One of the more intriguing clips in this week's playlist based on our 3-2-1 Contact episode is this clip from The Love Boat:
Yes, that is the late Sonny Bono as an Alice Cooper/Gene Simmons type (the band is clearly suggesting KISS, but the performance itself is a bit more Cooper, I think), singing Smash It! This is from the second-season episode Murder on the High Seas/Sounds of Silence/Cyrano De Bricker from March 17, 1979.
What a showman! You have to see this classic to watch his story of looooove unfold, but I think Captain Stubing says it all at the end of the performance: "He's no Jerry Vail."
And admit it, aren't you a little curious about Cyrano De Bricker?
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The 3-2-1 Contact playlist is now live!
If you want to see the episode we talk about this week on the podcast, click below to enjoy our 3-2-1 Contact YouTube playlist! You will also see Ace Frehley making Tom Snyder laugh, a clip from the Australian series that inspired Contact, Glenn Scarpelli on Bandstand, and more! You;ll even see...a technical difficulties slide???
And remember to go to our official YouTube channel for past episodes and playlists for each one of them chock full of promos, clips, commercials, and all kinds of stuff!
And remember to go to our official YouTube channel for past episodes and playlists for each one of them chock full of promos, clips, commercials, and all kinds of stuff!
Show Notes: Episode 7-3: 3-2-1 Contact
*3-2-1 Contact aired on PBS 1980-1988 for 225 episodes. The series is a Children's Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop) production.
*An Australian series, The Curiosity Show, inspired Contact, which went much younger with the hosts!
*Thanks to friend of the show Laurie for suggesting this series!
*We talk on the pod about Contact as an afternoon show. Daytime programs on the networks at the time this one aired:
ABC: Ryan's Hope/All My Children/One Life to Live/General Hospital
CBS: Search for Tomorrow/Young and the Restless/As the World Turns/Guiding Light
NBC: Days of Our Lives/The Doctors/Another World
*This episode, Light/Dark, Electromagnetic Spectrum (didn't Mr. Belvedere have an episode with the same title?) is the 38th episode of the first season (the daily show produced 65 in all in S1) from February 20, 1980.
*The Kiss concert featured in the episode appears to be October 27, 1979, at the Taylor County Expo Center in Abilene, Texas, part of the Dynasty Tour. That's not to be confused with the Grant Goodeve Dynasty.
*The Love Boat episode Mike mentions with Sonny Bono as "Deacon Dark" is Murder on the High Seas/Sounds of Silence/Cyrano de Bricker, season 2 episode 25.
*We can find no evidence of Dennis Weaver appearing on 3-2-1 Contact. He doesn't appear in the show's credits on IMDB, and the show doesn't appear in his credits. But, hey, who are we to argue with Wikipedia?
*Tannis Vallely, who played Janice on Head of the Class, was indeed on Contact. Maybe she knows what happened to Dennis Weaver.
*An Australian series, The Curiosity Show, inspired Contact, which went much younger with the hosts!
*Thanks to friend of the show Laurie for suggesting this series!
*We talk on the pod about Contact as an afternoon show. Daytime programs on the networks at the time this one aired:
ABC: Ryan's Hope/All My Children/One Life to Live/General Hospital
CBS: Search for Tomorrow/Young and the Restless/As the World Turns/Guiding Light
NBC: Days of Our Lives/The Doctors/Another World
*This episode, Light/Dark, Electromagnetic Spectrum (didn't Mr. Belvedere have an episode with the same title?) is the 38th episode of the first season (the daily show produced 65 in all in S1) from February 20, 1980.
*The Kiss concert featured in the episode appears to be October 27, 1979, at the Taylor County Expo Center in Abilene, Texas, part of the Dynasty Tour. That's not to be confused with the Grant Goodeve Dynasty.
*The Love Boat episode Mike mentions with Sonny Bono as "Deacon Dark" is Murder on the High Seas/Sounds of Silence/Cyrano de Bricker, season 2 episode 25.
*We can find no evidence of Dennis Weaver appearing on 3-2-1 Contact. He doesn't appear in the show's credits on IMDB, and the show doesn't appear in his credits. But, hey, who are we to argue with Wikipedia?
*Tannis Vallely, who played Janice on Head of the Class, was indeed on Contact. Maybe she knows what happened to Dennis Weaver.
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
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