Orson Welles interviewed on "Tomorrow with Tom Snyder" 1975 April 8
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This episode of "Tomorrow with Tom Snyder" featured an interview with film director, producer and actor Orson Welles and aired April 8, 1975.
Imagine Orson being alive and having a podcast today - he would have an audience of millions!
Yes, if he wanted to but I don't think he would have done it as he did not care for the limelight.
@@davidburkholder7360 But he loved radio. And a podcast is the new radio.
@@gopherstate777 He would totally do it.
Good point - I was thinking similar things. The Strauss-Howe parallels REALLY come through here - the new Medium of radio and the papers wanting him to be shut down - discussing “fake news” - for all the world this feels like listening to Tim Pool or Carl Benjamin giving an interview in 2055.
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A new hour long Orson Welles interview? It must be Christmas morning. I bet I’ve seen every Orson Welles interview a dozen times. He was undoubtedly the greatest conversationalist in the last century. I only wish I could stumble across interviews like this more often.
Agreed. It is also a reminder that Tom Snyder was always an interesting, if somewhat idiosyncratic, interviewer. He is sorely missed. Of course, Dick Cavett is still with us but retired.
I agree!!!
My thoughts exactly!
I have what is believed to be the only copy of a radio performance which Welles did, but no one is exactly beating a path to my door to get the transcription discs.
@@jasonbeard4713 You should upload it to TH-cam with proper catalogue identification, the algorithm will promote it to those who are interested.
"The question is interesting and loaded with inaccuracies"
This is what makes Orson Welles such a genius 👏
Snyder's such a loveable dipshit. The WOW b'cast was 1938...not "36 or 37" as the miniature train Engineer flubbed. (Orson corrects not)...and the scrip was by the guy who screenplayed Gone With The Wind, ffs. If Tom knew how to read and prepped for this...that would be greaaaat. He LOVED O.J and the other guy who definitely didn't murder his wife. Likeable Tom Snyder. Oy.
Tom Snyder was one of the greatest interviewers in history. Maybe he’s not all that well read, and doesn’t seem to vet out his guests as say a journalist would, but he knows enough to ask questions that may not seem as profound as Barbara Walters too perfect well-vetted inquiries, Tom’s guests end up divulging themselves to Tom in a way hard to find elsewhere.
@@freemanz4051 The "scrip" was not by "the guy who screenplayed Gone With The Wind." Howard Koch wrote War of the Worlds. Gone with the Wind was written by Sidney Howard, rewritten by a ton of uncredited writers, and give final revision by Ben Hecht and Sidney Howard again, who returned for a final polish. The two productions had nothing to do with each other.
I like Snyder in general, but the is off base in this interview and missed a great opportunity to ask a genius some profound questions.
The ego drains away as you get older but the love of what you are doing does not diminish
I could listen to Orson Welles forever 😊
Me too and that amazing laugh
Same here.
I love him. He was heroic. One of the best artists of the 20th century
just saw his Touch Of Evil for maybe the 20th time on TCM last night. A stone cold masterpiece and not boring for one second. Wow!! I was totally enthralled once again.
A masterpiece. Orson was torturing Janet Leigh in a motel room long before Hitchcock ever thought of it. Plus, check out Dennis Weaver's character, then watch a Forrest Gump clip. Interesting....
@@richardsiciliano7117 Norman Bates had a little of Dennis Weaver's 'Nightman' in him. The nervousness, the stuttering, the fear of women.
Thanks, I'll check it out.
@@rbrookswilliams1689 In the wonderful book My Lunches With Orson, Welles clearly expresses his dislike for many of Hitchcock's films and the way he created them.
That was a great movie!👍🏽 they don't make movies like that nowadays
I remember this interview on television. I had just turned ten. Orson Welles speaks with utter aplomb and elegance and even his sense of fashion has a timeless appeal. However, I dare anyone to stand on a street corner dressed just like Tom Snyder in this video. Oh, the year 1975! Lol!
Orson was so interesting with a great sense of humor honest self deprecating, high of integrity, honesty and humility. I say that after watching as many interviews as I have found on utube. He noted there are “too many of us” overpopulation even back in 75 and we are “animals” as I believe and our future is bleak. Boy did he have it right! I wish someone would have asked him…why have you got so damn overweigh. It killed him early at 70.
I've grown into being a Tom Snyder fan. Orson Welles is far more humble than I previously misbelieved.
Tom Snyder's ability and show format with Welle's place in time intersect really, really good here. Truly exceptional. Our time w/ TH-cam too, eh'
@@JS-df5vy occasionally, like Charlie Rose, he talks over the speaker and tries to push them in a certain direction. He did that here, but Orson Wells seem to enjoy him.
Snyder is so underrated, people laugh at his personality and forget he did a LOT of great interviews in the 70’s that are now rarely seen. This is a great example
His "fancy" speech can be misleading. He's really just our interesting well-travelled uncle. His favorite snack was Cheetos.
Tom Snyder was among the most excellent interviewers of the 20th Century. Orson, always charming, interesting and informative. God bless them both in His Realm.
I love when a "new to TH-cam" Orsen Welles interview gets uploaded 🎉
*Orson
Orson was a giant in girt and intelligence!
My god how lucky we are to discover more from Orson, your greatly missed dude😢
*You're greatly missed
@@January.Probably actually his autocorrect and not his mistake because a lot of times if I don't catch this thing it makes me look like I don't know how to spell and that I don't understand proper grammar .
Both of these guys are missed . I really miss them both ... Tom Snyder was great and always made you feel like you were just enjoying hanging out in his den with him talking with people
Genuine interviews like this are a thing of the past.
There is so much truth and conviction in Orson's answers.
Orson Welles at 31 minutes and talking about how the future looks grim and that was in 1977 ... he must have been picking up the vibe all of us watching him here we're sending back to him about what it's like in 2024 .
When they said he was 40 years ahead of his time, they weren't just greasing his ego. A man well ahead of his time.
Welles was highly intuitive. He could see the future very clearly because he had studied the past so well
Yeah he was really a brilliant guy .
I really loved this interview here with Tom Snyder and i always LOVED Tom Snyder and MISS him SO MUCH
This man was so classy. he would never bad mouth anyone, even when the interviewer tried their best to get it.
He bad mouthed plenty of people in Peter Bogdanovich's interview book. I loved that book and I love Orson. How he endured many of his films being butchered is something for which I'll forever hold him in the highest regard. It is criminal how he was treated.
Wonderful seeing this newly surfaced Gem!!!
@willie luncheonette He actually doesn't in Peter Bogdanovich's book; there's even a redacted bit where it refuses to name a director he dislikes. He DOES in Henry Jaglom's book, but there is a lot of controversy about whether Welles knew he was being recorded by Jaglom and certainly would not have approved the book as it was posthumously released. All the quotes you see online of Welles bashing Woody Allen and Alfred Hitchcock come from conversations Welles almost certainly thought were private.
His radio shows in the 30s were legendary, honestly. Nothing else much like it
How can you listen to them?
@Randy Flynn They are all available on Indiana University's website but they can be found pretty easily on TH-cam too. Search "Mercury Theater On the Air" and "The Campbell Playhouse," their name once Campbell Soup became their sponsor.
When I was an NYU student, they had his collected works at the Bobst Library. I listened to him play The Shadow. I heard his War of the Worlds broadcast and got to see him play King Lear on video.
Ah, the great Orson Welles ... one of my all-time favorite individuals. His direction is superlative - none better. My favorite film of his is "A Touch Of Evil" - excellent story line, great casting & acting, and of course, outstanding direction by Orson. He also acted in the film and was so good in the role. Always present in Orson's films is a particular way of conversation between the actors that results in such realism - the characters will talk over each other is the best way I can describe it. If you haven't had the good fortune of seeing "A Touch Of Evil," make a point of seeing it if you can find it. Indeed, we lost a Golden Child when we lost Orson Welles.
Imagine if we got the Touch of Evil that Orson intended us to get instead of te butchered version we finally got. Although I do agree even that version was fantastic, and is also my favourite Welles movie. If only the studio hadn't meddled with the final cut. Rumour has it that its out there somewhere.
Thank you for responding. I encountered a rare group of Orson Welles videos titled "Orson Welles' Sketchbook" - my favorite one is his one on "The Police" - it is profound. I found them here on TH-cam; I tried to get the link for you but my computer kept messing up but if you insert the words I gave you, the group of videos should come up. Have you seen his film called "The Trial"? I also found a channel on the Rumble platform that features many of his obscure films. The Touch of Evil is still my favorite. Thanks again.
Chimes at Midnight. The Trial. The Third Man. Welles was the best actor of his generation. He just happened to have a lot of other talents
I'm going to buy myself the Criterion Blu-Ray/4K edition of Citizen Kane today as an early Christmas present.
Orson would be one of my dream dinner guests.
Mr.Welles was AMAZING!!!
I was an avid fan of Tom Snyder's "Tomorrow" show back in the '70s - until he had to change the format and perform before a live studio audience. Not all of his interviews were gold, but they were always interesting. Orson was a one-of-a-kind intellect and personality, and always a great conversationalist. The best raconteur and forever the gentleman during interviews - even when the questions irked him. Regarding Tom, I always thought the smoking habit would kill him. Sadly, it did. RIP.
Having an audience was a big mistake. It killed the intimacy of just Tom, guest and viewer. Fortunately that experiment was recognized as a failure and Tom's later shows returned to the original format.
Much better to just have Tom and his guest, no audience was much better and the intimacy brought out much more of Synder's talent.
Cigarettes do not cause leukemia. Exposure to radiologics and benzene are the causes.
He died from leukemia.
He did not like the addition of Rona Barrett or the studio audience. He said that he had few phobias but a studio audience was one of them.
Orson is always great in interviews. He seems extremely humble.
He was always true to himself and his values. He was a Shakespearean artist. He took the words of Shakespeare to heart. He was a real life Falstaff.
One of the greatest visual artists America has ever produced.
Not bad at radio either…geesh
Along with Ed Wood and Hal Warren.
What impresses me about this interview is that Welles is so secure in himself that no matter how hard the interviewer pushes, he is niether offended nor threatened by it.
I had the same thought as I watched this. A man of his accompaniment and talent remaining as accommodating and open is startling.
Tom Snyder and Orson Welles, two of the best of human beings!
Both from Wiconsin home of the last red owl.
Tom Synder was an incredible interviewer. He made some of the best interviews I've seen.
Have you seen Snyder's rare interview with Cagney from 1980 on TH-cam?
@@philiphalpenny3783 No, I will look for it. Thanks, I've thought his interview with Hitchcock was one of the best the night I first saw it and rewatching it now, It is very good.
Thanks.
Check out Tom’s interviews with Robert Blake from the 90s. Fascinating conversations about old Hollywood
@@ausitnmiller It's great to be able to see these again, thanks.
@@ausitnmiller That's the git who insulted Orson Welles on the Johnny Carson Show in 1976...Johnny didn't know where to look!
Good interviewer.
Good interviewee.
Agree on both!
A massive talent who was funny and humble at the same time.
It's sad to me that Orson Welles was so painfully ashamed of his appearance. He was a big man but he carried it well and it was part of his magic. This was an enthralling interview. I was too young to stay up late with this interview first aired, so it's great to finally watch Tom Snyder and finally see what my big sisters were talking about.
Wow! This is a remarkable interview. Got off to a rocky start with Tom saying he was doing the interview, but Orson was cool and on it went, quite well. Very appreciative of this post. Thank you.
@@michaellangmdl Snyder had that edge to him. In this one he's quite young. He mellowed out over the years.
Yes, lovable Tom was quite brash and a tad bit over the top with arrogance in his 'early years'. Yet, as he aged into maturity, he developed his 'natural' style. I would have loved to see this interview the last couple of years on Snyder's LATER or LATE NIGHT programs! Would have been GOLD...
I think it was a slightly mis-timed joke. Very dry, but of course Welles saw this and played along and brushed it aside like the master of conversation he was.
Tom was being sarcastic for sure 😁
Orson is in a great mood here, in a different interview he made the interviewer throw out their questions lol. Nice of him not to take offense.
Thank you for the upload of this historical document. But I must admit - as a kid in the 1970s - every time I hear Tom Snyder talk - I can't help seeing Dan Aykroyd doing him on SNL. Snyder's mannerisms are so ripe for imitation.
Wooooooooooooooooooow !!! Never seen this interview before !!!! Soooooooooo cool !!! Thank you !! :)
Orson Welles is like a Michelin restaurant in a world that thinks McDonald's is good food.
He also like the Michelin tire man😮
EXACTLY he’s the best.
That is a spot on comparison!
McDonalds in unpretentious and knows what it is. People don't eat fast food to get a Michelin level meal. Most people eat both just fine. I can tell a prententious midwit when I see one.
Praise his work and he lights up like a beacon, praise him personally, and he shrinks like a violet.
He really did see himself as "just a guy trying to make a picture".
yes - do more TOM SNYDER - very few that i can find - back in the day i used to watch him alot - the ART BELL of late nite talk...
Art Bell...lol. haven't heard of him in quite awhile. R.I.P Art.
🤣🤣
Two greats in their own field; Snyder and Welles. I loved Tom’s intensity and obnoxious laugh; and Orson’s rich voice. ‘A Touch of Evil’ is simply brilliant.👏
A new Orson interview I've never seen? Yes!!!
Thank you so much! I've watched every bit of Orson Welles I can find and I've never seen this.
Wonderful Mr. Wells... As usual. I always love listening to him. English is not my mother tongue and his English pronunciation is so exquisite... Being such a great actor and director his interviews are always worth listening. Thanks so much for uploading this Video.. Which I haven't seen until now 🙏
Even though he has been gone many years I find his interviews inspirational,plus I enjoy his body language when smoking a cigar,box of matches at the ready
Thanks for posting. Two of my favorite celebs. Mostly, Tom.
Orson Welles is my favorite filmmaker. When I say that, I don't mean that I love his films above others. I mean, I love the man himself. I can listen to him for hours without being bored. Most of all, I love his laugh!
Love to see new Tom Snyder full episodes! Can't get enough of his interviews!
He was very down to Earth, which is difficult on TV, because you can't have dead air.
Do you think either of them could’ve imagined that someone would be watching this interview 50 years later on their phone sitting on a park bench like me.
Maybe if you called it a pocket television, they might.
👱🏻♂️U SPEAK GOOD AMERICAN FOR A LATIN DID SOMEONE TEACH CHA ?
👱🏻♂️AND U NEED A GIRL AND JOB.
@@paulyricca3881 I am Israeli and you know what they say…
War of the mobile Worlds 🌎.
Tom had this foresight as he alone often told the date in full when he opened his shows.
Fantastic. I've been an Orson freak for decades. Thanks so much for this.
Orson Welles stands alone on Olympus. Truly the greatest actor/director of all time.
Well there is Chaplain
And Kubrick!
@@paulbaran549 Kubrick acted?
No true, I was meaning Kubrick was on the same level as a director.
@@paulbaran549 Kubrick was a master, I agree. Incredible the diversity of films he produced in his career, almost a genre upon themselves. Welles was a behemoth as he could do it all, was accomplished at all, and did it all with a virtual Hollywood blacklist, never compromising his art, remaining unbeatable to the end. When you compare the directors in terms of the adversity and difficulty they faced producing and bringing their vision to screen, I think welles triumphs there, it’s incredible he was able to make what he did in the time he did it in
Excited to see any Tom Snyder full episodes. Thanks for uploading!
I've got a few more coming, they're not all complete though.
@@fanboyfilms2915 your doing great/important work preserving nearly lost media. I appreciate it.
I appreciate it too. Tom was a great broadcaster and I always enjoyed his "colorcast." He was one of the top late night hosts, along with Carson, Letterman, Cavett, etc.
@@rfkwouldvebeenaok1008 *You're doing great
@@January. thanks mom
Pure joy watching this. Welles is always captivating holding court on any subject. His gift of parsing a matter is peerless. Snyder was among the last breed of great interviewers and hosts. What we have now doesn't hold a candle, sadly. I've listened to the Bogdanovich-Welles interviews dozens of times on my long drives and am always enthralled. Thank you for posting this, a true gift from the vault.
Tom Snyder is sorely missed.
He was a great story teller. I love listening to him talk. The history he lived through .
Pure JOY !
Spectacular. Thank you so much for unearthing this and presenting it. It's a great one.
Dan Aykroyd nailed Tom Snyder perfectly. Holy shit.
Two gentlemen I could watch and listen to all day long ! What does it say when Mr Welles ,the genius ,called Jackie Gleason ,'The Great One .' What a wonderful ,apt description . The highest praise possible ,I'd say with confidence .
Thank you for uploading this show! Retromedia is something I truly enjoy, whether it's top-40 radio airchecks, or classic television like this. Interview shows like this are a lost art. Snyder was a master at this. So was Dick Cavett, Bob Costas, and Charlie Rose. Johnny Carson could pull it off too.
This is my favorite Orson Wells interview.
Imagine Orson Welles reading Audiobooks if he was younger and alive today, no other reader would even come close.
This is fantastic. Nobody had ever seen Welles asked so many hard hitting questions, which only made him look even better by his later responses...
Orson Welles is the most interesting man in the USA.
You mean was ... this was 1977 regrettably . Anyway I miss both of these guys😢
...and AMONG the most interesting in Canada, as well as Sudan....
meh, just another left wing nutjob.
I wish I had a fraction of Orson Wells’s brilliance.
You do
Focus on the craft not on yourself
"I cannot change this feeling of love, but I'd be better off without it" - Orson Welles. Hilarious and poignant.
Sounds like a Mitchum line from a classic Noir flick!
Wow. The ideas he puts out there. Such a wonderful conversation. Wells is mesmerizing. Interesting some of his contradicting what was seen as his story early on.
Riveting. One of the best television interviews I've ever seen. Thank you, FanboyFilms2, for posting this treasure.
One more comment. How can you not love the sound of Tom open and closing his Zippo to light a smoke. God!!! History. Not that long ago. Seems like a million years though.
Unfortunately, that's why he didn't live very long.
Thanks a lot for this! I'm looking forward to your Tom Snyder website. My biggest hope is that Tom Snyder's interview with Siskel and Ebert from 1978 turns up. I believe it was their first interview on a national broadcast, as they were promoting their show going national on PBS that fall.
dam thats very interesting news for a Tom S website. I know i was always fascinated by Tom's direct questions and sometimes a bit awkward when a guest wasnt being forthright. The J Lennon one where he was fighting the usa to stay in NYC was a great one, but I know there are many more guests that I never saw as I had reg wk hrs and didnt have a VCR until 1978
I ask , sincerely , this days , in our time, IS THERE ANYONE, THAT COMES NEAR TO ORSONS SHEER BRILLANCE????
the man was a legend , a voice of wisdom , savviness , intelligence and charm, my god how i miss him...
Thanks for the upload. Every Orson Welles interview is incredibly enjoyable and interesting, to say the least.
I'm only seven minutes into it and am already blown away by Welles' confident intensity. It is stunning to see this now, especially the exchange with Snyder about Welles being more of a renegade in 1975 than he was when a younger man, especially now that we have 'The Other Side of the Wind' (Netflix, 2018) to watch, which Welles had been filming for five years already when this interview was recorded. That film may not have been his best, but it serves to defend Welles' renegade status far more effectively than any verbal riposte ever could. Seen in this light, his defiant yet understated responses to Snyder are uproariously funny, and we can relish being in on the joke! Can't wait to watch the entire conversation!
Great interview.
Thanks for the great share, I've been on a Welles kick recently. Snyder was a great interviewer, quick and sharp. His interviews w/Harlan Ellison are favorites of mine.
Oh, I would love to see that. I've read/seen some Ellison work and I've loved reading his interviews. I was late to the HE party having first learned of him through BABYLON 5. There was a story or interview, I think it was in TV GUIDE, where he talked at great length about his involvement with STAR TREK. He wrote the script for the excellent episode "City On The Edge Of Forever," although it would be heavily rewritten before shooting; his original teleplay won a prestigious award but I can't recall what it was. Ellison had a thing about "our heroes" not being heroic - or even good - 100% of the time and boy, did that flag ever fly in BABYLON 5.
What a treat to see this interview with The Master.. Can't stand Snyder as an interviewer.. I felt a distinct lack of respect for Mr Welles.. Snyder providing a few snide comments there.. shiny trousers and what have you.. Again, as always, Mr Welles carried himself with effortless class and intelligence
I think Snyder's style was to play Devil's Advocate so the interviewee could explain their side of the story.
thank you fir creating this Tom Snyder Project! I have been frustrated in not getting these before. Some stupid female at NBC told me the shows had all been erased but I didn't believe it
Wow, that was great. Orson was one of a kind. Brilliant artist and a wonderful conversationalist.
True fact, not too far off from this point in time (and tending to guess maybe 1979?) I used to ride my bicycle or small motorcycle around the alleys in Hollywood to dumpster dive for interesting things that studios would throw away, etc. I got a lot of 16mm film clips of various productions, including clips of films that were used as leader material as well as short commercials, etc. I used to find other cool stuff as well, that was sometimes interesting.
Now, one day, I was about to check out one particular dumpster when a town car pulled up (remember this is an alleyway) ... it stopped, and out came Mr. Orson Welles, who was on his way in to the back of a building to do something - possibly one of those commercials for Paul Masson Wines ("There's no wine, before its time...").
Although I did recognize him, I didn't know quite how much of a legend he was (at this point had not seen Citizen Kane). Still, I knew he was important in Hollywood.
I said hello and I think he sort of barely said hello back and then went into the back door of one of these studios (for all I know maybe I miscalculated and it may have been 1975 and he was actually being dropped off for this! - but I sincerely guess it was probably for a voiceover job).
My brush with a legend… by the dumpsters of Hollywood :-)
I love this story ❤
@@Ginrhino35 Thanks, Desmond! I fixed a couple typos and adjusted it slightly.
One of his best narrations is a Night Gallery episode: Silent Snow Secret Snow. I could listen to him for hours!
Kudos to Eric Singer and his colleagues. Keep up the good work.
Thank you!
Cheater Criss gets no kudos! 😆
It's damning that Orson could only get F for Fake screened in France when this interview was made and find no American distributor at the time, given the clear masterwork it is. Yes it is not a movie for the hoi polloi but arthouses would have gladly shown it. Really enjoy seeing the love for Orson in the comments. He was a complex man and not always nice, but we must embrace him and his legacy for good or ill. Read Bogdanovich's and Jaglom's interview books to get a rounded portrait of Orson at his best and worst.
If I could chose anyone living or dead to speak with it would be this man, a genius with a voice to match , his life was a masterpiece
I learned from this interview….such an incredible guy…absolute genius….
There will never be another Orson Welles ! Great job Tom Snyder !
Nor there ought to be another. Or else, his originality would be usurped.
Yes he was a very intelligent man. Love listening to him. He talks to all levels plus he had “The Voice”.. Tom did podcast length interviews.
Probably the most revealing and important interview with someone who is truly a genius talent above 99.9% of everything else out there
I could listen to Orson Welles talk about his radio days for hours.
I know. I wished he talked more about it.
Great interview.
Tom and Orson are epic here. Tom does a great job with a giant. Tom, too, was a giant.
Amazing the comparison of Tom's interviewing style to these late night clowns we have now!!
Oh God, I miss those days.
Thomas James Snyder (May 12, 1936 - July 29, 2007) was an American television personality, news anchor, and radio personality best known for his late night talk shows Tomorrow, on NBC in the 1970s and 1980s, and The Late Late Show, on CBS in the 1990s. Snyder was also the pioneer anchor of the prime time NBC News Update, in the 1970s and early 1980s, which was a one-minute capsule of news updates.
He died on my 20th birthday! 😢
Truly enjoyed watching this. Thank You!👍👍
Thanks E*Rock! Brilliant footage
Milwaukee area checking in. This brings me great pride as a Wisconsin artist.
The man is captivating, always enjoyed all his interviews!🌟
These guys were genuine god gifted talented artist's.
I don't know why people say Larry King was the best interviewer. I thought Tom Synder and James Day were superior.
Thank you for uploading this!
I'm watching this from Racine Wiaconsin. I'm from Milwaukee. My Love these men.
I live in Milwaukee now. People seem weird about Snyder. Also, I think Milwaukee and greater area, have some deep Hollywood connections dating to the silent film era. So many stars from here. Pat O, Brien, Spencer Tracy, Gene Wilder, so many actors and actresses
Excellent interview! Thanks for the upload!
Myself I'm ln love with this man from an interviewing stand point. And it only adds to his greatness when you consider his film and radio brilliance. He wants to put humility and ego in the same frame.
This is very fascinating. Tom Snyder is an incredible interviewer, and this is one of the reasons why. What's fascinating about the whole thing is that this aired after the Academy Awards and that this was the only late night show on NBC that aired that night. This raises 2 questions. 1: Why wasn't The Tonight Show on at all that night? 2: Did the Academy Awards actually air on NBC before it aired on ABC in the 70s?
Good questions. According to Wikipedia, the Academy Awards aired on NBC for 7 years, then ABC for 10, then NBC for another 5, then back to ABC where it has stayed since. 1975 was the last year it ran on NBC.
In answer to the second question I’m not sure. The schedule is different for different time zones and I see some confusion in the listings but most seem to agree the Tonight Show didn’t air that night, the Awards took its time slot.
@@fanboyfilms2915 That's very interesting. Thank you. You know, there was another time when The Tonight Show didn't air in the 70s when Tom Snyder came on, and that was on the last day of 1973, but that was because of Dick Clark.
@@KungEMuller I also saw there was an occasion where Carson did an anniversary show in prime time instead of his normal Tonight Show and so the Tomorrow Show ran an hour earlier in Johnny's time slot and I was wondering if that's the only time that ever happened.
@@fanboyfilms2915 Well, it had to have happened before Tom was replaced by David Letterman. So, yeah. I think that it was it. Before then, Carson had to expand his show to two hours for his anniversary shows
Was Carson hosting the awards that year? He did a handful of times in the 70s.
I love reading all the great comments. Orson Welles is huge at this stage in his life.
Absolutely brilliant man. Great interview 👍18:21 I thought that was a very keen observation. Good on you Mr. Snyder!