List of episodes of the series «Fernwood 2 Night»
- Seasons count: 1
- Episodes count: 65
- Total viewing time: 1 d. 8 h. 30 m.
Release date: 7/4/1977
Talk to a Jew
- Episode number: 1
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Barth talks about his unusual day-to-day contract. Howard Palmer, a man in an iron lung, plays the piano. ""Talk to a Jew"" -- Morton Rose answers audience questions. (""When is Barbra Streisand's next movie coming out?"")
Release date: 7/5/1977
Leisure Suits Cause Cancer
- Episode number: 2
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Barth thanks the viewers for their support that got him renewed for another episode. Rocket to Stardom: Baby Irene sings ""I Didn't Know the Gun Was Loaded"". Barth talks to her about gun control. Happy talks about his nostrils. From Fernwood Commmunity College: Doctor Richard Osgood has proof that leisure suits cause cancer. (You see, they dress up the mice in tiny leisure suits... No, really!) Bury the Hatchet: Iris and Joseph Case want their son, a Catholic priest, to come back to them. Howard Palmer plays, while Baby Irene dances.
Release date: 7/6/1977
The Wonderblender
- Episode number: 3
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Barth introduces his dad. The body language of April McTear -- contortionist. Lou Moffatt plugs Blendermatic, the Wonderblender. The owner of the Butterfly Deli, Susan Cloud (""...the body _requires_ burgers""). Barth's father Garth Sr. and his idiot dog perform,
Release date: 7/7/1977
Corporal Punishment I
- Episode number: 4
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Hula hoopist Darius Washington. South Vietnamese gardener Mein Ko Thein (?) plugs his book: ""Yankee Doodle Gook"". The Other Side of the News:High School Principal Marshall O. Petty discusses corporal punishment by demonstrating it on Debbie Dunbar. Lastly, Garth Sr. and his dumb dog.
Release date: 7/8/1977
Corporal Punishment II
- Episode number: 5
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Barth talks with Debbie Dunbar's mother. Since ""last weeks"" on-air spanking, Debbie has gotten several lucrative modeling jobs. Russ Tuttle, the Fernwood coroner talks about cut rate funeral alternatives; Mrs. Dunbar appears with both of her daughters, shamelessly plugging the phone number for her ""talent agency"". Jerry rambles on about families. Barth sings ""Feelings"" while Debbie does cheerleader stuff. Once again, Garth and Louie.
Release date: 7/11/1977
Fernwood Fascinating Females
- Episode number: 6
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Vernon Taylor (AKA ""Uncle Sam, Jr"") reads one of his poems, Candy Lee Hargrove talks about the Fernwood Fascinating Females League.
Release date: 7/12/1977
Hearing Ear Dogs for the Deaf
- Episode number: 7
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Pet control center director Connie Bushman on Hearing Ear Dogs for the Deaf. Also: dancer Lisa Martin; Garth Gimble, Sr. and his dog.
Release date: 7/13/1977
Congressman Chambers
- Episode number: 8
- Episode duration: 30 min.
Release date: 7/14/1977
No-frills Hospitals
- Episode number: 9
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Ambassador-at-large Harold Mislap talks about his efforts to bring tourism to Fernwood, Dr. Richard Osgood presents his no-frills hospital plan.
Release date: 7/15/1977
Ethnic Myths
- Episode number: 10
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Daredevil Virgil Simms; Emanuel Kasinski on his latest findings on ethnic myths and prejudice.
Release date: 7/18/1977
Lillian Dunbar
- Episode number: 11
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Grandmother Lillian Dunbar and presidential namesake James Earl Carter.
Release date: 7/19/1977
Uncle Sam, Jr (I)
- Episode number: 12
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Candy discusses gynacology and the need for female gynacologists. Bart plays the guitar while Happy and Vernon accompany him.
Release date: 7/20/1977
Tony Rolletti and Susan Cloud
- Episode number: 13
- Episode duration: 30 min.
Release date: 7/21/1977
Breeding Athletes
- Episode number: 14
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Barth challenges Jimmy Carter to come on the show and compete with him to prove just who is a star. Lou Moffet offers tips on home music ripoffs and the presents the American Guitar Studios home study course offered by Gimblco Enterprises. Happy & band member Tommy Maranucci sit and chat.
Release date: 7/22/1977
Animal Sexuality
- Episode number: 15
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Professional football consultant Emanual Kasinski on the breeding of large men.
Release date: 7/25/1977
Garth Gimble Memorial Tennis Classic
- Episode number: 16
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: This episode is tentatively scheduled for air on TV LAND July 20th at midnight. Original production number: 127 Barth promotes the planned Garth Gimbel Memorial Tennis Classic. W.D. ""Bud"" Prize (Kenneth Mars) returns, and bows to public demands that he reveal the secret of his chinadonture treatment. In a rebuttal to Dr. Van Moot (aka Dr. Osgood), Phil Maltby (Morgan Upton) of Phil's Fashion Funwear and Medical Research Lab explains that leisure suits, far from causing cancer, actually can help cure disease. ""Bud"" Prize is so stimulated by this revelation that he falls asleep.
Release date: 7/26/1977
Dating Service for Dogs
- Episode number: 17
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Connie Bushman talks about her dating service for dogs. Radio personality Terry Guy plugs his disc jockey correspondence course.
Release date: 7/27/1977
Lou Moffatt on Land Deals
- Episode number: 18
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Lou Moffatt on land deals; Bassist Eddie Thomerson. Sylvia Miller also appears and discusses how a martian violated her with a beam of blue light.
Release date: 7/28/1977
Uncle Sam Jr. II
- Episode number: 19
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Vernon Taylor, better known as Uncle Sam, Jr. is back and as passionate as ever.
Release date: 7/29/1977
Comedy Sales Techniques
- Episode number: 20
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Insurance salesman Elliott J. Tubbs demonstrates his comedy sales techniques. Happy Kyne on shut-ins.
Release date: 8/1/1977
Tom Waits
- Episode number: 21
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Tom Waits. ""Bud"" Prize on using CB radio to bring in tourists.
Release date: 8/2/1977
Dumbness measuring machine
- Episode number: 22
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: A dumbness measuring machine is demonstrated. Actually, more like a dumbness alarm. Say a dumb thing, and the alarm goes off. Like every time that Jerry opens his mouth.
Release date: 8/3/1977
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- Episode number: 23
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Happy Kyne shares the latest gizmo developed by the Olfactory Center of Toledo; the nose aid.
Release date: 8/4/1977
Singers and salesmen
- Episode number: 24
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Mario Dorsett on his success as a singer; Tony Rolletti; Mrs. Walter Donker, whose husband sells cars.
Release date: 8/5/1977
Criminal Justice
- Episode number: 25
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Gilbert Ulysses Nelson discusses the treatment of criminals.
Release date: 8/8/1977
Still a Dream
- Episode number: 26
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Local opera singer Donny Lee Savage; Dr. Hugh Slocum on his latest scientific discovery; Amateur photographer Marianne Cox.
Release date: 8/9/1977
Fernwood Blood Drive
- Episode number: 27
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Singing duo Doug and Diana Mitchell; Fernwood blood drive chairman Larry Guy.
Release date: 8/10/1977
Ratings Week
- Episode number: 28
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Singer Laurie Gallagher performs, accompanied by her mother on drums. Also: Bud Prize and Sylvia Miller.
Release date: 8/11/1977
Barbershop Trio
- Episode number: 29
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Doctor Alexander Beach discusses his findings on marijuana. How the Humdinger Barbershop Quartet became a trio.
Release date: 8/12/1977
Two Ladies Against Pornography
- Episode number: 30
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Nettie and Barbara Forman on the elderly.
Release date: 8/15/1977
Church of the Devine Lemonade
- Episode number: 31
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: The founder of the Church of the Devine Lemonade, Billy Jenkins. George and Sally Krepps discuss the La Fromage method of childbirth.
Release date: 8/16/1977
Roger Bellman
- Episode number: 32
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Marin Worth reads one of his poems. Also: Susan Cloud and chauffeur Earl Simmons.
Release date: 8/17/1977
The Fitness Twins
- Episode number: 33
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Fernwood mayor Merle Jeeter honors champion Girl scout cookie seller Wendy Price. Also: contortionist Mike Timmins and Mary Lou Bridgewater.
Release date: 8/18/1977
You Are You
- Episode number: 34
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Alberta Cornwall on how colored clothing affects moods; poet Vernon Taylor.
Release date: 8/19/1977
The Barber
- Episode number: 35
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Hair stylist Sal Magglione and Presidential namesake James Earl Carter.
Release date: 8/22/1977
X-Rated Shopping Mall
- Episode number: 36
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Sportscaster Jane Tiffany and W. D. ""Bud"" Prize.
Release date: 8/23/1977
Tony Rolletti's autobiography
- Episode number: 37
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Tony Rolletti plugs his autobiography. The Mirth-Makers perform ""Rock Around the Clock"".
Release date: 8/24/1977
Getting the most from your warranty
- Episode number: 38
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Virgil Simms tells how to get the most out of your new-car waranty. Basically, you make sure that it goes into the shop just before that waranty expires.
Release date: 8/25/1977
Nudists
- Episode number: 39
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Linda Barry, owner of the Fernwood Nudist Colony. Toy maker George Ellsworth.
Release date: 8/26/1977
Wrestling
- Episode number: 40
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Jane Tiffany; Sylvia Miller; Wrestler Rock Mondo and his assisstant.
Release date: 8/27/1977
Tony and Chance Rolletti
- Episode number: 41
- Episode duration: 30 min.
Release date: 8/28/1977
Solving Water Shortages
- Episode number: 42
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Representative Chambers on solving water shortages with icebergs. Lucy and Ed Campbell show how they display affection.
Release date: 8/29/1977
Sex Therapy
- Episode number: 43
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Vern Taylor; Sex therapy clinic founder Matthew Johnson; Happy sings about tooth decay.
Release date: 8/30/1977
Real Estate Tips
- Episode number: 44
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Comic Buddy Brown; Author Dottie Ann Lee; Eddie Thomerson's real estate tips.
Release date: 9/2/1977
Skateboard Angel
- Episode number: 45
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Larry Guy takes questions from the audience; The Mirth-Makers play ""Skateboard Angel"".
Release date: 9/5/1977
Mobile Home Daredevil
- Episode number: 46
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Las Vegas entertainer Debbie Dunbar; Mobile home daredevil Virgil Simms.
Release date: 9/6/1977
Rev. Chung Hee
- Episode number: 47
- Episode duration: 30 min.
Release date: 9/7/1977
Pot Sniffing
- Episode number: 48
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Impressionist Reggie Morrison; Principal Marshall Petty; Susan Cloud.
Release date: 9/8/1977
Pet Mating Service
- Episode number: 49
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Connie Bushman on her computer pet mating service; Sherry McCormick performs "" I Like Dreamin'""; The Birchfield, Ohio mayor tells how he spent 90 days in jail.
Release date: 9/9/1977
Harrison Edwards' Moon
- Episode number: 50
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Historian Harrison Edwards. Also: Tony Rolletti and Jane Tiffany.
Release date: 9/12/1977
Behind Hollywood
- Episode number: 51
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Author Duane Goff plugs his book, ""Behind Hollywood"". The Mirth-makers perform ""Fifteen and Free"".
Release date: 9/13/1977
Etiquette Guidelines
- Episode number: 52
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Barth starts the show with a slide show of his travels around Hollywood. Guests for this episode are etiquette authority Meg Endicott and her new book, Etiquette Guidelines for the Future and U.S. Defense Department representative, Col. Morris Chandler, announcing the newly formed War Deprogramming Center, a facility that helps war veterans ease back into the civilian life by first returning them to the war.
Release date: 9/14/1977
Aunt Edity
- Episode number: 53
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: The show starts off on a somber note when Barth announces that the recently hired sportscaster, Jane Tiffany, was injured and is now in a coma, her prognosis uncertain. They proceed to hold an impromptu tribute to her which was quickly thrown together without hardly any thought or preparation and it shows. The first guest claimed to be Barth's Aunt Edith but is in fact Barth's former "patron" from Miami. This much older woman has tracked him down for the promised "services to be rendered" once she "put mirrors on every ceiling." The next guest claimed to be an accomplished dancer who defected from the Soviet Union but it becomes obvious that Serge Nabokov was kicked out because, as his mother put it, "you stink.
Release date: 9/15/1977
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- Episode number: 54
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Barth says a prayer on the show before introducing former daredevil now auto mechanics instructor Virgil Simms. He talks about being an auto-mechanics instructor at the Fernwood Community College. Also appearing is Elliot J Tubbs, the newly appointed National Liquor Lobby representative furthering the alcohol industry's cause. Barth ends the show with a song about truckers and fruit.
Release date: 9/16/1977
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- Episode number: 55
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: The show begins with Barth and Jerry reacting to some comments made by Tom Snyder. With the band's strike over, things return to normal. Tonight's guests include Edward Bailey, a hamburger bun juggler from the Bun-N-Run, Dr. Harlen Washburn, who describes his vision of integrated education and returning guest Baby Irene performing Animal Crackers.
Release date: 9/19/1977
Theological Correspondence Course
- Episode number: 56
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Father George Reese plugs his theological correspondence course, and accordianist Frankie ""Kid"" Carbone.
Release date: 9/20/1977
Singles Mingles Club
- Episode number: 57
- Episode duration: 30 min.
Release date: 9/21/1977
Lattimore Diet Program
- Episode number: 58
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Six-year-old trombonist Kevin McCormick. Mrs. Lillian Lattimore describes her diet program.
Release date: 9/22/1977
Battery Powered Car
- Episode number: 59
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Virgil Simms introduces his battery powered car. Emanual Kasinski on Gay Liberation.
Release date: 9/23/1977
Harry Shearer
- Episode number: 60
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Harry Shearer discusses his work in TV news.
Release date: 9/26/1977
Amusement and Healing Parks
- Episode number: 61
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Bob and Joanne Herlick recite Shakespeare. Nelson Phipps of the Amusement and Healing Parks.
Release date: 9/27/1977
Indian Princess
- Episode number: 62
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: On the show tonight: Indian princess Shosen Rising Star and psychologist Stanley Turnbull.
Release date: 9/28/1977
Fan Club President
- Episode number: 63
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Barth Gimble fan club president Mercedes Blyweiss presents an award to Barth.
Release date: 9/29/1977
The Ransom
- Episode number: 64
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Happy Kyne talks about where songwriters get their inspiration. Happy and the Mirth-Makers sing ""Ice Cream Baby"". Barth interviews three heavily-disguised criminals. Barth explains to Jerry how cartoons work. Bud Prize talks about the ransom note. Somebody has his chow-chow! Barth gets a singing telegram -- actually a summons from Miami.
Release date: 9/30/1977
Save "Fernwood 2Night" Telethon
- Episode number: 65
- Episode duration: 30 min.
- Episode description: Barth and Jerry stage a telethon to save the show. Final episode of the series. Continues the next summer as ""America 2Night"".