The Dean Martin Show , not to be confused with the Dean Martin Variety Show (1959-1960), is a comedy-TV series running from 1965 to 1974 for 264 episodes. It was aired by NBC and hosted by Dean Martin entertainer. The theme song for the series was his 1964 hit "Everybody Loves Somebody".
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Nielsen ratings
- Season 1 (September 16, 1965 - May 5, 1966, 31 episodes): out of top-30
- Season 2 (September 8, 1966 - April 27, 1967, 33 episodes): # 14
- Season 3 (September 14, 1967 - April 4, 1968, 30 episodes): # 8
- Season 4 (19 September 1968 - April 24, 1969, 30 episodes): # 8
- Season 5 (September 18, 1969 - June 18, 1970, 31 episodes): # 14
- Season 6 (September 17, 1970 - April 8, 1971, 28 episodes): # 24
- Season 7 (16 September 1971 - 13 April 1972, 28 episodes): out of top-30
- Season 8 (September 14, 1972 - April 12, 1973, 28 episodes): out of top-30
- Season 9 (September 6, 1973 - April 5, 1974, 25 episodes): from top-30
The series is the subject for NBC, airing Thursday at 10:00 for 8 years, until moving to Friday at 10:00 for the last season and the format changes.
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast , a series of specials released from last season, resulted in a solid 10-year ranking at NBC.
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Development
Martin was initially reluctant to perform, partly because he did not want to turn down the movie and nightclub performances. The term is deliberately made outrageous: it demands a high salary and that it just needs to appear to record the show. To her surprise, the network agreed. When his daughter Deana Martin told her after meeting the network and made her request Martin come home and announce to her family, "They did it, so now I have to do it." (Terms of work, and not necessarily appearing for practice, allowing Martin to appear in a series of Matt Helm films along with running events, as well as other projects such as the starring role at the first Airport movie in 1970.)
Martin believes that an important key to his popularity is that he is not on the air. His acting is a drunk playboy, a shy worker, though the glass of old times always in his hands often only has apple juice in it. The show was heavy on a physical comedy rather than a joke (he made his weekly entrance by shifting the fire poles to the stage.) Martin read the dialogue straight from the hint card. If he tarnished the line or forgot the lyrics, Martin would not do a retake, and his error - and his recovery from it - went straight to the tape and into the air.
The Dean Martin Show was recorded on a colorful videotape beginning in 1965 in Studio 4 inside the large NBC color complex at 3000 West Alameda Avenue in Burbank, California. The same studio was used for the annual Frank Sinatra TV show in the late 1960s, and Elvis Presley's "Special Comeback Special" of 1968. Studio 4 is currently one of the two used in the production of the soap opera Days of Our Lives .
Regular segment
- Martin sings two solo numbers per show, one serious ballad. He will join his weekly guest in medleys song, lyric trading back and forth. Some of these duets are deliberately played for laughter - Dean and Liberace, for example - with special lyrics by Lee Hale to tailor the players.
- One repeating segment is based on Martin's club action, where he will start singing popular songs and suddenly enter jokes. Martin often tried to make his pianist Ken Lane laugh hard enough to break his concentration. The segment usually begins with Martin jumping to Lane's piano; in one original piano episode quietly replaced by a fake one. As Martin made his leap, the entire fake piano collapsed with his weight, all of which shocked and delighted the studio audience.
- The knock on the door of the "cupboard" happens every week, with Martin opening the door to unveil unannounced celebrity guests. Most of the time, Martin did not know who the guest was, to keep his reaction more spontaneous, according to Hale's book Backstage on the Dean Martin Show .
- the routine joke for a season is "Mystery Voice Contest", where Dean invites viewers to write to guess who sings a particular song. Always, it was Frank Sinatra who famously hit "Strangers in the Night". Finally on one episode, Sinatra himself appears to announce that he is a mystery singer. Martin dutifully handed over a gift - a trip to Los Angeles, the city where they both lived.
- The last is usually the production number featuring Dean and the guest star. Sometimes it will be a musical sketch with Martin appearing as "Dino Vino", a disc jockey who plays old recordings. A vintage recording will then be heard, with Dean and his cronies uttering words and pantomimes with great exaggeration for comic effects.
- One of Martin's highest programs is the Christmas episode featuring only his family member Frank Sinatra: Martin Jeanne's wife with Craig's children Claudia, Gail, Deana, Dean Paul, Ricci and Gina along with three Sinatra children, Tina, Nancy and Frank Jr.
- During the 8th season of the event, the cover is a selection of songs from the popular MGM musical. The clip of the film in question will be shown, with Martin and guest singing a medley of films. Among those who salute are Easter Passage , Words and Music , Up To The Cloud By , and the 1951 movie version Show Boats .
- When the show was canceled in 1974, a series of Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts was produced in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Hotel. This tradition began in the last season of the variety show, and continued until 1984.
Regulars and recurring guests
In subsequent seasons, many regular players are added, such as Dom DeLuise and Nipsey Russell in sketches mounted on a haircut; Kay Medford and Lou Jacobi in the restaurant-arranged sketches, and Medford also pretends to be the mother of Martin's pianist, Ken Lane. Leonard Barr, Guy Marks, Tom Bosley, Marian Mercer, Charles Nelson Reilly, and Rodney Dangerfield also appeared on numerous occasions, while band leader Les Brown was a regular player.
During the first 1965-1966 season, The Krofft Puppets was seen regularly. However, their task only lasted 8 episodes. Sid and Marty Krofft recalled in an interview that they were fired for an incident involving Liberace, whom they had previously worked on, and who were big fans of their dolls. Sid stated: "And he [Liberace] asked his fan club to write Dean Martin a letter and tell Dean Martin that there are not enough dolls in the show." Many of the letters are evil and come in large numbers: "So can you imagine getting more than 250 thousand such letters in a matter of weeks, and well, he really does not like them and fire us."
Summer replacement series
For Martin's Thursday night time slot, Martin's network and production crew created the original summer program (without Martin) to hold his usual weekly audience. Rowan and Martin host first. Dean Martin's 1966 summer series proved so successful that two seasons later spawned one of the most impressive television series, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.
From July to September 1967, this summer event was hosted by Martin's daughters, Gail Martin, Vic Damone, and Carol Lawrence.
In 1968, Martin's staff came up with a new format: salute to the 1930s, with various events being performed as if television were there at the time. Producer Greg Garrison recruited a dozen choir girls, named the group "The Golddiggers" after Warner Brothers music of the 1930s. The series, Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers , starring Frank Sinatra, Jr. and Joey Heatherton as musical hosts, with comedy routines by Paul Lynde, Stanley Myron Handelman, Barbara Heller, impressionist artist Bill Skiles and Pete Henderson, and neo-vaudeville musician, The Times Square Two.
Summer events are a hit, returning the following year with new players. Lou Rawls and Gail Martin took over as host and six-foot dancer Tommy Tune was shown.
The Golddiggers also visit country club nightlife as a vibrant attraction. Some members become tired of traveling and dropping out of school, to be replaced by other expectations. After the summer series runs, the Golddiggers are seen in Martin's own program, and four of them are used in another group, Sister Ding-a-Ling.
Toward the end of the Thursday night run, the summer series is devoted to European comedians. Marty Feldman is featured in Dean Martin's World of Comedy, hosted by Jackie Cooper.
Awards
Emmy Award Nominees
- Extraordinary Individual Performance in the Foster Brooks Music Variety or Program (1974)
- Extraordinary Individual Performance in Ruth Buzzi's Variety or Music Program (1974)
- Extraordinary Variety, Music, or Comedy Series (1972)
- Marvelous Music and Lyrics by Lee Hale (1971)
- Extraordinary Variety, Music, or Comedy Series (1970)
- Extraordinary Variety, Music, or Comedy Series (1969)
- Extraordinary Variety, Music, or Comedy Series (1968)
- Lee Hale's Exciting Lyrics and Music (1968)
- Extraordinary Variety, Music, or Comedy Series (1967)
- Extraordinary Writing in Variety, Music, or Comedy Program (1967)
- Extraordinary Redirecting to Greg Garrison's Variety, Music, or Comedy Program (1967)
- Redirecting Extraordinary to Greg Garrison's Variety, Music, or Comedy Program (1966)
Golden Globe Award Winning
- Best Actor in Comedy Television Series Dean Martin (1967)
Nominees Golden Globe Awards
- Best Actor in the Comedy Television Series Dean Martin (1970)
- Best Actor in the Comedy Television Series Dean Martin (1969)
- Best Actor in the Comedy Television Series Dean Martin (1968)
DVD
From 2003 to August 2007, a 29-volume collection of Best of The Dean Martin Variety Show was sold by Guthy-Renker's direct marketing firm via infomercials and websites.
In mid-2007, NBC Universal filed a lawsuit in the US District Court against several parties, including Guthy-Renker, who claimed copyright infringement, forcing the G-R to temporarily pull DVDs out of sales. The lawsuit relates to a rights dispute over the recording used in the DVD series, material that NBC claims still holds the copyrights. The conflict was discovered when NBC Universal looked into plans to release its own DVD device.
Also referred to as one of the defendants in the lawsuit has long been the Dean Martin Show producer Greg Garrison, who, NBC claims, has the right to only use quotes from the selected episode The Dean Martin Show for the DVD - an episode which, according to NBC, Garrison bought several years earlier from the network to run the syndication of The Dean Martin Show that aired worldwide from 1979 to 1981. Garrison died in 2005, before the lawsuit was filed.
A settlement between all parties with the lawsuit was reached on January 2, 2008. As a result, the Guthy-Renker website once again began selling the collection, and the infomercials' ads returned to the small screen.
There are still two other lawsuits waiting for the rights to the material used in the Best of Dean Martin Variety Show series, but none of the costumes affects the sale of home video collections.
Not affected by legal dispute is the special Dean Martin Celebrity Roast, which continues to be marketed on DVD by Guthy-Renker. Total revenue from DVD sales Dean Martin has been rumored to reach hundreds of millions of dollars. The Martin show has not been on television since their original airing.
On February 3, 2011, it was revealed that a new DVD package featuring footage from The Dean Martin Show will be released on May 24, 2011 by Time-Life Video. Unlike previous Guthy-Renker collections, marketed through mail order subscriptions, these new devices will be aimed primarily at the retail sector.
On March 21, 2011, NBC Universal TV's Consumer Products Group issued a press release revealing its participation with Time-Life on the project.
In an online report posted July 9, 2011, Deana Martin, one of Dean's daughters, reports to columnist Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith that the first set of DVDs Dean Martin Show released by Time-Life at the end of the season semi has sold so well that the second collection is already planned, and that he (Deana) will contribute comments to it. This information has been independently confirmed by officials in both Time-Life and NBC Universal.
In late summer 2011, the release date was disclosed for the second wave of the DVD Dean Martin Show produced by Time-Life and featuring footage provided by the NBC series's home network. Titled King of Cool: The Best of The Dean Martin Variety Show , the new collection will be available in 1- and 6-disk configurations.
Guest star list
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