The production on that EP is soooo gawd awful: throwing every sonic snippet within every song that it served both Dolenz and the songs dreadfully. I’m glad he was able to do it live.
📺 this was back when entertainment and programs was fantastic to watch and not boring. Still love watching this commercial yet, never get tired of this commercial
I remember all of these, and I remember Samantha trounced Jeannie in The Who’s more powerful because of the obvious, Samantha wasn’t in a bottle, she made the choice . ❤ Thanks Nick, you made my childhood liveable and have given me old tv loves for a lifetime.
I was in the crowd. Didn't get an autographed copy or pictures with the marquee names(snapped pics of Buck, Stipe, and Henry Diltz), though I did snag a picture from behind of Michael Stipe and his entourage talking to one of the many homeless people of Athens. A great window into the kind of guy he is. Great people, all of those guys.
I loved how when Dr. Ruth was done counseling Al, she walked behind the counter and said, “Next.” She leaped out and was replaced by what looked like Christopher Lee’s Dracula. It was great.
This oddly brought a tear to my eye, used to look forward to watching these with my grandmother over summer break. The good old days as she used to say.
Every now and then I'll rewatch these clips out of nostalgia. I was 7 in 95, so the later nights of the marathon were the shows I grew up watching on Nick at Nite especially. It kind of warms my heart how much reverence Nick at Nite gave to its library of old reruns in the 90s and early 2000s, creating unique commercials, intros, songs, promo packaging and trivia tidbits for each one. Even just stuff like the announcer here reading the intro for the Ann Sothern Show shows the quirky narrative voice that Nick at Nite had in that era. Now they run three shows all year and the only branding is an occasional logo.
