The Jacksons Variety Show - WTF
batmon
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I DONT REMEMBER THIS!!???!!"In summer 1976, CBS television signed the Jackson family (including Michael, Marlon, Tito, Jackie, Randy, Rebbie, LaToya, and Janet) to appear in their own variety show, to compete with ABC's Donny & Marie. The Jacksons debuted on June 16, 1976, and ran on CBS until its cancellation the following March. The show was the first variety show hosted by an African American family."
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Its one of my favorite Jacksons songs but u know the crowd was told to "act up" for the performnace.
I just dont know what i was doin when this came out. I watched Donny & Marie religiously. Then again I was too young to dictate the tv.
yep... other long forgotten shows were stuff like the Melba Moore & Clifton Davis Show, Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Lola Falana, Barbara McNair, Leslie Uggams and of course Richard Pryor etc. I at least vaguely remember all of those shows because it was so rare to see black folks on tv back then that it was a big deal every time one of them came on. That Jacksons show was where most people first saw Janet, when she was
check here for mention of those and others: http://www.tvparty.com/variety1.html
most of the joints on that site i have at least some recollection of... the manhattan transfer show was pretty dope from what i remember. and john byner... damn, forgot all about his azz
More details please...what was the deal with this?
I don't remember Watch Your Mouth, but I definitely have fond memories of Up & Coming (a weekly drama about a middle-class Bay Area black family, 1980-81 - starring the delicious Cindy Herron, pre-En Vogue), and The Righteous Apples (1981 show about a fictional interracial soul group). Both were on PBS, and seemed like everybody I knew back then found out about these shows while channel surfing.
Uggams and McNair were slightly before my time, but I definitely remember the others. And it seemed like most variety shows back then were summer replacements, depending on how big the host was. If they were bonafide superstars like the Captain & Tennille, then they got their program during the usual TV season. But if you were some middling act (the Starland Vocal Band) or total no-name (the Keane Brothers!!), they had to test you out during the summertime.
Watch Your Mouth was a young Joe Morton as a teacher in a ghetto school.
It would come on around 2:30 pm on Channel 13 in NYC.
The only thing i recall was a dude/student groovin & singin Livin In The City in the hallway and Joe tellin him to keep it down. It was a message show but w/ a real double funky cast of kids. Somethin like A Piece Of The Action w/ Cosby & Poitier. It was double funky in its feel. Kinda in that White Shadow mode. But way more stripped down cause it was Public TV.
I wonder if the tapes still exist.
Lookin on the net for it shows that Sarah Dash(LaBelle) was in the cast and did the theme song....
And a young Robert Townsend too!!!!
Like the Bay City Rollers?
I agree.
Cedric The Entertainer tried a minute ago,but he wasnt able to garner enuff heat.
Cedric The Entertainer tried a couple of years ago, but it flopped.
I seem to remember Robert Townsend attempting a show like that in the '90s, but it wasn't a big hit either.
I seem to remember that not only was their show on (a) during the regular fall season and (b) right when their popularity was starting to slip, but (c) it was a Saturday morning kiddie show, wasn't it?
your right
I remember the Jacksons here in the UK. It used to have "One Bad Apple (Don't Spoil The Whole Bunch)" as the theme tune?
And the Beatles cartoon, with the bouncing dot for the words.
I couldn't understand all the fuss about 4 scousers.
AND NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
Watch Your Mouth and The Righteous Apples were both produced by WNET in New York, the second largest content producer for PBS. Up & Coming was KQED in San Francisco. If you holler at them, they can probably dub you copies of the programs from their archives for a fee.
No, you're thinking of the Osmonds' cartoon show.
Do u have a guestimate? I will do that shit!!!!!
Here it costs about $30 for them to transfer a 3/4" tape or VHS tape to DVD. That's probably the going rate, I'd imagine. I know???seems a little steep for a single tape, but it is what it is.
30 eagles aint shit for a raer tv show. Is there a department i should email/call to see if this can be done? Archives?
And is that 30ish per episode or 30 for the entire set(if a whole season is even on one roll/vhs tape)?
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(sound of Batmon and Pickwick trying to outrace each other to the telephone trying to see about buying these old TV shows)
Almost always one episode per tape. There's the master tape, then a broadcast copy, and a viewing copy. The master is the safety copy, the broadcast is, well, for broadcast, and the viewing copy is for research, etc. When I was looking into those shows, I thought WNET and KQED actually produced them, like we produce, say, Antiques Roadshow. If that's the case, I think they would retain the rights to them.
And yeah, Archives is the place to contact.