The Mike Douglas Show Promo Ch39

Channel 39 vintage promo for the Mike Douglas Show

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[wmbrown6]

According to Google News Archive caches of New York Times TV listings, this particular edition, with this guest list, aired in New York on WOR-TV Channel 9 on Oct. 25, 1967.

[Elric33239]

@wmbrown6 Thanks for the review and the tip regarding their song. I'll look for it while I'm here. I can understand how they could have gotten lost in the crowd with great performers like TKT and PP&M. Did you ever see "A Mighty Wind?" Brilliant satire of the history of folk singers from the demented geniuses behind "This is Spinal Tap" and "Best in Show."

[wmbrown6]

@Elric33239 - The Brothers Four actually came together in the wake of the first flush of The Kingston Trio's popularity, and as I said, their one big hit was "Greenfields." There was even a "Greatest Hits" album, in 1962, from The Brothers Four, but the other songs on that LP were not as well known (but then, they may have been one of those "album" groups instead of singles). And indeed, PP&M not only eclipsed The Brothers Four, but eventually The Kingston Trio as well.

[Elric33239]

@wmbrown6 While I would be the last person to credit a singing group's fame based on whether I've heard of them or not, there were a number of folk singing groups that were better known at that time (Peter, Paul & Mary and The Kingston Trio immediately come to mind) that could have eclipsed this group into relative obscurity IMHO.

[wmbrown6]

@fromthesidelines - This was also when the program used the infamous RCA TK-42/43 class cameras (3 vidicons plus one big I/O), which were so bad that NBC refused to use them in their studios. Douglas only lasted at WOR from February 1965 to March 1968, moving that very month to WCBS. Would anyone have a record of which exact show had Anne Baxter as co-host and The Brothers Four as one of the musical guests?

[wmbrown6]

@Elric33239 - Actually, The Brothers Four WERE famous - their big hit was long ago, "Greenfields" (1960). But again, that was long ago. And here, they mangled the verses of a song that was made famous by Rolf Harris back in 1963.

[ftsjr]

The Mike Douglas Show is a great memory of my childhood in the 60's. My parents would watch it every afternoon, on CBS (ch#2).

[fromthesidelines]

This was around the time Mike "converted" to color in 1967, and his program was seen on New York on WOR-TV [Channel 9] at 4:30pm weekdays...this was during the period when Douglas gained momemtum in the syndicated "talk show market" to become the most popular by the early '70s....there's room for a local announcer at :58 to say, "See 'THE MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW' today at 5, right here on Channel 104..".

[Elric33239]

OOOPS!! I stand corrected. This was an American folk group that HAPPENED to be singing an Australian song! I guess they didn't become as famous after this show as I thought!

[Elric33239]

I remember when Mike Douglas was on KYW TV3 in Philadelphia and those commercials pretty much looked like this one: a virtually unknown (at the time) act would perform and a seed was planted that (sometimes) grew into notoriety! There weren't too many Aussies on US TV at that time and it was interesting that Mike gave them as much exposure as the Motown artists of the day. Innovative TV at its classiest!