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The confrontation between CBS censors and the Smothers Brothers was bound to reach the showdown stage, especially after Tommy Smothers proclaimed that he and Brother Dick were not about to mend their ways. They refused to cut out such things as an antiwar song by Pete Seeger and an off...
To be sure, Williams was the head writer for the Smothers Brothers show during its most innovative days in 1967 and 1968. He is the script doctor recently called in to help save the Glenn Campbell Goodtime Hour. He has written TV specials for Andy Williams and Petula Clark.
Once he had taught himself the guitar, Williams quit school and formed the Wayfarers, a folk group that played the church-social and Holiday Inn circuit in Texas. Along the way, he met another struggling young guitarist named Tommy Smothers. After a tour in the Navy, Mason became a backup...
Presidential Prank. Williams wears a beard, buffalo-skin trousers, patched epauletted shirt, leather jacket and a neckerchief. But there is a lot of the actuary left in the man. He always carries a briefcase, and his workroom wall is covered with precise flow charts that plot work in progress. There...
Public Apologies. Whatever becomes of his plan, Pastore and the hearings may have already stirred the network executives to sanitize their programs as never before. CBS has refused to ease restrictions on what can and cannot be said on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Two of last month's...