Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Tony Curtis, Peter Sellers, Tiny Tim
TV Flash files “Tony Curtis, Peter Sellers, Tiny Tim” as the last listed hour of season 3 — Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968–1973) on NBC, season 3, episode 26, aired 1970-03-16, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E26: listed hour 67 of 141 in the Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In guide, last listed hour of season 3. It aired 1970-03-16 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Buddy Hackett, Billy Barnes, Edgar Bergen, Mickey Rooney, Nancy Sinatra, Jill St. John, Andy Williams, Agatha Grunt” (S03E25). Next is “Art Carney, Jilly Rizzo” (S04E01).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Tony Curtis, Peter Sellers, Tiny Tim sit in the Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In guide?
S03E26 is listed hour 67 of 141 — last listed hour of season 3, season 3 episode 26.
When did Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In S03E26 air?
Tony Curtis, Peter Sellers, Tiny Tim aired 1970-03-16 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…
Filed against
- Dan Rowan as Host
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- Dick Martin as Host
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- Goldie Hawn as Regular
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- Lily Tomlin as Regular
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- Arte Johnson as Regular
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