The Ken Berry Wow Show

Another manifestation of his miserable mid-life crisis.

Pretty gay

He was hot in F Troop and Mayberry RFD

R1, at least Jackie got to cry on Donahue's shoulder.

How else would I have known, r4,

cRaZy eyes

He looks like a piece of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. In every way.

CBS probably threw this his way as a lame form of compensation for canceling Mayberry RFD, a Top Ten hit, a year earlier in their famous Rural Purge.

Mayberry RFD was unwatchable. Bait and switch.

GetTV is showing the Jim Nabors Hour, which was a similar situation-- Gomer Pyle was still a top-rated show but Nabors wanted to do a variety show.

Wow is right. I never realized Ken Berry was black.

Poor Ken. He was a Gene Kelly wannabe. Even rolled his sleeves like Gene on Mayberry RFD.

He did a dance number on a Carol Burnett show that was very Gene Kelly and he was quite good.

I wonder if Doris Day hates Carol Burnett. That took sides in that nasty divorce.

He was handsome when young, versatile and ended up on Mama's Place, or whatever it was called, which paid the bills. He never remarried.

More like Bow Wow Show. If it were any more of a dog, it would shed.

R7 The Wow Show was on ABC, not CBS.

One of the regulars introduced at the beginning was "Cheryl Stopplemoor," who later became much more famous as Cheryl Ladd.

It had Cheryl Ladd, Terri Garr and Steve Martin on it, so it couldn't be all that bad.

She's Cheryl Ladd TV Star Woman --- Woooo

Neil could've made it work

Neil would have at least presented his hole.

He was a good dancer and much more loose in the hips than Kelly and Astaire which added another dimension to the traditional tap routine. He was built very similar to Kelly, though he always read as earnest and dopey, there was always a bit of darkness underneath Kelly's venear that I think was part of his appeal.

Ken was always ugly, I hate when the suits decide someone is good looking when they isn't.

Here's his boyfriend.

Rue McClanahan said dancing with Ken Berry was one of the highlights of her career.

He was actually a great dancer...just born a couple decades too late. Here he is with a lot of really pretty mens...

R26 -- That dancing stud with the dark hair behind Ken -- smokin' hot. Does anyone know who he is? Or was? I swear I've seen him before in similar shows, the Oscars, etc..

Ken's Archive of American Television interview is very sad. He thinks he's completely forgotten, and, yes he says he was born too late for his particular talents to be appreciated.

The canned laughter, the dubbed signing and tap sounds, just awful.

I really hated television in those days.

I loved him and Larry Storch on “F Troop”.

Have you ever wondered why variety shows were popular back in the 60s and 70s, but every time they try to revive the concept it fails miserably?

I just saw him guest star in an episode of “The Rifleman.”

That's pretty corny even for 1972.

But too bad that wasn't Billy Van's big break- he was extremely talented [see Hilarious House of Frightenstein].

I love Mayberry RFD. And the color episodes of Andy Griffith when he's grumpy . I wish they'd put some of these on MeTV or TVland. I have now seen every b/w episode of TAGS 15 times or so. Like The Dick van Dyke show I can't watch it for a while.

Awful, but nothing makes NPH look great.

r25

I bet starring in Apple Pie was the other. A highlight for Rue must be equivalent of coming in second place in the fifth grade sack race.

He awful

Looks like Pete Buttigieg.