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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last month, he also assured Pastore's Senate Subcommittee on Communications that he would police his air waves with renewed vigilance. Despite the assurance-or perhaps because of it-the Smotherses' April 6 show was studded with gibes at Pastore, both from Tom and his guest, Dan Rowan of Laugh-In. Rowan awarded Pastore ("Pastore-P-a-s-t-o-r-e") the "fickle-finger-of-fate award" for "keeping up the good work." As one CBS official put it privately last week, "Tommy had been sticking his finger in the network's eye and something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Censorship: Fickle Finger of CBS | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

LIKE HEP! (NBC. 9-10 p.m.). Dinah Shore is back for a variety special with Guests Lucille Ball, Rowan and Martin, and Diana Ross without the Supremes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 11, 1969 | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

...sentiment of reconciliation is real, on network television, at least, there is certainly a new relaxation. For the first time since Amos 'n' Andy went off in 1953, black comedy (al beit in a somewhat more sensitive and sophisticated form) fills the air. On an upcoming Rowan and Martin show, the entire cast appears in black face for one number; Chelsea Brown, the show's sassy Negro comedienne, naturally is in white face, as is Guest Tony Curtis. For the snapper, Judy Carne turns to Chelsea and says: "I have only been black for five minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: Black Can Be Funny | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

Turn-On itself, produced by the originators of Laugh-In, looked like a half-hour reject from the Rowan and Martin memory bank. The host was neither Dan nor Dick but a computer, for the show was supposed to be "a satire on our dehumanized society." It was also intended as a "sensory assault," careening along, sometimes with the screen split four ways, reaching for a dizzying 300 laughs in a half hour. To add to the disorientation, the set was a white plaster cyclorama and the cast wore invisible white booties. It all seemed to come from beautiful downtown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: From Beautiful Downtown Nowhere | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...five top Nielsen-rated shows of the current season, three were NBC's. The ranking: 1) Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (NBC), 2) Mayberry, R.F.D. (CBS), 3) Corner Pyle-U.S.M.C. (CBS), 4) Bonanza (NBC), 5) Julia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Industry: Standings | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

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