Thank you! I LOVED this show and was in shock when it got cancelled. Wrote the network to protest. Have been watching this Sidney Spritzer segment separately and there it is context.
Wow. This was just about 2 years before i was born. Crazy thing is, i still remember grandpa looking roughly like this, like, he looked like this, just a little more rough. 😂 Honestly, i miss him every day. Thank you for posting this! -JMN
Appears to be basically The Hollywood Palace with Milton Berle as host. Same announcer (Dick Tufeld), same orchestra (Mitchell Ayres), same network (ABC). Even taped on the same stage from the Hollywood Palace theater.
Well grumble grumble grumble! This show is funnier, happier, faster moving, more variety, and not as low class as the palace. Plus it was never hosted by Judy Garland.
Once again, I want to Thank You for posting this wonderful version of the short lived Milton Berle Show with Adam West, Paul Revere & The Raiders featuring Mark Lindsay, Van Williams, Phyllis Diller, the Jimmy Joyce Singers, Donna Loren & Bruce Lee. I LOVE IT VERY MUCH.
Followed Irving Benson here This was on TV opposite The Man From U.N.C.L.E.. That's how I missed it. I don't know if there is anything left from the 1948 shows. Live recordings are beautiful. Phyllis Diller was the woman comic in the boys club.
This is a black and white kinescope film print of the original color videotape. They were made for legal reasons, and to send to small affiliiates [who didn't have color telecasting facilities] a week or more after the original broadcast date.
Thank you for posting this. Takes me back to my childhood laying on the living room rug watching the tv. The only thing I am wondering is that my memory says this was in color.Was it or is this a monochrome copy?
Many shows from the early years of color broadcasting only survive via B&W kinescopes since tape was expensive in those days, in particular by the non-major studios.
Wonderful to see Van Williams & Bruce Lee as their Green Hornet & Kato characters. Sadly, Milton's prediction that the GH show would become as big a hit as Batman was wrong, it would be cancelled by ABC after its first season. The Green Hornet also never had the kind of over-the-top camp villains like the Fink Pussycat as they did in the sketch. The GH series was played seriously unlike Batman.
Bruce Lee totally overwhelmed the guy who played The Green Hornet. Made Hollywood totally uncomfortable...he was really the star of the show. We kids watched the show because it was the first time somebody like Bruce was doing martial arts on a weekly American TV show. Bruce became so popular, the studio asked him to create a new martial arts dramatic show that he would star in. After Bruce came up with the concept and flushed out the storylines, the studio doublecrossed him and gave the new series to David Carradine...I believe it was called "Kung Fu." The show was a big success for Carradine. Don't think Bruce Lee got anything for his work.
Paul Revere and the Raiders and Donna Lauren the only good thing on this. The Hitler thing is just downright disrespectful when you consider all the millions of people that suffered and died because of him. How can anybody find that funny
This was fantastic- just waiting for Lefty Progressive Psychos to try to cancel this out- if your one of them it's not too late to change- save comedy and place it in it's proper perspective. This show was hysterical- dated and hysterical
Thank you! I LOVED this show and was in shock when it got cancelled. Wrote the network to protest. Have been watching this Sidney Spritzer segment separately and there it is context.
Paul Revere and the Raiders were FANTASTIC!!
Wow.
This was just about 2 years before i was born.
Crazy thing is, i still remember grandpa looking roughly like this, like, he looked like this, just a little more rough. 😂
Honestly, i miss him every day.
Thank you for posting this!
-JMN
I havent seen this in well over 50 years. My Dad watched it every week.
Appears to be basically The Hollywood Palace with Milton Berle as host. Same announcer (Dick Tufeld), same orchestra (Mitchell Ayres), same network (ABC). Even taped on the same stage from the Hollywood Palace theater.
Well grumble grumble grumble! This show is funnier, happier, faster moving, more variety, and not as low class as the palace. Plus it was never hosted by Judy Garland.
This was a wonderful time to be alive.
Once again, I want to Thank You for posting this wonderful version of the short lived Milton Berle Show with Adam West, Paul Revere & The Raiders featuring Mark Lindsay, Van Williams, Phyllis Diller, the Jimmy Joyce Singers, Donna Loren & Bruce Lee. I LOVE IT VERY MUCH.
Followed Irving Benson here This was on TV opposite The Man From U.N.C.L.E.. That's how I missed it. I don't know if there is anything left from the 1948 shows. Live recordings are beautiful. Phyllis Diller was the woman comic in the boys club.
This series was my introduction to Berle.
Mine too - was too young to remember the Texaco Star Theater.
Good show!
Phyllis is very funny. Love her.
Indubitably ! When I was growing up in the 60s, my family & I loved watching her perform on many different TV shows.
The comedy here is sharp
Now this show was broadcast in color. This must be what used to be called a network print.
This is a black and white kinescope film print of the original color videotape. They were made for legal reasons, and to send to small affiliiates [who didn't have color telecasting facilities] a week or more after the original broadcast date.
Phyllis the pioneer.
the audience member Berle grabs the newspaper from was his brother Jack.
Thank you for posting this. Takes me back to my childhood laying on the living room rug watching the tv. The only thing I am wondering is that my memory says this was in color.Was it or is this a monochrome copy?
Many shows from the early years of color broadcasting only survive via B&W kinescopes since tape was expensive in those days, in particular by the non-major studios.
Wonderful to see Van Williams & Bruce Lee as their Green Hornet & Kato characters. Sadly, Milton's prediction that the GH show would become as big a hit as Batman was wrong, it would be cancelled by ABC after its first season. The Green Hornet also never had the kind of over-the-top camp villains like the Fink Pussycat as they did in the sketch. The GH series was played seriously unlike Batman.
You're 18 ... my old lady is gonna kill me lol
Donna Loren almost always sang LIVE - the only time she lip-synched was the Beach Movies❤🎸
I love how they introduce Joe Pyne as the controversial Joe Pyne. He certainly was, but not by today’s standards
Wow, Bruce Lee!
Bruce Lee totally overwhelmed the guy who played The Green Hornet. Made Hollywood totally uncomfortable...he was really the star of the show. We kids watched the show because it was the first time somebody like Bruce was doing martial arts on a weekly American TV show.
Bruce became so popular, the studio asked him to create a new martial arts dramatic show that he would star in. After Bruce came up with the concept and flushed out the storylines, the studio doublecrossed him and gave the new series to David Carradine...I believe it was called "Kung Fu." The show was a big success for Carradine. Don't think Bruce Lee got anything for his work.
Hi @pannoni14 do you have more episodes of The Milton Berle Show I would love to know thank you
Paul Revere and the Raiders and Donna Lauren the only good thing on this. The Hitler thing is just downright disrespectful when you consider all the millions of people that suffered and died because of him. How can anybody find that funny
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This was fantastic- just waiting for Lefty Progressive Psychos to try to cancel this out- if your one of them it's not too late to change- save comedy and place it in it's proper perspective. This show was hysterical- dated and hysterical