Fernwood 2 Night (Season 1)

Talk to a Jew (Episode 1)

Writer: Alan Thicke

Air date: 1977-07-04

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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?"")

Leisure Suits Cause Cancer (Episode 2)

Air date: 1977-07-05

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.

The Wonderblender (Episode 3)

Air date: 1977-07-06

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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,

Corporal Punishment I (Episode 4)

Air date: 1977-07-07

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.

Corporal Punishment II (Episode 5)

Air date: 1977-07-08

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.

Fernwood Fascinating Females (Episode 6)

Air date: 1977-07-11

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Vernon Taylor (AKA ""Uncle Sam, Jr"") reads one of his poems, Candy Lee Hargrove talks about the Fernwood Fascinating Females League.

Hearing Ear Dogs for the Deaf (Episode 7)

Air date: 1977-07-12

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Pet control center director Connie Bushman on Hearing Ear Dogs for the Deaf. Also: dancer Lisa Martin; Garth Gimble, Sr. and his dog.

Congressman Chambers (Episode 8)

Air date: 1977-07-13

Runtime: 30 min

No-frills Hospitals (Episode 9)

Air date: 1977-07-14

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Ambassador-at-large Harold Mislap talks about his efforts to bring tourism to Fernwood, Dr. Richard Osgood presents his no-frills hospital plan.

Ethnic Myths (Episode 10)

Air date: 1977-07-15

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Daredevil Virgil Simms; Emanuel Kasinski on his latest findings on ethnic myths and prejudice.

Lillian Dunbar (Episode 11)

Air date: 1977-07-18

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Grandmother Lillian Dunbar and presidential namesake James Earl Carter.

Uncle Sam, Jr (I) (Episode 12)

Air date: 1977-07-19

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Candy discusses gynacology and the need for female gynacologists. Bart plays the guitar while Happy and Vernon accompany him.

Tony Rolletti and Susan Cloud (Episode 13)

Air date: 1977-07-20

Runtime: 30 min

Breeding Athletes (Episode 14)

Air date: 1977-07-21

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.

Animal Sexuality (Episode 15)

Air date: 1977-07-22

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Professional football consultant Emanual Kasinski on the breeding of large men.

Garth Gimble Memorial Tennis Classic (Episode 16)

Writer: Jack Douglas

Air date: 1977-07-25

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.

Dating Service for Dogs (Episode 17)

Air date: 1977-07-26

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Connie Bushman talks about her dating service for dogs. Radio personality Terry Guy plugs his disc jockey correspondence course.

Lou Moffatt on Land Deals (Episode 18)

Air date: 1977-07-27

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.

Uncle Sam Jr. II (Episode 19)

Air date: 1977-07-28

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Vernon Taylor, better known as Uncle Sam, Jr. is back and as passionate as ever.

Comedy Sales Techniques (Episode 20)

Air date: 1977-07-29

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Insurance salesman Elliott J. Tubbs demonstrates his comedy sales techniques. Happy Kyne on shut-ins.

Tom Waits (Episode 21)

Air date: 1977-08-01

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Tom Waits. ""Bud"" Prize on using CB radio to bring in tourists.

Dumbness measuring machine (Episode 22)

Air date: 1977-08-02

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.

no info (Episode 23)

Air date: 1977-08-03

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Happy Kyne shares the latest gizmo developed by the Olfactory Center of Toledo; the nose aid.

Singers and salesmen (Episode 24)

Air date: 1977-08-04

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Mario Dorsett on his success as a singer; Tony Rolletti; Mrs. Walter Donker, whose husband sells cars.

Criminal Justice (Episode 25)

Air date: 1977-08-05

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Gilbert Ulysses Nelson discusses the treatment of criminals.

Still a Dream (Episode 26)

Air date: 1977-08-08

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Local opera singer Donny Lee Savage; Dr. Hugh Slocum on his latest scientific discovery; Amateur photographer Marianne Cox.

Fernwood Blood Drive (Episode 27)

Air date: 1977-08-09

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Singing duo Doug and Diana Mitchell; Fernwood blood drive chairman Larry Guy.

Ratings Week (Episode 28)

Air date: 1977-08-10

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Singer Laurie Gallagher performs, accompanied by her mother on drums. Also: Bud Prize and Sylvia Miller.

Barbershop Trio (Episode 29)

Air date: 1977-08-11

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Doctor Alexander Beach discusses his findings on marijuana. How the Humdinger Barbershop Quartet became a trio.

Two Ladies Against Pornography (Episode 30)

Air date: 1977-08-12

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Nettie and Barbara Forman on the elderly.

Church of the Devine Lemonade (Episode 31)

Air date: 1977-08-15

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: The founder of the Church of the Devine Lemonade, Billy Jenkins. George and Sally Krepps discuss the La Fromage method of childbirth.

Roger Bellman (Episode 32)

Air date: 1977-08-16

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Marin Worth reads one of his poems. Also: Susan Cloud and chauffeur Earl Simmons.

The Fitness Twins (Episode 33)

Writer: Alan Thicke

Air date: 1977-08-17

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Fernwood mayor Merle Jeeter honors champion Girl scout cookie seller Wendy Price. Also: contortionist Mike Timmins and Mary Lou Bridgewater.

You Are You (Episode 34)

Air date: 1977-08-18

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Alberta Cornwall on how colored clothing affects moods; poet Vernon Taylor.

The Barber (Episode 35)

Air date: 1977-08-19

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Hair stylist Sal Magglione and Presidential namesake James Earl Carter.

X-Rated Shopping Mall (Episode 36)

Air date: 1977-08-22

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Sportscaster Jane Tiffany and W. D. ""Bud"" Prize.

Tony Rolletti's autobiography (Episode 37)

Air date: 1977-08-23

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Tony Rolletti plugs his autobiography. The Mirth-Makers perform ""Rock Around the Clock"".

Getting the most from your warranty (Episode 38)

Air date: 1977-08-24

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.

Nudists (Episode 39)

Air date: 1977-08-25

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Linda Barry, owner of the Fernwood Nudist Colony. Toy maker George Ellsworth.

Wrestling (Episode 40)

Air date: 1977-08-26

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Jane Tiffany; Sylvia Miller; Wrestler Rock Mondo and his assisstant.

Tony and Chance Rolletti (Episode 41)

Air date: 1977-08-27

Runtime: 30 min

Solving Water Shortages (Episode 42)

Air date: 1977-08-28

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Representative Chambers on solving water shortages with icebergs. Lucy and Ed Campbell show how they display affection.

Sex Therapy (Episode 43)

Air date: 1977-08-29

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Vern Taylor; Sex therapy clinic founder Matthew Johnson; Happy sings about tooth decay.

Real Estate Tips (Episode 44)

Air date: 1977-08-30

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Comic Buddy Brown; Author Dottie Ann Lee; Eddie Thomerson's real estate tips.

Skateboard Angel (Episode 45)

Air date: 1977-09-02

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Larry Guy takes questions from the audience; The Mirth-Makers play ""Skateboard Angel"".

Mobile Home Daredevil (Episode 46)

Air date: 1977-09-05

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Las Vegas entertainer Debbie Dunbar; Mobile home daredevil Virgil Simms.

Rev. Chung Hee (Episode 47)

Air date: 1977-09-06

Runtime: 30 min

Pot Sniffing (Episode 48)

Air date: 1977-09-07

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Impressionist Reggie Morrison; Principal Marshall Petty; Susan Cloud.

Pet Mating Service (Episode 49)

Air date: 1977-09-08

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.

Harrison Edwards' Moon (Episode 50)

Air date: 1977-09-09

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Historian Harrison Edwards. Also: Tony Rolletti and Jane Tiffany.

Behind Hollywood (Episode 51)

Air date: 1977-09-12

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Author Duane Goff plugs his book, ""Behind Hollywood"". The Mirth-makers perform ""Fifteen and Free"".

Etiquette Guidelines (Episode 52)

Air date: 1977-09-13

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.

Aunt Edity (Episode 53)

Air date: 1977-09-14

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.

no info (Episode 54)

Air date: 1977-09-15

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.

no info (Episode 55)

Air date: 1977-09-16

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.

Theological Correspondence Course (Episode 56)

Air date: 1977-09-19

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Father George Reese plugs his theological correspondence course, and accordianist Frankie ""Kid"" Carbone.

Singles Mingles Club (Episode 57)

Air date: 1977-09-20

Runtime: 30 min

Lattimore Diet Program (Episode 58)

Air date: 1977-09-21

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Six-year-old trombonist Kevin McCormick. Mrs. Lillian Lattimore describes her diet program.

Battery Powered Car (Episode 59)

Air date: 1977-09-22

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Virgil Simms introduces his battery powered car. Emanual Kasinski on Gay Liberation.

Harry Shearer (Episode 60)

Air date: 1977-09-23

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Harry Shearer discusses his work in TV news.

Amusement and Healing Parks (Episode 61)

Air date: 1977-09-26

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Bob and Joanne Herlick recite Shakespeare. Nelson Phipps of the Amusement and Healing Parks.

Indian Princess (Episode 62)

Air date: 1977-09-27

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: On the show tonight: Indian princess Shosen Rising Star and psychologist Stanley Turnbull.

Fan Club President (Episode 63)

Air date: 1977-09-28

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Barth Gimble fan club president Mercedes Blyweiss presents an award to Barth.

The Ransom (Episode 64)

Air date: 1977-09-29

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.

Save "Fernwood 2Night" Telethon (Episode 65)

Air date: 1977-09-30

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Barth and Jerry stage a telethon to save the show. Final episode of the series. Continues the next summer as ""America 2Night"".