The Midnight Special - full episodes

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About 2 months ago Burt Sugarman and his wife (Mary Hart, THAT Mary Hart) started dropping full episodes of TMS on YouTube. About one every week or two. There are 450 episodes. It’s 1970s pop music and cultural history. Amazing stuff, although sometimes the production quality is flawed. Almost all of it is recorded live to tape - not lip synced. Lots of Easter eggs hidden in the episodes. Amazing videos.

The first one posted was the 1972 Pilot. There have been a lot of individual performances posted through the years, but not many entire episodes. Yesterday was episode #5. There are 440+ still to come.

The Pilot episode:

 

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Episode #1, 2/2/1973

 

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Episode #2, 2/9/1973

 

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Episode #3, 2/16/1973

 

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Episode #4, 2/23/1973

 

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Episode #5, 3/2/1973

 

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Looked forward to that show every Friday night. Great musical memories.

 

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I bought the DVD set a few years ago.

 

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Episode #6, 3/9/1973

 

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Episode #7, 3/16/1973

One new (50 year old) episodes dropping every Friday.

George Jones and Tammy Wynette announced as singing a duet, but it didn’t make it to the recording.

Doobie Brothers again.

Bobby Darin just a few months before he died at age 37. Best comment: “Frank Sinatra on acid”.

 

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The full Johnny Winter episode is still several months away. But they’ve added this to their YouTube channel.

 

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Episode #8, 3/23/1973

One toke over the line, sweet Jesus.

 

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A teaser from episode #23 coming in about 3 months.

 

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Episode #9, 3/30/1973

 

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Episode #10, 4/6/1973

 

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Episode #11, 4/13/1973
Host is Bill Cosby. Some will be triggered.

 

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Episode #12, 4/20/1973

Jan Smithers (Bailey Quarters-WKRP) sighting at 37:00.

 

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Next week Jerry Lee Lewis hosts and the show is 50s music. Pre-Beatles doesn’t interest me very much.

 

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Episode #13, 4/27/1973

Probably my least favorite episode so far. But - Ronnie Spector with the save.

 

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Episode #14, 5/4/1973