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That's really cool, I was actually there the night that first show of the second season was taped.

That's really cool, I was actually there the night that first show of the second season was taped.

I don't think I'd pay anywhere near what the seller is asking, unless it was Gleason's personal copy and it's signed by him.

I don't think I'd pay anywhere near what the seller is asking, unless it was Gleason's personal copy and it's signed by him.

Yes, and besides, I'll settle for full-length ASM videos over a script anyday!

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Looking at the pages of the script as on that eBay sale, I've one question: Just how long was Jan Crockett on TASM?

Looking at the pages of the script as on that eBay sale, I've one question: Just how long was Jan Crockett on TASM?

According to the imdb, Jan Crockett appeared in the Adoption (1966), but it's unclear about any other years.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0188407/

Looking at the pages of the script as on that eBay sale, I've one question: Just how long was Jan Crockett on TASM?

Jan Crockett was on ASM from 1963 right thru 1966. She was the girl who would introduce special guests and the Joe the Bartender sketch. When Barbara Heller left ASM at the start of the 1965-66 season, Jan would be the one who would introduce all the sketches that Jackie would do. At that point, they had dropped the "newsreel-type" blackout sketches and went for longer skits with Gleason and company.

One ASM episode (one bit of which featured Reggie Van Gleason with performing fleas - anyone know the original air date of that?) was screened in Britain (on BBC2) in mid-1964 due to its having won the "Bronze Rose" in the 1964 Golden Rose of Montreux festival. I wonder if one of the viewers of that screening was Benny Hill, and if the way TASM was structured as of 1963-64 (per that script) was the impetus for the way Hill's shows from 1964 onwards were formatted and structured (pre-taped/-filmed blackout gags and short bits interspersed with longer sketches)?

Certainly the last years of Hill's show - up to the point Thames TV cancelled it in 1989 - were every bit as listless in its energy level, and the repetition of gags, sketches, et al., increasingly rote and "been-there--done-that," as much of Gleason's weekly TV output from his 1964 move to Florida onwards.

It turned out that show in question that was entered into Montreux (and broadcast by BBC2 on June 18, 1964) originally aired on CBS on Nov. 2, 1963 (taped five days before, on Oct. 29). Also in that show was a quickie where, in a parody of a long-running wristwatch ad campaign, Gleason as The Poor Soul rode a bicycle into a (styrofoam) brick wall, crashed into it - and broke his left wrist in the process. This may have been the turning point where it was the beginning of the end of Gleason doing daredevil stunts on his show.