Lee Majors Presents Funshine Saturday Sneak Peek (ABC, 1974)

Narrated by Don Adams, the Six Million Dollar Man himself is here to let you know what new cartoons are in store for 1974.

That is, if he's not foiled by PSSST, Public School on Saturday and Sunday Too, played by improv sketch group The Ace Trucking Company, featuring Fred Willard doing an Oliver Hardy bit.

PSSST steals the cartoon tapes from Funshine Saturday, who was on his way to show them to Lee Majors and his kids.  Who is Funshine Saturday, you ask?

You asked for it.  Proof that there can be no just and loving God.

We get some Bionic Man schtick and a visit to the Let's Make a Deal set, but no cartoons until halfway through.  Even then, they're uniquely stingy with the clips.  We get Schoolhouse Rock, Devlin, Korg 70,000 BC, These Are the Days, New Adventures of Gilligan, and Hong Kong Phooey.  The main theme is that these are educational shows, though they make an especially weak argument for it.  Over the ending credits Don Adams blurts out "Yeah, there's also Bugs Bunny and Super Friends."

RIngo

Ringo
NBC 4/26/78



With Carrie Fisher, John Ritter, and Art Carney.

Jackson 5: Going Back to Indiana

Jackson 5: Going Back to Indiana
ABC 9/16/71



Featuring Bobby Darin and Rosey Grier, who were both present at RFK assassination.  Bill Cosby and Michael Jackson have something in common as well.

Ran across this the same day I heard about Cosby sucker punching Tommy Smothers at the Playboy Mansion.

TV Obscura: 33 1/3 Revolutions per Monkee

33 1/3 Revolutions per Monkee
NBC, April 19th, 1969

The last thing done by the Monkees until their 1986 reunion, this is the most baffling thing ever aired on network TV.  Somehow includes Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, and Little Richard.

TV Obscura: Charo TV Special

The Charo Show, Unsold pilot 1976

Just found out she was the child bride of Xavier Cugat.

TV Obscura: The Magic Planet

The Magic Planet
ABC March 1983
TV Special

Canadian Olympic ice skater Toller Cranston in a scifi/fantasy concept piece.  Narration by a mumbling William Shatner, and Ann Jillian is in there somewhere.  I won't blame you for not having much patience with this - if you only watch one, try the third video.

TV Obscura: Tiny Tim Australian TV Special 1970

Tiny Tim Australian TV Special 1970



Fun fact: Tiny Tim buried his stillborn child under a gravestone that read: "It"