Kopykats 1972.

[John Green]

Anyone know much about this show? There seem to be lots of decent quality clips on Youtube www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kopykats+diahann&oq=kopykats+diahann&gs_l=youtube.12...4552.28800.0.31408.16.16.0.0.0.0.112.1001.15j1.16.0...0.0...1ac.1.cwpOZrZe3Sk ,but Lostshows has most episodes only on domestic video with two entirely missing.No dates for those two,but they seem to be 16/2/1972 (with Diahann Carroll as guest),and 15/3/1972 (with Sammy Davis Jnr.)?




CTVA lists 12 episodes: ctva.biz/UK/ITC/Kopykats.htm

While Lostshows has 9: www.lostshows.com/default.aspx?programme=20403061-4be3-48ef-8ef1-7959399c09bb

[Stephen Doran]

Frank Gorshin i recall on a show around 1968/69? impersonating Burt Lancaster,Kirk Douglas, Alfred Hitchcock bloody good he was too what was that programme i wonder?

[John Green]

That's the one.Trouble is,since it's sketches,it can be difficult to date particular clips.Come to that,was it first broadcast in 1970?

[davidstead]

Hi Stephen,

That show was Dickie Henderson's LWT show. One of the one's recorded in B/W due to the colour/b&w dispute in 1969/70. It exists in full.

Hope that helps,
Davidx

[Deleted]

I wouldn't mind betting that these shows will exist in colour in the US. I don't remember the title Kopykats but it sounds to be a similar show to Who Do You Do? I can recall Frank Gorshin doing his role call of impressions on several shows in the ' 60s / '70s though so I'm glad one of these is archived anyway.

[John Green]

There was even a Frank Gorshin show in the UK,which I find surprising.'Presenting...Frank Gorshin' 30/5/1969,which is missing.
Anyone know if a copy of the unaired pilot of Kopykats is in the UK?
The UCLA copy is a kinescope. cinema.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=kopykats&SL=None&Search_Code=FTIT&PID=Q0_kX95UnCPLrefRZ6n8eUpvXMt&SEQ=20130203043213&CNT=50&HIST=1

p.s.I've fixed the Youtube link in the o.p.The Beatles medley is interesting,while Frank Gorshin's tribute to Al Jolson is notable for not being in Blackface.

Imdb lists it under 'The ABC Comedy Hour': www.imdb.com/title/tt0068027/

[John Green]

The Paley Centre has the 22/3/1972 edition,but it doesn't say in which format: www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=kopycats&f=all&c=all&advanced=1&p=1&item=B:15903

[Stephen Doran]

J Green;Sounds like the one i saw i found a listing for Presenting Frank Gorshin on the BFI Database

[John Green]

Feb 4, 2013 9:18:30 GMT Stephen Doran said:

J Green;Sounds like the one i saw i found a listing for Presenting Frank Gorshin on the BFI Database

Stephen,all this time,I was thinking that you meant that the BFI held that one,but it seems they don't? collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150266598

I take it that One's a Crowd Presenting Frank Gorshin 6/11/1969 is a repeat?

[Ray Langstone (was saintsray)]

One was in the Bob Monkhouse collection.

I don't think the information online is completely accurate for the show, due to the fact it was broadcast in the US first!

[John Green]

Dec 22, 2015 10:19:07 GMT Ray Langstone (was saintsray) said:

One was in the Bob Monkhouse collection.

I don't think the information online is completely accurate for the show, due to the fact it was broadcast in the US first!

Of course I can't think of any examples,but hasn't that been true of other shows,too?