Word: rowan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fresh Pond Cinema-James Garner and Gayle Hunnicutt in Marlowe; and Rowan and Martin in The Maltest Bippy. Fresh Pond Shopping Center...
Moving right along now into its third big season is NBC's Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Simultaneously, the show is coming apart. Although its ratings are still tops in television, its very success is beginning to exert pressure that will change the show markedly by the second half of the 1969-70 season, and radically by 1970-71. The fact is, some of the most familiar Laugh-In regulars are dropping...
...ultraright wing, Viet Nam, marriage, homosexuality and organized religion. But what is to become of Laugh-In once the old gang is gone? Newcomers are already being broken in, including a dumb redhead named Pamela Rodgers and an energetic Negro named Teresa Graves. And there's always Rowan and Martin (remember them?). But the magic of their show has always been fragile at best. The old legerdemain may not be as compelling when it falls into new hands...
...With three of us in there every week night, it will be a game of 'Pick Your Host.' " Or more likely, "Pick Your Guest." During premiere week, a dial spinner could have tuned in Carson confronting Groucho Marx, Bill Cosby, Romy Schneider, Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller, and Rowan and Martin. Bishop trotted out such West Coast Establishmentarians as Ruth Gordon, George Burns, Tony Bennett, Milton Berle, Eddie Fisher, Rick (né Ricky) Nelson and Ed Ames. Griffin went for such familiar names as Woody Allen, Dinah Shore, and Sonny and Cher. But Griffin also offered a few surprises...
...final line: "Let's put Christ back into Christmas and 'ch' back into Chanukah"). But more likely the network objected to the show's running gags about John Pastore, the influential chairman and Mrs. Grundy of the Senate Communications Subcommittee. For example, Guest Dan Rowan of Laugh-In gave the Senator the "fickle-finger-of-fate award" for "keeping up the good work," though Tommy and President Nixon (whom Rowan pretended to phone) said that they had never heard of the man ("Pastore...