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THE DAVID STEINBERG SHOW
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CBS
Produced by Bob Booker and George Foster
US Variety Comedy Sketch show 1972 5 episodes x 60 min
Starring:
David Steinberg
With Regulars:
Joe Flaherty
Martin Short
John Candy
Announcer:
Bill Thompson
Music:
The Artie Butler Orchestra
Summer replacement series
David Steinberg was born in Manitoba, and was a member of the Second City comedy
troupe in Chicago, and frequently
appeared on the "Tonight" show during the late 1960s. In 1969 he hosted "The
Music Scene".
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CBS Wednesdays 8-9pm
[01] The David Steinberg Show [Premiere]
19Jul1972 CBS Wed 8-9pm
'The David Steinberg Show' is a delightful piece of satirical nonsense that
proves what a bright young talent Steinberg is.
He's got a marvelously wicked gleam in his eye and a winning way.
Each show will be "small," two guests and David. Each show will have a
psychiatrist skit.
Leslie Uggams and Ed McMahon are tonight's guests and they are well used. Ed,
for instance, is an FBI agent in one skit with
David as a job applicant, but David stops the sketch and takes the role Ed is
playing because Ed has all the dialogue.
In another bit, David is a newspaper, with Ed and Leslie using "him" the way we
all use papers. None of the variety show cliches
is here. No longwinded introductions, no singing and dancing choruses. Just
talented people and good writing.
[02] The David Steinberg Show
26Jul1972 CBS Wed
[03] The David Steinberg Show
02Aug1972 CBS Wed
Guests:
James Caan
Bernadette Peters
As the Groucho Marx psychiatrist. David orders patient James Caan about, as he
swats at imaginary moving objects and tosses out
psychiatric swingers. With Caan and guest Bernadette Peters, Steinberg plays a
shy type attempting to amuse Miss Peters at a cocktail
party, and then Caan and Steinberg have fun playing big shots.
Even the musical numbers cast a satirical light tonight, when the trio sings
"It's you."
[04] The David Steinberg Show
09Aug1972 CBS Wed
Guests:
Tommy Smothers
Valerie Harper
It's mostly Tommy Smothers' night on "The David Steinberg Show" if you like him,
you'll like the show, and vice versa.
Valerie Harper of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", works some skits and does some
singing, and not bad, either. But basically,
watch Tommy in action, mainly as David's son in the psychiatrist skit with
Valerie as an ex-strippcr who takes off her clothes
when she hears music. Another sketch has David and Tommy, trying-to out-underdog
each other with Valerie the heart-of-gold waitress
who judges the peculiar contest.
[05] The David Steinberg Show [Final show of the
series]
16Aug1972 CBS Wed
Guests:
Avery Schreiber
Jack Burns
Della Reese
Carol Wayne
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