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The Smothers Brothers Show

American television series

Summary

American television series

Field	Value
image	Smothers brothers 1965.JPG
image_size	200
caption	Tom and Dick Smothers, 1965
genre	Fantasy sitcom
writer	Dee Caruso
Gerald Gardner
Lila Garrett
Alex Gottlieb
Bernie Kahn
Arnold Margolin
Jim Parker
Arthur Weingarten
Allan Burns (uncredited)
Chris Hayward (uncredited)
director	Charles Barton
Frederick De Cordova
Sidney Miller
H. Bruce Humberstone
starring	Smothers Brothers
country	United States
language	English
num_seasons	1
num_episodes	32
executive_producer	Aaron Spelling
producer	Frederick De Cordova
Phil Sharp (uncredited)
creator	Aaron Spelling
Richard Newton
theme_music_composer	Perry Botkin Jr.
composer	Perry Botkin Jr.
company	Four Star-Knave
runtime	22–24 minutes
channel	CBS
first_aired
last_aired

Gerald Gardner Lila Garrett Alex Gottlieb Bernie Kahn Arnold Margolin Jim Parker Arthur Weingarten Allan Burns (uncredited) Chris Hayward (uncredited) Frederick De Cordova Sidney Miller H. Bruce Humberstone Phil Sharp (uncredited) Richard Newton

The Smothers Brothers Show (also known as My Brother the Angel) is an American fantasy sitcom featuring the Smothers Brothers that aired on CBS on Friday nights at 9:30 p.m. ET from September 17, 1965, to April 22, 1966, co-sponsored by Alberto-Culver's VO5 hairdressing products and American Tobacco's Tareyton cigarettes. It was the first television show to feature the Smothers Brothers as regulars, following a series of night club and guest appearances. It lasted one season, consisting of 32 episodes.

It was the network's last sitcom filmed in black-and-white; shortly after its final telecast, all CBS prime-time series were transmitted in color. In 1986, two decades after cancellation, reruns were seen on Nick at Nite.

Synopsis

Dick Smothers played himself as a rising young executive at Pandora Publications, working for publisher Leonard J. Costello (Roland Winters). Brother Tom had been lost at sea two years earlier and now shows up as an apprentice angel assigned to do good deeds on Earth to earn his wings and become a full-fledged angel. Of course, Tom's efforts to help people never seem to work as planned and Dick had to help him clean up the mess. Tom received his orders from Ralph, his unseen and unheard boss. The series also featured Harriet MacGibbon as Mrs. Harriet Costello, and on occasion, Ann Elder as Dick's co-worker and girlfriend, Janet. Eileen O'Neill also appeared in several episodes as another of Dick's girlfriends, Wanda. As was typical of the Smothers Brothers in The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Dick was typically the straight man to Tom's humorous antics.

Creative control struggles

The series was produced by Four Star Television in association with the brothers' Knave Productions (named for Tom's catchphrase "Curb Your Tongue, Knave!" and the title of their 1963 record album).

This series may have inspired the Brothers' more successful later series The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in that Tom Smothers had been critical of the series as not being compatible with the brothers' strengths (in fact, he fought with Four Star executives over more creative control of the series, earning an ulcer and irritating his marital relationship to the point of divorce at the end of the season).

For instance, neither brother played their instruments on the show (with one exception, at the beginning of "'Twas The Week Before Christmas" episode), and it was not until halfway through the season that they sang the theme song.

Episodes

References

Spelling, Aaron; Graham, Jefferson. (2002). "Aaron Spelling: A Prime-Time Life". [[Macmillan Publishers (United States).
McKairnes, Jim. (January 31, 2017). "50-year flashback: The rebellious 'Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour'". [[USA Today]].
Dalton, Mary M.; Linder, Laura R.. (2016). "The Sitcom Reader, Second Edition: America Re-viewed, Still Skewed". [[State University of New York.
Mendoza, N. F.. (June 25, 1995). "Nick's Nites to Remember". [[Los Angeles Times]].

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