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The Dr. Demento Show #25-20 - May 17, 2025
Special Topic: television (flashing back)
NOTE: This show was assembled from 7 prior shows, none of which were
available for streaming on drdemento.com at the time of posting. The
first 4 segments are from 83-40, the next is from 98-23, the next is
from 85-29, the next is from 90-05, the next 2 are from 01-39, the next
2 are from 90-15, and the last is from 00-20.
'Tain't No Sin (To Take Off Your Skin And Dance Around In Your Bones)
- Lee Morse & Her Blue Grass Boys
The Great Gildersleeve (radio broadcast excerpts)
The Fred Allen Show (excerpt)
Howdy Doody TV opening - Buffalo Bob Smith
Milton Berle (TV broadcast excerpt)
Television - Zeke Manners
The Great Gildersleeve (radio broadcast excerpt)
The Lone Ranger TV theme (excerpt)
Along Came Jones - The Coasters
Your Hit Parade TV opening
TV Is The Thing (This Year) (excerpt) - Dinah Washington
Mr. Question Man (excerpt) - Ernie Kovacs

You Bet Your Life (TV broadcast excerpt) - Groucho Marx
What Did You Do Before You Had TV? - The Sandpipers, Mitch Miller
And Orchestra
Captain Kangaroo (TV broadcast excerpt)
Tele-Vee-Shun' (album version) - Stan Freberg

"The following program is brought to you in Living Color on NBC."
The Vidiot - Ken Nordine
My Little Margie/The Life Of Riley/I Love Lucy/The Dick Van Dyke Show/
The Beverly Hillbillies (TV broadcast excerpts)
I'm The Slime - The Mothers
Let's Make A Deal (TV broadcast excerpt)
TVGB's - Tyler Von Jeebes

The Secret Storm/The Guiding Light/The Doctors (TV broadcast intros)
General Hospi-Tale - The Afternoon Delights
The Mickey Mouse Club TV theme (excerpt)

Singing TV Stars Medley:
Proud Mary - Leonard Nimoy
A Smile Is Just A Frown (Turned Upside Down) - Eddie Albert
Da Doo Ron Ron - Laverne & Shirley (Penny Marshall & Cindy Williams)
I Love To Dance - Carroll O'Connor
Little Ole Man (Up Tight Everthing's Alright) - Bill Cosby
Lu - Peggy Lipton
When Banana Skins Are Falling (I'll Come Sliding Back To You) - The
Odd Couple (Tony Randall & Jack Klugman w/ Roland Shaw & The London
Festival Orchestra & Chorus)
If - Telly Savalas
Ballad Of The Good Luck Charm - Larry Hagman
Country Girls - John Schneider
Molly Darlin' - Andy Griffith
The Covered Man - David Soul
Just The Way I Planned It - Philip Michael Thomas
Heartbeat - Don Johnson
Ain't That A Kick In The Head - Sherman Hemsley
A Cowboy's Best Friend Is His Horse - Little Georgie Gobel

George of the Jungle - "Weird Al" Yankovic
The Jetsons Main Title (1985 version)
Mr. Ed - Tiny Tim & The Gloomchasers
Honeymooners Rap - Joe Piscopo (w/ Eddie Murphy & D.S.T.)

We Love Barney Fife - Guns N' Moses
Love Poems: "To The Lovely Juanita Beasley" - Andy Griffith
Mayberry Beret - Zot Theater
I Ain't Good Looking (But I'm Mighty Sweet) - George Lindsey

Vanna, Pick Me A Letter - Dr. Dave
I Lost On Jeopardy - "Weird Al" Yankovic

It's A Really Big Show Tonight - The Kirby Stone Four f/ Ed Sullivan
- Boy Singer
Gigantor - original TV theme
Jane, Get Me Off This Crazy Thing! (Prime Time Radio Mix) - The Tee Vee
Toons Master Mix
I Can't Watch This - "Weird Al" Yankovic
Jonny Quest (Main Title) (background only)

My Little Margie - Robert Klein
Vegematic - Steve Goodman
Ed Sullivan, ED SULLIVAN - Gabriel Kaplan

Who Is It? - Carlton The Doorman (Lorenzo Music)
My Name Is Not Merv Griffin - Gary Muller
The Chicken In Black - Johnny Cash

Frank's 2000" TV - "Weird Al" Yankovic
Wun'erful, Wun'erful! - Stan Freberg
Gilligan's Island (Stairway) - Little Roger & The Goosebumps
next week: count down the top ten for May 2025; free-form

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