We hope you enjoy our Season 12 Battys, live from The Man's garage! If you haven't listened to the episode, posted yesterday, please do so before reading the following list of categories, nominees, and WINNERS!
Winners are in BOLD below!
OUTSTANDING YOUTH: Gary Coleman, Kim Fields, Tammy Lauren (The Kid with the Broken Halo); Adam Rich (Dungeons and Dragons); Big Bird (Sesame Street)
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE AS ONESELF: Jim McKay, Peter Jennings, Carl Lewis (1984 Summer Olympics); Donny, Marie, George Gobel (Donny and Marie); Robin Leach, Charlene Tilton, Julio Iglesias (Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous); Dick Clark, Ed McMahon, Joyce Brothers, Nancy McKeon, Philip McKeon (TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes)
BIGGEST EXASPERATION: Kenny O’Malley (Dan August); Archie Bunker (All in the Family); Paul Lynde (Donny and Marie); Philip McKeon, the news reporter who got the Golden Bloopers…award (TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes); Joe (Rhoda); The Man (Chico and the Man)
OUTSTANDING HAIR: Chico (Chico and the Man); Michael Douglas, Michael Lerner (Streets of San Francisco); Sally Knevette, Jacqueline Pearce,
Gareth Thomas (Blake’s 7); Marie Osmond (Donny and Marie); Luis (Sesame); Tina
Louise (Gilligan's Island); Joan Collins (Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous)
OUTSTANDING FACIAL HAIR: Freddie Prinze, Jack Albertson (Chico and the Man); Rob Reiner (All in the Family); Gordon (Sesame Street); Billy Dee Williams (Dan August); Harold Gould (Streets of San Francisco); Richard Masur (Rhoda)
BIGGEST DOPE: Eric (Dungeons and Dragons); Gilligan (Gilligan's Island); Meathead (All in the Family); all the dope fueling the rich and famous (Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous); Konstantin Cherenenko (1984 Summer Olympics); Arthur Lavery (Streets of San Francisco); Julie McNulty (Kid with the Broken Halo)
OUTSTANDING HEEL: Kenny O’Malley (Dan August); Paul Lynde (Donny and Marie); Mary Decker and Zola Budd (1984 Summer Olympics); Archie Bunker (All in the Family); Rex Riley (Streets of San Francisco); Ed and Dick (TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes); Dorothea Powell (Kid with the Broken Halo)
OUTSTANDING VILLAIN: Imposter Mr. Howell (Gilligan's Island); Venger (Dungeons and Dragons); Space Commander Travis, Servalan (Blake’s 7); The System (Chico and the Man, Kid with the Broken Halo); Fred Bowers (Dan August); Lynn Chase (Streets of San Francisco)
OUTSTANDING NON-HUMAN: Michael, Blake (Kid with the Broken Halo); Uni, Dungeon Master (Dungeons and Dragons); Zen (Blake’s 7), Kermit, Cookie, Grover, Bert, Ernie, Count (Sesame Street); Alien Visitor (1984 Summer Olympics); Bathtub (Chico and the Man)
OUTSTANDING DUO: Bert and Ernie (Sesame Street), Donny and Marie, Chico and the Man, Ed and Dick (TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes), Stone and Keller (Streets of San Francisco), Rhoda and Joe (Rhoda), the Howells (Gilligan's Island)
OUTSTANDING BURT/BERT (Listener Award #1): Burt Reynolds (Dan August), Burt Mustin (Rhoda), Bert (Sesame Street)
(Voting ended in tie, winner determined by random number generator)
OUTSTANDING THEME SONG (LYRICS): All in the Family,
Donny and Marie ("May Tomorrow Be a Perfect Day"), Chico and the Man, Gilligan’s Island, Sesame
Street
OUTSTANDING THEME SONG (INSTRUMENTAL): All in the Family (end theme), 1984 Olympics, Dan August, Lifestyles ("Come with Me Now" by Bill Conti), Rhoda, Dungeons and Dragons, TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes, Blake’s 7, Streets of San Francisco
OUTSTANDING SONG: “All Night Long” (1984 Summer Olympics); “I Just Want to Celebrate” (Donny and Marie); John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt," "What’s the Name of That Song?, “I’m Going Somewhere,” “Sing” Sesame Street
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING FEMALE: Julie Kavner, Nancy Walker (Rhoda); Ena Hartmann (Dan August); Maria (Sesame Street); Jan Chappell (Blake's 7); Sally Struthers (All in the Family)
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING MALE: Robert Guillaume, Mason Adams, Georg Stanford Brown (Kid with the Broken Halo); Rob Reiner (All in the Family); Norman Fell (Dan August); Harold Gould, Richard Masur (Rhoda); Scatman Carothers (Chico and the Man); Jim Backus, Russell Johnson (Gilligan’s Island); David Jackson (Blake’s 7); Bob, Gordon, David (Sesame Street)
OUSTANDING GUEST PERFORMER: Mickey Rooney, David Soul, Billy Dee Williams, Harrison Ford (Dan August); Burt Mustin (Rhoda); Milton Berle (Donny and Marie); Penny Marshall, Ralph Manza (Chico and the Man); Harold Gould, Michael Lerner, Barbara Baxley (Streets of San Francisco)
OUTSTANDING CHARACTER NAME (Listener Award #2): Rudy Desautel (Kid with the Broken Halo), Dan August (Dan August), Nick Lobo (Rhoda), Roj Blake (Blake’s 7), Count von Count (Sesame Street)
(Voting ended in tie, winner determined by random number generator)
OUTSTANDING SEPTET: The 7 of Blake’s 7, the castaways of Gilligan’s Island, the kids from Dungeons and Dragons
OUTSTANDING FEMALE: Sally Knevette, Jacqueline Pearce (Blake’s 7), Tina Louise, Dawn Wells, Natalie Schaefer (Gilligan's Island); Valerie Harper (Rhoda); Jean Stapelton (All in the Family)
OUTSTANDING MALE: Gary Coleman (Kid with the Broken Halo); Carrol O’Connor (All in the Family); David Groh (Rhoda); Freddie Prinze, Jack Albertson (Chico and the Man); Bob Denver, Alan Hale (Gilligan's Island); Burt (Dan August); Mike and Karl (Streets of San Francisco), Gareth Thomas (Blake's 7); Luis (Sesame Street)
BEST EPISODE: All in the Family, “Archie and the Bowling Team,”; 1984 Summer Olympics Closing Ceremonies; The Kid with the Broken Halo; Dan August, “The Manufactured Man;” Donny and Marie, “September 24, 1976, TV Hall of Fame;” Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, “Charlene Tilton/Julio Iglesias;” Rhoda, “The Honeymoon;” ; Dungeons and Dragons, “In Search of the Dungeon Master;” Chico and the Man; Chico and the Van; TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes, “Philip McKeon/Joyce Brothers;” Gilligan’s Island, “Will the Real Mr. Howell Please Stand Up?;” Blake’s 7, "Pressure Point;" Streets of San Francisco, “The Takers;” Sesame Street, ‘Sing-along in Ernie and Bert’s Bathroom.”
BEST SHOW: All in the Family, Dan August, Donny and Marie, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, Rhoda, Dungeons and Dragons, Chico and the Man, TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes, Gilligan’s Island, Blake’s 7, Streets of San Francisco, Sesame Street
ROBERT PINE GENIUS AWARD: Paul Darrow (Blake's 7)
We concluded our epic 12th season Thanksgiving week with a look at one of the most beloved programs of all time, Sesame Street. If you don't feel the belove on at least some level for the show, you might want to look back at your childhood because you may have been deprived. Muppets, humans, music, animation--All of it was on display in the Bert-and-Ernie-centric episode we picked. We did get into a lot of classic characters and segments outside of that particular installment as well.
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For this episode, inspired in large part by our friends Charlie and Trevor reporting in our Facebook group about they had been watching The Streets of San Francisco, we made the unprecedented move of covering TWO Quinn Marin programs in one season!
Actually, covering ONE QM Production had been unprecedented when we did Dan August! For Streets, we had already talked about a lot of general QM stuff and were able to dig down into the more successful cop show. We enjoyed the location shooting, the chemistry of the leads, the character actors, and overall we were very impressed by what feels like a bit of a forgotten show.
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One of our longer episodes in Season 12 focuses on cult sci-fi show Blake's 7. We covered the history of the series while focusing on pivotal Series 2 installment "Pressure Point." Mike and I had a lot to say in this one, having truly embraced Blake's and read up quite a bit on it. I can say it was one of my personal favorite episodes to record this season.
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Our retro retro show this season is one of the iconic sitcoms of the 20th century. We had a great time talking about Gilligan's Island. We didn't delve into Ginger vs. Mary Ann so much as...Jim Backus vs. Jim Backus? Yes, the episode we discussed featured the star in a rare dual role! We had fun, but there is no truth to the rumor we were fortified with pina coladas and cocoanut cream pies. And it's not a video podcast, but we paid homage to the Skipper by looking at the camera several times.
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This seemed like a staple of NBC's programming schedule in the Eighties, a mish-mosh of bloopers, practical jokes, international commercials, and Robert Klein! Once again in Season 12, we had some differences of opinion--Did I mention Robert Klein?--but we certainly shared the joy of welcoming Ed McMahon to the pod for the umpteenth time.
By the way, the preparation of this post continues my yearlong struggle to call the series by its proper title and not Practical Jokes and Bloopers.
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It wasn't quite a Very Special Episode, but we had to confront the tragic death of Freddie Prinze Jr. as we discussed Chico and the Man. Like Rhoda, which we had covered a few weeks earlier, Chico came out of the gate strong, but its decline was obviously much different.
Nevertheless, we had a good time enjoying the chemistry of Prinze and Jack Albertson, plus Scatman Carothers is always welcome. I know I was excited when Tubi added the whole series, which has not been widely available for years. The episode we talked about offered many surprises, including a Seventies superstar making a seemingly random appearance. All this plus some bathtub talk!
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The podcast took an amazing journey into role playing games, or at least cartoons based on RPGs. Dungeons and Dragons, the Eighties CBS animated series, gave us plenty to discuss in the 50th anniversary year of the original game. For example, what is the deal with the Dungeon Master? We don't solve that one, but we explore the origins of the show while considering an action-packed story.
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We went back to the MTMverse for our seventh episode this season, looking at Rhoda. In addition to a fun episode involving Rhoda and Joe's honeymoon cruise, up for discussion was the way the show handled their relationship, the changes the series went through over its run, and the highs and lows of a program that came out of the gate red hot.
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Burt Reynolds made his return to the podcast (after last year's Batty-winning role as himself in iEntertainment Tonight) as the titular Dan August! We talked quite a bit about "The Manufactured Man," a star-studded episode, and about Quinn Martin Productions in general in this fun episode.
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Our podcast episode
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Anonymous Batty insider says: Anytime you have a series that won 22 Emmys, it's gonna be a threat to win multiple Battys. Rick and Mike may not have embraced the show as it was on, but you can tell they were impressed by All in the Family, and I think the main acting categories could be dominated by this one, even though it wasn't a big showcase for Gloria and Mike. Expect AITF to be a big or maybe even the big winner.
Here is a summary of the 11th Battys by the number of awards won per show:
Dallas: 5
Night Court: 3
The Littlest Hobo: 3
227: 3 (including the Genius Award)
The Rifleman: 2
Sonny and Cher:1
Dennis the Menace: 1
Starsky and Hutch: 1
ABC's Star-Spangled Celebration: 1
Entertainment Tonight: 1
MASH: 0
Hart to Hart: 0
Exo-Man: 0
(Does not include special listener award for First Camera for the 1983 NBC episode)
So is Dallas the big winner by virtue of taking the most Battys? Or is it Night Court, which won several itself but also (it can be argued) the biggest one (Best Show)?
