18Oct1974 Flip Wilson ... of Course (NBC-TV Special) Richard Pryor, Lily Tomlin and Peter Sellers

Flip Wilson ... of Course (NBC-TV Special) Broadcast date: October 18, 1974 -- approximately six months after the airing of the final episode of The Flip Wilson Show on NBC. This special follows the format of Flip Wilson's variety series, including a sketch featuring Flip as Reverend Leroy, and has the same director (Tim Kiley) and music conductor (George Wyle). Produced by Lorne Michaels, the creator of the long-running sketch comedy series "Saturday Night Live." Guests: Richard Pryor, Lily Tomlin, Peter Sellers and Martha Reeves. This video is an abbreviated 42-minute version created for TV syndication. It is missing approximately ten minutes of the original broadcast. This channel is an archive of "The Flip Wilson Show" which ran on NBC-TV for four seasons, from September 1970 to February 1974. There are very few full-length, complete episodes of the show on YouTube. This channel offers what is currently available -- some complete episodes, but mostly the edited, abbreviated episodes that were created for reruns in TV syndication. For those interested in watching episodes and video clips from this classic NBC variety series, they are available here:    / @williamstevens-s8l   This channel is also an archive of Jonathan Winters material, featuring over 70 videos of his television appearances.