This entertaining "pledge week" effort from PBS not only culls precious film clips from Sid Caesar's classic 1950s TV variety...
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2002
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As the producer and star of two of the most popular television comedy shows of the 1950's -- Your Show of Shows and Caesar's...
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2000
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Sid Caesar was the star and producer of two of the landmark television comedy series of the 1950's, Your Show Of Shows and...
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2000
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Sid Caesar was one of the great comedy stars of television's golden age, and his two hit series, Your Show of Shows and...
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2000
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1998
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1997
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While being interviewed on film by Paul (Paul Reiser), great-uncle Marty (Shecky Green) ruins the shot by dropping dead....
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1997
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A pair of teenage girls decide to switch families for a while to prove that each of their own clans likes the other girl...
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Papa Tognetti
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1995
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1988
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The made-for-TV Freedom Fighter is set in the divided Berlin of 1961. Tony Danza plays an idealistic American GI whose...
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1988
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This witty version of Hans Christian Anderson's moral tale of a king whose vanity makes him an easy mark for con artists,...
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Emperor
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1987
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A struggling widow and mother of two facing eviction by her heartless landlord puts her differences aside to offer a helping...
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Mr. Snyder
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1986
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1986
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1985
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In its own mild, unobtrusive manner, the made-for-TV Love is Never Silent managed to knock an all-star adaptation of...
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Mr. Petrakis
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1985
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This comedy fuses Three Stooges clips with a storyline about a "Stooge Maniac" who is so obsessed with the comedians his...
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Dr. Fixyer Minder
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1985
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1984
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A man is torn between true love and the lure of fine dining in this romantic comedy. Alby Sherman (Elliott Gould) was born...
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Uncle Benjamin
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1984
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Two giants of American TV comedy--Dick Van Dyke and Sid Caesar--were teamed for the first (and thus far last) time in Found...
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Sam Green
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1983
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This 1982 made-for-TV version of the Lewis Carroll classic Alice in Wonderland features an all-star cast. Such celebrities as...
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1983
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This comedy focuses on a bank executive and a former bank guard who access funds from inactive accounts to give to good...
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1983
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Host
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1983
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Given the runaway success of Grease, which became the biggest-grossing movie musical of all time, it was all but inevitable...
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1982
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This early-'80s made-for-TV movie includes most of the cast of the original Munsters TV series. An evil scientist creates...
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1981
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The first four entries in L. Frank Baum's Oz series have in recent years fallen into public domain, which explains the...
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1981
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Mel Brooks produced, directed, wrote, and starred in this episodic comedy in the spirit of Monty Python and the 1957 studio...
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1981
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1980
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Peter Sellers gets to play both hero and bad guy at the same time in this comedy variation on Sax Rohmer's infamous stories...
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Joe Capone
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1980
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"Grease," said the poster and the Barry Gibb song, "is the word." Transferring its setting from Chicago to sunny California,...
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1978
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Spoofing the entire 1940s detective genre, and his own performances as a bumbling private detective, Peter Falk plays Lou...
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Ezra Dezire
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1978
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This wonderfully cheesy TV movie-of-the-week stars Tony Franciosa as a detective hot on the trail of a murderer whose...
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1977
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Zabbar
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1977
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Norman Panama's penultimate directorial effort, Barnaby and Me was originally filmed for Australian television. The title...
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1977
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Though not readily apparent, Flight to Holocaust is the feature-length pilot film for a potential TV series. Crashing into...
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1977
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Silent Movie is just that: a totally nonverbal comedy, save for one single line. Director Mel Brooks stars as a once-famous...
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Studio Chief
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1976
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Taken from the television series "When Things Were Rotten," this collection includes three episodes from the Mel Brooks Robin...
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1975
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In the wake of the 45-million-dollar gross of the original Airport (1970), Universal was all but required by an act of...
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1974
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1973
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Sid Caesar pulls double duty in this episode, playing "himself" and his lookalike, Frankie the Forger. Upset that Frankie is...
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Himself,Frankie the Forger
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1968
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A nosey housewife (Marguerite Viby) takes on extra responsibilities when her husband (Buster Larsen) hurts his back while...
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George Norton
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1967
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In this spooky comedy, a couple and their adolescent son move into a quiet New England summer cottage. Soon their arrival, a...
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Ben Powell
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1967
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1967
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With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies."...
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Melville Crump
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1963
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Produced for the Armed Forces overseas, this is a holiday spectacular created for Christmas. Fifty of the top stars of...
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1958
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Bob Victor
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1956
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Bob Victor
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1955
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1954
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Bob Victor
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1954
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1952
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1952
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1952
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1952
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1952
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1952
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1952
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1952
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1949
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In this drama, a soldier's widow, whose husband died a hero in WW II, begins a quest to find the five men whose lives were...
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Sammy Weaver
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1947
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The watery world of the Coast Guard provides the setting for this musical that is loosely based on the famed Guard show Tars...
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Chuck Enders
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1946
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