Piggy Piggy, I was able to track down the exact date of your channel surfing. This was done on Saturday, June 8, 1985. If you would like, I can tell you what episodes air that date at the time.
Poor quality video, but better than nothing. What's going on before your eyes is what the earliest films did on the screen, and that's why we used to call them "flicks", short for flickers. Thanks for posting this. Sarducci is one of my favorite funny men.
The Lazlo Letters under his real name Don Novello is great - tongue in cheek letters written to corporations and real people and their very serious responses
I have always remembered the "et cetera" joke from this appearance. Very clever. I even had a chance to riff on that joke in front of my students once (by reading off a long list of items and saying "et cetera" just prior to the last one), but I am not sure how many of them got it. Don's appearances are always a treat to watch.
This is a fantastically funny video of Letterman and Father Guido Sarducci. I wish the volume weren't so low. I have to get right up to my laptop to hear it.
By the way, the full program is really a nice tribute to Harmon... once again I realized what a relaxed presence he had for TV. It was the same way I remember him from a 'signing' event at Midwest Federal in Minneapolis in June of 1969. You wouldn't think that a baseball player from Idaho circa 1950 would be so relaxed and erudite on TV (during his career and his stints as a baseball telecaster.
I have the full program - recorded in about 1986 - and have put it on a blank DVD for ease of use. It's not a high quality version mostly because of my antenna. I don't know if NBC would get weird about a full episode of the program showing up on youtube. I'd be willing to send you a copy if you feel like installing it here. ??
Great time capsule of Cable TV. The Scoreboard pop-up at the 3:53 mark indicates this was the same day of the historic Regional Semi-final between Kentucky and Duke, March 28th, 1992.
Sign of the times: Having to call a a 1-900 number for weather/ski conditions, and having to pay 85 cents a minute for that call! Twenty-three years later, all I have to do is grab my iPhone and ask Siri to give me this information, and she does it without me getting charged anything other than what my monthly Sprint bill costs.
Do you happen to know the exact date of this? I was going to use the audio for a class project, matched with a still image. I plan to make a video and attribute you to it if that's okay.
