At the height of their fame here in the US, Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde began making the rounds, not only of the usual variety shows like American Bandstand and The Mike Douglas Show, to name a couple, but also doing some acting. You know, of course, that they factored into a 2 part episode of Batman, but, a year earlier, Chad & Jeremy appeared on The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Patty Duke Show on successive weeks.
As was the case on Batman, Chad & Jeremy perform "A Summer Song", but close with "Yesterday's Gone", the title of their debut album.
The odd part was, Chad & Jeremy also appeared on the Western, Laredo, completing the network circuit of the period. There was a time when Jeremy took a break, and so Chad had his wife, Jill, join him, leading to appearances on Hullabaloo & Shindig. We'll look at that another time.
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Fun Facts:
- Chad and Jeremy's appearance on Laredo was what we call nowadays a "backdoor pilot".
The premise: C&J were cast as "remittance men" from England who came to the West to make their fortune; they were comic con artists who got into jams with Western baddies, and hilarity ensued - or would have, had the series sold.
C&J talked up the prospective series on their talk show appearances, but ... no sale.
- Not long afterwards, Jeremy Clyde went back to England and a solo career.
- Chad Stuart stayed in the USA; he and his wife raised a son, James Patrick Stuart, who broke into TV as a kid, replacing Robbie Rist as 'Dr. Zee' on Galactica 1980.
- These days, James Patrick Stuart is one of the main players on General Hospital, playing the villain turned romantic "hero" Valentin Cassidine; he's very popular there (seven years worth).
That's TV!
James will be in town, with castmate Finola Hughes, Saturday afternoon at Crossgates Mall in upstate NY. However, it's going to cost an arm or two (price range is $55-100).
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