• 1h 30m
The Great American Dream Machine

Summary A showcase of music and satirical sketch comedy. View more details

  • 1h 30m

The Great American Dream Machine

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Jane Fonda Alan Arkin Marshall Efron Nicholas von Hoffman

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8.1

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Genres : Comedy Music

Release date : Apr 30, 1997

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Production companies : The WNET Group

Summary A showcase of music and satirical sketch comedy. View more details

Details

Genres : Comedy Music

Release date : Apr 30, 1997

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Production companies : The WNET Group

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Marshall Efron in The Great American Dream Machine (1971) The Great American Dream Machine (1971)

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Jan 12, 1971
Episode dated 13 January 1971
Mar 02, 1971
Episode dated 3 March 1971
The bulk of this edition is devoted to love and marriage, with the exception of one segment on the Ali-Frazier fight.
Oct 05, 1971
Episode dated 6 October 1971
Nov 02, 1971
Episode dated 3 November 1971
Nov 30, 1971
Episode dated 1 December 1971
Highlights from this program include: an ironic political commentary by Stan Freberg; "Philadelphia's Last Chance," a wittily damning portrait of Mayor Frank Rizzo presented as a mock-newsreel; "Freight Train," a song performed by Odetta to honor Elizabeth Cotton, the seventy-eight-year-old composer who never received credit for her work; "They Call Him an Animal," an interview with Baltimore Colts linebacker Mike Curtis that intersperses football footage with commentary to compare the aggression of the game with the violence of gladiators; a performance by the Guarneri String Quartet of a movement from Beethoven's Quartet No. 13, Opus 130; a profile of stripper and philanthropist Blaze Starr, showing her at home and at work; "A Defense of Politicians," a political satire by Andy Rooney featuring clips of campaign speeches; consumer advocate Marshall Efron in a piece on waterbeds, with Lee Meredith as the woman of his dreams; and a trenchant sketch by Russell Baker featuring Eli Wallach as a hypnotist, who addresses the camera directly, treating viewers as his patients and inducing forgetfulness to eradicate the atrocities of Vietnam.
Dec 31, 1969
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