America 2-Night | ROB REINER | May 9, 1978 | Fred Willard, Martin Mull | Talk Show | S1.E22

Описание: America 2-Night | ROB REINER | May 9, 1978 | Fred Willard, Martin Mull | Talk Show | S1.E22



S1.E22 ∙ Urban Poverty Consultant

Tue, May 9, 1978

Woman claims she communicates with the dead; Rob Reiner says "All in the Family" was not canceled due to an affair between him and Jean Stapleton; Dr. van Moot talks about how the inner-city poor have resources all around them.



Satirizing 1970s talk shows, the series follows a small-town program that gains national attention, with celebrity guests often mocking their own public images through its offbeat humor.

America 2 Night is the continuation of the talk-show parody series Fernwood 2 Night, broadcast weeknights from April to July 1978. As on Fernwood, Martin Mull portrayed host Barth Gimble and Fred Willard appeared as sidekick/announcer Jerry Hubbard. Frank De Vol also returned as bandleader Happy Kyne.

The setting of the show was moved from the fictional Fernwood, Ohio, to the fictional "Quad-City" area of Alta Coma, El Tijo, Alta Luna and the City of Merchandise in Southern California. According to Hubbard's announcement at the beginning of every show, Alta Coma was "the unfinished furniture capital of the world". This new Southern California setting made it more plausible for celebrities to appear on the show as themselves.[1] Among the celebrities who appeared as guests were Charlton Heston, Vincent Price, Carol Burnett, Burt Lancaster, Steve Allen, Milton Berle, Paul Lynde, Rita Moreno, Rob Reiner, Peter Frampton, Mark Hamill, Gary Coleman, Sherman Hemsley, Billy Crystal, Anne Murray, Lou Rawls and José Feliciano. In the final episode, Mull and Willard guested as themselves.

America 2 Night was broadcast on the fictional UBS network, located on the UBS Broadcast Mall, whose logo featured an ear (a spoof of the CBS "Eye" logo) and whose slogan was "We put U before the BS".

Repeats of America 2 Night were broadcast on Nick at Nite from 1990 to 1993 and TV Land in 2002. The program has never been officially released on home video in any format.