There's only one KING OF LATE NIGHT!
The Best of Carson DVD Volume 1:
Relive the memories from 30 years of The Tonight Show in this 3 DVD collection of the most hilarious moments with the biggest stars in television history. All of your old Tonight Show
favorites are here - Johnny's monologue, wildlife handler Jim Fowler,
the extraordinary talents of ordinary people, Carnac the Magnificent,
sports heroes, and stand-up comics. See early performances from some of
today's most popular comedians including Drew Carey, Garry Shandling,
and the debut performance of Ellen DeGeneres. Features the famous lost episode Return to Studio One. The stuff of showbiz legend, this famous "lost" episode of The Tonight Show (most of the tapes from the first 10 years of The Tonight Show
were accidentally erased) defines the essence of live television. It is
a kind of magic that can't be rehearsed, recycled, or reproduced, but
thanks to this recent discovery, we can now return to Studio One to
witness Johnny and his guests working witout a net. Originally recorded
on two-inch videotape, the show was later transferred to film for
broadcast on the Armed Forces Network. It was this film version that
was eventually tracked down and identified among 10,000 Tonight Show
tapes 54 stories underground in a working salt mine somewhere in the
middle of Kansas. This show has not been seen since its original
broadcast on March 6, 1969. This classic episode is considered
by many as one of the most hilarious in TV history. In March of 1969,
Carson took the show on the road from its home in New York to Burbank,
California. On this particular night, Johnny and his guests had no idea
what was in store for them when Bob Hope and Dean Martin decided to
drop in announced, and stole the show. The spontaneous and unrehearsed
antics that followed are now a part of show business history.
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