This sounds like one of the “American Enterprise” educational films, all of which starred Shatner and cover individual aspects of American commerce and business.
I can’t find too many mentions of it online, but it looks like a few university libraries have it. Maricopa Community Colleges’s website claims to have the entire series on videocassette, for instance, and their listing gives a lot of information one could use to do further searches in other libraries. I find isolated titles in the series listed online at various public and school libraries here and there. You might yet be able to find it and watch it again!
This is the damndest thing. I was just talking with someone about that show just last night. We were talking about the first SNL cast, and I mentioned that Chevy Chase had also appeared on GADM.
This may qualify as something that was funny as a child but doesn’t hold up to time, but I’d like to see the ABC Muppet/Sesame Street/Electric Company Out to Lunch Special from 1974 again.
METROPOLIS Rebuilt!! Fritz Lang's Long-Missing, Full-Length Edit Has Finally Been Located!!
I read an interview with Fritz Lang done in the 1960s, where he lamented that people hadn’t seen the complete film since the first year. He said it was much longer. This new reel would have to have a LOT of extra scenes to make that true. I hope so. I’ve always wanted to see 11811’s foray into Yoshiwara, or what the hell The Tall Man was supposed to be doing.
I was just coming in here to mention Jean Shepherd’s America. That and another PBS show that pretty much made up my Tuesday night viewing as a kid, “The Great American Dream Machine.”
ETA : Which I see now someone has already mentioned.
I’d get a good DVR recording of the moon landing and settle the question of “one small step for [a] man” with digital quality.
I don’t know if it was broadcast on television, but if any part of it was, then the Kennedy assassination would go on the TiVO too.
Plus, I’d want all the episodes of The Carol Burnett Show, A Complete and Utter History of Britain, and At Last the 1948 Show.
I’d also put on the DVR the first version of The Wizard of Oz ever broadcast on television, plus the original theatrical cut of same, to wave in the faces of all the “Dark Side of the Floyd” believers.
It’d be nice to get the original War of the Worlds broadcast in digital too, come to think of it.
There are many things from the past I’d love to have on my DVR; some have already been mentioned. Since many of my favorite old shows show up from time to time on TV Land and other places, not to mention DVD collections (got F Troop last Xmas!), I’m taking a slightly different tack.
The first time I saw Mel Brooks’ The Producers on TV , circa the late '60s-early 70s, there was a different scene near the end of the film than the one we see now. Since we’ve all probably seen it, I won’t bother with spoiler boxes.
As we see it now, when Max, Leo and Franz are planting the dynamite, Franz wonders aloud whether he has used the slow fuse or the quick fuse. He lights it and determines that it’s the quick fuse. By the time he realizes it, the fuse has burned and the theater blows up.
In the version I saw way back when, they stomp out the “quick fuse”. In the next scene, they’re hooking up the dynamite to a detonator box. They go into the theater to check the dynamite. The drunk from the earlier bar scene comes ambling down the alley, sees the box, thinks it’s a shoeshine box, and places his foot firmly on the plunger. BOOM!
No version I’ve seen in the past 30+ years has that scene–not on broadcast, basic cable or premium. If I could see it again, I could die happy.
Saw it. OK, you know the parts of Laugh-In where it was a bunch of short jerky sight gags and one liners, sometimes with a dancer in a bikini as the “continuety”? That was the whole show. :eek:
