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''The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour'' was an American music and
''The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour'' was an American music and comedy
Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term o ...
television variety show
Variety show, also known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is entertainment made up of a variety of acts including musical theatre, musical performances, sketch comedy, magic (illusion), magic, acrobatics, juggling, and ventriloquism. It is ...
hosted by singer Glen Campbell
Glen Travis Campbell (April 22, 1936 – August 8, 2017) was an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, actor and television host. He was best known for a series of hit songs in the 1960s and 1970s, and for hosting ''The Glen Campbell Goodt ...
from January 29, 1969, to June 13, 1972, on CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainmen ...
. He was offered the show after he hosted a 1968 summer replacement for ''The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
''The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour'' was an American comedy and variety show television series hosted by the Smothers Brothers and initially airing on CBS from 1967 to 1969.
The series was a major success, especially considering it was sched ...
''. Campbell used "Gentle on My Mind
"Gentle on My Mind" is a song that was written and originally recorded by John Hartford, and released on his second studio album, '' Earthwords & Music'' (1967). Hartford composed the song after watching ''Doctor Zhivago'' in 1966, as he was i ...
" as the theme song of the show.
The show was one of the few shows with rural audience appeal to survive CBS's rural purge
The "rural purge" of American television networks (in particular CBS) was a series of cancellations in the early 1970s of still-popular rural-themed shows with demographically skewed audiences, the majority of which occurred at the end of the ...
of 1971, a survival made more unusual because it had fallen out of the top 30 shows that season. Reruns of the show are in the library of free over-the-top services Pluto TV
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and Shout! Factory
Shout! Factory is an American home video and music company founded in 2002 as Retropolis Entertainment. Its video releases include previously released feature films, classic and contemporary television series, animation, live music, and comedy ...
TV.
Nielsen Ratings
NOTE: The highest average rating for the series is in bold text.Home media
One full episode and several highlights of other episodes of ''The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour'' have been released on two videos and one DVD.See also
* ''The Glen Campbell Music Show
''The Glen Campbell Music Show'' was a syndicated US music television series presented by singer/guitarist Glen Campbell. In 1981 a pilot episode was broadcast. The regular series which followed ran for one season, from September 1982 until 1983 ...
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External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, The Glen Campbell 1960s American variety television series 1970s American variety television series 1969 American television series debuts 1972 American television series endings CBS original programming English-language television shows