Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Jack Benny, Tony Curtis, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Jill St. John
TV Flash files “Jack Benny, Tony Curtis, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Jill St. John” as hour 60 of 141 in the TV Flash guide — Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968–1973) on NBC, season 3, episode 19, aired 1970-01-26, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E19: listed hour 60 of 141 in the Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In guide, hour 19 of 26 in season 3. It aired 1970-01-26 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Bing Crosby, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Ed McMahon” (S03E18). Next is “Jack Benny, Michael Caine, Johnny Carson, George Lindsey” (S03E20).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Jack Benny, Tony Curtis, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Jill St. John sit in the Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In guide?
S03E19 is listed hour 60 of 141 — hour 19 of 26 in season 3, season 3 episode 19.
When did Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In S03E19 air?
Jack Benny, Tony Curtis, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Jill St. John aired 1970-01-26 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Do I watch Laugh-In in order, or hop?
Hop. It is a sketch variety hour, not a serial. Guest lists are the chapter titles. Start with the 1967 pilot special or a season-2 guest stack if you want the velocity at full boil.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch the after-party that got a timeslot: catchphrases as national sport, guest-star politics in a bikini-joke machine, and the hour a presidential candidate walked into a punchline. Sketch velocity with velvet-rope heat — still the template for treating celebrity as a blackout gag.
The hand was on the joke wall for exactly one blackout, then gone — sock it to me, beautiful downtown Burbank, a bikini with graffiti that the censors negotiated like a treaty. Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In did not wait for an after-party. It was the after-party, 1968 on NBC, a Monday-night crime scene of catchphrases, guest-star cameos, and a pace that treated the remote like a cocktail shaker. If you only watched the hosts' tuxedos, you missed the show. The heat was in the cutaways, the Tramp, the telephone…
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- Dick Martin as Host
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- Lily Tomlin as Regular
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- Arte Johnson as Regular
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