"The Jack Benny Program" with Ernie Kovacs 1959 (Full Episode)
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- [From "Kovacs Corner" on UA-cam.com] - Ernie makes his only guest appearance on Jack Benny's program circa 1959. Jack comments on Ernie's signature appearance item upon which Ernie rolls out his "mustache collection". The humor is guided more by Benny's writers, which makes it tame compared to Kovacs' zany style. Later in the program, the prison sketch pokes fun of the late 1950's-era concept of progressive penitentiary reform "California-style" in the year 1970. Also appearing in the sketch are Len Lesser as "Mugsy McGurk", Walter Burke as "Inky Green", Ken Christy as the warden, Ray Kellogg as the prisoner "Alfred", and Nan Leslie as the girl photographer. Don Wilson, displays the form of integrated commercials that was normal for radio and the early days on many television programs. Look closely at one of the beatnik dancers. She is Ann Morgan Guilbert, aka Millie Helper, from The Dick Van Dyke Show.
RIP Jack Benny (1894-1974)
Greatest show ever period
This really shows Ernie’s personality as a sweet soft spoken guy
17:24 - Len Lesser, "Uncle Leo" from Seinfeld.
Amazing lucky strike musical commerical
Their skit depicts "idealistic" prisons in 1970. In September of 1971, the Attica prison riot occurred and 43 died.
Thanx for sharing, Kovacs' Corner.
Always great to see Ernie again.
Loved him in Bell, Book and Candle, and in Operation Mad Ball, and North to Alaska, and It Hapoened to Jane, and Wake Me When It's Over, and . . .
I just love the darling, weird Mr Kovacs.
My parents and I used to watch Ernie's show.
Keep 'em coming, please?
Btw.
Ann Morgan Guilbert appeared in very later years on The Nanny, as Fran's grandmother.
The skit with the San Francisco prison of 1970 turned out to be 50 years early.
Originally telecast live on January 25, 1959. The script (by Perrin/Balzer/Goldman/Gordon) won an Emmy for "Best Comedy Writing" that season. The "modern prison" sketch was restaged on film [with Mickey Rooney] in April 1962. Don Wilson's "middle commercial" is a musical satire on "beatniks" {and "The Beat Generation"}, conceived and assisted by members of L.A.'s "Billy Barnes Revue" [Patti Regan, Len Weinrib, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Bob Rodgers].
Mr. Waukegan meets Mr. New Jersey, from a Waukeganite living in Niew Jersey.
I don't remember many episodes, but this 1 I remember. And the 2 series they mention at the end, Bachelor Father n Trackdown, I remember, too. Ah, yes, baby boomer memories.
Benny's half -hour shows were all black & white. He was on CBS which didn't introduce color broadcasting untill about 1966. Later he signed with NBC for one hour specilas which were broadcast in color.
Except maybe comedy shows like The Lucy Show and The Andy Griffith show before that year.
CBS was always capable of color telecasts, but chariman Bill Paley, who had an ongoing rivalry with RCA/NBC's David Sarnoff- especially over color programming- decided that, except in rare instances when they telecast color specials, including the yearly telecasts of "The Wizard of Oz", CBS would suspend color broadcasts on a regular basis in 1960. The only reason he changed his mind in 1965 was NBC's intent to schedule a full lineup of color programs that fall {billing themselves as "The Full Color Network"}. More people were buying color TV sets at the time- and more of them were counted in the Nielsen ratings. Unless CBS began scheduling color shows on a regular basis, NBC would have more top-rated series {and specials} in the "Top Ten", and overtake CBS as "the #1 network". So, they started programming a 50/50 mix of color and black and white shows that fall, making sure their more popular ones {"THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW", "THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW", "THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES", "THE RED SKELTON HOUR", "THE LUCY SHOW" (which filmed its episodes in color since 1963, but telecast in black and white), "GOMER PYLE- U.S.M.C.", et. al.} were produced in color. And it worked. CBS continued to offer "Top Ten" programs on a weekly basis [while the ratings for their black and white shows, including "GUNSMOKE", were sliding], and they remained "the #1 network" for the 1965-'66 season, with NBC a close second. In the fall of 1966, all three networks- including ABC, who also managed to offer half of their prime-time programs in color that season, and was a distant third in the ratings, save for "BATMAN" in early 1966- began scheduling "all color" programming" in prime-time.
LSMFT LSMFT. LUCKY STRIKE MEANS FINE TOBACCO
We need to mention it for the other readers!
The "Danny Thomas" episode Jack mentions at 28:12 was on film, and is included in syndicated/cable repeats- it was also Mary Livingstone's final appearance on the show (she preferred to appear only in filmed segments, without a live audience; after her friend Gracie Allen retired in 1958, she decided to do the same thing).
Surprised not to see a closing logo much less the CBS eye. Someone commented that they were at Revue studios at this time. . So far I only saw episodes before 1955 or 1956 with out logo from a Production company on here, but none with out the network logo, I saw some episodes before 1958 with Lucky Strike while Lipton and State Farm was on an episode from 1958 besides the Revue and MCA logos. I saw one episode on VHS that had not logos at the end and where Jack pretended to be a detective like Joe Friday from Dragnet which narrates like Jack Web except he says , "That's me" .
Even though this kind of comedy was far less brilliant than Kovacs' wild innovations, it certainly had its place. (I always think of Kovacs and Mad Magazine in the same, innovative breath.) Benny was masterful at this slow-paced situational comedy, but I feel he was best when he was the main focus. (Somehow having 2 great comics together diluted the effect of both.)
As a lad turning 10 at this time, I was far more attracted to Kovacs. Now I admire both equally.
What in the name of God was that commercial. A dude wrecks a car ( granted, that all metal well built car is what saved him) but he gets out and smokes a cigarette!! Lol
My Goodness...
I love Jack Benny’s walk when he walks out. The swinging arms and his stroll.
It was just a cigarette commercial, stupid. What would you have done if he'd lit up a cigar? Go postal? Killed your mother? Shit a cow out your ass?
The squeamishness of today's generation. (Sigh!)
@@SwarthySkinnedOne ... a hundred AMENs to that!
However, there was ONE color episode {on film} that was never repeated in color: the March 6, 1955 "Jack Takes the Beavers to the Fair" episode; in the 1954-'55 season, CBS experimented with several of their weekly series presenting one color telecast {i.e. the October 4, 1954 "BURNS AND ALLEN" episode where George invites two TV critics to watch his first show of the season, as Gracie holds a "television party"}.
Such an interesting episode to watch! Very glad it's here at UA-cam.
Harry Shearer is in that episode.
Jack appeared in "live" shows (with several filmed episodes rounding out the season) through the 1958-'59 season, 'mike'. Beginning in the fall of '59, he videotaped his "topical" episodes, while continuing to appear occasionally on film [at that time, a quarter of each season's episodes were filmed].
Consider it mentioned!
For the benefit of 'mike', Jack's TV shows were initially (through the 1958-'59 season) live telecasts; he began filming occasional episodes in the 1953-'54 season, to give himself and his crew a break, and to create a library of filmed episodes for future syndication. He began videotaping his more "topical" episodes in the fall of '59, while slowly increasing his filmed shows to the point where, in his final season (1964-'65), he videotaped two, and filmed 26.
Agreed.
this was 59 was this live on video tape and color broadcast originally? The prison sequence indicated it might of been color broadcast.since tape was expensive.they should have printed it in color kinescope.some color broadcast were being shot to include color kinescope by that time
No colour, I'm afraid.
Wow. So when you roll a car over that you were driving on bald tires, the first thing to do if you make it out of the car is to smoke a cigarette.
the original 1957 broadcast Cinderella was color Broadcasted as well as video taped , on c.b.s..but that's lost
Oh no, Don can't be a beatnik
I really need a cig now that smooth rich tobacco flavor!
yeah that "smooth clean taste" that puts you in a grave!!!!
The cigarette companies sure did a lot of promoting and selling in and advertising format. I'm glad l never got that nasty habit
I thought you already knew that, 'rolko'...or that you didn't know Patti and Len also appeared in guest star roles [Weinrib, three times!] on Dick's program....
They weree really playing up some toxic masculinity on those LSMFT commercials!
In 1958 and '59, Lucky Strike's advertising was aimed on male smokers {"Get the genuine article! Get the honest taste of a Lucky Strike!"}- same as Chesterfield King's "Men of America" ad campaign at the same time.
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Boy, that beatnik routine is pretty embarrassing.