TV Bloopers & Practical Jokes
| TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes | |
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| Also known as | Super Bloopers and Practical Jokes Super Bloopers & New Practical Jokes Bloopers |
| Genre |
Reality Television Comedy |
| Written by |
Bryan Michael Stoller Karl Tiedemann |
| Directed by | Bill Davis Bryan Michael Stoller |
| Presented by |
Dick Clark (1982–2004) Ed McMahon (1982–1998) Dean Cain (2012–2013) |
| Narrated by | Charlie O'Donnell |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Running time | 45 minutes (1984–1986, 1991–2007) 22 minutes (2012–2013) |
| Production company(s) |
Dick Clark Productions Carson Productions (1984–1998) |
| Distributor |
Sony Pictures Television (1984–1986 episodes) Trifecta Entertainment & Media (2012–2013) |
| Release | |
| Original network |
NBC (1984–1998) ABC (1998–2007) Syndication (2012–2013) |
| Original release | January 9, 1984 – July 1, 2013 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by |
TV's Censored Bloopers (1982–1984) Television's Greatest Commercials (1982–84) |
| External links | |
| Website | bloopers |
| Production website |
www |
TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes is an American television series. Debuting as a weekly series, new episodes have been broadcast as infrequent specials during most of its run. It premiered on NBC in 1984, moved to ABC in 1998, and was revived in syndication in 2012. The NBC run of the series was co-produced by Carson Productions and Dick Clark Productions, and the ABC and syndication runs have been produced solely by Dick Clark Productions.
The series was predated by two separate series of specials, one devoted to television and film bloopers—humorous errors made during the production of film and television programs, or on live news broadcasts—and the other a series of specials featuring classic television commercials. The TV's Censored Bloopers specials were hosted by longtime TV producer Dick Clark starting in 1982 (and were dedicated to 1950s TV producer Kermit Schaefer, who had pioneered the concept of preserving bloopers) and the Television's Greatest Commercials specials, which also started in 1982, were hosted by Ed McMahon (which he continued to co-host even as he moved on to co-host the weekly Bloopers series). Both sets of specials garnered high ratings, and following a combination special (TV's Greatest Censored Commercial Bloopers), in the fall of 1984 it was decided to combine the two programs into one series, hosted by Clark and McMahon. Charlie O'Donnell (who was also Clark's announcer on American Bandstand from 1958 to 1968) would be added as announcer (to intro both McMahon and Clark, and to announce bloopers in the "Coming up next" bumpers).
Besides dividing the show between bloopers and classic TV advertisements of yesteryear, the original version of the show also featured at least two practical joke segments per episode, with celebrities caught in Candid Camera-like situations (a forerunner of the later series Punk'd). Like the blooper and commercial segments, the "practical jokes" were first seen in a television special, "Johnny Carson's Greatest Practical Jokes"—hence Carson Productions' involvement in the series.
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