On Thursday, October 20, 2011 10:42:06 AM UTC-4, Mark J. wrote:
>
> Probably not--Westinghouse came up with the idea for prime access,
> pushed it through the FCC and wanted to show that it was going to
> offer offbeat programming for its experiment. None of the shows it
> produced and/or put into syndication in 1971--the Corwin drama
> anthology, the Britcom "Doctor in the House" (the first Britcom to be
> shown over here--I'm not counting Sheldon Leonard's "From a Bird's-Eye
> View"), the "David Frost Revue" sketch show (at the same time as
> Frost's U.S. talk show, also Group W), something called "Electric
> Impressions," "The Smothers Prime Time Organic Space Ride" (just Tom,
> not Dick, but the first series after CBS cancelled the "Comedy Hour")
> and "Street People" (San Francisco radio DJ Mal Sharpe does hidden
> camera interviews--based, of course, on a bit he did on his radio show
> and many ad campaigns)--made it to a second season. (And LWT only
> made 26 episodes of "Doctor in the House"--the continuations of the
> series picked up the titles of the book series it was based on.)
> Finally, only "Doctor" and the Frost show had station clearances in
> even the high two digits. So until they came up with "Evening/PM
> Magazine" in the mid-70s, outside of the locally-produced show each of
> their owned stations were required to do, they were forced to run the
> same game shows and nature shows their competitors were running, which
> was not supposed to be what prime access was all about.
I remember Westinghouse's KYW in Philadelphia ran a show in prime access
called "It's All In Your Head," which I believe was a locally-produced
sketch comedy show. Although, since I was about 6 years old at the time, I
don't remember the show so much as I remember the repeatedly aired promos
which showed a man singing the goofy theme song ("It's all in your head/And
your elbows too...").
If I remember correctly, KYW ran the "David Frost Revue" on Saturday
afternoons. (Hey, I remember the theme song from that one, too!)
-Tim
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