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...nationwide favorite of the post-11:30 p.m. crowd. At the same time, Carson was cracking wise with Bob Hope, and Bishop was encouraging the Smothers Brothers to pour out their souls on camera. Moms was followed by a curiously subdued Woody Allen, Leslie Uggams, who is taking the Smotherses' place on CBS this fall and Hedy Lamarr. Pleasant personalities, but hardly show stoppers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: Talk, Talk, Talk | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

On the wall of the cabana alongside Tommy Smothers' swimming pool in Hollywood Hills hangs a life preserver labeled S.S. Unsinkable. Lately, following his censorship dustup with CBS and the network's subsequent banishment of his music and comedy series, it has seemed rather out of place. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Unsinkable Tom Smothers | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

The Smothers network, pieced together at the local level out of independent stations and independent-minded network affiliates, premieres Sept. 10 with the fateful Easter Sunday tape CBS refused to broadcast last April. So far, stations in 75 cities have booked the show, and Smothers Inc. counts on signing up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Unsinkable Tom Smothers | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

Stations that sign up with the Smothers network get the last-year show free -in return for a commitment to carry in December a 90-minute Smothers special to be taped largely in Toronto. After that, Tommy figures that Smothers Inc. will have whetted enough viewer appetite to syndicate a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Unsinkable Tom Smothers | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

Beautiful Intentions. The hope is based as much on advance planning and cash-flow charts as dreamy idealism. Since last spring, the mythful mentalities of young Americans have made Elder Brother Tommy, 32, into a kind of Che of the TV jungle, or a Malibu Marcuse. In speech after speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Unsinkable Tom Smothers | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

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