Good Morning, World

Good Morning, World
Good Morning, World complete series DVD cover
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Bill Persky Sam Denoff Carl Reiner Sheldon Leonard
Written by	Carl Biddiscombe Sam Bobrick Joseph Bonaduce John C. Chulay James L. Brooks Sam Denoff Peggy Elliott Bill Idelson Bruce Johnson Carl Kleinschmitt Rick Mittleman Dale McRaven Bernie Orenstein Ronnie Pearlman Bill Persky Ed Scharlach Saul Turtletaub E. Duke Vincent Jack Winter Sydney Zelinka
Directed by	Danny Dayton Gary Nelson Carl Reiner John Rich Robert Scheerer George Tyne
Starring	Ronnie Schell Joby Baker Billy De Wolfe Goldie Hawn Julie Parrish
Theme music composer	Dave Grusin
Composer(s)	Dave Grusin
Country of origin	USA
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	26
Production
Executive producer(s)	Sheldon Leonard Carl Reiner
Producer(s)	Sam Denoff Bill Persky
Running time	30 mins.
Production company(s)	Discus Productions
Release
Original network	CBS
Original release	September 5, 1967 – March 19, 1968

Good Morning, World is an American sitcom broadcast on CBS-TV during the 1967–1968 season, originally sponsored by Procter & Gamble on Tuesday nights at 9:30 p.m. Eastern time.

It was designed as a starring vehicle for Ronnie Schell, who had proven to be fairly popular as "Duke", one of Gomer's buddies, in the hit program Gomer Pyle, USMC over the three previous seasons. Schell's character, Larry Clarke, was a morning disc jockey and part of a morning drive-time team, "Lewis and Clarke", on a smallish AM radio station in Los Angeles. The show also starred Joby Baker, who was known for guest starring in many sitcoms. The show's creators were Carl Reiner, Sheldon Leonard, Bill Persky, and Sam Denoff, all of whom had worked on The Dick Van Dyke Show, and was inspired by Persky and Denoff's personal experiences working as continuity writers for several disc jockeys on radio station WNEW in New York during the 1950s. In fact, William B. Williams, one of the station's most popular deejays, received screen credit for originating the show's title (adapted from his famous opening greeting, "Hello, World!").

Despite having the long-established and popular Red Skelton Show as a lead-in, and the young Goldie Hawn as a minor neighbor character, the show did not do well on Nielsen ratings and Schell returned to Gomer Pyle as Duke for the next season, which was also that show's last. Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully did voice-over narration in some of the episodes.