Yeah, I know, it's winter, and we've got a major snowstorm in the East. It had just started snowing just as I was getting to work this morning. So why don't we take a look at a long forgotten summer show?
Our Place was a summer replacement series that ran on CBS in 1967, courtesy of Ed Sullivan's production company (son-in-law Robert Precht was the executive producer), and virtually all of the acts on the show had also appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, including Jack Burns & Avery Schreiber, who were all over the show, the Doodletown Pipers, and Rowlf, the Muppet piano player whose first claim to fame was when he appeared on The Jimmy Dean Show. To my knowledge, Rowlf never appeared on Sesame Street, and seemingly dropped out of sight until The Muppet Show.
Anyway, here's a sample episode from July 1967.
If Sullivan's thinking was to eventually spin Burns & Schreiber off into their own show, since they were the dominant act in this episode, it would've worked-----had the show aired at an earlier time and/or on a different night. Since, I think, Sullivan's own show was in repeats during the summer, he & the network felt Our Place would benefit from the lead-in. Didn't happen, and it didn't return.
No rating.
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