US Music Variety - US Talk Shows/ Discussion Series
- US Documentary Series<Previous "The Dick Cavett Show" Next>
Season 3 (ABC Prime Time)(Summer 1969)
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Rina Fox,
references:
TV Guide / Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (https://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive / Writers Guild of America (wga)
NYT and Brooklyn Daily Eagle
ABC Prime time series for the summer seen at 10pm Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays
One hour program shown three times a week
Produced by Tony Converse
Directed by David Barnhizer (was the associate producer of 100 segments of the
old Regis Philbin Show for Westinghouse)
Barnhizer's first job was at NBC in Chicago in 1953 as stage manager for Kukla,
Fran and Ollie. His first big job as a
director was an adaptation of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". He won four EMMYS in
Chicago, including two for
directing and producing "Quillow and the Giant" a children's theater musical
featuring Win Stracke. While in Chicago he
made 4,000 commercials. He says, "I think I hold the world's record", "I did 48
one-minute plugs in one day."
Barnhizer was invited to watch a pilot of a show called "The Star and the Story"
a take-off on "This Is Your Life" with
Dick Cavett as the host. The program dealt with actor Van Johnson's life story
and it was about three minutes old, when it
became apparent that Cavett knew all he wanted to know about Van Johnson",
Barnhizer says, "and he spoofed the rest of the show. I liked him immediately!"
3.01 [227] The Dick Cavett Show
26May1969 ABC Mon
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
actress Candice Bergen
singer-actress Liza Minnelli
author Truman Capote
actor James Coburn.
*Note: When Dick Cavett introduced Candice Bergen he said she was not only a
model and an actress,
but a writer and photographer - "a Renaissance broad".
Dick Cavett returns with a Summer Primetime one hour series, shown three times a
week.
3.02 [228] The Dick Cavett Show
27May1969
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
actress Jane Fonda
football star Joe Namath
and singer Tom Jones.
3.03 [229] The Dick Cavett Show
30May1969
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
actor Richard Benjamin
actress Paula Prentiss
race car driver Stirling Moss
and the cast of the off-Broadway musical "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown".
==================================
3.04 [230] The Dick Cavett Show [Re-Numbered from Here]
02Jun1969 ABC Mon
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
actress Hedy Lamarr
actor Nicol Williamson of Broadway's "Hamlet"
and film critic Rex Reed.
3.05 [231] The Dick Cavett Show
03Jun1969
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
singer Mary Hopkin
actor James Earl Jones
humorist Mort Sahl
and writer-politician Conor Cruise O'Brien.
3.06 [232] The Dick Cavett Show
06Jun1969
Guests
actresses Lillian Gish and
Lynn Redgrave.
==================================
3.07 [233] The Dick Cavett Show
09Jun1969 ABC Mon
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
criminal defense attorney Percy Foreman
and comic actress Beatrice Lillie.
3.08 [234] The Dick Cavett Show
10Jun1969
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
James Simon Kuenen, a Columbia University student militant
and author of "The Strawberry Statesmen"
conservative Tony Dolan
journalist William F. Buckley Jr.
and The Cowsills.
Highlights:
The Cowsills perform "In Need of a Friend".
3.09 [235] The Dick Cavett Show
13Jun1969
Host Dick Cavett
Guest
comedian-actor Groucho Marx
Highlights:
Groucho Marx talks about his childhood, vaudeville, censorship, his brothers,
Irving Thalberg,
Margaret Dumont, and sings one of his signature songs, 'Lydia the Tattooed
Lady', along with
'Everybody Works But Father' and 'Father's Day'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VckmK-ZCpAU
*Note: Show was only a half hour, due to pre-emption for a
special report on the
US Open Golf Tournament.
==================================
3.10 [236] The Dick Cavett Show
16Jun1969 ABC Mon
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
actor Jon Voight
and director John Schlesinger of the film "The Midnight Cowboy"
comedian Wally Cox
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
and State Department Chief of Protocol Emile Mosbacher Jr.
3.11 [237] The Dick Cavett Show
17Jun1969
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
actor Tony Curtis
magician-author Walter B. Gibson
documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman
and The Inner Dialogue.
3.12 [238] The Dick Cavett Show
20Jun1969
Guests
singer-actor Harry Belafonte
and musical duo Hedge and Donna
actress Raquel Welch
and British author-critic Kenneth Tynan.
==================================
3.13 [239] The Dick Cavett Show
23Jun1969 ABC Mon
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
actress Natalie Wood
Opera star Beverly Sills
comedy writer Pat McCormick
and sportscaster Drew Pearson.
3.14 [240] The Dick Cavett Show
24Jun1969
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
actor Paul Newman
TV critic Cleveland Amory
entertainer Tiny Tim
actress-dancer Ann Miller
former Governor of Maine Edmund Muskie
and restauranteur Al Carmine.
3.15 [241] The Dick Cavett Show
27Jun1969
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
actress Leslie Caron
author-commentator William F. Buckley
singer Dionne Warwick
comic duo Bob and Ray
and R&B soul group Sam and Dave.
==================================
3.16 [242] The Dick Cavett Show
30Jun1969 ABC Mon [Paley Center]
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
boxer Joe Frazier
musician John Hartford
actress Julie Harris
attorney Clifford Alexander
and psychologist Dr. Albert Ellis.
3.17 [243] The Dick Cavett Show
01Jul1969
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
actress Gina Lollobrigida
director Woody Allen
journalist-host Alistair Cooke
and singer Edwin Starr.
3.18 [244] The Dick Cavett Show
04Jul1969
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
actor James Mason
society columnist Betty Beale
James Cavanaugh author of "A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church"
and the Edwin Hawkins Singers.
==================================
3.19 [245] The Dick Cavett Show
07Jul1969 ABC Mon [Paley Center]
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
Robert Downey Sr.
author Kurt Vonnegut
dancer-actress Gwen Verdon
playwright Garson Kanin
and rock musician Jimi Hendrix who performs "Hear My Train A Comin'".
3.20 [246] The Dick Cavett Show
08Jul1969
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
actress Marlo Thomas
singer Sarah Vaughan
and writer-naturalist Roger Caras.
3.21 [247] The Dick Cavett Show
11Jul1969 [Paley Center]
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
film critic Rex Reed
comedian-impressionist David Frye
investigative journalist I.F. Stone
singers Dionne Warwick
and Dee Dee Warwick.
==================================
3.22 [248] The Dick Cavett Show
14Jul1969 ABC Mon [Tucson Citizen]
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
director Richard Attenborough who recently directed his first film "Oh, What a
Lovely War"
actress Patty Duke
and comedian Redd Foxx.
3.23 [249] The Dick Cavett Show
15Jul1969 [Tucson Citizen]
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
actor Stanley Holloway
actress Mildred Dunnock
and Dick Tuck perpetrator of political practical jokes
3.24 [250] The Dick Cavett Show
18Jul1969
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
singer Janis Joplin
politician Michael Thomas
and The Committee.
Highlights:
Janis and the Kozmic Blues Band perform "To Love Somebody" and "Try (Just A
Little Bit Harder)".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ0ra5IJa_Q
==================================
3.25 [251] The Dick Cavett Show
21Jul1969 ABC Mon
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
actor Burt Lancaster
composer Tim Hardin
and Conor Cruise O'Brien newly elected member of the Irish Parliament.
3.26 [252] The Dick Cavett Show
22Jul1969
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
actor Alejandro Rey
and The Everly Brothers.
3.27 [253] The Dick Cavett Show
25Jul1969
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
pianist Peter Nero
composer Richard Rodgers
and comedy duo Bob and Ray.
==================================
3.28 [254] The Dick Cavett Show
28Jul1969 ABC Mon
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
performers Edward Villella and Patricia McBride (in a dance based on the music
from "Hair")
Gay Talese author of "The Kingdom and the Power"
and political practical joker Dick Tuck.
3.29 [255] The Dick Cavett Show
29Jul1969
Guests
poet Alan Ginsberg
financial columnist Sylvia Porter
and Iron Butterfly.
3.30 [256] The Dick Cavett Show
01Aug1969 [NY Times]
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
comedian Jack Burns
actress Mina Kolb
Country singer-songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker
and journalist Edward Epstein.
==================================
3.31 [257] The Dick Cavett Show
04Aug1969 ABC Mon
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
folk singer Joan Baez
Gordon Parks, former LIFE magazine photographer who has written
"The Learning Tree" an autobiographical film
and comedian Henry Morgan.
3.32 [258] The Dick Cavett Show
05Aug1969
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
impressionist David Frye
former Baseball magnate Bill Veeck
and Edwin Reischauer former ambassador to Japan.
[--] The Dick Cavett Show
08Aug1969 ABC Fri
postponed to August 22, 1969 due to Presidential address by President Nixon.
==================================
3.33 [259] The Dick Cavett Show
11Aug1969 ABC Mon
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
director Woody Allen
singer Carmen McRae
former Ambassador Averell W. Harriman
and managing editor of the New York Times Harrison Salisbury.
3.34 [260] The Dick Cavett Show
12Aug1969
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
British actor Nicol Williamson of the stage production "Hamlet"
and folk singer Arlo Guthrie.
3.35 [261] The Dick Cavett Show
15Aug1969
From the Warwick Music Theater in Providence R.I.
Host Dick Cavett
Guest
comedian Jack Benny
==================================
3.36 [262] The Dick Cavett Show
18Aug1969 ABC Mon
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
coloratura soprano Beverly Sills
and Congresswoman from Brooklyn Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.)
3.37 [263] The Dick Cavett Show
19Aug1969 [Press-Telegram]
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
Jefferson Airplane
singer Joni Mitchell
and singer-musicians Stephen Stills and David Crosby.
Highlights:
Jefferson Airplane perform "We Can Be Together" and "Somebody to Love".
Stephen Stills performs "4 + 20".
Joni sings "Chelsea Morning".
https://www.shoutfactorytv.com/the-dick-cavett-show/the-dick-cavett-show-rock-icons-jefferson-airplane-august-19-1969/558b064a69702d07056c2100
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYsQJIdgApY
https://www.openculture.com/2012/06/dick_cavetts_epic_woodstock_festival_show.html
Taped the day after the Woodstock festival ended, Dick welcomed several big name
acts that had just performed there,
some still covered with mud. Recorded 'in the round' with a youthful audience,
this show is a true time capsule of the time.
This show differ from the usual Cavett format, in that it's primarily a music
program and is recorded 'in the-round' with
a young audience, many of who had attended the Woodstock festival. Dick opens
the show wearing an exceptionally
groovy scarf, which he quickly ditches when he realizes how it looks on camera.
Headline act Jefferson Airplane opens the show, accompanied by very psychedelic
graphics onscreen.
They join Dick afterwards on ottomans for a brief interview.
Grace Slick makes fun of the furniture and rolls her eyes repeatedly at Dick's
questions.
Unannounced guest Stephen Stills joins the circle and performs "4 + 20".
Dick introduces a performer who skipped Woodstock to perform on this show:
Joni Mitchell, who performs "Chelsea Morning", plus two other songs.
The show wraps up with Jefferson Airplane and Stephen Stills performing the hit
single "Somebody to Love".
The audience members get up and dance as the show ends.
3.38 [264] The Dick Cavett Show
22Aug1969
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
Jazz musician Duke Ellington
and Mary McCarthy author of "The Group".
*Note: This program was postponed from August 8, 1969 due to an address by
President Nixon.
==================================
3.39 [265] The Dick Cavett Show
25Aug1969 ABC Mon
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
singer Bobbie Gentry
and FFC's Nicholas Johnson.
3.40 [266] The Dick Cavett Show
26Aug1969
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
Blues singer John Lee Hooker
and Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon.
3.41 [267] The Dick Cavett Show
29Aug1969
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
director Stanley Kramer
Dr. Paul Weiss
and The Voices of East Harlem.
==================================
3.42 [268] The Dick Cavett Show
01Sep1969
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
Blues singer-musician B.B. King
actor Sal Mineo
and journalist I.F. Stone.
3.43 [269] The Dick Cavett Show
02Sep1969
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
actor William Holden
singer-actress Eartha Kitt
and Mystery writer Rex Stout.
3.44 [270] The Dick Cavett Show
05Sep1969
Host Dick Cavett
Guest
comedian Groucho Marx
*Note: Due to previous program pre-emption of Marx's interview, the program
was aired fully. Groucho reminisces with anecdotes, ad libs, and demonstrates
his singing prowess ... a style all its own performing "Lydia".
==================================
3.45 [271] The Dick Cavett Show
08Sep1969
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
singer Johnny Mathis
and naturalist Roger Caris.
3.46 [272] The Dick Cavett Show
09Sep1969
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
actor Robert Young
consumer advocate Ralph Nader
and rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGf9PTYyJ4A
3.47 [273] The Dick Cavett Show
12Sep1969
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
singer Mama Cass
Politician Jesse Unruh (Calif-D)
and noted horticulturist Thalassa Cruso.
==================================
3.48 [274] The Dick Cavett Show
15Sep1969 ABC Mon
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
comic Milt Kamen
and blues guitarist-singer John Lee Hooker
3.49 [275] The Dick Cavett Show
16Sep1969
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
football star Joe Namath
comedienne Joan Rivers
Congressman Adam Clayton Powell
and pianist Lorin Hollander.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a8P-rlLfuo
3.50 [276] The Dick Cavett Show [Last show of the
Prime time Summer series]
19Sep1969 ABC Fri
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
director Woody Allen
actress Ruth Gordon
and film star Gina Lollobrigida
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_ADwUb-hRY
############## The Dick Cavett Show #############
################# end of Season 3 ##############
##############################################
Have you any comments, corrections, episode titles, air dates,
production numbers, directors, writers, story/synopsis, guest stars, cast lists,
etc?
Have you any old videos, or tv guides? Dust them off and let us know if you have
any information on this series or any other tv series from the
Golden Age of TV, which is missing from any episode guides on the web. Perhaps a
certain episode of a particular series coincided with a key
moment in your life, or in world events - and or has left a vivid memory of when
it was shown. Let us know. Would you like to see any other
tv series guides on this site? If so please e-mail The Classic TV Archive - see
Feedback below.
This guide may be distributed and copied freely, in its entirety, for personal
use. All original author and copyright information must
remain intact. Any sales or other uses of this document are expressly forbidden,
without the specific consent of the author(s).
Copyright © The Classic TV Archive. All rights reserved.
Return to The
Classic TV Archive Home Page
Feedback
- Talk Show
Forum