THE CAPTAIN AND TENNILLE (1976-1977) – Balladeer’s Blog’s recurring Forgotten Television posts look at the variety show hosted by the musical duo called the Captain and Tennille. The pair were married in real life and their full names were Toni Tennille and Daryl Dragon. Since “Captain Dragon” sounds like a superhero, the recording partners just went by the Captain and Tennille.
Hit songs like Love Will Keep Us Together, Muskrat Love, Shop Around, Do That to Me One More Time and others may ring a bell even with young audiences today. Their variety hour debuted on September 20th, 1976 and its final episode aired on March 14th, 1977.
THE EPISODES:
“Hoo HOO! That’s good Seventies!”
ONE – For your Seventies fix, the show had guests Penny Marshall, Gabe Kaplan, Ron Palillo and Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs.
In terms of guests whose fame peaked before that decade, “the Great One” himself, Jackie Gleason, was on hand. Continue reading
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