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were watching this special on the Hell's Angels and one of the guys, Les Crane or somebody, asked them, uh, 'What do you call your women?' And this guy said, 'Well, some call 'em cheap but we call 'em mamas.' And it became a gag. You know, well, if the mamas would cook the dinner, the papas would go out and get the cat food. And it became the Mamas and the Papas." The last several episodes of
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scope of the network show made viewer phone calls impossible with technology that existed then. Network officials decided that each episode would be videotaped in advance, not live or almost-live as Crane's local show had been. The length of the delay with videotape is unknown decades later because research was not done when first-hand sources were alive.
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Angeles. Critics noted that in the style of the 1960s, he now dressed in a turtleneck and moccasins, sprinkling his speech with words like "groovy." However, he was still doing interviews with major newsmakers and discussing topics like civil disobedience, hippies and the rising popularity of
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Les Crane, who died on July 13 at age 74, became an unlikely one-hit wonder in the
British and American pop charts with "Desiderata" (1971), his spoken-word version of an obscure prose poem that became a New Age anthem.... number eight in the American Billboard chart and number seven in the British
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media critic Paul
Gardner considered him an incisive interviewer who asked tough questions without being insulting. One critic who did not like his show found Crane's trademark shotgun microphone distracting. "Each time he points this mike into the audience, it looks as though he's about to shoot a
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early episodes in August 1964. It was assembled using videotape editing equipment, difficult to use at the time, probably so network executives could use the collection of clips, in addition to the two entire episodes, to pitch the show to affiliates around the United States that had not yet signed
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aired locally on WABC Channel 7 in New York City. Archival
Television Audio has 38 minutes of the sound of this telecast. Viewer phone calls included one from a woman who told Wicker and other men who appeared on-camera with him that she had a male relative whom she knew was a homosexual. Several
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segments that Crane filmed far away from his studio. He sometimes filmed interviews on location when guests were unsuitable for a network television studio. In a radio interview, year unknown, that Cass Elliot did after the 1968 disbanding of the group of four singers, she says the following: "We
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debuted nationwide with a trial run (telecast nightly for a week) in August 1964 starting at 11:20 p.m. in east coast cities on the ABC schedule. In other time zones, the start time varied. It originated in one of the network's television studios on
Manhattan’s West 66th Street. The nationwide
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Archive) includes a short clip from the episode with Shelley Winters, Jackie Robinson, May Craig and William F. Buckley. All except Craig got a lot of airtime voicing opinions of presidential candidate
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has only the audio of the civil rights leader's appearance with Crane on the night of
December 28–29, 1964. Their conversation starts with Crane saying he has interviewed Malcolm before. Details of their previous encounter are unknown. A business called Archival Television Audio also has the
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Crane aimed a "shotgun microphone" at studio audiences to allow home viewers to see and hear non-famous people participate in controversial discussions with notable people. This plus Crane's interview technique earned him the name "the bad boy of late-night television." The profile in the
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magazine profile includes a photograph of him with his second wife Eve, maiden name Ford. The text of the article says he was helping raise the younger two of her three children from her previous marriage that had ended in divorce. Her oldest child was at boarding school in Oregon.
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has one entire telecast from this series, running time 48 minutes 25 seconds, with the YouTube title "The Les Crane Show August/Sept 1968." It consists of Crane and two guests, Joseph Lewis and Jack
Lindsey, discussing the policies of California governor
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Caprice was informed about the reel of clips from a handful of episodes that can be viewed at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, she replied that she had never seen it and she did not know whether her father was ever aware of it.
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A panel discussion of lesbianism that was to have been presented Friday night on the Les Crane television show on WABC-TV was ordered canceled by the station's legal department. A spokesman for the show said that no reason had been
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Barry
Goldwater. A transcript of this episode does not exist. The UCLA collection excludes Malcolm X, evidently because the collection has only clips from August 1964, and he appeared in December 1964.
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described him as "the popular, confrontational and sometimes controversial host of San Francisco's KGO. Helping to pioneer talk radio, he was outspoken and outraged some callers by hanging up on them."
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Les Crane, the bad boy of late-night television, has reformed. The man who kept insomniacs off sleeping pills during the hours after midnight has forsaken his telephone, desk, and bedside manner.
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magazine profile (Norman Mailer supposedly appears on the episode, too), and the one in which Melvin Belli debates Lee Oswald's guilt with Lee's mother Marguerite.
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in Los Angeles and needed a name for their group. Crane's interview with the Hell's Angels, if it happened as Elliot suggested, does not survive.
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was on Crane's program in June 1964 when only New Yorkers could see it. At some point in 1963 or 1964, WABC executives changed the title from
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spectator." Nearly every critic described Crane as photogenic. One described him as "a tall, handsome, and personable lad...."
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featured other hosts. During that period, prime-time viewers saw him as an actor in a guest-star appearance on
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Archival Television Audio catalog summaries of several Les Crane telecasts including the one with Randy Wicker
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magazine edition of November 3, 1964 called him "television's new bad boy," but critical opinion was divided.
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Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
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Sweeney, Louise (March 8, 1968). "Television's Talk, Talk, Talkathons on the Late Late Shows".
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meditation. Crane left KLAC when the station switched to a country music format.
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when it was recorded, the rights belonged to the family of author
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Lowry, Cynthia (November 8, 1964). "Insomnia Cure: Les Crane?".
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their name, but this is disputed in other sources, including
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Smith, Cecil (August 5, 1964). "Crane Flying High Nightly".
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A late-night program airing weekdays from 11pm to 2am,
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2740:The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
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737:(details unknown), Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali.
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