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Genre Variety Original language(s) English Running time 60 minutes Final episode date 5 April 1972 | 8.8/10 IMDb Country of origin United States No. of episodes 13 First episode date 12 January 1972 Number of episodes 13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Written by Frank Peppiatt
John Aylesworth
and others Network American Broadcasting Company Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Video Tape Editing Cast Rich Little, Frank Gorshin, Marilyn Michaels, George Kirby, Fred Travalena Similar Alcock and Gander, Eight Hours Are Not a Day, Variety show, Assignment Vienna, Arthur of the Britons | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The ABC Comedy Hour was an American television variety series that aired on ABC in 1972. Seven of the 13 episodes featured a guest host and a team of comedy impressionists known as The Kopykats (Rich Little, Frank Gorshin, Joe Baker, Marilyn Michaels, George Kirby, and Fred Travalena, with single appearances by Charlie Callas, Will Jordan, and Peter Goodwright). Guest hosts included Steve Lawrence, Orson Welles, Ed Sullivan, Raymond Burr, Robert Young, Debbie Reynolds and Tony Curtis. The remaining six episodes were variety specials and included two Friars Club roasts and a revival of the musical Hellzapoppin' starring Jack Cassidy and Ronnie Schell.
The show originally aired on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m.. Summer reruns of the seven Kopykats episodes were aired under the title The ABC Comedy Hour Presents the Kopykats. The same episodes aired in Great Britain simply as The Kopykats.