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Daytime, primetime, then late-night talk and variety show. Often there was only one guest (GA Gov. Lester Maddox walked out angrily during one interview). Cavett was intelligent and witty, perhaps too much so for television.

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Type:
News/Talk Show
Premiered:
Mar. 04, 1968
Status:
Canceled/Ended
Runtime:
90 min.
Aired:
1968 - 1969
To-Date:
0 Seasons
0 Episodes
Network
ABC TV Network
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  • Singer Janis Joplin made her final network appearance on the 3 August 1970 broadcast. She died on 4 October 1970, just two months and a day after her appearance.
  • This show features one of the oddest pairings of guests in TV talk show history, Gloria Swanson and Janis Joplin.
  • Joni Mitchell was forced to choose between appearing on this show, which was her first national television appearance, and appearing at Woodstock. Her manager forced her to appear on this…
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    Joni Mitchell was forced to choose between appearing on this show, which was her first national television appearance, and appearing at Woodstock. Her manager forced her to appear on this show when he saw how bad the traffic was going to and from the site. However, the night of her appearance, several of the acts who appeared at Woodstock, including Jefferson Airplane, David Crosby and Stephen Stills showed up unannounced while she was being interviewed and gave their first-hand accounts of what it was like at the festival.
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