The Best of "The Hollywood Palace": excerpts

The Best of "The Hollywood Palace": excerpts
ABC
November 25, 1992
Variety
VHS
C+

Somers hosts the highlights of the '60s variety show, which judging by what I taped, didn't age particularly well.  Still, yes, you do need to see Groucho Marx and a near-death Margaret Dumont in '65 do an updated "Captain Spaulding" routine, bikini reference and all.

Bradymania: A Very Brady Special

Bradymania: A Very Brady Special
ABC
May 19, 1993
Sitcom
VHS
B-

Frothy look at The Bunch, hosted by the ageless Florence Henderson, with Alice and four of the six "kids" commenting at the end.  (No prizes for guessing which Brady girls didn't show up.)  Not only are there tons of clips from BBunch, but we see tributes/parodies, including a bit of the Day by Day episode.

Director Malcolm Leo also did The Best of "Hollywood Palace" in 1992, which we haven't yet gotten up to in my videocassettes.  As always, the tags are too crowded to mention anyone beyond the regulars, but note that Allan Melvin and Marcia Wallace appear in clips from the show, as do Michael J. Fox on Family Ties and Sara Gilbert and Roseanne on Roseanne.  And Barr and President Bush I both appear as themselves in a comedy routine and an economic speech respectively.