VD BLUES (TV)

Summary

This special program addresses the serious problems of venereal disease in a whimsically informative fashion. Dick Cavett provides the upbeat patter between the various sketches and songs that make up this special. Highlights include: Doctor Hook singing Shel Silverstein's "Don't Give a Dose to the One You Love Most"; "Silverlips," Jules Feiffer's comic encounter between doctor and patient; Novella Nelson singing "Carrier," by Phil Moore; Israel Horovitz's "Play for Germs," in which James Coco and Robert Drivas play Gonorrhea and Syphilis, battling to occupy the same uterus; a World War I training film; and Arlo Guthrie singing "A Child of VD," a 1949 song by his father, Woody Guthrie.

(This program won the 1972-73 Emmy Award for Special Classification of Outstanding Program and Individual Achievement.)

Details

NETWORK: PBS WNET New York, NY
DATE: October 9, 1972 8:00 PM
RUNNING TIME: 0:58:52
COLOR/B&W: Color
CATALOG ID: T88:0228
GENRE: Specials
SUBJECT HEADING: Musical revues, comedies, etc.; Satire; Venereal disease
SERIES RUN: WNET (New York, NY) - TV, 1972
COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

Don Fouser … Producer, Writer
Gary Belkin … Writer
Sidney Smith … Director
Luther Henderson … Composer, Music (Misc. Credits), Music direction by
Dick Cavett … Host
Shel Silverstein … Composer, "Don't Give a Dose to the One You Love Most"
Phil Moore … Composer, "Carrier"
John Kander … Composer, "What Am I Gonna Do?"
Fred Ebb … Composer, "What Am I Gonna Do?"
Woody Guthrie … Composer, "A Child of VD"
Doctor Hook and the Medicine Show … Music Group
Novella Nelson … Singer
Karen Wyman … Singer
Arlo Guthrie … Singer
Jules Feiffer … Writer, For "Silverlips"
Marcia Rodd … Cast, Woman, The, In "Silverlips"
Severn Darden … Cast, Doctor, The, In "Silverlips"
Israel Horovitz … Writer, For "Play for Germs"
James Coco … Cast, Gonorrhea, In "Play for Germs"
Robert Drivas … Cast, Syphilis, In "Play for Germs"
Alan Langer … Cast, Doctor, The, In "Symptoms"
De Felice, Aurelia … Cast, Nurse, The, In "Symptoms"