Appendix II

SIGNIFICANT TELEVISION APPEARANCES

Apart from commercials, Buster Keaton made hundreds of regional and national television appearances. Compiling a complete list of these would be a daunting, if not impossible, task. So this is a chronology of significant TV appearances Keaton made between the years 1948 and 1965.

George Pal Studio Tour

January 1948. (KTLA, Los Angeles) Host: Stew Wilson. Participants: George Pal, Carolyn Burke Adler, Buster Keaton, Ernst Fegte.

note: This broadcast was to promote George Pal’s upcoming production of Tom Thumb, in which Buster Keaton was to have played a featured role. This is Keaton’s earliest known television appearance and possibly his TV debut.

Pantomime Quiz Time

November 8, 1949. (KTTV, Los Angeles) Producers: Mike Stokey, Bernie Ebert. Director: Philippe De Lacy. Host: Mike Stokey. Announcer: Ed Reimers. Regulars: Vincent Price, Gail Robbins, Hans Conried, Frank De Vol. Guests: Buster Keaton, Gale Storm, Vince Barnett, Marjorie Lord. Length: 30 minutes.

note: Pantomime Quiz Time was also kinescoped for airing on WCBS in New York, where this episode was seen on November 22, 1949.

The Ed Wynn Show

December 8, 1949. (KTTV, Los Angeles) Producer: Harlan Thompson. Director: Ralph Levy. Writers: Hal Kanter, Leo Solomon, Seaman Jacobs. Music: Lud Gluskin. Announcer: Robert Le Mond. Cast: Ed Wynn, Buster Keaton, Virginia O’Brien. Length: 30 minutes.

note: This appearance was heralded as Keaton’s television debut, despite his earlier appearance on Pantomime Quiz Time. The Ed Wynn Show was also kinescoped for airing on WCBS and in fourteen other eastern and midwestern markets on a two-week delay.

The Buster Keaton Show

December 22, 1949–April 6, 1950. (KTTV, Los Angeles) Producer: Joe Parker. Director: Philippe De Lacy. Writers: Clyde Bruckman, Henry Taylor. Music: George Greeley. Announcer: Ed Reimers. Cast: Buster Keaton, Alan Reed, Leon Belasco, Ben Weldon, Dick Elliott. Length: 30 minutes.

note: This initial series of live broadcasts endured a number of changes over its sixteen-week run. Joe Parker was replaced as producer by Al Manheimer, but then Parker returned to the show in March 1950. Writers who worked on one or more episodes, usually in collaboration with Clyde Bruckman, included Elwood Ullman, Ben Perry, Jay Sommers, and Harold Goodwin. Among those who appeared on the series were Robert Alda, Dorothy Sebastian, Sara Berner, Peter Leeds, Kay Erlenborn, Fritz Feld, June Foray, Ruth Perrot, Dona Gibson, Harold Goodwin, and Harvey Parry.

Camel Comedy Cavalcade

June 15, 1950. (CBS, Los Angeles) Producer-Director: Ralph Levy. Writers: Hal Kanter, Frank Fox, Seaman Jacobs. Music: Lud Gluskin. Announcer: Robert Le Mond. Cast: Ed Wynn, Georgia Gibbs, the Keystone Cops (Chester Conklin, Heinie Conklin, Hank Mann, Snub Pollard, Tiny Ward), Buster Keaton. Length: 30 minutes.

Toast of the Town

November 5, 1950. (CBS, New York) Producer: Marlo Lewis. Director: John Wray. Music: Ray Bloch. Announcer: Art Hannes. Host: Ed Sullivan. Guests: Milton Berle, Buster Keaton, Nanette Fabray, Jack Whiting, Nat King Cole, Boys Town Choir. Length: 60 minutes.

note: Keaton performed a sketch called “Goin’ Fishin’.”

Toast of the Town

November 12, 1950. (CBS, New York) Producer: Marlo Lewis. Director: John Wray. Music: Ray Bloch. Announcer: Art Hannes. Host: Ed Sullivan. Guests: Phil Spitalny’s All Girl Orchestra, Arthur Lake, Buster Keaton, Eleanor Keaton, Jimmy Nelson. Length: 60 minutes.

note: The Keatons performed the drunk scene from Spite Marriage.

The Garry Moore Show

November 13, 1950. (CBS, New York) Producer: Herb Sanford. Director: Clarence Schimmel. Announcer: Durwood Kirby. Cast: Garry Moore, Denise Lor, Ken Carson. Guest: Buster Keaton. Length: 60 minutes.

note: Keaton made the first of many appearances with Garry Moore on this daytime version of Moore’s CBS variety show.

4 Star Revue

November 15, 1950. (NBC, New York) Producer-Director: Coby Ruskin. Writers: Nat Hiken, Billy Friedberg. Music: Dean Elliott. Announcer: Andre Baruch. Cast: Ed Wynn, Buster Keaton, Gertrude Niesen, Eddy Manson, Dick and Dot Remy, Duke Art. Length: 60 minutes.

note: Keaton and Wynn reprised the “Butcher Boy” sketch they originally performed on Wynn’s KTTV show a year earlier.

Toast of the Town

December 10, 1950. (CBS, New York) Producer: Marlo Lewis. Director: John Wray. Music: Ray Bloch. Announcer: Art Hannes. Host: Ed Sullivan. Guests: Jack E. Leonard, Mimi Benzell, Buster Keaton, Eddie Fisher, Jane Morgan. Length: 60 minutes.

note: Keaton brought a bit of pathos to the show as a shabby Santa Claus hoping to find seasonal work.

Showtime U.S.A.

February 25, 1951. (ABC, New York) Producer: Vinton Freedley. Director: Howard Teichmann. Music: Nathan Kroll. Host: Vinton Freedley. M.C.: Eva Gabor. Guests: Beatrice Kay, Buster Keaton, Dorothy Stickney, Paul McGrath. Length: 30 minutes.

note: Buster and Eleanor Keaton performed the park bench sketch he would later incorporate into his 1954 engagement at the Cirque Médrano.

The Buster Keaton Show

May 9–August 1, 1951. (KTTV, Los Angeles) Executive Producer: Carl K. Hittleman. Producer: Clyde Bruckman. Director: Arthur Hilton. Writers: Harold Goodwin, Ben Perry, Jay Sommers, Jack Harvey, Carl K. Hittleman. Photography: Jackson Rose, Karl Struss. Produced and Syndicated by Consolidated Television Productions. Cast: Buster Keaton, Marcia Mae Jones, Margaret Dumont, George Scott, James Blears, Leslie Holmes, Harold Goodwin, Harvey Parry, Dorothy Ford, Jack Reitzen, Philip Van Zandt, Eddie Gribbon, Crystal White, Steve Calvert, Eleanor Keaton. Length: 30 minutes.

Toast of the Town

September 2, 1951. (CBS, New York) Producer: Marlo Lewis. Director: John Wray. Music: Ray Bloch. Announcer: Art Hannes. Guest Host: Dolores Gray. Guests: Buster Keaton, Eleanor Keaton, Henny Youngman, Bunny Briggs, Jack Mann and Dick Dana. Length: 60 minutes.

note: The Keatons performed the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet.

All Star Revue

November 10, 1951. (NBC, Los Angeles) Producer: Hal Kemp. Director: Leo Solomon. Writers: Hal Goodman, Bob Fisher, Leo Solomon. Music: Lou Bring. Cast: Ed Wynn, Dorothy Lamour, Buster Keaton, Nicholas Brothers. Length: 60 minutes.

note: Keaton performed a sketch set in a bakery.

The Ken Murray Show

“Salute to Movietime, U.S.A.” February 2, 1952. (CBS, Los Angeles) Producer: Ken Murray. Director: Herb Sussan. Writers: Royal Foster, Seaman Jacobs, Earl Brent. Announcer: Nelson Case. Cast: Ken Murray, Adolph Zukor, Buster Keaton, Ramon Novarro, Ruby Keeler, Billy Gilbert. Length: 60 minutes.

Colgate Comedy Hour

March 2, 1952. (NBC, Los Angeles) Producer-Director: Ernest B. Gluckman. Cast: Donald O’Connor, Patricia Morison, Broderick Crawford, Buster Keaton, Cecil Kellaway. Length: 60 minutes.

I’ve Got a Secret

July 17, 1952. (CBS, New York) Producer: Allan Sherman. Director: Franklin Heller. Host: Garry Moore. Announcer: John Cannon. Panel: Melville Cooper, Bill Cullen, Jayne Meadows, Mrs. Laura Hobson. Length: 30 minutes.

note: Keaton made his first appearance on this venerable network panel show. His secret: “I threw a pie at Hedda Hopper.”

Life with Buster Keaton

December 4, 1952–February 26, 1953. (WABD, New York) The thirteen episodes of The Buster Keaton Show retitled and syndicated by Crown Pictures International.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Presents

“The Awakening” July 1954. (Dougfair Corporation/Syndicated) Producer: Lance Comfort. Director: Michael McCarthy. Based upon the story “The Cloak” by Nikolai Gogol. Teleplay: Larry Marcus. Photography: Ken Talbot. Music: Bretton Byrd. Host: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Cast: Buster Keaton, James Hayter, Carl Jaffe, Lynne Cole, Geoffrey Keen. Length: 30 minutes.

The Best of Broadway

“The Man Who Came to Dinner” by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. October 13, 1954. (CBS, New York) Producer: Martin Manulis. Director: David Alexander. Adaptation: Ronald Alexander. Music: David Broekman. Cast: Monty Woolley, Joan Bennett, Reginald Gardiner, Bert Lahr, William Prince, ZaSu Pitts, Buster Keaton, Catherine Doucet, Margaret Hamilton, Howard St. John. Length: 60 minutes.

Make the Connection

August 18, 1955. (NBC, New York) Producer: Gil Fates. Announcer: Lee Vines. Host: Gene Rayburn. Panel: Betty White, Gene Klavan, Laraine Day, Eddie Bracken. Guests: Buster Keaton, Harry Gribbon. Length: 30 minutes.

Eddie Cantor Comedy Theatre

“The Square World of Alonzo Pennyworth” October 1955. (Ziv Television/Syndicated) Host: Eddie Cantor. Cast: Buster Keaton, Davidja, Lili Badalian, Alli Assan, Elcana Beatti, Clarice Zadegian, Hari, Karoun Tootikian. Length: 30 minutes.

note: Keaton played a daydreaming travel agent.

The Adventures of Mr. Pastry

July 1958. (Sapphire Film/Official Films) Executive Producer: Hannah Weinstein. Associate Producer: Sidney Cole. Director: Ralph Smart. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton.) Screenplay: Angus Macphail, Harold Kent. Music: Sydney John Kay. Photography: Gerald Gibbs. Editor: Inman Hunter. Length: 25 minutes.

note: Made in July–August 1955, this was the pilot for a commercial series of thirty-nine episodes to be seen internationally. It didn’t sell, but the film was transmitted in England in 1958.

Sunday Spectacular

“Show Biz from Vaudeville to Video” October 9, 1955. (NBC, Burbank) Producer: Ernest B. Gluckman. Director: Richard McDonough. Writer: Ken Englund. Music: Gordon Jenkins. Host: Art Linkletter. Cast: Groucho Marx, Beatrice Kay, Buster Keaton, Dennis Day, Bert Lahr, Eartha Kitt, Rosemary Clooney, Paul Gilbert, Melinda Marx, Jay C. Flippen, Harold Goodwin. Length: 90 minutes.

note: Keaton was announced with a sign that read, “Buster Keaton formerly of the ‘3’ Keatons.” He disrupted a magician’s act and they ended up trading whacks with a broom and a roll of paper, respectively, while the orchestra played “The Anvil Chorus.”

Screen Directors Playhouse

“The Silent Partner” December 21, 1955. (NBC/Hal Roach Studios) Director: George Marshall. Story: Barbara Hammer, George Marshall. Teleplay: Barbara Hammer. Photography: Ed DuPar. Editor: Bert Jordan. Cast: Buster Keaton, ZaSu Pitts, Joe E. Brown, Evelyn Ankers, Jack Kruschen, Jack Elam, Percy Helton, Bob Hope. Length: 30 minutes.

The Martha Raye Show

March 6, 1956. (NBC, New York) Producer: Karl Hoffenberg. Director: Norman Lear. Writers: Norman Lear, Ed Simmons. Cast: Martha Raye, Rocky Graziano. Guests: Paul Douglas, Buster Keaton, Harold Arlen, Bill and Cora Baird Marionettes. Length: 60 minutes.

note: Keaton and Raye reprise the act that Keaton and Charlie Chaplin performed in Limelight.

Lux Video Theatre

“The Night of January 16th” by Ayn Rand. May 10, 1956. (NBC, Burbank) Producer: Cal Kuhl. Director: Fred Carney. Teleplay: S. H. Barnett. Host: Otto Kruger. Cast: Phyllis Thaxter, Richard Shannon, Les Tremayne, Helen Westcott, Douglas Dumbrille. Members of the Jury: Mack Sennett, Buster Keaton, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson, Jack Mulhall, Viola Dana, Shirley Mason, Claire Windsor, Julia Faye, Gertrude Astor, Mary Carr. Length: 60 minutes.

It Could Be You

June 7, 1956. (NBC, Burbank) Producer: Stephen Hatos. Director: Stuart Phelps. Host: Bill Leyden. Announcer: Wendell Niles. Guest: Buster Keaton. Length: 30 minutes.

note: Keaton made the first of several appearances on this daytime audience participation show from Ralph Edwards Productions.

Producers Showcase

“The Lord Don’t Play Favorites” September 17, 1956. (NBC, Burbank) Producer: Hal Stanley. Director: Bretaigne Windust. Story: Patrick Malloy. Teleplay: Jo Swerling, Hal Stanley. Music and Lyrics: Hal Stanley, Irving Taylor. Cast: Robert Stack, Kay Starr, Dick Haymes, Buster Keaton, Louis Armstrong, Mike Ross, Oliver Blake, Barry Kelly, Jerry Maren. Length: 90 minutes.

This Is Your Life

April 3, 1957. (NBC, Burbank) Producer: Axel Gruenberg. Director: Richard Gottlieb. Writers: Paul Phillips, Mort Lewis. Host: Ralph Edwards. Subject: Buster Keaton. Guests: Louise Dresser, William “Mush” Rawls, Louise Keaton, Harry Keaton, Eddie Cline, Donald Crisp, Red Skelton, Eleanor Keaton, Donald O’Connor, Jim Talmadge, Bob Talmadge. Length: 30 minutes.

The Ed Sullivan Show

April 21, 1957. (CBS, New York) Producer: Marlo Lewis. Director: John Wray. Music: Ray Bloch. Announcer: Art Hannes. Host: Ed Sullivan. Guests: Marion Marlowe, Roberta Sherwood, Bob Sweeney, Gale Gordon, Mitzi Green, Donald O’Connor, Buster Keaton, Don Murray, Charlotte Rae. Length: 60 minutes.

note: Donald O’Connor, discussing his role in The Buster Keaton Story, appeared by remote from Los Angeles. Then Keaton, in New York, performed the old peddler woman stunt from Sherlock Jr. before a live audience.

The Rosemary Clooney Show

June 1957. (Maysville Corporation/Syndicated) Producer: Joseph S. Shribman. Director: Dik Darley. Writer: Tom Waldman. Music: Nelson Riddle. Cast: Rosemary Clooney, Buster Keaton, Gail Stone. Length: 30 minutes.

What’s My Line?

September 1, 1957. (CBS, New York) Producer: Gil Fates. Director: Franklin Heller. Host: John Daly. Announcer: Hal Simms. Panel: Dorothy Kilgallen, Ernie Kovacs, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf. Mystery Guest: Buster Keaton. Length: 30 minutes.

You Asked for It

December 22, 1957. (ABC, Los Angeles) Producer: Cran Chamberlin. Director: Fred Gadette. Writers: Gomer Cool, Rick Mittleman. Host: Art Baker. Guests: Buster Keaton, Eddie Gribbon. Length: 30 minutes.

note: Keaton made his first appearance on this long-running Sunday-night program by again performing the “Butcher Boy” sketch, this time with Eddie Gribbon.

The Betty White Show

February 12, 1958. (ABC, Los Angeles) Producer: Don Fedderson. Director: James V. Kern. Writers: George Tibbles, Si Rose, Seaman Jacobs. Music: Frank De Vol. Announcer: Tom Kennedy. Cast: Betty White, John Jacobs, Cornel Wilde, Charles Coburn, Sterling Holloway. Guests: Buster Keaton, Boris Karloff. Length: 30 minutes.

Playhouse 90

“The Innocent Sleep” June 5, 1958. (CBS, Los Angeles) Producer: Martin Manulis. Director: Franklin Schaffner. Teleplay: Tad Mosel. Announcer: Dick Joy. Host: Raymond Burr. Cast: Hope Lange, John Ericson, Buster Keaton, Hope Emerson, Dennis King. Length: 90 minutes.

The Donna Reed Show

December 24, 1958. (ABC/Todon Briskin) Producer: Tony Owen. Director: Oscar Rudolph. Writer: Nate Monaster. Cast: Donna Reed, Carl Betz, Shelley Fabares, Buster Keaton. Length: 30 minutes.

note: In his first of two appearances in this long-running series, Keaton played a hospital handyman who is recruited by Donna to play Santa Claus.

Breck Sunday Showcase

“After Hours” February 2, 1960. (NBC, New York) Producer-Director: Alex March. Teleplay: Tony Webster. Cast: Christopher Plummer, Sally Ann Howes, Buster Keaton, Philip Abbott, Paul McGrath, Natalie Schafer, Robert Emhardt. Length: 60 minutes.

note: Keaton played an opening scene as a sidewalk Santa.

The Revlon Revue

“A 70th Birthday Salute to Paul Whiteman” March 24, 1960. (NBC, Burbank) Producer: Perry Lafferty. Director: Norman Jewison. Writer: Abe Burrows. Host: Mike Wallace. Cast: Paul Whiteman, Bing Crosby, Peggy Lee, Buster Keaton, Jack Teagarden. Length: 60 minutes.

note: Keaton and Whiteman reprised the duel sketch they performed in Newcomers of 1928.

Candid Camera

December 18, 1960. (CBS, New York) Producer-Director: Julio DiBenedetto. Writer: Bill Jacobson. Hosts: Arthur Godfrey, Allen Funt. Guest: Buster Keaton. Length: 30 minutes.

note: Keaton made the first of two appearances on this popular hidden-camera show. His sequence, in which he struggled with a sandwich and a bowl of soup, was filmed at a diner in Denver, Colorado.

The Scene Stealers

January 1962. (National Foundation/Syndicated) Producer: Edward A. Franck. Director: Jack Shea. Writer: Johnny Bradford. Photography: Loyal Griggs. Editor: George Boemler. Cast: Ed Wynn, Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, David Janssen, Rosemary Clooney, Jack Lemmon, Ralph Edwards, Fritz Feld, The Limeliters, James Garner, Jackie Cooper, Abby Dalton, Eartha Kitt, Dr. Frank Baxter, Roger Williams, Nanette Fabray, Dan Blocker, Lorne Green, Fabian, Dorothy Provine. Length: 60 minutes.

note: This all-star appeal, shot at Paramount studios in June 1961, was made available free to more than four hundred stations nationwide as part of the 1962 March of Dimes campaign.

The Twilight Zone

“Once Upon a Time” December 15, 1961. (CBS/Cayuga Productions) Producer: Buck Houghton. Director: Norman Z. McLeod. Teleplay: Richard Matheson. Photography: George T. Clemens. Editor: Jason H. Bernie. Host: Rod Serling. Cast: Buster Keaton, Stanley Adams, James Flavin, Gil Lamb, Jesse White.

Medicine Man

“A Pony for Chris” Filmed January 1962. (ABC/Screen Gems) Producer-Writers: Jay Sommers, Joe Bigelow. Director: Charles Barton. Cast: Ernie Kovacs, Buster Keaton, Kevin Brodie, Richard Devon, Joe Higgins, Josip Elic, Alan Hewitt, Charles Tannen, Valerie Allen. Length: 30 minutes.

note: CBS announced plans to air this film as part of a weekly series of unsold pilots called The Comedy Spot over the summer of 1962. Matters involving Ernie Kovacs’ estate forced the network to cancel the showing.

Close-Up

“Three Comedians” April 1, 1962. (CBC, Toronto, Ontario) Producer: Ross McLean. Host: Frank Willis. Moderator: Bob Quintrell. Guests: Buster Keaton, Bert Lahr, Eddie Foy, Jr. Length: 30 minutes.

note: Keaton made this appearance while in Canada shooting Ten Girls Ago.

Route 66

“Journey to Nineveh” September 28, 1962. (CBS/Lancer-Edling) Producer: Mort Abrahams. Director: David Lowell Rich. Teleplay: William R. Cox. Photography: Jack A. Marta. Editor: Harry Coswick. Cast: Martin Milner, George Maharis, Joe E. Brown, Buster Keaton, Jenny Maxwell, Guy Raymond, John Astin, Edgar Buchanan. Length: 60 minutes.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

“Think Mink” January 19, 1963. (ABC/Screen Gems) Producer: Hal Stanley. Director: Claudio Guzman. Writers: Howard Snyder, Jack Harvey. Cast: Fess Parker, Sandra Warner, Stan Irwin, Red Foley, Buster Keaton. Length: 30 minutes.

The Man Who Bought Paradise

January 17, 1965. (CBS, Los Angeles) Producer-Director: Ralph Nelson. Teleplay: Richard Alan Simmons. Music: Richard Shores. Cast: Robert Horton, Dolores Del Rio, Ray Walston, Walter Slezak, Cyril Ritchard, Buster Keaton, Paul Lukas, Angie Dickinson, Hoagy Carmichael. Length: 60 minutes.

note: Recorded in January 1963 under the title Hotel Paradise, this ninety-minute comedy-drama about fugitives in a decaying South American hotel was the brainchild of CBS programming executive Hubbell Robinson, who planned four original productions over the 1963–64 season in an attempt to recapture the audience he originally built with Playhouse 90. But Hotel Paradise wasn’t well received in sponsor screenings and, despite its star power, was shelved by the network. Retitled The Man Who Bought Paradise and trimmed to sixty minutes, it was finally aired in January 1965—a full two years after its making.

Today

“Buster Keaton Revisited” April 26, 1963. (NBC, New York) Producer: Al Morgan. Hosts: Hugh Downs, Jack Lescoulie, Pat Fontaine. Guest: Buster Keaton.

note: Keaton had previously appeared on Today in 1956, 1957, and 1960. This was, however, the only time the entire program was devoted to him.

The Ed Sullivan Show

December 23, 1963. (CBS, New York) Producer: Robert Precht. Director: Tom Kiley. Music: Ray Bloch. Announcer: Art Hannes. Host: Ed Sullivan. Guests: Tessie O’Shea, Buster Keaton, George Kirby, Topo Gigio, Frank Ifield, Dick Libertini and Paul Dooley, The Burke Family. Length: 60 minutes.

note: In his final appearance on the Sullivan show, Keaton played a man trying to get some time to himself on Christmas Day.

Telescope

“Deadpan” April 17, 1964. (CBC, Ottawa, Ontario) Producer: Robert Crone. Host: Fletcher Markle. Subject: Buster Keaton. Length: 30 minutes.

The Greatest Show on Earth

“You’re All Right, Ivy” April 28, 1964. (ABC/Desilu) Producer: Bob Rafelson. Director: Jack Palance. Teleplay: William Wood. Cast: Jack Palance, Joe E. Brown, Joan Blondell, Buster Keaton, Lynn Loring, Stu Erwin, Ted Bessell, Barbara Pepper. Length: 60 minutes.

Burke’s Law

“Who Killed ½ of Glory Lee?” May 3, 1964. (ABC/Four Star) Producer: Aaron Spelling. Director: Don Weis. Teleplay: Harlan Ellison. Photography: Chas E. Burke. Cast: Gene Barry, Gary Conway, Regis Toomey, Leon Lontoc, Dawn Wells, Eddie Quillan. Suspects: Joan Blondell, Nina Foch, Anne Helm, Betty Hutton, Buster Keaton, Gisele MacKenzie. Length: 60 minutes.

The Hollywood Palace

June 6, 1964. (ABC, Los Angeles) Producer: William O. Harbach. Director: Grey Lockwood. Writers: Joe Bigelow, Jay Burton. Music: Mitchell Ayres. Announcer: Dick Tufeld. Host: Gene Barry. Guests: Juliet Prowse, Jack Carter, Buster Keaton, Gloria Swanson, The Swingle Singers. Length: 60 minutes.

Buster Keaton Rides Again

October 16, 1965. (CBC/National Film Board of Canada) Producer: Julian Biggs. Director: John Spotton. Photography: John Spotton. Assistant: David de Volpi. Sound: Barry Ferguson. Commentary: Donald Brittain. Cast: Buster Keaton, Gerald Potterton, Eleanor Keaton, Jo Kirkpatrick. Length: 55 minutes.

The Jonathan Winters Show

“Jonathan and the Movies” March 29, 1965. (NBC, Los Angeles) Producer-Director: Greg Garrison. Narrator: Alexander Scourby. Cast: Jonathan Winters, Buster Keaton, Julie Newmar, Agnes Moorehead, Robert Middleton, Fred Clark.

Salute to Stan Laurel

November 23, 1965. (CBS, Los Angeles) Producer: Gene Lester. Director: Seymour Berns. Writers: Charles Isaacs, Hugh Wedlock, Allan Manings, Aaron Ruben, Carl Reiner. Music: David Rose. Host: Dick Van Dyke. Cast: Lucille Ball, Fred Gwynne, Danny Kaye, Buster Keaton, Leonid Kinskey, Tina Louise, Audrey Meadows, Bob Newhart, Louis Nye, Gregory Peck, Cesar Romero, Phil Silvers. Length: 60 minutes.

Flashback

October 10, 1965. (CBC, Toronto, Ontario) Producer-Director: Don Brown. Writer: Alfie Scopp. Host: Bill Walker. Panel: Allan Manings, Maggie Morris, Elwy Yost, Lorraine Thomson. Guest: Buster Keaton. Length: 30 minutes.

note: Keaton made his final TV appearance on this Canadian panel show while in Toronto filming The Scribe.