Donny and Marie – call me crazy, but I really liked them a lot, their whole family was wonderful to me (they called me brother Bruce) and they treated their guest stars like royalty.

19 November 1977

This is show with Guest Stars Bruce Kimmel, Cindy Williams, Jay Osmond and Paul Lynde

Some bits from a L'il Abner type of musical comedy sketch with Jay Osmond and Carol Ann Williams (Cindy's sister)

A big splashy tribute to Mickey and Judy youth type musicals

Bruce and Cindy in a solo comedy spot. They play newlyweds who are about to go on their vacation and Cindy packs every piece of clothes she owns and even the telephone. Unfortuantley she doesn't even pack Bruce's clothes. He tries to distract by kissing and dancing, but unfortunatly he falls out the window

Episode 11/24/78

Guests Cindy Williams & Bruce Kimmel

Another recollection from 02/22/02

Some kind person sold me a copy of a Donny and Marie Show from the seventies. That on the face of it is not shocking. The guest stars on this particular Donny and Marie Show from the seventies were Charley Pride, Cindy Williams and someone named Bruce Kimmel. (b: 22-Oct-1976)  That on the face of it is not shocking. No, what was shocking was to watch the tape. That was shocking indeed. This particular episode was the first of three or four (I no longer remember exactly how many we did) that Cindy and I guest starred in (she was doing Laverne and Shirley and I was doing the Dinah Shore and Her New Best Friends Show on CBS).

First of all, may I say that Mr. Donny and Miss Marie Osmond were so cute on this show. Really cute. Extremely cute. With large teeth. Their "Sonny and Cher" act (the comic bantering and put downs) was still fresh and they did it very well. Both of them are extremely talented and have excellent voices. It was an odd group of people to be working on the Donny and Marie Show. Bruce Vilanch ended up writing for the show. And this first season, the very strange and wild David Winters was the choreographer. Anyway, it was shocking to see how sweet and innocent TV could be back then, and still be entertaining. Watching the show now is very surreal. What are those ice skaters about? Cindy and I did a cute sketch about an actress auditioning for a crazy director, and we both took part in another sketch about a beauty contest. The other guest star, who I forgot to mention, took part in that sketch, too. That was Miss Pinky Tuscadero (aka Roz Kelly). How many of you remember Pinky Tuscadero? As I recall she was being groomed as the female Fonzie. Whatever she was being groomed as it didn't work. She had two other girls with her, too, the Pinkettes or something. Very strange. The big finale was a jaw dropper. It was called "Follies", and it started off with Beautiful Girls, then everyone got to do their own Follies numbers. Cindy and I did The Continental for no discernable reason - although, I must say I was quite impressed with our "dancing". I do remember that doing these shows was great fun and that the Osmonds treated everyone like gold.

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