The Tim Conway Show (1980 TV series)
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The Tim Conway Show title card
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| Genre | Variety/Sketch comedy |
| Starring | Tim Conway |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
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| Producer(s) | Joe Hamilton |
| Running time | 60 minutes (March–May 1980) 30 minutes (September 1980-March 1981) |
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| Original network | CBS |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | March 22, 1980 – March 7, 1981 |
The Tim Conway Show – the second of two television series of the name – is a 1980-1981 American variety/sketch comedy television show starring Tim Conway. It aired on CBS from March 22, 1980, to May 17, 1980, and from September 20, 1980, to March 7, 1981.
The show should not be confused with the spring 1970 sitcom also called The Tim Conway Show or with The Tim Conway Comedy Hour, a comedy-variety series which aired in the fall of the same year, both also on CBS.
Despite his success as a member of the cast of the situation comedy McHale's Navy from 1962 to 1966 and in two 1964 theatrical films spun off from the series, McHale's Navy and McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force, as well as his popularity during several years as a regular on The Carol Burnett Show in the 1970s, Tim Conway had found no success starring in a television show of his own. His situation comedies Rango in 1967 and The Tim Conway Show in the spring of 1970, as well as a fall 1970 comedy-variety series, The Tim Conway Comedy Hour, had all been cancelled after short runs. In March 1980, Conway made yet another attempt at a show of his own with a second comedy-variety series entitled – like his 1970 situation comedy – The Tim Conway Show.
The series was produced by Carol Burnett's husband, Joe Hamilton, and, not surprisingly, closely followed the format of The Carol Burnett Show – a small group of regulars performing comedy sketches, interspersed with musical numbers, and supplemented by occasional guest stars – in which Conway had thrived for several years. His Carol Burnett Show co-stars Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, and Harvey Korman all made guest appearances, and the orchestra, The Peter Matz Orchestra, was the same one that had performed on The Carol Burnett Show from 1971 to 1978. Unusually, the show's regular dance troupe, The Don Crichton Dancers, was composed entirely of children between the ages of 8 and 13.
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