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3/10 TV Theme music composer Dave Grusin Final episode date 19 March 1968 | 7.3/10 IMDb Genre Sitcom First episode date 5 September 1967 Network CBS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Created by Bill Persky
Sam Denoff
Carl Reiner
Sheldon Leonard Written by Carl Biddiscombe
Sam Bobrick
Joseph Bonaduce
John C. Chulay
James L. Brooks
Sam Denoff
Peggy Elliott
Bill Idelson
Bruce Johnson
Carl Kleinschmitt
Rick Mittleman
Dale McRaven
Bernie Orenstein
Ronnie Pearlman
Bill Persky
Ed Scharlach
Saul Turtletaub
E. Duke Vincent
Jack Winter
Sydney Zelinka Directed by Danny Dayton
Gary Nelson
Carl Reiner
John Rich
Robert Scheerer
George Tyne Starring Ronnie Schell
Joby Baker
Billy De Wolfe
Goldie Hawn
Julie Parrish Cast Goldie Hawn, Ronnie Schell, Joby Baker, Julie Parrish, Billy De Wolfe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Good Morning, World is an American sitcom broadcast on CBS-TV during the 1967–1968 season, originally sponsored by Procter & Gamble on Tuesday nights at 9:30 p.m. Eastern time. On January 7, 2017, reruns of the show began airing on the Antenna TV network late night Saturdays at 1:00am ET (10:00pm PT).
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Synopsis
It was designed as a starring vehicle for Ronnie Schell, who had proven to be fairly popular as "Duke", one of Gomer's buddies, in the hit program Gomer Pyle, USMC over the three previous seasons. Schell's character, Larry Clarke, was a morning disc jockey and part of a morning drive-time team, "Lewis and Clarke", on a smallish AM radio station in Los Angeles. The show also starred Joby Baker, who was known for guest starring in many sitcoms. The show's creators were Carl Reiner, Sheldon Leonard, Bill Persky, and Sam Denoff, all of whom had worked on The Dick Van Dyke Show, and was inspired by Persky and Denoff's personal experiences working as continuity writers for several disc jockeys on radio station WNEW in New York during the 1950s. In fact, William B. Williams, one of the station's most popular deejays, received screen credit for originating the show's title (adapted from his famous opening greeting, "Hello, World!").
Despite having the long-established and popular Red Skelton Show as a lead-in, and the young Goldie Hawn as a minor neighbor character, the show did not do well on Nielsen ratings and Schell returned to Gomer Pyle as Duke for the next season, which was also that show's last. Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully did voice-over narration in some of the episodes.
Ronnie Schell, on the DVD commentary for the series, claimed that the show might have been renewed for a second season on CBS, but there were issues with the main cast that alarmed the network. Baker could not memorize his lines and Parrish was having health concerns that slowed down her performance as the season progressed. Recasting both actors was considered.
Unlike most sitcoms of the era, Good Morning, World was filmed before a live audience; standard practice at the time was to film an episode on a closed set and add a laugh track during post-production. However, a laugh track was still used to fill any gaps in audience reactions or missed punchlines.
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DVD release
All 26 episodes of Good Morning, World were released on DVD by S'more Entertainment on January 17, 2006.