TMC
03-29-2020, 03:43 AM
Johnny Carson's official YouTube channel recently released this Tonight Show interview of Marlon Brando from 1968 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNWxtr3is6k&feature=emb_title). Of course it's commonly stated almost all of Carson's New York based Tonight Show was tossed by NBC execs. So some questions:
Why did this get saved when so much got tossed?
What do we know got saved, whether available to the public or not?
Is there any chance we can find further New York era Carson somewhere?
Johnny himself talked about this in several interviews. Carson Productions went to great lengths to seek out copies of the New York shows. They apparently managed to find copies of the shows from other people. If you go to his website, the DVD collections contain bits from some of those shows, and that may be where the Brando interview came from.
The Paley Center (formerly the Museum of TV & Radio) has an extensive collection of Carson, including some from New York. You might go to PaleyCenter.org and "search the collection."
Why did this get saved when so much got tossed?
What do we know got saved, whether available to the public or not?
Is there any chance we can find further New York era Carson somewhere?
Johnny himself talked about this in several interviews. Carson Productions went to great lengths to seek out copies of the New York shows. They apparently managed to find copies of the shows from other people. If you go to his website, the DVD collections contain bits from some of those shows, and that may be where the Brando interview came from.
The Paley Center (formerly the Museum of TV & Radio) has an extensive collection of Carson, including some from New York. You might go to PaleyCenter.org and "search the collection."