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Very cringe worthy for a young person at that time, watching afternoon tv back then, especially her forcing herself.

Had some millenial go off on me about a bad impersination of Dick Cavett, on an HBO show.

Get mad at me for enjoying the Dick Cavett show.

1 posted on 05/14/2023 5:02:28 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Mike Douglas was on the living room TV at least 5 days a week in my home during childhood. Later on, we had to chose between this show and Dark Shadows.


2 posted on 05/14/2023 5:17:22 PM PDT by lee martell
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My dad used to watch the Mike Douglas show. I appreciate that you linked to the whole show, opening with Mike doing a lounge singer version of “With a Little Help from my Friends”. I’ll take that over a Yoko Ono interview any day.


3 posted on 05/14/2023 5:20:59 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: DallasBiff

I always wondered what the deal was with those over sized asterisks he had everywhere. The Dating Game had similar, but I think those were supposed to be flowers.


4 posted on 05/14/2023 5:22:00 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: DallasBiff

Must be hard up for entertainment


5 posted on 05/14/2023 5:26:40 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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Thanks for posting this little time capsule.

For a week in 1972, John and Yoko actually hosted the Mike Douglas show for an entire week. That must have been fun.

I actually like Yoko Ono. She's a very attractive woman, quite smart, and while her style of singing is a bit of an acquired taste, she definitely can sing!

Yoko seems very nice overall.

Never noticed this before, but Mike Douglas bears a slight resemblance to Tucker Carlson.

8 posted on 05/14/2023 5:33:38 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (5,181,324 Truth | 87,174,230 Twitter)
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To: DallasBiff

Mike Douglas always struck me as a pretty nice guy. Now Merv Griffin, on the other hand, was a leering creep, made my skin crawl. It was revealed years later that he was a homosexual.


16 posted on 05/14/2023 5:56:38 PM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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Mike was okay. Merv too.

Only much later did I find out I was supposed to be doing sports and other activities after school.

Yoko was a clever conceptual artist, but a lot depends on whether you think conceptual art is worth anything.

Mike Douglas leaving the airwaves may have been the last time anybody noticed Philadelphia was there.


24 posted on 05/14/2023 6:38:57 PM PDT by x
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