does anybody remember "Fridays" and "Thicke of the Night "?

[bb]

I was watching last night Dick Clark's New Years Rockin' Eve 1982
last night, a show I taped off ABC 20 years ago.

They showed a promo for "Fridays" the ABC version of NBC's Saturday Night Live.

I remember this show. Always thought it was funny, even funnier
than SNL even though it only lasted a few years. I remember when the late Wendy O Williams and the Plasmatics were on and they did their famous destroyinga tv set bit. I am surprised that Comedy Central ( or someone ) doesnt air reruns of this, sure ABC has it somewhere in its archives.

I also remember the uproar Fridays caused. The show was very pro-drug, come to think of it maybe thats why Fridays is not seen on tv today.

also does anybody remember Alan Thicke's attempt to beat Carson with his latenight show "Thicke of the Night" ? I have never seen the show itself but I do have their promos for it " Alan Thicke....soon to be a household name....Thicke of the Night this fall ..."

I have heard this show was very bad, so bad that in some cities it got a zero rating.

[TJL]

Fridays also featured a then unknown Michael Richards, later to gain fame as Kramer. Andy Kaufman also did a memorable bit where he stormed off the set in the middle of a sketch ranting and raving about the matrial and his career...the only probalem he was the only one in on the joke and the other actors had to continue the sketch without him.

"Thicke Of The Night" was painful. That is the only word that can describe it.

[mickyfan413]

i have an episode of thicke of the night with andy gibb i be willing totrade for a copy of yours 1982 new years rockin eve show please let me knowthank joe

[mook42]

I was actually at the taping of the first Thicke of the Night show. It was excrutiatingly bad! They kept stopping tape because nobody knew what they were doing. The taping lasted hours (highly unusual for a "live on tape" format - like the Tonight Show), causing most of the audience to give up and leave. I had to stay because I had a friend in the cast. They had James Brown as a guest and everytime he finally got the audience jumping with "Do Ya Like Soul Music?" they would abruptly cut and start over. Truly a memorable experience - for all the wrong reasons.