1969 NBC Television Network Promo for "The Debbie Reynolds Show"

A 1969 NBC Television Network promo for "The Debbie Reynolds Show", a short-lived sitcom. If you ask me, they should put this on DVD.

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[saskwatcher]

Yes, Debbie's anti-tobacco tirade infuriated the network and when the show was kind of limp in the ratings, well they cut their losses. I wonder if Miss R was a diva off screen as well and that would have hurt the show a lot too. Also, Jeannie was in its death throes.I think this show was beaten by both Hee Haw and also the about to become phenomenon that was Movie of the Week.

[MattTheSaiyan]

@saskwatcher Her "anti-tobacco tirade" was extra dumb as American TV stopped having tobacco commercials within a few years after this. So it was a bit a pointless thing to do in the long-run.

[fromthesidelines]

This series certainly made an impression on John Cleese and Graham Chapman when repeats began airing on the BBC on Saturday afternoons in the fall of 1970; they thought the show [especially the title sequence] was SO "typicially American" (and absurd), they satirized it as "The Attilla the Hun Show" {especially parodying the title sequence!} on "MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS" in the fall of 1970.

[lemurianchick]

Groovy music in the background...Like wow, man...

[jsilence418]

@fromthesidelines Yeah it made an impression allright, a bad one !

[jsilence418]

@saskwatcher  did you watch the same promo as I just did? there is your answer, this show looked awful and these were the highlights!

[1simaddict1]

@MattTheSaiyan Well, in a way I don't blame her for what she did because she had to learn how to smoke for the movie The Rat Race and it took her a few months to quit. Then she had to smoke in another movie that I can't think of the name right now, but one thing she didn't want to do was the smoking ads when she signed on to do the show because she said cigarettes were too addictive. So she left. She later said it was a dumb thing to do, but again I completely think she was in the wrong.

[1simaddict1]

@saskwatcher I thought She quit the show and she was under a two year contract and they couldnt fire her.

[fromthesidelines]

When John Cleese and Graham Chapman saw a repeat of Debbie's series on the BBC one Saturday afternoon in the fall of 1970, they looked at the title sequence (and each other), and thought, "American comedies are certainly ridiculous...let's make this MORE ridiculous". They came up with the idea of grafting "Attila the Hun" onto a "typical Amercian sitcom" format, satirizing Debbie's opening title as well {frame-by-frame}, using a British recording of her theme song, "Just A Little Love".

[pandorawombat]

Does anyone know if there's a clip of the opening sequence anywhere on the internet? Just the opening sequence. The reason I ask is that the Monty Python sketch "The Attila the Hun Show" supposedly mimicked the opening sequence frame-for-frame. I think it would be great fun to be able to see what MP were mimicking, since I never saw this show.

[salinagrrrl69]

RIP TOM

[TimelordR]

@Frank33314 Correct, only 1 season on NBC from 1969-70.