Cut down on weekly original skit production costs I guess. We we razzle-dazzled *and* bamboozled, but it was the 70s and I was a kid who didn't know better. It is a funny point u have!
"What shall we do for this show's intro?" "Get a van parked at a warehouse, put the band in the van with a forklift, introduce the cast by sliding them in with animals and shit, drive the van in fast motion all over town, put in a cartoon character that talks like popeye and have him paint and light fireworks and have the band play a song." *Snorts a line of coke* "LET'S FUCKING DO IT!" Best intro ever! Haha
Shows like this were the 70s equivalent of reality shows today. Cheap and easy to produce. Hell, even The Starlight Vocal Band got their own variety show.
This show brings back so many wonderful memories of my teen age years and I just loved watching CBS Saturday morning line-up with The Hudson Brothers, Ark ll and Shazam-Isis Hour
The Hudson Brothers reminded me of a discount version of The Bee Gees, a little less famous, but good enough to produce a fun kids show on a weekly basis. Between this and the Harlem Globetrotters "Popcorn Machine", Saturdays weren't just about cartoons for us kids.
Ahhhhhhhh, the 70's!!! What a wonderful time to be a kid!! We need more shows like this nowadays other than the mind numbing dreck on now. What ever happened to Saturday morning cartoons?? 3 channels and 5 hours of animated nirvana. Me and a big bowl of Captain Crunch.........
They've been replaced with channels 100% dedicated to cartoons. What's the point of specific morning cartoons when you can have cartoons 24/7. Also dreck on now? Really showing your age there aren't you old man?
@@rickywilliams1586 Well, does being 56 quality as being an "old man"? Back when I was a kid there was no cable or satellite t.v. like nowadays. Every kid looked forward to Saturday mornings. Now you have educational programming and infomercials. Channels dedicated to the classic cartoons are wonderful and I watch on a regular basis. But nothing holds the magic of Saturday morning cartoons: on Saturday mornings. Plus every fall, they introduced new cartoons with a preview on Friday night! Those days are gone forever.
Remember the super-fast bit they did mid-show? "Oh -- It's -- The -- razzle-dazzle rap-up of everything, including the kitchen sink/It's the razzle-dazzle rap-up of everything/It's lots more fun than you think/A bit of this a piece of that and a melody/It must be something that we call a potpourri!/What's a potpourri?/Why dontcha wait and see??" This show was nutty fun! Being a kid back then was awesome. A little trippy, too! I also loved "Make A Wish" with Tom Chapin. Makes me want to open up a box of Cap'n Crunch and stay in my jammies all day..........
Omg I watched this every week. I had such a crush on Brett Hudson even though I didn’t understand why. Same feelings I had for Paul Michael Glaser and Treat Williams. Thank you, 1970s TV!
I remember this being a song made up by my big bro he sang every sat. morning just before he would put me flat on my back when it was time for his fav. show-local Memphis wrestling. Now I remember always trying to watch the beginning of this show when the real 'razzlin' started and the channel got turned! What a trip...!
Hudson Brothers Razzle-Dazzle Show:A rare Saturday morning variety show on CBS in 1976 I keep watching the opening scenes and it was crazy fun. Kenneth A Huang 9/11/22
Also checking on the validity of this show after watching it on Family Guy. I learned a couple things while researching. I missed out on it because I was born in 1977. Plus, the oldest brother, Bill, was Goldie Hawn's first husband and the father of Kate and Oliver Hudson. I always wondered about their father because I knew Kurt Russell was like their stepdad.
i was only nine years old when this show came out but remember it so well especially rod hull...the hudsons sang and played well ..why cant they have fun shows like this on anymore...i really miss my youth....it was a time when things were simple and people were a bit kinder....the world has gotten way to complicated... razzle dazzle!
Of course, Bill Hudson was married to Goldie Hawn and they produced Kate Hudson. Mark Hudson later became music director for Joan Rivers' short lived talk show on the fledgling Fox network.
The Hudson Brothers had previously appeared as Sonny & Cher's 1974 summer replacement, produced and written by the same people behind their "COMEDY HOUR". For some reason, CBS programming executive Fred Silverman decided a Saturday morning version would be a hit with kids that fall. Again, the same production crew and writers who worked on their summer series [including Ted Ziegler, Murray Langston, Peter Cullen, et. al.] worked on this. It aired at 11:30am(et); 13 episodes were produced.
Second most catchiest Saturday morning show theme song from the 70s after Electro-Woman and Dyna-Girl perhaps tied with H.R.Pufnstuf and Lidsville. Groovy!
Rod Hull and Emu were regulars in '70s variety shows here. I remember them on the Hudson Brothers' primetime series, and even a summer show in the '80s where Emu attacked, IIRC, Dick Clark.
I also have very fond memories of this show. I also remember the Unknown Comic from the Gong Show. Back in the 70's everbody needed a haircut, I had a leisure suit. I always looked forward to this show, I always looked forward to Saturdays. There were a few shows I remember watching, and that I liked that were only shown on Twin Cities T.V. Networks.
HEY! I take umbrance with some of the comments here. I lived through the entire decade of the 70's, and let me tell you, it was surely a razzlin' dazzlin' groovy time
I too had to confirm this was a real thing from watching family guy. So glad I only spent 4 years in the 70's.
Sure, but what good is 4 years in the '70s when you have to go back to check that shows are a real thing?
Same here! From family guy
Me too three minutes I'll never get back.
Same :D
I just did the same lol
There are two people who come to this video: Confused family guy watchers, and Gen-X.
😂
Saturday morning right after cartoons and before Soul Train..yep Gen X
I came here from Family Guy. This is real. Holy fuck I’m young
Yes, Peter Cullen! That's right Ladies and Gentlemen, Optimus Prime was the announcer for this show!
That’s why I love this show 😂
Idk which is funnier, Peter Cullen introducing himself when he says "And Peter Cullen!", "The Bear!", or "All sorts of fun things!"
I'm more impressed they had Billy Van.
When the Hudson Brothers van shoves you in the back, you don't ask any questions
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Amazing how the introduction to a TV show back then was 3 minutes long. I LOVED that show!!!
Cut down on weekly original skit production costs I guess. We we razzle-dazzled *and* bamboozled, but it was the 70s and I was a kid who didn't know better. It is a funny point u have!
TV wasn't trying to squeeze space for ads back then.
I remember this show.
"What shall we do for this show's intro?"
"Get a van parked at a warehouse, put the band in the van with a forklift, introduce the cast by sliding them in with animals and shit, drive the van in fast motion all over town, put in a cartoon character that talks like popeye and have him paint and light fireworks and have the band play a song."
*Snorts a line of coke* "LET'S FUCKING DO IT!"
Best intro ever! Haha
Cartoon character that talked like Popeye and looked like Mr Magoo. 🤣🤣🤣
“And everyone line up to the right for your dose of acid”
😂
forgto to mention that the cartoon dude lit a match with his arse
🤣🤣🤣
Dammit, I want my childhood back!!!!
Anyone else only here because of the Family Guy episode, "And Then There's Fraud?"
I did not think this was real when I saw it on Family Guy.
Shows like this were the 70s equivalent of reality shows today. Cheap and easy to produce. Hell, even The Starlight Vocal Band got their own variety show.
Holy crap I loved the Hudson Brothers what a blast from the past!
This show brings back so many wonderful memories of my teen age years and I just loved watching CBS Saturday morning line-up with The Hudson Brothers, Ark ll and Shazam-Isis Hour
I used to watch the same lineup every Saturday.
The Hudson Brothers reminded me of a discount version of The Bee Gees, a little less famous, but good enough to produce a fun kids show on a weekly basis. Between this and the Harlem Globetrotters "Popcorn Machine", Saturdays weren't just about cartoons for us kids.
We're the Hudson Brothers
Murray Langston AKA the unknown comic!! Love that guy!
Thanks for the memories! Billy Van and Ted Ziegler were my favorite comedians for many years!
Man I used to watch this every week when I was a kid. Love those neo glow in the dark suits.
Ahhhhhhhh, the 70's!!! What a wonderful time to be a kid!! We need more shows like this nowadays other than the mind numbing dreck on now. What ever happened to Saturday morning cartoons?? 3 channels and 5 hours of animated nirvana. Me and a big bowl of Captain Crunch.........
I agree. I miss those mornings and shows. I want my cereal and cartoons! That was the life!
My childhood too...i was 6-7yrs old when this was shown on CBS Sat. morning cartoons.
Back then, there was a lot less programming for kids but for Saturday mornings, they put a LOT into it.
They've been replaced with channels 100% dedicated to cartoons. What's the point of specific morning cartoons when you can have cartoons 24/7.
Also dreck on now? Really showing your age there aren't you old man?
@@rickywilliams1586 Well, does being 56 quality as being an "old man"?
Back when I was a kid there was no cable or satellite t.v. like nowadays. Every kid looked forward to Saturday mornings. Now you have educational programming and infomercials. Channels dedicated to the classic cartoons are wonderful and I watch on a regular basis. But nothing holds the magic of Saturday morning cartoons: on Saturday mornings. Plus every fall, they introduced new cartoons with a preview on Friday night! Those days are gone forever.
When Saturday morning was a real thing.
Remember the super-fast bit they did mid-show?
"Oh -- It's -- The -- razzle-dazzle rap-up of everything, including the kitchen sink/It's the razzle-dazzle rap-up of everything/It's lots more fun than you think/A bit of this a piece of that and a melody/It must be something that we call a potpourri!/What's a potpourri?/Why dontcha wait and see??"
This show was nutty fun! Being a kid back then was awesome. A little trippy, too! I also loved "Make A Wish" with Tom Chapin. Makes me want to open up a box of Cap'n Crunch and stay in my jammies all day..........
This shows intro was shot in Toronto.
I am a big fan of this show. Huge.
Holy cow. Saw family guy and this intro kept playing. Wow it was real. Look like good Saturday show
I loved this show❤
Omg I watched this every week. I had such a crush on Brett Hudson even though I didn’t understand why. Same feelings I had for Paul Michael Glaser and Treat Williams. Thank you, 1970s TV!
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Maybe you are gay.
@@davidmitchell6873 Maybe I am…and maybe I AM!
Not that there's anything wrong with that. Lol. I hope you get the reference.
@@davidmitchell6873 Thanks, Jerry. Love, Elaine 😂
Peter Cullen. - Optimus Prime! Cool seeing him here back in those simpler, fun times.
I remember this being a song made up by my big bro he sang every sat. morning just before he would put me flat on my back when it was time for his fav. show-local Memphis wrestling. Now I remember always trying to watch the beginning of this show when the real 'razzlin' started and the channel got turned! What a trip...!
YES I knew Peter Cullen was in this show but I just had to double check 😂
I remember this show when I was a kid. It was cool!
IKR, me 2!! Saturday mornings! ... and that intro was just the coolest thing in the world to me at that age! :D
Hudson Brothers Razzle-Dazzle Show:A rare Saturday morning variety show on CBS in 1976
I keep watching the opening scenes and it was crazy fun. Kenneth A Huang 9/11/22
OMG, the colors! My eyes, my eyes!
Billy Van -- our Canadian national treasure. 🥰
Peter Cullen is Canadian as well ;)
He could have moved to the US and become financially successful but chose to stay in Toronto.
Loved the show.
The Hudson’s brothers van is the only van I’d go inside 😩👌
An old Divco van that was a milk truck
Also checking on the validity of this show after watching it on Family Guy. I learned a couple things while researching. I missed out on it because I was born in 1977. Plus, the oldest brother, Bill, was Goldie Hawn's first husband and the father of Kate and Oliver Hudson. I always wondered about their father because I knew Kurt Russell was like their stepdad.
I'm a '77 baby too! If only I had been born much earlier!
Loved this show as a kid, and their song " So you are a star"
This was a very fun show.
Holy sh*t! I used to watch this as a kid! LOL
i always thought that this was a thing made for family guy not an actual show from the 70’s
The 70s were a weird time
Family Guy brought me here. Thanks, 20th Century-Fox.
Me too
Family Guy brought me here
i was only nine years old when this show came out but remember it so well especially rod hull...the hudsons sang and played well ..why cant they have fun shows like this on anymore...i really miss my youth....it was a time when things were simple and people were a bit kinder....the world has gotten way to complicated... razzle dazzle!
That's the thing about the "old days"....they're the old days.
probably because they were miming (lip syncing) and the guitars weren't plugged into anything
Of course, Bill Hudson was married to Goldie Hawn and they produced Kate Hudson. Mark Hudson later became music director for Joan Rivers' short lived talk show on the fledgling Fox network.
This intro was on Family Guy episode: And Then There’s Fraud.
So, Optimus Prime, The Unknown Comic and Count Frightenstein were all on this show? That's random.
watching family guy during a 30 HBWR seed trip and this pops on. What a treat from the univerrse.
Lmao. Family guy. Hudson news, miracle on the Hudson, Hudson brothers.
Hudson Hawk, famous mediocre Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Charles Hudson ...
I miss this great show
I can remember this show from when I was a kid. I didn't realize at the time it was shot in Toronto. I lived only a couple of hours away.
i recognize that bear from a tv commercial - - "we serve fun at shakey's, also pizza."
I loved this show when it was originally on, and made sure to buy the dvd as soon as it came out!
I totally remember when this was on
Just picked this DVD up in L.A.this past weekend and I can't wait to see it!
I really couldn't remember much about the show until I played the video. Then it all came flooding back.
Family guy episode bought me here
....we’ll be right back....
..... we'll be right back 👴
talking about bring back memories! i remember the show when my little sister's watched it saturday mornings. ahhh! the wonderful goofy 70's
Thanks for posting. I watched the show as a kid.
I love this show!!!
This feels so Canadian. I remember this when I was a kid 50 years ago
When I was a kid, I could never figure out how all those people and crates fit into that tiny truck. I'm now 48 and I still can't.
r u still alive
@@wanda9843 Yup. Are you?
i never thought i would see this again thanks
That voice at the end is the same that did similar bumpers for Sonny & Cher, another must-have DVD!
The Hudson Brothers had previously appeared as Sonny & Cher's 1974 summer replacement, produced and written by the same people behind their "COMEDY HOUR". For some reason, CBS programming executive Fred Silverman decided a Saturday morning version would be a hit with kids that fall. Again, the same production crew and writers who worked on their summer series [including Ted Ziegler, Murray Langston, Peter Cullen, et. al.] worked on this. It aired at 11:30am(et); 13 episodes were produced.
Early childhood memory for me.
Back when The Unknown Comic was known.
O MG!!! Memories R flashing by!! But, really, all I recall was the "Island of Pago pago".
These guys were great!
Voice introduction by, Peter Cullin who is now, the voice of Optimus Prime!
Wait, I already knew he was the guy at 0:23 but he introduced the whole cast even himself? Holy Shit that's fun.
Second most catchiest Saturday morning show theme song from the 70s after Electro-Woman and Dyna-Girl perhaps tied with H.R.Pufnstuf and Lidsville. Groovy!
This was filmed in Toronto?? I had no idea! I recognized the Exhibition stadium and Don Valley Parkway.
Cool.
DAM! I love this show...
Ditto, 1965. Lidsville, The Bugaloos, Here Come the Double Deckers, Land of the Lost, HR Pufnstuf, The Banana Splits ... *sigh*
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I remember this show. Me and Mom would talk about their skits with Chucky and his friend in the basement.
OMFG! What I remember from that: That Crazy Psychedelic Van, and the Announcer's Giggle!
A DVD of this show came out this week- I'll probably end up getting it though I've been trying to save money for a new TV!
The bear!🤣🤣🤣🤣
The voice of Venger from Dungeons & Dragons cartoon series as well as Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen).
Wow! Rod Hull and Emu. I never thought they were known anywhere else than in the UK! Excellent!
Rod Hull and Emu were regulars in '70s variety shows here. I remember them on the Hudson Brothers' primetime series, and even a summer show in the '80s where Emu attacked, IIRC, Dick Clark.
I like how the van almost t-bones a car as they pull away from the loading dock.
I also have very fond memories of this show. I also remember the Unknown Comic from the Gong Show. Back in the 70's everbody needed a haircut, I had a leisure suit. I always looked forward to this show, I always looked forward to Saturdays. There were a few shows I remember watching, and that I liked that were only shown on Twin Cities T.V. Networks.
Murray Langston was the unknown comic right?
Murray Langston, aka the Unknown Comic.
"Razzle Dazzle Truck, roll out."
Came here to make sure I didn't hallucinate during a family guy episode 😂
The Bear.
The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show Will Return After These Messages!
Hellooh 😂🇧🇷2023🤩👍
I was 3 then. Probably why I don't remember this... thing.
I approve this video :-)
How did I miss every single episode of this?
Bill, the oldest of the three. He's the one who talks to Chuckie and Allen.
"HEYY - Mar - G-O-O - li-iss!"
Ѽ Beatle sound-alikes. I think Mark Hudson went on to join Ringo Starr and his All*Starr band. And recorded with Ringo as well... Ѽ
HEY! I take umbrance with some of the comments here. I lived through the entire decade of the 70's, and let me tell you, it was surely a razzlin' dazzlin' groovy time
man! A 3 minute tv show intro feels like an entire hour. lol
THE BEAR!