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I'm betting my sweet bippy - it's just the same discs repackaged and minus a disc
Taken from Wikipedia.It's probably been mentioned in this thread, but Time-Life released a Robin Williams tribute collection that includes a few episodes of the late 1970s "Laugh-In" revival series. I caught a couple episodes when they repeated them circa 1979, but I don't remember anything about the show, or who else was in it.
It's probably been mentioned in this thread, but Time-Life released a Robin Williams tribute collection that includes a few episodes of the late 1970s "Laugh-In" revival series. I caught a couple episodes when they repeated them circa 1979, but I don't remember anything about the show, or who else was in it.
TIme Life has a new box set devoted to Robin Williams. A treasure trove for Robin Williams fans. There's HBO specials, and segments from all sorts of talk show appearances, interview shows, cable series, Saturday Night Live and episodes of Mork & Mindy and more. (For me, a little Robin Williams went an awfully long way.)
Since he was on Laugh-In '77, I thought I'd look and see if anything from that series was included, since that's one of the first TV appearances he came to be known on. Although in the Time Life descriptions of what's on this release they mention all the shows he performed on or guested on, they do not mention Laugh-In '77. However, I believe the following section on one of the dvd's is indeed from that series:
The very brief clip I saw on the Time Life promo video indeed looked like it was from that show and that date above is when it aired on NBC. I believe that would make this the first time anything from Laugh-In '77 was made available this way.
- Robin Meets Mr. Sinatra
- Original Air Date: November 2, 1977
This is a post I made on the original Time-Life Laugh-In release page a couple years ago:
For Television presentation an extra strip and another inch or so was added - hence the name 2 Inch QuadsThese are rumored to be harvested from original three-strip nitrate.
These are rumored to be harvested from original three-strip nitrate.
Wonder if they actually fixed the frame rate this time? I still can’t believe the other discs got past “quality control” like that.
To anyone here who may have the TL Robin Williams collection (I'm sure atleast a few of yu do), which disc of the set is the "Laugh-In" episode/clip on? I ask as there is a seller on ebay who is (or was asof last time I checked [last week] ) selling individual discs frm the set.. I'm personally uninterested in owning the whole set, just maybe one or two of the volumes/programs of it (esp. if they contain rarities such as mentioned above). ThanksIt's probably been mentioned in this thread, but Time-Life released a Robin Williams tribute collection that includes a few episodes of the late 1970s "Laugh-In" revival series. I caught a couple episodes when they repeated them circa 1979, but I don't remember anything about the show, or who else was in it.
Another thing that Time Life edited out from the pilot episode on the DVD is the sponsor references during the opening and closing credits. It sounds like Judy Carne is doing the voiceover work, and the parts where she mentions Timex as the sponsor is edited out. Really a shame that someone at Time Life decided to mess with the pilot episode and edit out most of the Timex stuff. So if you want to see the full/unedited pilot episode, watch it on You Tube.Here's something interesting I recently discovered, the pilot episode of Laugh-In is currently on You Tube for free viewing, and it runs about 57 1/2 minutes. However, this same pilot episode on the DVD from Time Life is shorter and runs only about 53 1/2 minutes. So what's missing? What is missing on the DVD from Time Life are most of the Timex commercials, all except one of the commercials was edited out. It's not that big of a deal but it still irritates me that someone at Time Life would go to the trouble and edit out the commercials, it was a foolish thing to do.![]()