis sequences were a million LOLs! Thanks for bringing back memories!
I remember this show very well... Looking back, since my parents also liked it (it appealed to adults, too), I wonder why it was considered 'Saturday morning fare'. It was actually a bit closer to something like "The Smothers Brothers" or "Laugh-In" than "Kaptain Kool and the Kongs"...
"The Bear" (Janos Prohaska) originally appeared as the "Cookie Bear" on "THE ANDY WILLIAMS SHOW" from 1969 through '71, and appeared at least twice as a similar bear on "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" in the fall of 1968. Prohaska also portrayed two "unearthly" creatures on 'STAR TREK" [the "Horta" and the "Mugato"], and a bird-like creature on "LOST IN SPACE" and 'BEWITCHED".
The Hudson Brothers had previously appeared as Sonny & Cher's 1974 summer replacement, produced and written by the same people behind their "COMEDY HOUR". For some reason, CBS programming executive Fred Silverman decided a Saturday morning version would be a hit with kids that fall. Again, the same production crew and writers who worked on their summer series [including Ted Ziegler, Murray Langston, Peter Cullen, et. al.] worked on this. It aired at 11:30am(et); 13 episodes were produced.
Peter Cullen did all the voiceovers on the show including the little cartoon guy with the ladder/rocket/sweeper, etc.
Rod Hull died in March 1999 after falling through a greenhouse when he tired to fix the reception on his TV Aerial.
Billy Van went on to various guest spots on Canadian TV shows and did some educational shows for TV Ontario. His last public interview was for a Sheridan College documentary about The Hilarious House of Frieghtenstein. Bill Van passed away in 2003 from cancer.
@raleighphil Kate Hudson is Bill Hudson's father and her mother is Goldie Hawn? How confusing at the first five glances, but then, it is almost 2am. You have made my head spin a little.
The only thing that bothers me is the loud canned applause. Otherwise, this is pure '70s psychedelic cheese, and aging makes it all the more delicious and mind-bending. I'll have to try to find the DVD.
One thing I notice now that I didn't realize back then. Entertainers for these kid programs were adults, very seasoned professional actors. They made these shows SO entertaining! Today, you see mostly nothing but teen-no talents on television now.
@PatrioticPirate: Difference between the Jonas Brothers and these guys:
-Their TV show is not on Saturday mornings, therefore they won't end up as fucked as the Hudsons did
-It isn't silly skits and what not, but an actual sitcom
-The Hudsons barely had a music career, the Jonas Brothers have a big one
-And before you ask, no, I'm not a fan of the Jonas Brothers, but I do know enough to know that you are too bitter for your own good, and need to stop the hating and just live and let live.
@Neville6000 So what's your point, there, O Wise One? Let's see your simple ass put something on TV that people would be happy to see THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS after it started. Until you can do that, go sit your Jonas Brother's lovin' lightweight ass down.
@PatrioticPirate: What was YOUR bullshit-laden troll bait point about? There was no need to bring the Jonas Brothers into this at all, other than to just be a dick. If you hate them, fine, but there's no need to bring them into this discussion about the Hudsons. And no, my 'simple ass' has no reason to denigrate one pop band in favor of another, or to produce television. BTW, how would YOU produce a TV show for young teens staring a hot new pop band?
@Neville6000 No, you dipshit, I already told you what you need to do to prove that I'm the dumbass you whish you weren't. Put'chur shit on TV, and let's see who's retarded ass will remember it 37 years later. If you cna't do that, then shut the fuck up. And the proper spelling is s-t-a-r-r-i-n-g. But tell me when you get that show started. Give me a job. I'll work for minimum wage and tell everyone I make $100K a year, just to make sure you don't look like the cheap bitch you and your Daddy are.
@clashcitywannabe: Whoopdey-fucking-do, SO WHAT? You and all of the nostalgia-obsessed dunderheads can't just enjoy this clip without having to bash the Jonas Brother or any other pop musician-why is that?
@darrylabling: The day a crappy 'rock' band like this can be better than Lady Gaga (or ANYBODY in music these days, no matter how big or small) is the day Hell freezes over. And I don't think that it's in any danger of doing so. Also, if the Hudson Brothers were smart, they would have NEVER bothered with a show like this, since it derailed what aspirations they had for a serious music career, but they did not, and, well...
@schultz970: Well, not ALL of it, but this part, well yeah, I can see what you mean, although I have a LITTLE soft spot for this show, since it was made here in Toronto where I live.
I was very young at the time and that tv show influenced me so much musically. At the time, I thought those guys were very cool. Their songs and musical skills really impressed me. It was cute and harmless. Later I discovered Led Zep, Sabbath and all the others. The HBs were then relegated to the "lets forget about that phase" bin. Today, there's Radiohead, Portishead, Air and so many talented groups. Even though times have changed, thanks for the memories of a simpler era.
What a load of shit ! - like a really crap (without the humour) BANANA SPLITS with 3 grown men trying really hard to look 'cute' & sexy when they're very obviously well past their sell-by date & that geek Mark Hudson flashing wannabe smiles at his equally 'over-the-hill' brother Bill - such forced smiles with 'We're in it for the Money' written all over their faces... the youngest one was probably a fag too.
@MARSMP3: Well, I wouldn't go that far with the 'fag' part, but yeah, this show was complete shit, and it wrecked the careers of these guys-which is why one should NEVER be a singer and have a TV show on TV...as the Jacksons, Sonny & Cher, and the Osmonds learned to their dismay.
Man I loved that show. Great music and great comedy. And it was free. Nothing even close to it on TV anymore. And does anyone else remember when TV was free. Back when cable first came out it was unsensored movies and shows that were commercial free because your fee to have service paid for the shows. That is what it was all about. Now we pay big bucks for cable and it is full of commercials. We basically pay for TV. Oh to be able to go back in time.
I have HD TVs with rabbit ears, get dozens of channels. In fact, there's 3 decent retro channels I get too. And the only thing I pay is the time to watch commercials. I won't pay for cable or satellite the rest of my days. The biggest parasitical rip off the world has ever known.
Awesome!! Seriously glad to see these were preserved and not let to just deteriorate in a warehouse somewhere! The Saturday Mornings of the early 70's Rocked! ^_^
I also have very fond memories of this show. I also remember the Unknown Comic from the Gong Show. Back in the 70's everbody needed a haircut, I had a leisure suit. I always looked forward to this show, I always looked forward to Saturdays. There were a few shows I remember watching, and that I liked that were only shown on Twin Cities T.V. Networks.
@rickobear64 Well hell, that hapens with just about everything. They'll be ridiculing todays hairstyles, maners of dress and hip hop music thirty years in the future too. It is funny though, how this stuff was so contempo and hip,.. yet now it's so outmoded.
@NewYawkahBroad Definitely. I've been telling his one memorable joke for years: "What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhino? El-if-I-know!"
WHERE did you finds this?? OMG! I was obsessed with these guys. I met them a few times. Bill and Brett were not very friendly but Mark was a BLAST! My mom brought me and my sister, two teeny boppers, to a couple different shows. It was great!
i was only nine years old when this show came out but remember it so well especially rod hull...the hudsons sang and played well ..why cant they have fun shows like this on anymore...i really miss my youth....it was a time when things were simple and people were a bit kinder....the world has gotten way to complicated... razzle dazzle!
@gigga97 and who is the father of Sara, the forgotten Hudson girl who had a mnior hit in 2004 called "Girl On The Verge"? I bet you Clear Cahnnel killed her career!!!
@Pookatube: No, the overabundance of pop starlets similar to her was what killed her career (as well as that of Danielle Brisbois, and also the career of Randy Bachman's kid.) Clear Channel had nothing to do with it, since it was that conglomerate that launched the careers of Britney & Co. in the first place.
Actually this was after Langston's popularity. A year earlier The Unknown Comic appeared on Kids are People Too where he finally exposed himself.(AKA removed his bag)
I never laughed so hard as I did watching this show! We have the dvd set of it, & my daughters love it! You don't have to be a kid of the 70's to love THBRDS!
A little bit of trivia for a fellow Canadian: two Canadians, Ted Ziegler (who was, incidentally, born in Chicago but was Johnny Jellybean on Canuck TV in the early 1960s) and Billy Van (of so many projects) appeared on that show.
Thanx, yer right! In fact, Avril Chown, Murray Langston, & Peter Cullen are also CDN, & the show was filmed in Toronto. THBRDS was a wonderful joint effort between Canada & the US!
The Bear!!! Rod Hull and his extraordinary Austrailian Emu (who was always in a foul mood). Loved that show when I was about 10 or 11 years old. I think it came on Saturday Morning just before Fat Albert (Hey Hey Hey). Used to have the 45 of "So You Are a Star". Was good to see Mark Hudson in Ringo Starr's All Star Band a few years back. Razzle Dazzle!!!
I was only six years old at the time. I loved that show, so I was quite heartbroken when I learned that it wasn't going to be on TV anymore. Saturday morning TV's not like it used to be - the '70s was the last great kiddie TV decade, as far as I'm concerned.
FYI show bizz nepitism
do you know the Bear is the Grandfather of The Masterbating Bear?
freedomfun1 2 weeks ago
Ah nothing like the variety shows of the 70's
iloveretro78 3 weeks ago
Been trying to think of the title for years. All I could tell people was a few long-haired guys getting in and out of a van and singing and nobody knew what I was talking about.
lplvr70 3 weeks ago
Even as a kid I didn't like this show.
Capt777harris 3 weeks ago
OMG Rod Hull and his Emu. I totally forgot about you.
Wow. what has happened to america?? OMG...
ckimballfuckyou 4 weeks ago
Longest TV intro EVER!
jimbojim68 1 month ago
So their supporting players were borrowed from the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour?
TheCatgirl6 1 month ago
Brett, I had the biggest crush on you when I was a little girl ((sigh))
kittywhiskerz 1 month ago
Didn't they have a friday night variety show? Or is this the same show? I remember Chuckie Margolis with the big billed baseball cap.
Stincil 1 month ago
The music is first rate.
shatchett0 2 months ago
I've said it before, I'll say it again, only a Canadian would allow this continue online in only a mono version.
shatchett0 2 months ago
I don't care what you guys say....I was 6 when this was out and I totally loved it...they made it just for kids like me and seeing this video brings back happy memories.
kadmonzohar2 2 months ago
holy shit Rod Hull and Emu! Talk about a 70's talk show staple!
emmers57 2 months ago
@ fromthesidelines and @ vividwatch47: Vividwatch is right; Prohaska was dead by the time this show came out, so this has to be a different bear (or at least a different actor). I hope this one was well paid in cookies. :)
psykdiva 2 months ago
Man I remember thee Saturday mornings...
Gold top Les Paul....
Merlin97 3 months ago
@Merlin97 and i think Brett played a black Rickenbacker bass sometimes! ;)
snakehunter1964 3 months ago
@snakehunter1964 Now that's just crazy: I've played a '74 4001 Jetglow since '83 !
Merlin97 1 month ago
The BEAR!
BeckyPoC 3 months ago
Can I say it again? Yes, I can. Kick. Ass.
shatchett0 3 months ago
That is a kick ass shuffle during the cast intro.
shatchett0 3 months ago
thumbs up if parry grip sen tou here!
dylanandcole123 4 months ago
Would love to have the stereo version (if there is one). This music kicks ass. It's show bizzy but funky as hell.
shatchett0 4 months ago
I was a little kid when this show was on. There was an episode showing them fight a lot. What was up with that?
gusdmh 4 months ago
My mother waa totally in love with the Hudson brother with the mustache!
MsMadmax1 5 months ago
What a great show! I miss it, especially Chucky Margolis!
jgallo8 5 months ago
Holy crap I loved the Hudson Brothers what a blast from the past!
hickshaus 6 months ago
what a fantastic time, the 70's rocked!!!
MsCargento 6 months ago
It is too bad that show should have lasted longer than it did. The show was very funny especially when you see Rod Hill and Emu.
Joannec95 6 months ago
@Joannec95: The Hudsons were getting tired of this show by '75, and also, kids' shows didn't last that long.
Neville6000 3 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
yes, a three minute opening to a half-hour show that had about twelve minutes of commercials.
1revjay 7 months ago
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1revjay 7 months ago
I miss the early 70's. Great times. (Born in 1965.)
casestudyification 7 months ago 6
@casestudyification i do, too! ;) 1964 here.
snakehunter1964 3 months ago
I met Billy Van in Toronto over 20 years ago. He was very friendly when I recognized him.
Lee05211 7 months ago
i got these guys mixed up with the Bee Gees.
garychldress74 7 months ago
Do any psychiatrists out there use YouTube videos to trigger repressed memories for their patients?
Jesus....I don't believe it....the Hudson Brothers.....I have not seen this intro in 35 years. I feel SO weird watching this.
GSTcheque 7 months ago
The guy in the middle, with the mustache, always resembled Captain Hook ( from the Disney Peter Pan cartoon ) to me.
Skulldini 7 months ago
I remember the HB well. I was born in '63. Didn't know then that "The Unknown Comic" was in the cast!
davelounder 7 months ago
what the hell was that?
Serpico261 7 months ago
@Serpico261 If you mean the little animated guy, I think he was suposed to be this mean cranky guy who's pissed about all the noise they're making ( notice he's wearing a nightgown & cap ), so he tries to sabatage things, .. but they always backfire.
Skulldini 7 months ago
@Skulldini ah damnit i wish i was born early enough to watch this. The whole 70s looked like fun
Serpico261 7 months ago 2
God I had such a crush on all three of them when I was 8 yrs old! I dreamed that eventually I'd marry one of them!
vidgal07 7 months ago
Peter Cullen. - Optimus Prime! Cool seeing him here back in those simpler, fun times.
ACLTony 8 months ago
Teddy Ziegler would leave performing years later to become a writer's agent..sadly..he would leave us in December of 1999.
TheStanbabe 9 months ago
3 people don't like being razzle dazzled
voyzovrezon 9 months ago
Wow, I remember this... and now wonder if this counts among the longest TV themes to ever intro a show? Seems like two modern things owe something to this: Kenan Thompson's "What Up Wit' Dat" endless theme SNL sketch, where there's so much theme there isn't time for any show. And, The Cleveland Show, where all the characters are paraded out, "and even a bear."
I loved Rod Hull and his Emu. He died fixing his antenna? I tend to suspect the Emu.
LachrymoseIntolerant 9 months ago
Cool! Hip! Mod! Pop! Hilarious! This show made my Saturday mornings when I was a kid, because it was funny in a dumb way, in that it was trying to be a dumb program, and made a mockery of its own dumbness. In other words, it was good clean fun. The Hudsons' songs were so-so (one of them plagiarized from the Stones' "Honky Tonk Woman"), but the Fabulous Freddie ("No thanks, we're trying to cut down"), Rod Hull and Chucky Margolis sequences were a million LOLs! Thanks for bringing back memories!
teletubetodd 9 months ago
As a kid I always wanted to get Mark alone in a closet. Mmmmmmm, I luv me some Mark.
THDUNIONNOW 10 months ago
Oh man... I wish there were more shows like this one, it was definitely one of the best if not THE best.
michaelmohrmann 10 months ago
I remember this show very well... Looking back, since my parents also liked it (it appealed to adults, too), I wonder why it was considered 'Saturday morning fare'. It was actually a bit closer to something like "The Smothers Brothers" or "Laugh-In" than "Kaptain Kool and the Kongs"...
shmuli9 10 months ago
"The Bear" (Janos Prohaska) originally appeared as the "Cookie Bear" on "THE ANDY WILLIAMS SHOW" from 1969 through '71, and appeared at least twice as a similar bear on "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" in the fall of 1968. Prohaska also portrayed two "unearthly" creatures on 'STAR TREK" [the "Horta" and the "Mugato"], and a bird-like creature on "LOST IN SPACE" and 'BEWITCHED".
fromthesidelines 10 months ago
@fromthesidelines, he was killed in a plane crash in 1974.
vividwatch47 5 months ago
John Lennon was a fan of this show.
vividwatch47 5 months ago
The Hudson Brothers had previously appeared as Sonny & Cher's 1974 summer replacement, produced and written by the same people behind their "COMEDY HOUR". For some reason, CBS programming executive Fred Silverman decided a Saturday morning version would be a hit with kids that fall. Again, the same production crew and writers who worked on their summer series [including Ted Ziegler, Murray Langston, Peter Cullen, et. al.] worked on this. It aired at 11:30am(et); 13 episodes were produced.
fromthesidelines 10 months ago
"Hey, what difference does it make?"
Capt777harris 10 months ago
They were like 1970's Jonas Bros, pure crap.
DEKMAN99 10 months ago
Now which on is Kate Hudson's father??
DocHartford 10 months ago
@DocHartford Bill
Joannec95 2 months ago
Peter Cullen did all the voiceovers on the show including the little cartoon guy with the ladder/rocket/sweeper, etc.
Rod Hull died in March 1999 after falling through a greenhouse when he tired to fix the reception on his TV Aerial.
Billy Van went on to various guest spots on Canadian TV shows and did some educational shows for TV Ontario. His last public interview was for a Sheridan College documentary about The Hilarious House of Frieghtenstein. Bill Van passed away in 2003 from cancer.
JeffDavadPhotog 10 months ago
I wonder who does the voice of the lil cartoon guy..lol.
sweetlorraine66 11 months ago
I had the biggest crush on Bill (I guess Goldie Hawn did too)! LOL
nemcneil 11 months ago
Ahhh...the clever corny-ness of the 70s...
nicoleakalilqueenie 11 months ago
To clear any confusion, Kate Hudson is Bill Hudson's daughter. I just had to say that, because I'm a big fan of hers. :)
nicoleakalilqueenie 11 months ago
what ever happened to all those other people? I miss Chucky Margolis!..lol.
Rod Hull was funny! And the little kid who came out after the show was over? Where is he now?
sweetlorraine66 11 months ago
I used to watch this show. Thanks to YouTube, I can watch them.
LunaOnEarth 11 months ago
@LunaOnEarth You can buy ALL the episodes on DVD- I just watched a bunch of them.
eyeh8nbc 10 months ago
These guys were from my hometown of Portland, Oregon. I never missed this as a kid...fun stuff.
virnman 1 year ago
Wow.. Peter Cullen Before Optimus Prime
Jazzy9964 1 year ago
Ohhh the memories!!! This and HR Puffenstuff were tops on my kiddy tv list.
BlueOctopusSlush 1 year ago 10
A lot of good stuff came out of the 70's, but TV cheesiness wasn't one of them.
lonechief 1 year ago
His daughter I meant!
raleighphil 1 year ago
Well actually, Kate Hudson is Bill Hudsons father. Her mother is Goldie Hawn.
Her brother is Oliver Hudson from the TV show "Rules of Engagement" on CBS.
raleighphil 1 year ago
@raleighphil Kate Hudson is Bill Hudson's father and her mother is Goldie Hawn? How confusing at the first five glances, but then, it is almost 2am. You have made my head spin a little.
2441883 11 months ago
Remember, Kate Hudson was married to one of these guys....lucky bastard!
BigSkippy1263 1 year ago
Is Kent Ziegler spanking Mark Hudson at 1:20 - 1:30???
actually, with him in those tight white pants, i'd probably do the same!
journeyman2mage 1 year ago
Kent Ziegler has his hands all over Mark Hudson's (the one with the moustache?) ass! at 1:20
christopherraven 1 year ago
The only thing that bothers me is the loud canned applause. Otherwise, this is pure '70s psychedelic cheese, and aging makes it all the more delicious and mind-bending. I'll have to try to find the DVD.
landraiderares 1 year ago
When I was a kid, I could never figure out how all those people and crates fit into that tiny truck. I'm now 48 and I still can't.
Jeff98177 1 year ago
THis show rocked...innocent and meaningful comic relief compared to the crap today
pelicaned1 1 year ago
They were famous for saying: "No thanks, I'm trying to cut down."
ekocentric 1 year ago
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jahznnyc 1 year ago
@jahznnyc It's too bad that I did not see it that way at the time.....lol
ekocentric 1 year ago
@jahznnyc no Bill Hudson is Kate dad.
TheBlondie0750 1 year ago
@TheBlondie0750 I stand corrected, and thanks for bringing this to light! I hope I didnt offend. Please pardon my misinformed and false statement.
jahznnyc 1 year ago
One thing I notice now that I didn't realize back then. Entertainers for these kid programs were adults, very seasoned professional actors. They made these shows SO entertaining! Today, you see mostly nothing but teen-no talents on television now.
MissMinnieMousegirl 1 year ago
The Hudson Brothers... Next month I'll be 40, and I'll tell the JONAS brothers that they ain't got SH///T for the Hudson Brothers!
PatrioticPirate 1 year ago 2
@PatrioticPirate: Difference between the Jonas Brothers and these guys:
-Their TV show is not on Saturday mornings, therefore they won't end up as fucked as the Hudsons did
-It isn't silly skits and what not, but an actual sitcom
-The Hudsons barely had a music career, the Jonas Brothers have a big one
-And before you ask, no, I'm not a fan of the Jonas Brothers, but I do know enough to know that you are too bitter for your own good, and need to stop the hating and just live and let live.
Neville6000 10 months ago
@Neville6000 So what's your point, there, O Wise One? Let's see your simple ass put something on TV that people would be happy to see THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS after it started. Until you can do that, go sit your Jonas Brother's lovin' lightweight ass down.
PatrioticPirate 10 months ago
@PatrioticPirate: What was YOUR bullshit-laden troll bait point about? There was no need to bring the Jonas Brothers into this at all, other than to just be a dick. If you hate them, fine, but there's no need to bring them into this discussion about the Hudsons. And no, my 'simple ass' has no reason to denigrate one pop band in favor of another, or to produce television. BTW, how would YOU produce a TV show for young teens staring a hot new pop band?
Neville6000 10 months ago
@Neville6000 No, you dipshit, I already told you what you need to do to prove that I'm the dumbass you whish you weren't. Put'chur shit on TV, and let's see who's retarded ass will remember it 37 years later. If you cna't do that, then shut the fuck up. And the proper spelling is s-t-a-r-r-i-n-g. But tell me when you get that show started. Give me a job. I'll work for minimum wage and tell everyone I make $100K a year, just to make sure you don't look like the cheap bitch you and your Daddy are.
PatrioticPirate 9 months ago
@Neville6000 the hudson brothers have a bear in their show, they win
clashcitywannabe 9 months ago
@clashcitywannabe: Whoopdey-fucking-do, SO WHAT? You and all of the nostalgia-obsessed dunderheads can't just enjoy this clip without having to bash the Jonas Brother or any other pop musician-why is that?
Neville6000 3 months ago
@Neville6000 Oh yeah, and Justin Dweeber sucks, too.
casestudyification 2 months ago
@casestudyification: I NEVER said ANYTHING about him at all. Also, there's no need to bring up him, either.
Neville6000 2 months ago
As bad as the 70's were, what passes for entertainment today is total garbage...Lady Gaga???...please!
darrylabling 1 year ago
@darrylabling: The day a crappy 'rock' band like this can be better than Lady Gaga (or ANYBODY in music these days, no matter how big or small) is the day Hell freezes over. And I don't think that it's in any danger of doing so. Also, if the Hudson Brothers were smart, they would have NEVER bothered with a show like this, since it derailed what aspirations they had for a serious music career, but they did not, and, well...
Neville6000 2 months ago
DAM! I love this show...
lisakatplay 1 year ago
All I can say is WTF...
DorisDayFanatic 1 year ago
the 70's were totally gay,...
darrylabling 1 year ago
@darrylabling then what do you call 2010?
camlpg 1 year ago
I was 12, not quite a teenager. I didn't do drugs back then either (so far never been there, done that to this day).
No matter how corny, I wish there were shows like this today.
lajmh 1 year ago
THE BEAR! LMFAO. God the seventies were horrible.
schultz970 1 year ago
@schultz970: Well, not ALL of it, but this part, well yeah, I can see what you mean, although I have a LITTLE soft spot for this show, since it was made here in Toronto where I live.
Neville6000 2 months ago
That EMU used to kill me! Funny funny funny!
cowboybear40 1 year ago
I was only 12. Ah those were the days. I seriously had the for these guys (Brett was my favorite) even though they were a good 20 years old than me.
Would I watch the show now as an adult? Only for nostalgic reasons.
The networks seriously need to make Saturday morning shows for kids and pre-teens (barely) again.
lajmh 1 year ago
I loved this show when it was originally on, and made sure to buy the dvd as soon as it came out!
Comixbear1 1 year ago
I was very young at the time and that tv show influenced me so much musically. At the time, I thought those guys were very cool. Their songs and musical skills really impressed me. It was cute and harmless. Later I discovered Led Zep, Sabbath and all the others. The HBs were then relegated to the "lets forget about that phase" bin. Today, there's Radiohead, Portishead, Air and so many talented groups. Even though times have changed, thanks for the memories of a simpler era.
grinderman77 1 year ago
What a load of shit ! - like a really crap (without the humour) BANANA SPLITS with 3 grown men trying really hard to look 'cute' & sexy when they're very obviously well past their sell-by date & that geek Mark Hudson flashing wannabe smiles at his equally 'over-the-hill' brother Bill - such forced smiles with 'We're in it for the Money' written all over their faces... the youngest one was probably a fag too.
MARSMP3 1 year ago
@MARSMP3: Well, I wouldn't go that far with the 'fag' part, but yeah, this show was complete shit, and it wrecked the careers of these guys-which is why one should NEVER be a singer and have a TV show on TV...as the Jacksons, Sonny & Cher, and the Osmonds learned to their dismay.
Neville6000 1 year ago
Man I loved that show. Great music and great comedy. And it was free. Nothing even close to it on TV anymore. And does anyone else remember when TV was free. Back when cable first came out it was unsensored movies and shows that were commercial free because your fee to have service paid for the shows. That is what it was all about. Now we pay big bucks for cable and it is full of commercials. We basically pay for TV. Oh to be able to go back in time.
mkeulr 1 year ago 24
@mkeulr youtube is free:)
MisterBouncyBounce 1 year ago
@mkeulr
Who said it was too late?
I have HD TVs with rabbit ears, get dozens of channels. In fact, there's 3 decent retro channels I get too. And the only thing I pay is the time to watch commercials. I won't pay for cable or satellite the rest of my days. The biggest parasitical rip off the world has ever known.
TheJediCharles 8 months ago
let's all do some drugs and get razzle dazzled and super sonic man
getoutofmyway01 1 year ago
These guys were great!
breezy501 1 year ago
Awesome!! Seriously glad to see these were preserved and not let to just deteriorate in a warehouse somewhere! The Saturday Mornings of the early 70's Rocked! ^_^
bellshock 1 year ago
@bellshock I recal this show being run on Saturday EVENINGS.
Skulldini 1 year ago
i was 18 but i still like watcing them
pheet 1 year ago
I have faint memories of this, at age 3 in 1974... Thanks for this post, I LOVE it!
PatrioticPirate 1 year ago
I also have very fond memories of this show. I also remember the Unknown Comic from the Gong Show. Back in the 70's everbody needed a haircut, I had a leisure suit. I always looked forward to this show, I always looked forward to Saturdays. There were a few shows I remember watching, and that I liked that were only shown on Twin Cities T.V. Networks.
DMcG1070 1 year ago
Sped up film of people acting zany was a staple of every kids show. It's like faux energy and action.
RichYan33 1 year ago
Incredible. Can you imagine a 2:30 intro nowadays, what with our AD&D culture and all? Pretty awesome. These lads could've used haircuts, though.
GlorifiedTruth 1 year ago
@GlorifiedTruth true! but, that was the hairstyle back then! ;)
rickobear64 1 year ago
@rickobear64 Well hell, that hapens with just about everything. They'll be ridiculing todays hairstyles, maners of dress and hip hop music thirty years in the future too. It is funny though, how this stuff was so contempo and hip,.. yet now it's so outmoded.
Skulldini 1 year ago
@Skulldini you're right about that!
rickobear64 1 year ago
@rickobear64 I guess punk came along not too long after this and renderd it uncool.
Skulldini 1 year ago
@Skulldini yeah, pretty much. :(
rickobear64 1 year ago
talking about bring back memories! i remember the show when my little sister's watched it saturday mornings. ahhh! the wonderful goofy 70's
crazze6163 1 year ago
Ted Ziegler..who was also a regular on this show..is also no longer with us.He died in the winter of 1999.
143AC 1 year ago
Does anyone remember Murray Langston as 'The Unknown Comic"? Wore a paper bag on his head....
NewYawkahBroad 1 year ago 2
@NewYawkahBroad Definitely. I've been telling his one memorable joke for years: "What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhino? El-if-I-know!"
tommieturner23 1 year ago
@tommieturner23 That is too good! I like that!
PatrioticPirate 1 year ago
@NewYawkahBroad THANK YOU! Now I know who he was! Murray Langston as The Unknown Comic!
PatrioticPirate 1 year ago
WHERE did you finds this?? OMG! I was obsessed with these guys. I met them a few times. Bill and Brett were not very friendly but Mark was a BLAST! My mom brought me and my sister, two teeny boppers, to a couple different shows. It was great!
NewYawkahBroad 1 year ago
razzle dazzle! Get my ass back there PLEASE!!! Anyone have a time machine?
shelbb123 1 year ago
i was only nine years old when this show came out but remember it so well especially rod hull...the hudsons sang and played well ..why cant they have fun shows like this on anymore...i really miss my youth....it was a time when things were simple and people were a bit kinder....the world has gotten way to complicated... razzle dazzle!
zuck21 1 year ago
The bear!!
EdgarKritik 1 year ago
@EdgarKritik Wasn't that GREAT
tonywallacess45 1 year ago
Dear Seven Dark and Rich In Talent, Yes! That is "The Cookie Bear'..he's played
by the same gentleman..who worked with Mr.Andy Williams
(Mr.Janos Prohaska was "The Bear"on both shows).
143AC 1 year ago
loved this show growing up! we built a little roller coaster with truck roller planks like in this vid. great memories!
selloutasaurus 1 year ago
holy memories! another weird show that impacted me as a 5 year old
steffap 1 year ago
Boy oh Boy that Peter Cullen voice that laugh is the greatest ever.
harveysuperboy 1 year ago
This is a perfect example of the "anything goes" weirdness of early 70s TV. Fun times.
LENTICULARPLASTIC 1 year ago
Amazing, what the mind will hold in memory all these years! I was just a little kid in those days. Thanks for posting this!
playa3232 1 year ago
This show needs to be on DVD!!!
Pookatube 1 year ago
@Pookatube it is
SUPERIORRIN 1 year ago
Holy Shit! You Tube is totally messing up my mind!
jasoncolannino 1 year ago
Isn't the middle one Ron Jeremy?
u8apns 1 year ago
LOL....Thats kate Hudson's dad :P
gigga97 1 year ago
@gigga97 and who is the father of Sara, the forgotten Hudson girl who had a mnior hit in 2004 called "Girl On The Verge"? I bet you Clear Cahnnel killed her career!!!
Pookatube 1 year ago
@Pookatube: No, the overabundance of pop starlets similar to her was what killed her career (as well as that of Danielle Brisbois, and also the career of Randy Bachman's kid.) Clear Channel had nothing to do with it, since it was that conglomerate that launched the careers of Britney & Co. in the first place.
Neville6000 10 months ago
This had to be a Sid & Marty Krofft show.
chelcie3 2 years ago
No this was Bearde and Blye Productions who gave us sonny and Cher
cjmill13 2 years ago
Actually the show appeared on CBS in 1979.
acholl980 2 years ago
It was 1974
cjmill13 2 years ago
Murray Langston went on to further stardom in the 70's as The Gong Show's "Unknown Comic."
SchizoidMan100 2 years ago
Actually this was after Langston's popularity. A year earlier The Unknown Comic appeared on Kids are People Too where he finally exposed himself.(AKA removed his bag)
acholl980 2 years ago
Just got this on a region 1 DVD (i'm from the UK) and its brilliant, havent laughed so long and hard in ages.
Kapricorn1 2 years ago
THE BEAR!!!
This show was hilarious!
7DARKHELLS 2 years ago
Wasn't The Bear originally on The Andy Williams Show'?
richintalent 2 years ago
That one was called Cookie Bear he was always trying to get a cookie but never got one.
7DARKHELLS 2 years ago
2:07 uh, didn't these guys used to be in 3 dog night or something?
punkrockefeller 2 years ago
Bill's son Oliver looks just like him.. quite exquisite. Kate, on the other hand, looks like a combo, but not nearly as pretty as Goldie.
RAG1060 2 years ago
Oh shit, I'm embarrassed to see this 35 years later. Oh my god, the memories, the fu*ing, the drugs.....
ShaktiLIfe 2 years ago
Don't be embarassed. I don't do drugs, but there have been a few things that I regret years later. Watching this show wasn't one of them.
markojameow 2 years ago 7
Bill is Kates father with Goldie Hawn
METH3454 2 years ago 2
I never laughed so hard as I did watching this show! We have the dvd set of it, & my daughters love it! You don't have to be a kid of the 70's to love THBRDS!
CanadaFamilyMan 2 years ago
A little bit of trivia for a fellow Canadian: two Canadians, Ted Ziegler (who was, incidentally, born in Chicago but was Johnny Jellybean on Canuck TV in the early 1960s) and Billy Van (of so many projects) appeared on that show.
markojameow 2 years ago
Thanx, yer right! In fact, Avril Chown, Murray Langston, & Peter Cullen are also CDN, & the show was filmed in Toronto. THBRDS was a wonderful joint effort between Canada & the US!
CanadaFamilyMan 2 years ago
Peter Cullen = Optimus prime FTW?
richintalent 2 years ago
Correct indeed.
CanadaFamilyMan 2 years ago
The Bear!!! Rod Hull and his extraordinary Austrailian Emu (who was always in a foul mood). Loved that show when I was about 10 or 11 years old. I think it came on Saturday Morning just before Fat Albert (Hey Hey Hey). Used to have the 45 of "So You Are a Star". Was good to see Mark Hudson in Ringo Starr's All Star Band a few years back. Razzle Dazzle!!!
blackwater5 2 years ago
I was only six years old at the time. I loved that show, so I was quite heartbroken when I learned that it wasn't going to be on TV anymore. Saturday morning TV's not like it used to be - the '70s was the last great kiddie TV decade, as far as I'm concerned.
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classicphile 2 years ago