The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
19670205.Jill St John,Ed Sullivan,Jim Nabors
TV Flash files “19670205.Jill St John,Ed Sullivan,Jim Nabors” as a desk essential hour — The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967–1969) on CBS, season 1, episode 1, aired 1967-02-05, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 72 in the The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 1967-02-05 (60 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “19670212.Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor,Turtles” (S01E02).
Essential hour: “19670205.Jill St John,Ed Sullivan,Jim Nabors”. Jill St. John, Ed Sullivan, Jim Nabors — the 1967 opener smuggling counterculture onto CBS with a guest book that still looks like the establishment.
Viewer FAQ
Where does 19670205.Jill St John,Ed Sullivan,Jim Nabors sit in the The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour guide?
S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 72 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.
When did The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour S01E01 air?
19670205.Jill St John,Ed Sullivan,Jim Nabors aired 1967-02-05 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
Any hour that pairs the brothers' folk banter with a satirical bit and a music guest shows the mix. The censorship battles are the extra-textual plot; the on-air comedy is still the assignment.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Tom and Dick Smothers smuggled counterculture onto CBS with folk-comedy smiles until Standards & Practices ended the party. Music guests, political satire, and sibling banter — variety as generational argument. Watch it for the moment network television picked a fight with the establishment and mostly lost, gloriously.
1967–1969 is a short window with a loud cancel. Tom and Dick Smothers smuggled counterculture onto CBS with folk-comedy smiles, music guests, political satire, and sibling banter until Standards & Practices ended the party. **Three seasons, 72 episodes.** Pat Paulsen became a regular. Vietnam-era tension sat under prime-time polish. Censorship fights with CBS were the show's real ongoing plot — a quiet cancel with a laugh track still rolling. Rex wants martyrdom in a martini glass. It was a platform fight. The…
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Filed against
- Tom Smothers as Host
Tom Smothers hosted The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour with a folk-comedy smile that smuggled counterculture onto CBS until Standards & Practices ended the party. Music guests, political satire, sibling banter — variety as generational…
- Dick Smothers as Host
Dick Smothers kept The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour’s sibling banter straight while Tom smuggled counterculture onto CBS — folk-comedy smiles, music guests, political satire, variety as generational argument until Standards & Practices…
- Pat Paulsen as Regular
Pat Paulsen was a regular on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, the 1960s CBS variety hour that smuggled counterculture behind folk-comedy smiles until Standards & Practices ended the party. Music guests, political satire, sibling banter.…
Also in season 1
- S01E02 19670212.Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor,Turtles
- S01E03 19670219.Jack Benny,George Burns,Esther OFarim
- S01E04 19670226.Betty Davis.Bob Crane
- S01E05 19670305.Barbara Eden,Carl Reiner,Paul Reviere and Raiders
- S01E06 19670312.Carol Burnett,Baja Marimba Band
- S01E07 19670319.Jimmy Durante,Inger Stevens,The Turtles