Joey Bishop Show -- Joey and Regis opener

[sunsdomain]

I love the jackets. Bring them back.

[onebaud1]

I am seventy one and there is nothing funny about being a septuagenarian!

[TheTalentedMrRipley1]

The jacket looks like something an extra would wear in the old Planet of the Apes

[wolfhound692]

weird

[wethreestooges]

The sitcom was better. Joey's jacket looked pretty damned sharp.

[prodigy977]

No wonder Carson was no1

[JubalCalif]

Heavens to Ravi Shankar! THANKS for posting this cool clip! I was a teenager when this show ran on the late night ABC lineup & don't recall ever watching it. Though I did see the very droll Mr Bishop in the mid-70's as a substitue host for Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show". You've MADE my day & my week! CHEERS!

[fran9860]

REGIS IS A BOWEL MOVEMENT.

[SoaringTrumpet]

Wow Regis is so much funnier now as a septuagenarian!

[CrazyOldMaurice69]

Bishop's Nehru jacket is fucking sharp. Regis' looks like something a 90-year-old woman would wear.

[BigDickMcGirk]

Yep. Still not funny.

[altfactor]

Since Bishop went head-to-head against Johnny Carson, this show only lasted two-and-a-half years.

I believe the show was done at 8:30 P.M. PT to air live in the East at 11:30 ET/10:30 CT, in the hope that being broadcast live would give the show more excitement.

Here, Regis shows some of the stuff that has since made him one of America's most-liked TV personalities.

Regis Philbin was destined, even then, to become a star. Thankfully, it happened.

[soulierinvestments]

"You guys look darling." I'll say. It is a shame that the nehru jacket never quite caught on as an American fashion statement. I hate ties and the advantage of this style is the lack of tieness.

[wongleebruce]

Back then it was whose Regis but who cares he was fun then and no one's saying "who?" anymore, by the way he sure is wearing a lot of buttons

[MouseQueen86]

Holy...CRAP!!! I just finished watching a few "Millionaire" reruns...Dang, Regis is so YOUNG here! o.O

[bonanzalover1]

do you have the rest of the show?

[sdfeinstein]

Nehru jackets---just like Ken "The Hawk" Harrelson from that SI cover in the summer of 1968. I think Hawk's was olive green.....

[530aftescho]

H*** s***...THAT"S Regis?!!!

[TheRundownHeadsUp]

Where can I get one of these jackets? Seriously.

[sierria64]

nice jacket fo sure

[TheRundownHeadsUp]

The Rundown approves of this clip.

[andrewkraneveld]

Good Show! I still remember watching Joey Bishop every night, still in Black and White in the late sixties in Toronto. I was very upset when Rogers cable stopped Joey and started Dick Cavett instead!

I'm glad to be able to watch these video's now. Greetings from Holland, Andrew.

[kimonui]

they were Johnny Mann and his gay guys.

[rainydaywoman1957]

i saved this purely for regis and the nehru jackets. i dont remember the joey bishop show at all. guess my parents just wernt that much into him.

[608833]

Johnny Mann is still around. He produced the famous original jingles for "93/KHJ." KFRC and the other Bill Drake-programmed Top 40 stations. The date of this Joey bishop Show is February 2, 1968.

[bigbilly2006]

Whatever happened to Johnny Mann?

[goo4ssie]

Does anyone have any of the footage of the night that Regis staged his walkout? I'd like to see it I missed seeing it originally.

[99aa4]

@goo4ssie Yea I just read about that in Vic Damone's book! I would love to see that!

[defundthewar]

@goo4ssie I saw it, just by luck. I always switched btw Carson, Bishop, and whatever was on locally. Regis was probably influenced by Jack Paar's famous walkout years earlier. Regis and Joey were talking and right away you could tell it was serious ,Joey was like a deer in headlights, it was completely real. Regis was in tears saying something I and likely 95% of the audience didn't get about his leaving, then split. Total silence. Later I learned he had heard some ABC execs panned him.

[catholicpriest1]

Does the Vine Street Theater still exist?

[wmbrown6]

Yes. Only it's now the Academy Film Archive, showing old movies.

[wmbrown6]

On this clip, it looks like General Electric PE-250's were used (ABC, in the late 1960's, was all over the map, with some of their studios using Norelco PC-60 or 70 cameras, and others using GE PE-250 or 350's).

[johnnyafairbanks]

And I guess GE PE-350's were also used by Mississippi Public Broadcasting in the '70s -- when they were Mississippi ETV -- to tape Clyde Frog and other shows during that time (dunno what brand they switched to in the '80s but Sony cameras would replace them in the '90s).

[michaeld82]

tv is so much better now.

but regis is great

[ottoskidoo]

Regis is such a tool.

[utubeworms]

The Joey Bishop sitcom was pretty funny. It was on Nick-at-Nite for a while.

[pompom11]

I still have my neru medallion chain just like Joey's. I got it in 1967 when I was in the 7th grade. Hey he had a long life 89 years, a great ride, I always liked Joey Bishop..

[newsboyarizona]

Ah, the Frown Prince in all his glory. Do you still have the show open? I'd love to see it.