Plot
Bob Hope/Michael Landon/Freddie Prinze/Don Rickles/Carol Wayne
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
- Bob Hope (The Bluffers (1974) (TV)); Michael Landon (Little House on the Prairie (1974)); Freddie Prinze performs stand-up; Don Rickles discusses marriage and NBC's executives; Carol Wayne talks about hosting the regional Emmys.
- The audience is filled with representatives from NBC's affiliate stations, attending a conference to see the next season's schedule. There is no live band, due to a work stoppage in its third week. The comedy segment is Carnac the Magnificent. Bob Hope refers to his busy schedule as being like returning to vaudeville; he is flying to New York after the taping to attend an awards banquet, then making a stop at a benefit in St. Louis before returning to L.A. to speak at his son's graduation from Chapman College, then flying to Spokane for the World's Fair opening. He comments on receiving an honorary doctorate in international relations from Salem College in West Virginia, then does several jokes about the new NBC president (Johnny joins in) and a few about Henry Kissinger. He then talks about his upcoming show "The Bluffers" and shows a clip. Don Rickles does his rapid-fire jokes on various topics, including his and Johnny's marriages and Johnny's parents, but when Johnny asks, he talks about having gotten married later (at 38) than Johnny or Ed had. They they joke about the upcoming dinner for the affiliates, and Rickles honestly compliments NBC's president. Michael Landon talks a bit about his upcoming new show "Little House on the Prairie" and says that he will direct some of the episodes. He also recalls that when young, he took acting training at Warner Brothers; at the time, the studio had long run a free acting school, which was shut down when Jack Warner learned of it for the first time. Landon's first film was "I Was a Teenage Werewolf", which surprises Johnny; he returns to that topic many times. Landon's salary for that movie was $600. He recalls that when he first started to be successful, the first thing he wanted to buy was a big salami, as it had always been too expensive for him. Freddie Prinze, 19 years old, does a stand-up routine and then talks with Johnny about his success, including the new series "Chico and the Man". He says he would like to buy his mother a house, then get himself a '64 Chevy. Carol Wayne is a guest, but does not appear in a sketch. She is going to host the local Emmy show. She talks with Johnny about the affiliates dinner, playing dumb to great comic effect.—lenab9011
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