The ABC Comedy Hour (1972)

Genre

variety show

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 13 episodes

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 1972 variety show mixes comedy sketches and music. Guest hosts and impressionists perform in each episode.

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What happens

The ABC Comedy Hour is an American television variety series that aired on ABC in 1972. Seven of the 13 episodes featured a guest host and a team of comedy impressionists known as The Kopykats (Rich Little, Frank Gorshin, Joe Baker, Marilyn Michaels, George Kirby, and Fred Travalena, with single appearances by Charlie Callas, Will Jordan, and Peter Goodwright). Guest hosts included Steve Lawrence, Orson Welles, Ed Sullivan, Raymond Burr, Robert Young, Debbie Reynolds and Tony Curtis. The remaining six episodes were variety specials and included two Friars Club roasts and a revival of the musical Hellzapoppin' starring Jack Cassidy and Ronnie Schell. The show was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of "Outstanding Writing Achievement in Variety or Music." The show originally aired on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. Summer reruns of the seven Kopykats episodes were aired under the title The ABC Comedy Hour Presents the Kopykats. The same episodes aired in Great Britain simply as The Kopykats. The Kopykats first appeared on U.S. television as an episode of Kraft Music Hall on November 11, 1970, on NBC. The cast included Gorshin, Little, Jordan, and Kirby along with Mark Andrews, David Frye and Edie Adams, and appeared a second time with a somewhat different cast on Kraft Music Hall in 1971. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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