The Art Carney Show: Very Important People.

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I just got done watching this & had a question. There's a guy in this show who appears in a few parts of the show that looks exactly like Dick Van Dyke. I know nothing about the man other than "Mary Poppins" so I was curious as to whether or not that was him? For anyone who's seen the show he was on The parts where 1) Art plays an old business man (God that was FUNNY.) 2) Gloria Vanderbilt sings (plays the guy that kept wanting to marry her) 3) "What's my Line" (Played Stone Martin) 4) The Big Party. (Mexican dancer at the party). 5) He was also in the part where Art played presidential candidate "Mr. Pleasant" (making fun of JFK .)

If that's not him he has a twin brother out there lol.

I wish Art would have done more stuff like this. He did great with this show.

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Opps never mind. I didn't see this post by T-Greg! Guess it was Dick Van Dyke...not use to seeing him so young .

Originally Posted by T-Greg

The Art Carney Show: Very Important People (12/4/59) Here' s a SUPER RARE
TV special that's been lost and very rarely written about! Originally aired on NBC-TV on December 4, 1959 it's titled "The Art Carney Show: Very Important People" and was produced by David Susskind! Art Carney hosts this hilarious TV special with the following guests: Dick Van Dyke, Gloria Vanderbilt, Duke Hazlett, Tom Bosley, David Doyle, Shirley Ballard, Diane Deering, Bill Pierson, John Straub and Grover Dale. There are many very funny skits on this special including Carney as a retiring CEO of a company trying to decide who'll be the next in line, Art as a young unknown candidate for the upcoming 1960 presidential elections (possibly a jab at JFK!), a great send-up on "What's My Line?" called "What's You're Business" where Carney is the MC, a goof on the "Frank Sinatra Show" where "Dino" is too drunk to come out, then finally a take-off on one of those "high brow" society shows of the time where big name celebrities just "drop-in". Well in this takeoff everything goes wrong! Including miscues, horrible camera work (good shots of early NBC cameras here), dopey commercials (face spray, etc) and a disastrous finale where the dancing couple (supposed to be Arthur Murray) falls down a flight of stairs!

[W.B.]

Originally Posted by T-Greg

The Art Carney Show: Very Important People (12/4/59) Here' s a SUPER RARE
TV special that's been lost and very rarely written about! Originally aired on NBC-TV on December 4, 1959 it's titled "The Art Carney Show: Very Important People" and was produced by David Susskind! Art Carney hosts this hilarious TV special with the following guests: Dick Van Dyke, Gloria Vanderbilt, Duke Hazlett, Tom Bosley, David Doyle, Shirley Ballard, Diane Deering, Bill Pierson, John Straub and Grover Dale.

I thought the order given, especially of two names (Tom Bosley and David Doyle), ironic . . . given that Mr. Doyle, in the late 1970's, would play a character named Bosley on Charlie's Angels - and Mr. Bosley would be one of the stars of Happy Days - both on ABC, I might add . . . at a time when Gleason was doing what turned out to be a final occasional series of Honeymooners specials for that network.