The Smothers Brothers Show
| The Smothers Brothers Show | |
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Tom and Dick Smothers, 1965.
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| Genre | Fantasy sitcom |
| Created by |
Aaron Spelling Richard Newton |
| Written by |
Dee Caruso Gerald Gardner Lila Garrett Alex Gottlieb Bernie Kahn Arnold Margolin Jim Parker Arthur Weingarten Allan Burns (uncredited) Chris Hayward (uncredited) |
| Directed by |
Charles Barton Frederick De Cordova Sidney Miller H. Bruce Humberstone |
| Starring | Smothers Brothers |
| Theme music composer | Perry Botkin, Jr. |
| Composer(s) | Perry Botkin, Jr. |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 32 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Aaron Spelling |
| Producer(s) | Frederick De Cordova Phil Sharp (uncredited) |
| Running time | 22–24 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Four Star-Knave |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Picture format | Black-and-white |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | September 17, 1965 – April 22, 1966 |
The Smothers Brothers Show is an American fantasy sitcom featuring the Smothers Brothers that aired on CBS on Friday nights at 9:30 p.m. ET from September 17, 1965 to April 22, 1966, co-sponsored by Alberto-Culver's VO5 hairdressing products and American Tobacco (Tareyton). It lasted one season, consisting of 32 episodes. It was also the network's last situation comedy filmed in black-and-white; shortly after its final telecast, all CBS prime-time series were transmitted in color.
Dick Smothers played himself as a rising young executive at Pandora Publications, working for publisher Leonard J. Costello (Roland Winters). Brother Tom had been lost at sea two years earlier and now shows up as an apprentice angel assigned to do good deeds on Earth to become a full-fledged regular angel. Of course, Tom's efforts to help people never seem to work as planned and Dick had to help him clean up the mess. Tom received his orders from Ralph, his unseen and unheard boss. The series also featured Harriet MacGibbon as Mrs. Costello and, on occasion, Ann Elder as Dick's co-worker and girl friend, Janet (Eileen O'Neill also appeared in several episodes as another of Dick's girl friends, Wanda). As was typical of the Smothers Brothers in their later show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Dick was typically the straight man to Tom's humorous antics.
The series was produced by Four Star Television in association with the brothers' "Knave Productions" (named for Tom's catchphrase, "Curb Your Tongue, Knave!", which also served as the title of one of their record albums).
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