{"id":8686,"date":"2010-07-13T05:35:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T04:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=8686"},"modified":"2010-07-14T23:08:41","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T22:08:41","slug":"the-orson-welles-show-tv-burt-reynolds-angie-dickinson-the-muppets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/07\/13\/the-orson-welles-show-tv-burt-reynolds-angie-dickinson-the-muppets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Orson Welles Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I want you to imagine that Orson Welles<\/a><\/strong> once had a TV chatshow in the late 1970s.<\/p>\n

Then I want to you to get a little bit more creative and imagine that the guests on this show include Burt Reynolds<\/a>,\u00a0The Muppets<\/a> and Angie Dickinson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But wait. This actually<\/em> happened.<\/p>\n

This is the intro for an unaired pilot Welles did for a\u00a0chat show\u00a0back in 1979.<\/p>\n

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Note how he talks about the possibilities of television like someone evangelising about the Internet circa 1997.<\/p>\n

But the really good stuff is yet to come.<\/p>\n

Welles introduces Burt Reynolds (“I like him. I like him very much.”) and for some reason they are wearing matching red shirts and jackets (“simple, lousy coincidence!”).<\/p>\n

Also note the unconventional format where they ditch the ‘what are you plugging’ banter and dive straight into questions from the audience, some of which prompt interesting answers.<\/p>\n

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After that we get some contributions from Fozzie Bear<\/a>, Kermit the Frog<\/a> and Sam The Eagle<\/a>, followed by more pontificating from Welles about the nature of television:<\/p>\n

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To finish off, Welles indulges in some magic with Angie Dickinson<\/a>, which may remind viewers of his film F For Fake<\/a> (1973):<\/p>\n

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> Find out more about Orson Welles<\/a> at Wikipedia
> The infamous frozen peas commercial featuring Welles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clips from the unaired Orson Welles TV show from 1979, featuring Burt Reynolds, The Muppets and Angie Dickinson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16,26],"tags":[1467,1466,65,927],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}