{"id":42338,"date":"2017-02-05T06:15:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T11:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/50th-anniversary-smothers-brothers-comedy-hour-debut\/"},"modified":"2021-04-19T16:47:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T20:47:26","slug":"50th-anniversary-smothers-brothers-comedy-hour-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=42338","title":{"rendered":"The Smothers Brothers…SMOTHERED By CBS"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nOn February 5, 1967, the Smothers Brothers debuted on CBS and went head to head with the Cartwright brothers on NBC’s Sunday night ratings giant “Bonanza”. To everyone’s (even CBS’s) amazement, in less than a month, they had taken the ratings lead!\u00a0\u00a0“The rest” as they say, “is history”…but it was a history that was as unusual as their start. The more successful they became, the more CBS tried to hold them back.<\/p>\n

To tell this very important and moving story, here is our friend Maureen Muldaur’s great documentary Smothered<\/em> from 2002. Tom and Dick tell a lot of the story, but just about everyone involved is here too, including another friend of ours, producer George Sunga.\u00a0 Enjoy and Share! -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n

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On February 5, 1967, the Smothers Brothers debuted on CBS and went head to head with the Cartwright brothers on NBC’s Sunday night ratings giant “Bonanza”. To everyone’s (even CBS’s) amazement, in less than a month, they had taken the ratings lead!\u00a0\u00a0“The rest” as they say, “is history”…but it was a history that was as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[783,782,704,1120,725],"class_list":["post-42338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cbs","tag-nbc","tag-producer","tag-smothers-brothers","tag-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61091,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42338\/revisions\/61091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}