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Back when I was just a young whipppersnapper, I managed to see all of the different incarnations of The Dick Cavett Show: The daytime show, the summer-replacement evening show and the late-night versions on ABC and PBS. The guests were always interesting and just a little bit different than what you would see on the other talk shows.
Some of the guests who immediately come to mind are... Groucho, Fred Astaire, Ogden Nash, Bob and Ray, Lester Maddox, Gore Vidal, William F. Buckley, Robert Mitchum, Mel Brooks, Katherine Hepburn and James Galway.
A couple of years ago, Turner Classic Movies, or one of the other movie channels on cable, ran a multi-week series of some of the Cavett movie star/filmaker interviews in connection with the DVD release of a lot of his material. I'd forgotten how good the shows were and how different they are from what passes today as a "talk show".
This week I was reminded again of the Cavett "good stuff" when I read a couple of his New York Times blog posts from earlier this year:
Both are about a fella called Slydini, one of the all-time great magicians, who appeared twice on his PBS show in the late 1970's. Cavett and The Times have embedded the full-length video clips of each show in the postings.
I didn't remember the name Slydini, but when I saw the opening minutes of the first show I could safely say I had enjoyed this show a long, long time ago.
Card tricks, coin tricks, rope tricks, handkerchief tricks...They're all there!
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