LINDSAY WAGNER: ANOTHER SIDE OF ME (TV)
Summary
This ABC comedy/variety special features host Lindsay Wagner -- television's "Bionic Woman" -- sharing her "feelings, fantasies, and friends" as she performs in sketches about her romantic, comical, and musical dreams. Wagner is joined by husband Michael Brandon and guests Paul Anka, Vincent Price, Avery Schreiber, Vito Scotti, Teddy Wilson, the Meraquas Synchronized Swim Team, and the Locke High School Band. Wagner opens the program with a song-and-dance number of "If You Could See Me Now," which is followed by her marching with the Locke High School Band over the opening credits. In the first fantasy sequence, Wagner and Brandon recreate their recent wedding and subsequent honeymoon -- a joyride in a Dodge pickup truck. The couple stop at a snow-covered hill, express their great love for each other, and identify the site of their yet-to-be-built home. Brandon then carries the action/adventure star across the imaginary threshold as they discuss their future plans together. The sequence ends with Wagner vocalizing "What Would They Say?" over a montage of the long-tressed couple frolicking in the snow. The second segment features Wagner performing a piece of swimming pool choreography, in the style of an aquatic Hollywood production number, with the aid of the Meraquas Synchronized Swim Team. In the next sequence, the hostess interviews a group of children to learn why "ice cream is so very special." Next is a silent film parody called "The Perils of Paul," a slapstick bank robbery sketch featuring Wagner, Price, Scotti, Wilson, and Schreiber. The following musical sequence has Wagner joining Anka at the piano. Anka sings the opening of "My Way" and discusses why he permitted crooner Frank Sinatra to make the initial recording of his popular composition. Anka performs "Great Jubilation," before he and Wagner perform a duet of "You Bring Out the Best in Me." In the next sequence, Wagner portrays a world-weary Lady Guinevere to Brandon's King Arthur in a romantic musical Camelot scenario, as she sings "What Do the Simple Folk Do?" In the next sequence, the hostess performs a lush, romantic ballad about love and contentment called "That's Enough For Me." Wagner concludes the program cloaked in a hooded robe, bowing solemnly, with hands clasped in prayer while making the spiritual pronouncement that "we are one." The program ends with outtakes from the special, accompanied by a recording of the song "One." Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: November 7, 1977 8:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:49:33
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:29335
- GENRE: Specials; Comedy/Variety; Music
- SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy/Variety; Ice cream, ices, etc.; Marriage
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV, 1977
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Ron Samuels … Executive Producer
- Dick Foster … Executive Producer
- Dee Baker … Associate Producer
- Art Fisher … Director
- Tom Egan … Writer
- Mike Marmer … Writer
- Everett Gordon … Music by, Music arranged and conducted by
- Bob Banas … Choreographer
- Locke High School Band, The … Music Group
- Lindsay Wagner … Host, Singer, Dancer
- Paul Anka … Singer
- Michael Brandon … Cast
- Vincent Price … Cast
- Avery Schreiber … Cast
- Vito Scotti … Cast
- Teddy Wilson … Cast
- Meraquas Synchronized Swim Team … Performers