The Lou Gordon Program, WKBD TV

Lou Gordon, the man "with no cue-cards, no idiot boards, no re-runs; just plain, ad-lib conversation in which he told like it really was," interviews Gov. George Romney, when Romney indicated that he'd been "brainwashed" on Vietnam; which was universally acknowledged to have killed his chances at the U.S. Presidency. Also interviewed is Gov. George Wallace. The Lou Gordon Program originated "Hot Seat" style journalism. Interested in seeing more? Go to: http://www.gordomarketing.com/Lou_Gordon_Program_Video.html
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[acidtongue01]

gordov2:

Your dad inspired me to go into journalism. He was the best. Never missed a show during my formative years back in the '70s. Are any of his shows available on DVD? I'd love to see some of them again.

[gordov2]

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[WordUp4Life]

What is the music playing at the beginning and end of the show?

[gordov2]

"MacArthur Park" by Richard Harris.

[ChicagoJoe57]

Wasn't another song used as bumper music - I'm the man by Chicago?

[gordov2]

I think so, but am not 100% certain.

[airdriver]

OH MY GOD! POST PLEASE! This guy was a Detroit Classic.

[damron13]

RIP Lou Gordon

[LowellDevil]

@frankd1965 Don't you mean Bill O'Reilly?

[wmbrown6]

Does anyone know if Lou Gordon's show was aired on any New York station? I can envision only two possibilities - WOR-TV 9 and WNYC-TV 31. WNEW-TV 5 would likely not have aired it due to their already having David Susskind, and I doubt WPIX 11 would've taken the show. (And I have read that other, non-Kaiser stations ran the Gordon show.)

[fivefallen]

Does anyone recall an interview that Lou Gordon did with a wrestler

around 1973. If so,who was the wrestler and what was said during the

interview ?

[jgc760]

Lou was on saturdays and sundays at 10 PM on KBSC TV 52, Kaiser' s LA station.

[CrankyOldster]

In Detroit, Channel 50 had a Murderer's Row lineup on Saturday nights: Lou Gordon, Roller Derby and the Ghoul! I was too young to understand much of what was going on in the Gordon show, but the opening music and Lou himself gave off this incredibly dynamic vibe. You knew something big was happening, and he took on all comers: satanists, UFOs, mob hitmen and an endless procession of local pols who hated his guts. Talk about event television.

[wmbrown6]

@gordov2 - At least the original recording was used - unlike at WJW-TV 8 in the mid-1970's when "City Camera News" used Hugo Montenegro's Moog-ized cover.

[frankd1965]

@moshekapora KBSCs call letters mean Kaiser Broadcasting Southern California. I lived in San Francisco and I saw this on KBHK Kaiser Broadcasting Henry Kaiser.

[eswyatt]

I remember they cut the show early once because this hit man demanded an apology, and it got really heated and they cut. The next week, when asked in a letter whether Lou apologized to the hit man, she said not only did he not apologize, but he called him a bum. Scary shit. He also reportedly called Frank Sinatra a bum. Today's reporters cower when Mel Gibson gets in their face, or even Dick Cheney.

[eswyatt]

I used to watch this show on channel 61 in Cleveland every Saturday night. My parents would go out, and I'd get a bottle of pepsi and watch it. I was just a little kid and it would scare the crap out of me when he would tell of gangsters and hit-men. I'd be thinking 'oh shit he's gonna die right now!'

[moshekapora]

I used to watch the Lou Gordon program on channel 52 - KBSC TV - in the Los Angeles metro area in the late 60s and 70s. I remember when he interviewed radio legend Paul Harvey, and when Lou passed on and Jackie took over for him until the show left the airwaves.

Thanks for the memories!