AQUACADE IN ACAPULCO (TV)
Summary
A comedy/variety special filmed at the Princess Hotel and Club de Golf in Acapulco, Mexico, hosted by Tony Randall and mainly featuring demonstrations of water sports such as diving.
Highlights include: an introduction about water by Randall; Ed McMahon introducing footage of various professional and Olympic divers; a comedy sketch featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Anne Meara; a comedy routine featuring the clown-like “Aquamaniac” divers; McMahon narrating over footage of a cliff-diving competition between Mexico and the United States; a comedy sketch featuring McMahon interviewing Mel Brooks, playing an ex-Nazi pretending to be an Argentinian archaeologist; footage of a synchronized swimming routine; diver Barney Cipriani performing a 100-foot dive; another comedy sketch featuring Meara and Stiller; further diving footage narrated by McMahon; a comedy diving bit featuring duo Edwards & Bauer; a comedy routine featuring a fisherman attempting to reel in a swimmer portraying a “human fish”; a synchronized swimming routine performed by the San Francisco Merionettes; and diver Oscar Biscione performing a dive while on fire and covered in firecrackers. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: April 5, 1972 7:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:52:16
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: B:53261
- GENRE: Comedy/Variety
- SUBJECT HEADING: TV - Comedy/Variety
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV, 1972
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Joe Cates … Executive Producer
- Walter C. Miller … Producer, Director
- William Watts … Associate Producer
- Gary Belkin … Writer
- Norman Steinberg … Writer
- Tony Randall … Host
- Ed McMahon … Narrator, Guest
- Barney Cipriani … Performer
- Edwards & Bauer … Performer
- John Bauer … Performer
- Jennifer Roland (audio id only) … Performer
- San Francisco Merionettes … Performer
- Oscar Biscione … Performer
- Anne Meara … Guest
- Jerry Stiller … Guest
- Mel Brooks … Guest
- José Alvarez
- Al Coffey
- Moses Garcia
- Raul Garcia
- Sue Gossick
- Tom Gompf
- Rick Langdon (audio id only)
- Chuck MacKarvich
- Ann Peterson
- Ignacio Sanchez
- Filiberto Svastiqui (audio id only)
- John Tobler
- Antonio Velasquez
- Rick White