Howie (Unsold Paul Lynde Pilot, 1962)
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Not a kinescope, but an unsold pilot from CBS, starring Paul Lynde and Will Hutchins. This was intended to possibly replace The Dick Van Dyke Show after lackluster ratings, but ultimately this was rejected.
This was on RUclips in parts, but I've put it back together and added something to replace the missing intro.
Paul Lynde is hilarious in this! Love it! It's too bad it didn't get picked up. Thanks for sharing.
I just stumbled across this Gem & I can't believe how hysterical it is.....
This is really funny
Loved it ❤❤❤❤
This is exactly the same plot from “The Paul Lynde Show” a decade later.
Without Sidney Sheldon's input. In 1972, Bill Asher managed to sell ABC a "new and improved" version of this pilot as part of a post-"BEWITCHED" production deal he had with the network. Only that script was mostly rewritten {and updated} by Ron Clark & Sam Bobrick.
Definitely a recycled plot. But still pretty funny 😁
It's a reboot. Same source material (a novel named "Howie" by Phoebe Ephron), same producer, etc. What kept it from reaching the air in 1962 was CBS's decision to give a struggling "Dick van Dyke Show" another chance. As DVD took off like a rocket after that reprieve, it proved to be the right decision.
Except the newsstand became a porno theater. You can see how the agenda changed in 10 years.
According to IMDb, this was based on a play written by Phoebe Ephron. It ran on Broadway for five performances September 17-20, 1958.
Once I saw William Asher's name come up, I realized why Paul eventually found a part-time home on Bewitched a couple of years after this attempt. I wonder if Bill was already familiar with him, or it was because of working with Paul on this project that he brought him on for an episode of Bewitched in which he played "Harold Harold" (damn, wish they had made him Howie Howard instead, LOL), the driving instructor trying to teach Samantha how to drive and going crazy when Endora pops in and out of the car the whole time. Then a short time afterward bringing him in as a recurring guest star playing 'Uncle Arthur'. I remember seeing clips from a Hollywood Palace episode hosted by Elizabeth Montgomery where she did several comedy sketches with Paul, I think she loved working with him.
Also, this show uses the same credits font as Bewitched.
Would have been a show ahead of its time! Many thanks for posting 👍🏼
What I know about this classic old-timer comedy series is that one career family has always been the fashion. We, fellow Americans, even had 2 career families just right long before 1982.
Thanks for posting this incredible find.
Pamelyn Ferdin connection. Pamelyn played Will Hutchins daughter on the Blondie TV series (1968~1969), & Paul's daughter on The Paul Lynde Show (1972~1973), which was a reworking of this 1962 pilot.
Lynde was perfect on the Hollywood Squares. He was funny even in his normal voice.
Interestingly, Paul Lynde was born in June 1926 and Will Hutchins was born in May 1930. So less than 4 years age difference between father-in-law and son-in-law.
This was an amazing series that they should have kept up with its sad that they didnt keep it running & same for Paul Lynde Show too :/
Paul Lynde was a comedic genius. Some people find his sarcasm and acerbic personality to be too much, but I think these make him funny. Then again, I'm a fan of Don Rickles and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.
This and the original play by Phoebe Ephron later became "The Paul Lynde Show".
This is a fantastic, funny show!!
This was supposed to replace dick van dyke show because the CBS president hated the show. Sheldon Leonard and Danny Thomas appealed to the sponsor and Dick Van Dyke won out
Procter and Gamble agreed to sponsor half the episodes and Lorillard Tobacco, makers of Kent cigarettes, picked up the other half.
The show did air as "The Paul Lynde Show" with a different cast in 1973. It was soon cancelled.
Hard to swallow Paul Lynde as a husband 😮
Wow, where do you even find a thing like this?
I remember Will from Sugarfoot. I met him at an autograph show, he looked the same in his old age, such a sweet man. I saw Paul at a bar once, he had bodyguards around him.
Cripes. To think this could have cost the world the Dick Van Dyke Show. Thank goodness we dodged that bullet.
Interesting that as early as 1962 writers were tackling the machines replacing humans dilemma.
Paul Lynde's character should have been cast just like his Bye Bye Birdie character.
This is great to watch. TY
This reminds me of the paul lynde show in 72
I had no idea that the Ashers had been "associated " with Paul Lynde before Bewitched, tho I have seen the later version of this show. It was too bad Paul never found a partner he could collaborate with, every role aside from Bewitched fitted him like a too small suit. With better writing he could (possibly) have soared.
Interesting! This had promise.
I always enjoyed Paul Lynne but now I understand why he's never been successful with his own show. His comedy is best delivered as a support character
That was a funny pilot but how long can you stretch that joke
That didn't suck. In fact, I've seen many shows from that era that did get picked up that were not nearly so funny. Of course, it's a lot easier to do it once than to do it every week. Recognize Hutchins from the Elvis movies "Clambake" and "Spinout."
Will Hutchins also starred in a 50s Warner Brothers western called Sugarfoot, IIRC. Bronco Lane and Maverick (with James Garner), and I believe 1 other western series(Cheyenne), had shows that alternated each friday night. Maverick was the most popular, I think, and Bronco Lane the least.
Striking similarities between this episode and the *The Paul Lynde Show* 10 years later.
Sidney Sheldon collaborated with Asher on "THE PATTY DUKE SHOW" the following season.
As did Peter Lawford's "Chrislaw Productions".
Howie is the “Lost ZIV Program”, in association with The CBS Television Network.
CBS president Jim Aubrey was "chummy" with the head of United Artists Television [they acquired ZIV Television in 1959, and dropped their name in late 1962]. He intended to place several of their programs on the network's schedule over the years, but the only one he "bought" from them was also a series he loathed: "GILLIGAN'S ISLAND".
Better than the newer show
On many of the ZIV programs’ closing credits, I see familiar names, including Al Lincoln, Joe Wonder, Eddie Davis, Vernon E. Clark, Milton Lustig, and others, but not on this program.
That's because this was filmed at Desilu (they weren't credited, though).
Thank you.
The mother in this show sounds like Kathleen Turner when she was doing Serial Mom.
Uncanny!! She sounds EXACTLY like her!!!!
Thank you
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Repackaged, relocated, and sold, as The Paul Lynde Show, 13 years later. Asher was in a lurch when Elizabeth Montgomery refused to do another season of Bewitched with two years left on the ABC contract. The Paul Lynde Show along with “Temperatures Rising” was a quick fix to avoid a lawsuit. This script is almost exactly the same, right down to the names. Even the boss J R has the same name.
Sidney Sheldon was not involved in that version. Ron Clark & Sam Bobrick rewrote the second pilot's script.
Too bad it did not get picked up.
They made the right decision.
Stupid, but I always liked Paul Lynde and Will Hutchins.
This is kind of a funny show...I would watch it.
You may have. They rebooted the pilot with different writers and actors (with the exception of Lynde) in 1973 and it was a midseason replacement known as "The Paul Lynde Show".
The concept was interesting, but Paul Lynde was the wrong choice to play the father. Too manic and over the top.
Maybe I was just in the right mood, but I liked this... wasn't that bad at all.
I'm not a huge Paul Lynde fan but the Howie character was interesting.
I cannot understand the psychology of anyone who isn't a Paul Lynde fan. LOL
I like Paul. Howie was just creepy. Or maybe it was Will Hutchins. I don't know.
@@julianhermanubis6800 Right on Baby
Anyone who’s not a Paul Lynde fan is a asshole who doesn’t know a comic genius that was funny as hell
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN I PRESENT THE GREAT PAUL LYNDE WE MISS YOU AND LOVE YOU THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE LAUGHS 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I'm sitting here , not laughing, but not exactly hating this either. I am sure CBS could have found room for this on their schedule, where I doubt it would have lasted for more than a season. Both leads are not particularly likeable, and as was the problem with Paul Lynde's later sitcom, a little goes a long way.
Well, the network ALMOST made room for this series. James T. Aubrey, CBS' ruthless president, wanted "THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW" off HIS 1962-'63 schedule so he could replace it with "HOWIE" {he had "friends" at United Artists Television}. But he didn't count on executive producer Sheldon Leonard going to Cincinnati to talk to Dick's sponsor, Procter & Gamble, at their corporate headquarters, begging them to give the series another chance. They agreed- provided an alternate sponsor was found for season two. Leonard found one [Lorillard's Kent cigarettes]- and P&G, in turn, informed Aubrey that "THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW" was to stay right where it was....in THEIR time period- or they'd move most of their advertising and their daytime "soaps" to the other networks. Since they were CBS' biggest advertiser, Aubrey backed down, informing United Artists that "HOWIE" would not be scheduled as planned.
Too much Paul Lynde is an impossibility.
@@fromthesidelines Thank God for the quick thinking Sheldon.
Yep!
I can see why this pilot wasn't picked up. It's not good and the performances seem forced. 👎
Paul Lynde looks out of place. It seems like he is trying too hard.
He always did, other than as Uncle Arthur on Bewitched and on Hollywood Squares. His early '70s show was completely over the top.
@@keithelster8858 , it seems to me that the Paul Lynde character ( because he always played "himself" ) is so funny because he's always on the verge of hysterical terror that at any moment the other characters will realize he's gay.