AM America 1975
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I am happy to report that due to public outcry, Los Angeles TV station KTLA returned Stephanie as co-host of their Rose Parade coverage, alongside Bob Eubanks,
(and no, I don't know if they made whoopie afterwards)
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@fromthesidelines One of the issues involved censorship...even though the Python specials aired at 11:30 PM ET, the network still bleeped out the phrase "naughty bits".
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@sky1beam No, she was relieved of that duty a year or two ago.
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@byrd56 Jennings was simply felt to be not seasoned enough for the job in the 1960's. Many considered him just a pretty boy, chosen only for his youthful good looks, to appeal to the younger audience ABC successfully attracted, even as it remained in third place overall.
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Amazing. A theme song on a TV news/talk show that doesn't sound like banging empty garbage cans with a stick.
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I love that the host feels compelled to translate "ring" as "call" in order to not lose the fleeting imbecilic American audience she already has.
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PLEASE ABC!!! UP THE ENTIRE SHOW! I DON'T CARE IF IS IT IN YOUR WEBSITE.
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Wow!! They are sooooo sweet!! <3
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Wow! What a treat. Yes, this is such a time capsule, and, to cap it with the Pythons
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This clip is a historical time capsule in more ways than one. It was broadcast only five days before the fall of Saigon which bought the Viet-Nam War to an end. American forces had stopped taking an active role in the fighting in 1973 but when Saigon was taken, the war was definitely over. If you have any clips of the network news coverage of that, please post it.
Excerpt from Michael Palin's diary:
Friday, April 25th, New York
"At 7:00 the show began, hosted by a lady named Stephanie something or other, an attractive redhead, with a cool head-of-school like assurance, but she was playing along well with us. Eric kept holding up cards on which he'd scribbled things like 'Norman Mailer- Ring Your Mother'. Once or twice before an item of serious news- e.g. the fall of Saigon- Stephanie would ask us to refrain from being TOO silly...."
fromthesidelines 3 years ago 13
What a lovely theme song. Well, at least that was good!
4844521 2 years ago 5