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DVD : The Johnny Carson ShowIn association with Amazon.com List Price: $24.99 Amazon.com's Price: $14.99 You Save: $10.00 (40%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 7 to 10 days
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Carson EAN: 0826663104059 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Restored, NTSC Label: Shout Factory Theatr Manufacturer: Shout Factory Theatr Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Shout Factory Theatr Release Date: February 20, 2007 Running Time: 270 minutes Studio: Shout Factory Theatr Theatrical Release Date: June 30, 1955 Sales Rank: 22750 MPN: SMVD310405D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: Johnny Carson's First TV Show--Thought To Be Lost Forever--Comes To DVD! 10 Episodes of The Johnny Carson Show (1955-56) and Rare Bonus Material While working as a staff writer on The Red Skelton Show one night in 1955, Johnny Carson filled in as a last-minute replacement when Skelton was injured during rehearsal. Carson did such a good job that CBS created The Johnny Carson Show as a showcase for the young comedian. The 39-week series served as a precursor of what would come later for Johnny, planting the seeds for the sketches he would perfect on The Tonight Show with his Mighty Carson Art Players. The Johnny Carson Show features Carson in parodies of popular television shows of the era, including one of Edward R. Murrow's Person To Person, in which Johnny turns in a hilarious impersonation of Murrow. Carson also spoofs The Three Musketeers, Walter Cronkite, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Dragnet and the Russian ballet. Members of Carson's cast include Jamie Farr and Jack Albertson and guests include James Arness (promoting the premiere of his brand new series Gunsmoke), Eva Gabor and movie composer Dimitri Tiomkin. Ten long-lost episodes of The Johnny Carson Show, from its lone season in 1955 - 1956, have been digitally restored from the recently-discovered kinescopes for this release. Bonus features include a 1958 episode of Johnny's popular ABC quiz show Who Do You Trust?, a very rare episode of his short lived and little known 1956 CBS daytime show, and another recently discovered lost gem: a clip from Johnny's October 1958 stint as the two-week substitute host of The Jack Paar Show. Total Running Time: +/- 4.5 hours Amazon.com: The 1950s were television's so-called Golden Age. But for Johnny Carson, featured here in ten episodes of The Johnny Carson Show from '55 and '56, the metal was a bit less precious--bronze, maybe, or iron, as he was just beginning to hone the style that would make him a bona fide legend of the small screen. Carson, 30 years old at the time, had spent a year hosting a game show called Earn Your Vacation when the CBS network offered him his own 30-minute variety program (another game show, Who Do You Trust?, would follow; an episode is included in this two-disc package). For sure, the Carson who would reign over late-night TV during his remarkable thirty-year run on The Tonight Show is in evidence here. There are impersonations (newsmen Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite) and parodies of other TV shows, a few original characters (like "Yasha" Carson, violinist at the Russian Gypsy Tea Room, and Dillinger the Mental Wizard, a precursor of the Carnac the Magnificent), and the silly shtick that would become a staple of The Tonight Show's Mighty Carson Art Players (for example, a mildly amusing Trojan War skit); there are also bits with both his real family (including wife Jody, the first of four Carson spouses) and actors portraying them (one skit finds him buying a cow after suspecting that his wife is dallying with the milkman). Yet while it's undeniably fascinating to see the young Carson at work, it's also clear that he had yet to hit his stride; neither his monologues nor his inimitably droll, deadpan takes are anywhere near what they would be. With Carson himself doing much of the writing, the show has some adult innuendo but very little content that would today be considered "edgy." That's a good thing, by the way. Somewhat less good is the quality of these black & white episodes, which were remastered from kinescopes. Yet overall, The Johnny Carson Show will likely be of considerable interest to fans of a true television immortal. Other bonus features include a brief clip from Carson's two-week run as substitute host of The Jack Paar Show in 1958. --Sam Graham Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Here's to JohnnyThe man was a genius; his timing, facial expression, everything worked. If you need to cheer up or just enjoy laughing until you cry, this is the CD set for you. It's timeless and warrants watching over and over again. Rating: - Interesting Early JohnnyA great look back at the King of Late Night's career. This is a very young, slim, and funny Johnny. However, most will enjoy him more in The Tonight Show setting, and I think the Ultimate Collection The Ultimate Johnny Carson Collection - His Favorite Moments from The Tonight Show (Vols. 1-3) (1962-1992)is the best of the many great sets available. However, major Johnny fans will want to own this. Rating: - "There's Johnny"I have followed the career of Johnny Carson from "Who do you Trust" to his last appearance on David Letterman. I was not aware of the show he did called "The Johnny Carson Show." The Golden Age of Television was the place where millions of viewers became exposed to great talent. Non greater than Johnny Carson. I live in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, the place where Johnny, Ed and the Tonight Show team came to develop the Tonight Show. I have listened to many stories of the time they were here and wondered ... Read More Rating: - The beginning of Carson's showsI guess I didn't realize it would not be the Tonight show but the first shows he did. They are a little on the boring side. But interesting to see how he 'evolved' in the entertainment part. Rating: - johnny carson its johnny carson at the start of his career but u can definatley see the brilliance Browse for similar items by category:
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