"The Orson Welles Show" (1979)...

[JohnIAT]

is screening in the Boston Area Tonight...


2015 is Orson Welles’ One Hundredth Birthday! To Mark the Occasion Channel Zero is screening “The Orson Welles Show” a 1979 talk show pilot directed by & starring Orson Welles featuring Burt Reynolds, Angie Dickinson, The Muppets and Jim Henson as his guests. This proposed talk show may well constitute Welles’ last completely realized directorial project & was a sincere effort by The Auteur to bring fresh ideas to the Late Night Talk Show Format!
Plus a few surprises in a definite “Wellsian Vein…”
The Somerville Theatre (Micro Cinema)
55 Davis Sq Somerville Ma
Friday October 2nd
8pm (sharp!)
Admission: $7.50 (cheap!)
617 625 5700
Channel Zero, Boston’s Most Obscure Award Winning Repertory Film Series!
www.channel0.blogspot.com

[Wellesnet]

This program is now available in it's entirety on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP_T7WFqDPM

[Terry]

It won't last, but here it is again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qufz115eJIE

[NoFake]

What a lovely tribute to Reynolds that you should find (and post) it so soon after his passing, Terry. And what a shame that the show was never picked up.

[Terry]

What a lovely tribute to Reynolds that you should find (and post) it so soon after his passing, Terry. And what a shame that the show was never picked up.

Yes, that's what got me thinking to look for it, and luckily there it was.