THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS COMEDY HOUR
getTV, 11:00 p.m. ET
SERIES REPEAT: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour is one of my all-time favorite TV shows – and, in terms of comedy/variety television, one of the most important. If not for what Tom and Dick Smothers and company (and what a company, including Mason Williams and Pat Paulsen!) did in their 1966-69 CBS series, such spiritual successors as Saturday Night Live may never have existed. The last time any episodes of Comedy Hour were televised, anywhere, was almost 30 years ago, on E! – but this month, on Saturday nights, GetTV is presenting hand-picked episodes from all three seasons. Starting off the rare revival of classic hours: a Season 1 episode, never released on home video, featuring then-married couples Sonny & Cher, and Mission: Impossible costars Martin Landau and Barbara Bain.