FLIP WILSON SHOW, THE {SAMMY DAVIS, JR., MARILYN MICHAELS, ED SULLIVAN} (TV)
Summary
One in this series of comedy/variety programs hosted by Flip Wilson. Guests include actor Sammy Davis Jr., singer Marilyn Michaels, and television personality Ed Sullivan.
Highlights include: an introduction featuring Wilson, Sullivan, Michaels, and Davis; a comedy sketch featuring Wilson and Davis as a pair of incompetent conmen and Michaels as a passer-by; Davis singing “The Candy Man Can” and performing a “hoofer” dance routine; a Western sketch featuring Wilson, Davis, and Michaels, sans scenery or props; Davis performing “Soliloquy” from the musical “Carousel”; and a sketch featuring Wilson and Davis as a mediocre performing duo waiting backstage as backup performers and Sullivan as himself. Commercials deleted.
(This program contains audiovisual errors. It represents the best copy available at this time.)
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: December 15, 1972 8:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:53:20
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: B:02256
- GENRE: Comedy/Variety
- SUBJECT HEADING: African-American Collection - Comedy; TV - Comedy/Variety
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1970-1974
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Monte Kay … Executive Producer
- Bob Henry … Producer
- Patricia Rickey … Associate Producer
- Tim Kiley … Director
- Herbert Baker … Writer
- Mike Marmer … Writer
- Stan Burns … Writer
- Don Hinkley … Writer
- Sid Green … Writer
- Dick Hills … Writer
- Paul McCauley … Writer
- Peter Gallay … Writer
- Flip Wilson … Writer
- George Wyle … Music by
- Sid Feller … Music by
- Flip Wilson … Host
- Sammy Davis Jr. … Guest
- Marilyn Michaels … Guest
- Ed Sullivan … Guest
- Milton Frome … Cast
- Tim Kiley … Cast