![]() ![]() Roddenberry in the 1970s / 1977-1978 Superhero & Science Fiction TV Shows / Funniest SNL Skit Ever! / Remembering Suzanne Somers / Prisoner: Cell Block H / Why John Amos Left Good Times / Reviving Match Game / How Betty White's 'Happy Hommaker' Came About / Remembering Cindy-Williams / Creating The Rockford Files / TV Dads Talk Sex & Fatherhood / TV Shows We Watched 50 Years Ago / How Maude Came About / Rare Audio of Bette Davis' Broadway Bound Flop 'Miss Moffat' / Orson Welles' Last Interview / Remembering Ed Asner / Bruce Vilanch on Writing for Donny & Marie / Writing For Fernwood 2 Night / Kris Kristofferson vs Barbra Streisand on A Star Is Born? Kinda. See the entire interview segment on the creation of The Dentist: And he did it to make Harvey laugh, or Carol at times, mainly Harvey." Later, Gail Parent co-created Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and wrote for the classic comedy series The Golden Girls. And it just kills me because he added to it, so it's like really a 50-50, maybe 60 (motioning to herself)-40 type of proposition." And it kills me because every single time it's mentioned, it's mentioned that Tim wrote it. And one of those sketches was The Dentist sketch. and he hired Kenny and me to write 6 sketches for him, knowing we were on the show and that we would probably know what would be good for him and what to do. And then he was asked to bring in his own material. Parent was interviewed by the Archive for American Television and had this to say: "Tim, at the beginning, was a guest star. It featured Harvey Korman as a hapless patient to Tim Conway's first day as a dentist. She was the originator for so many funny bits on that series and was the author of perhaps the funniest comedy sketch in TV history, The Dentist. Gail Parent was the only female writer for a variety show when she joined the staff of The Carol Burnett Show in 1967. Writer Gail Parent on Writing Tim Conway's Dentist Sketch on "The Carol Burnett Show" Is hands down the best site on the Web for classic TV.'
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