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Goodbye Summer More Like
The good news about HI SUMMER was that it was shown during the Summer and only lasted one series . The bad news was that it was broadcast in 1977 one of the worst Summers on record and in those days we only had three stations and no videos or computer games . If it was pouring of rain outside watching television was pretty much your only source of entertainment as a child
The title sequence starts with the performers dressed as camp fireman riding around on a fire engine waving to passerbys along with an unforgettably bad theme song that goes " Hi-i-i-i-i- Summer oh oh oh " . Possibly the producers thought this sequence would sum up the show with its feel good air and inadvertently it probably has since Crowther and co come across as imbeciles on laughing gas .
The format is variety show with singing and dancing and comedy sketches with the sketches being the major failure . One example is a man played by Leslie Crowther in a restaurant sitting at a table . The waiter approaches with a platter , lifts the lid and the head of a child singing is on the platter blinking away at Crowther who exclaims :
" I asked for a plate of macaroni - Not Lena Zavaroni "
Some professional TV critics like Gary Bushall lament the death of variety shows on television but I reckon he'd be the first to complain if we got something this bad . Comical Ali would have a hard time trying to spin this
The title sequence starts with the performers dressed as camp fireman riding around on a fire engine waving to passerbys along with an unforgettably bad theme song that goes " Hi-i-i-i-i- Summer oh oh oh " . Possibly the producers thought this sequence would sum up the show with its feel good air and inadvertently it probably has since Crowther and co come across as imbeciles on laughing gas .
The format is variety show with singing and dancing and comedy sketches with the sketches being the major failure . One example is a man played by Leslie Crowther in a restaurant sitting at a table . The waiter approaches with a platter , lifts the lid and the head of a child singing is on the platter blinking away at Crowther who exclaims :
" I asked for a plate of macaroni - Not Lena Zavaroni "
Some professional TV critics like Gary Bushall lament the death of variety shows on television but I reckon he'd be the first to complain if we got something this bad . Comical Ali would have a hard time trying to spin this
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- Theo Robertson
- Sep 14, 2005
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