Specials, Tours, and Public Appearances
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smothers Brothers
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content: Smothers Brothers Collection
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content: Smothers Brothers Collection / Series 1: Photographic Materials
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964-1988, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1437, Subseries 1.2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Consist primarily of images relating to the television movie Return of the Smothers Brothers produced by Knave Productions, National Broadcasting Company (NBC) in 1970. 
Images are of original show cast members and guests including comedian and satirist Pat (Patrick Layton) Paulsen (July 6, 1927-April 25, 1997); actor and writer Bob (Stewart Robert) Einstein (November 20, 1942-January 2, 2019), and comedian David Steinberg (August 9, 1942-). Special programs include Columbia Broadcasting System, Incorporated (CBS) television network's Marineland Carnival (1964), the Tom and Dick Smothers Brothers Specials I and II (1980), and the twentieth anniversary celebration of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1988). In addition, there are images relating to a 1973 tour, the album Aesop's Fables: The Smothers Brothers Way (1965), and the Rose Parade (1967). Of interest are the photographs of Tom Smothers lying in a bed with John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and others as part of the bed-in for peace social movement. Materials are arranged in chronological order.