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Mother’s Little Network
Part of New Television Workshop.
#65 TONY , ARNIE & ERNIE
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- Program
- Mother’s Little Network
- Program Description
Tony Kahn, Arnie Reisman, Dick Bartlett, Ernie Foss and Nancy Spiller in half-hour comedy. Billing itself as “the only show on PBS with no English host,” this comic program presents several short skits. Many of these rely on visual gags. A tortilla falls onto a record turntable. Four hard-boiled detectives narrating a story from the wheel of a car turn out to be driving the same car. A flaming cheeseburger crashes into a miniature set. A lucky fisherman literally has fish flying out of the air at him. “Bionic Bag Boy” runs through the aisles of the supermarket. In a Psycho-esque shower scene a woman is pelted with cream pies. A character reminiscent of “Taxi Driver’s” Travis Bickle gives a cab ride to a group of disgruntled stuffed animals in a skit entitled “Taxi Dermist.” In a segment evocative of Mr. Rodgers neighborhood, “Mr. Ernie” takes of his sweater and shoes, continuing to strip down to his boxer shorts.
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Fishing
- Parodies
- Comedy
- Topics
- Humor
- Creators
- Fred Barzyk (Producer)
- Dick Bartlett (Director)
- Contributors
- Fosselius, Ernie (Subject)
- Weinstein, Cecil (Subject)
- Rousseau, Norman (Subject)
- Weinstein, Frances (Subject)
- Connors, Elizabeth (Subject)
- Kahn, Tony (Subject)
- Spiller, Nancy (Subject)
- Haydock, Roger (Subject)
- Chamberlain, Jayne (Subject)
- Reisman, Arnie (Subject)
- Citation
- Chicago: “Mother’s Little Network,” GBH Archives, accessed April 25, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_BAE1299DE8A94FA6942A3F485AD1C131.
- MLA: “Mother’s Little Network.” GBH Archives. Web. April 25, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_BAE1299DE8A94FA6942A3F485AD1C131>.
- APA: Mother’s Little Network. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_BAE1299DE8A94FA6942A3F485AD1C131