Ernie Kovacs NBC Morning Show 04/26/1956 3/3 featuring Miklos Molar

[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - After his debut over WPTZ in Philadelphia, and a brief stint at local station WCBS-TV New York, NBC programming chief Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, the father of actress Sigourney, brought Ernie to the NBC Television Network over WRCA-TV. Later the call sign was changed to WNBC-TV, which is still the NBC's flagship station in NYC. This morning program predated The Today Show with Dave Garroway. Prior to this time it was assumed that nobody would watch a television program prior to 7AM. Ernie proved them wrong! Remember, the rules and and writing techniques that we take for granted today were just being created, tried, and tested. The audience seems asleep and Ernie makes a heroic effort to keep the pace of the show moving. So little remains of these early television programs that we by circumstance may not see the very best of Ernie's material from this period. Enjoy it as an example of a surviving work. By the way, Ernie just finished a three hour stint on the NBC Radio Network for "Monitor" before this show! Ernie wraps up the show with a commercial for "Miklos Glue". Great straight...or on the rocks!

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[zerobeat18]

I just finished watching the 6-DVD box set. It's nice that youtube has some stuff not in that series like this one. NBC erased a lot of Kovacs' shows, but I suppose there's enough around to appreciate his genius.

[asawifehasacow]

Thanks so much for posting this. This is one of the better episodes of Ernie's NBC daytime show that I've seen. Miklos had maybe his finest hour as the host of the "Howdy Deedy Show" on Ernie's NBC summer replacement show a few months after this.