Good Morning, World
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Good Morning, World is an American
sitcom
broadcast on CBS-TV during the 1967–1968 season, originally sponsored by Procter & Gamble
in their 9:30 p.m. Eastern time period on Tuesday nights.
, who had proven to be fairly popular as "Duke", one of Gomer's buddies, in the hit program Gomer Pyle, USMC over the three previous seasons. Schell's character, Larry Clarke, was a morning disc jockey
and part of a morning drive-time team, "Lewis and Clarke", on a smallish AM
radio station
in Los Angeles
. The show also starred Joby Baker
, who was known for guest starring in many sitcoms. The show's creators were Carl Reiner
, Sheldon Leonard
, Bill Persky
, and Sam Denoff
, all of whom had worked on The Dick Van Dyke Show
, and was inspired by Persky & Denoff's personal experiences working as continuity writers for several disc jockeys on radio station WNEW-AM in New York during the 1950s. In fact, William B. Williams, one of the station's most popular deejays, received screen credit for originating the show's title (adapted from his famous opening greeting, "Hello, World!").
Despite having the long-established and popular Red Skelton Show
as a lead-in, and the young Goldie Hawn
as a minor neighbor character, the show did not do well on Nielsen ratings
and Schell returned to Gomer Pyle as Duke for the next season, which was also the show's last. Los Angeles Dodgers
broadcaster Vin Scully
did voice-over
narration in some of the episodes.
Unlike most sitcoms of the era, Good Morning, World was filmed in front of a live audience (standard practice at the time was to film an episode on a closed set and add a laugh track
during post-production). However, a laugh track was used to "sweeten" the live audience reactions.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
sitcom
Situation comedy
A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...
broadcast on CBS-TV during the 1967–1968 season, originally sponsored by Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble is a Fortune 500 American multinational corporation headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio and manufactures a wide range of consumer goods....
in their 9:30 p.m. Eastern time period on Tuesday nights.
Synopsis
It was designed as a starring vehicle for Ronnie SchellRonnie Schell
Ronald Ralph "Ronnie" Schell is an American actor, stand-up comedian and cartoon voice actor . Early in his career he appeared as himself as a contestant on You Bet Your Life opposite Groucho Marx, demonstrating a comic barrage of jive talk.-Life and career:Schell was born in Richmond, California...
, who had proven to be fairly popular as "Duke", one of Gomer's buddies, in the hit program Gomer Pyle, USMC over the three previous seasons. Schell's character, Larry Clarke, was a morning disc jockey
Disc jockey
A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...
and part of a morning drive-time team, "Lewis and Clarke", on a smallish AM
Amplitude modulation
Amplitude modulation is a technique used in electronic communication, most commonly for transmitting information via a radio carrier wave. AM works by varying the strength of the transmitted signal in relation to the information being sent...
radio station
Radio station
Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...
in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
. The show also starred Joby Baker
Joby Baker
Joby Baker is a Canadian born actor and painter.He was born in Montreal, Quebec. In the early 1960s he made guest appearances in TV series including Dr. Kildare and The Dick Van Dyke Show and appeared in the Elvis Presley movie Girl Happy...
, who was known for guest starring in many sitcoms. The show's creators were Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner is an American actor, film director, producer, writer and comedian. He has won nine Emmy Awards and one Grammy Award during this career...
, Sheldon Leonard
Sheldon Leonard
Sheldon Leonard was a pioneering American film and television producer, director, writer, and actor.-Biography:...
, Bill Persky
Bill Persky
Bill Persky is an American Emmy Award-winning director, screenwriter, producer, and actor for television. With his long time late collaborator Sam Denoff he wrote and created the television show "That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas.-External links:...
, and Sam Denoff
Sam Denoff
Samuel Denoff was an American Emmy Award-winning screenwriter, television producer. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. With his long time collaborator Bill Persky he wrote and created the television show "That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas.-External links:*- References :...
, all of whom had worked on The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Dick Van Dyke Show is an American television sitcom that initially aired on the Columbia Broadcasting System from October 3, 1961, until June 1, 1966. The show was created by Carl Reiner and starred Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore. It was produced by Reiner with Bill Persky and Sam Denoff....
, and was inspired by Persky & Denoff's personal experiences working as continuity writers for several disc jockeys on radio station WNEW-AM in New York during the 1950s. In fact, William B. Williams, one of the station's most popular deejays, received screen credit for originating the show's title (adapted from his famous opening greeting, "Hello, World!").
Despite having the long-established and popular Red Skelton Show
The Red Skelton Show
The Red Skelton Show is an American variety show that was a television staple for two decades, from 1951 to 1971. It was second to Gunsmoke and third to The Ed Sullivan Show in the ratings during that time. Skelton, who had previously been a radio star, had appeared in several motion pictures as...
as a lead-in, and the young Goldie Hawn
Goldie Hawn
Goldie Jeanne Hawn is an American actress, film director, producer, and occasional singer. Hawn is known for her roles in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Private Benjamin, Foul Play, Overboard, Bird on a Wire, Death Becomes Her, The First Wives Club, and Cactus Flower, for which she won the 1969...
as a minor neighbor character, the show did not do well on Nielsen ratings
Nielsen Ratings
Nielsen ratings are the audience measurement systems developed by Nielsen Media Research, in an effort to determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States...
and Schell returned to Gomer Pyle as Duke for the next season, which was also the show's last. Los Angeles Dodgers
Los Angeles Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers are a professional baseball team based in Los Angeles, California. The Dodgers are members of Major League Baseball's National League West Division. Established in 1883, the team originated in Brooklyn, New York, where it was known by a number of nicknames before becoming...
broadcaster Vin Scully
Vin Scully
Vincent Edward Scully is an American sportscaster, known primarily as the play-by-play voice of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team on Prime Ticket, KCAL-TV and KABC radio...
did voice-over
Voice-over
Voice-over is a production technique where a voice which is not part of the narrative is used in a radio, television production, filmmaking, theatre, or other presentations...
narration in some of the episodes.
Unlike most sitcoms of the era, Good Morning, World was filmed in front of a live audience (standard practice at the time was to film an episode on a closed set and add a laugh track
Laugh track
A laugh track is a separate soundtrack invented by Charles "Charley" Douglass, with the artificial sound of audience laughter, made to be inserted into television programming of comedy shows and sitcoms.The term "laugh track" does not apply to the genuine audience laughter on shows that shoot in...
during post-production). However, a laugh track was used to "sweeten" the live audience reactions.
Cast
- Ronnie SchellRonnie SchellRonald Ralph "Ronnie" Schell is an American actor, stand-up comedian and cartoon voice actor . Early in his career he appeared as himself as a contestant on You Bet Your Life opposite Groucho Marx, demonstrating a comic barrage of jive talk.-Life and career:Schell was born in Richmond, California...
as Larry Clarke - Joby BakerJoby BakerJoby Baker is a Canadian born actor and painter.He was born in Montreal, Quebec. In the early 1960s he made guest appearances in TV series including Dr. Kildare and The Dick Van Dyke Show and appeared in the Elvis Presley movie Girl Happy...
as Dave Lewis - Billy De WolfeBilly De WolfeBilly De Wolfe was an American character actor. He was active in films from the mid-1940s until his death in 1974. He was a good friend of Doris Day from the time of their meeting during the filming of Tea for Two until his death...
as Roland Hutton, Jr. - Julie ParrishJulie ParrishJulie Parrish was an American film, stage and television actress....
as Linda Lewis - Goldie HawnGoldie HawnGoldie Jeanne Hawn is an American actress, film director, producer, and occasional singer. Hawn is known for her roles in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Private Benjamin, Foul Play, Overboard, Bird on a Wire, Death Becomes Her, The First Wives Club, and Cactus Flower, for which she won the 1969...
as Sandy Kramer
Episode list
| Episode # | Production Code | Episode Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Knits to You, Sir" | September 5, 1967 |
| 2 | 26 | "You Can't Say That About My Wife and Neither Can I" | September 12, 1967 |
| 3 | 9 | "You vs. Me" | September 19, 1967 |
| 4 | 2 | "If You Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder, I'll Go Wild" | September 26, 1967 |
| 5 | 25 | "Who Will Buy My Calamari?" | October 3, 1967 |
| 6 | 7 | "Where Have You Been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?" | October 10, 1967 |
| 7 | 4 | "Love at First Flight" | October 24, 1967 |
| 8 | 5 | "No News Like Nude News" | October 31, 1967 |
| 9 | 8 | "Stan and Ollie Meet Larry and Dave" | November 7, 1967 |
| 10 | 6 | "Feet of Clay and a Head to Match" | November 14, 1967 |
| 11 | 11 | "The Return of Bibian" | November 21, 1967 |
| 12 | 13 | "If You Marry Me Today, I'll Marry You Tomorrow" | November 28, 1967 |
| 13 | 3 | "Don't Call Us and We Won't Call You" | December 5, 1967 |
| 14 | 14 | "The Voice of the Turtle is Better Than Mine" | December 12, 1967 |
| 15 | 16 | "The Man Who Came to Din Din" | December 19, 1967 |
| 16 | 12 | "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, Maybe" | December 26, 1967 |
| 17 | 16 | "First Down and 200 Miles to Go" | January 2, 1968 |
| 18 | 15 | "I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dave" | January 9, 1968 |
| 19 | 17 | "The Wedding Present" | January 16, 1968 |
| 20 | 18 | "Partner Meet My Partner" | January 23, 1968 |
| 21 | 10 | "Pot Luckless" | January 30, 1968 |
| 22 | 20 | "I Love a Charade" | February 6, 1968 |
| 23 | 21 | "For My Daughter's Hand, You'll Get My Foot" | February 20, 1968 |
| 24 | 22 | "Here Comes the Bribe" | February 27, 1968 |
| 25 | 24 | "Hutton's Mutt" | March 12, 1968 |
| 26 | 23 | "The Lady and the Pussycat" | March 19, 1968 |