RCA Color TV and Phyllis Diller Pruitts TV Show..........

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For those of you that are fans of the 1965 Phyllis Diller show: The Pruitts Of Southampton, the opening credits have been on YouTube for a while. Interesting is this RCA Color Television commerical....... which shows a "James Bond" type of show being "shown" on the RCA color TV. Look close at about time 3:15, its the exact same set that was used on the opening credits of the Pruitts Of Southampton !!!!

 
That was a very good restoration, looked almost new. That song was quite catchy!

I also loved those RCA commercials. Component Stereo from RCA. Who knew?
We always had Zenith Color sets. I found the RCA's to be almost too contrasty in appearance and they also seemed to have an off tint of either green or red to the picture. Especially if the show being watched had "Color by Deluxe".
 
I love it!

I had forgotten about that show ! Thanks for Posting Jimmy gotta love the RCA Tv's very cool indeed
 
Hi Tim, I just got three episodes of the Pruitts Of Southampton on tape, including the commercials! Next time you visit I will play them for you on the 1961 RCA NuVistor Color TV is just restored,,,,,21" round screen,,,,,,,brought to you in Living Color!..........
 
Thanks for that history link. I remember the show and liking it, and also remember the name change, which at the time I didn't understand. Not like name changes haven't ever happened since. Ellen's show was titled "These Friends of Mine" initially and had a different male character before gay hunk Jeremy Piven showed up along with the focus-group name of "Ellen." There are other name changes (not related to a series going into syndication) in TV history that aren't coming to me at the moment. And does anyone else notice that the severely closeted Piven refuses to recognize or discuss his time on Ellen's series? He has basically torn that page out of his personal history book. He's trying way too hard to hide the obvious and by doing so has clued everybody in to his "lifestyle." Geez, if he is so bent on giving the false impression that he's straight, you'd think he could find someone of the opposite sex besides his own mother to be his date at the Emmy Awards. But I digress . . .

I had forgotten the other players on the Pruitts, certainly don't recall the Astin/Ingles team from Dickens & Fenster appearing on it or Paul Lynde. And I guess Charles Lane had already appeared in so many accountant/IRS type of roles that the one he had on the Pruitts seemed rote, like he just waltzed over from Lucy's sound stage or something.

It must have been like old home week for Phyllis and Gypsy. I've read that Phyllis got her real start at the Purple Onion in SF and Gypsy had her own local morning TV talk show during that time out of SF also. What a riot that show was, especially considering the time of day when it aired, and she got her share of big Hollywood names stopping by to chat. It was a matter of course for the audio on certain segments of her conversations to be scrambled.

I swear, the 60's were the true golden age of TV. Sitcoms from that era were more sophisticated and had clever writing even though, as always, they were appealing to the lowest common denominator. Watching those shows today I see and hear so much that went completely over my head as a kid. Writers back then were a lot more with-it and wacky than we may have given them credit for. They made trite and innocent 60's sitcom material interesting and at times even thought-provoking--no small task. Try finding that same caliber of writing on any sitcom today. They hit you over the head with everything, and the lowest common denominator is just about hitting bottom.
 
Thanks for posting the link about the history of The Pruitts Of Southampton. Phyllis had a bio out a few years ago titled "Like A Lampshade In A Whorehouse". She describes the failure of her TV show in it along with the other many disappointments in her life, and her struggle to succeed, which she did admirably. She truly earned everything she ever got...........Here is a GREAT video, that I posted here once before that made me fall in love with Phyllis and her considerable charm........and its so fitting to this website!!!!!!!!!! (And YES its a NORGE Washer Dryer SET!)

 
HAhahaHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Whats the first thing you do when you have to wash clothes!! Fix a drink...thats what I do!! LOL I love Phyllis
 
Phyllis was always one of my favorites. Thanks for that link to the overview of her show. For some reason, I think that Phyllis had a lot of fun recording that song. It's a fun song!

When I was a kid Phyllis Diller used to drop in and co host the morning radio show in WIND (540AM) in Chicago along with Howard Miller. What a pair.

I also saw her live stage act with my parents in the Empire Room in the Palmer House Hotel. A magnificent place! What she did was sat in a wing backed chair on stage and call up her celebrity freinds and put them on speakerphone and just cut everyone up with jokes.

By the way, I heard she is also laundry related. I heard somewhere that she got her start telling jokes to housewives in a laundromat in Lima, OH back in the late 40's. The housewives told her she was so good she should make a career out of it.
I guess she did!
 
And by the way, I received a very angry e-mail from someone who informed me that Phyllis Diller did NOT get her start in a laundromat anywhere. And they forwarded me a link to an interview with Phyllis who tells how that rumor got started. So I stand corrected.

And here is the link to a very nice interview with Phyllis from The American Archive of Television.



 
Hi Allen! Glad you liked the link. Phyllis is truly one gem of a person. Like you, I get "angry" hate email often, the source being one or more people from this site. Just consider the source or sources....... No matter how Phyllis got her start, she is a great and talented lady!
 

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