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Orson Welles Guest Star
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
Dan Rowan and Dick Martin announce a Halloween edition devoted to the occult arts and bring out a caped, top-hatted Orson Welles, who trades a few barbs with his hosts. When the talk turns to sorcery, the old conjuror's magic word is waved off as nonsense, and saying it brings a sandbag crashing down onto the stage. Written off as coincidence, the word is spoken again and Martin vanishes on the spot, so Welles and Rowan say it themselves to follow him, leaving an empty stage and an offscreen welcome from wherever they have landed.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 3
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Tonight's a very special show in honor of Halloween. We're going to deal with all the occult arts: witchcraft, sorcery, ghosts.
I agree with the great stature, but I'm not too impressed with the figure.
Well, we'd better do it now, or we'll never get him back.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Mark Warren
Director
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
This opening introduced Laugh-In's 1970 Halloween episode, in which guest Orson Welles also narrated the "Radio's Horror Theater" sketch.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:10
i thought you were lillian
- 00:11
Dan Rowan
good evening ladies and gentlemen tonight's a very special show in honor of halloween we're going to deal with all the occult arts witchcraft sorcery ghosts ah ghosts that's the spirit right it's going to be a festival of fantasy and we've got the perfect guest for it a master of magic student of the occult a man of great stature that impressive figure orson wells
- 00:35
well i agree with the great stature but i'm not too impressed with the figure
- 00:47
Orson Welles ?
Good evening, Dan
- 00:48
Dan Rowan ?
Good evening
- 00:50
Orson Welles ?
Good evening, creep
- 00:53
Dick Martin ?
Yes, yes, I heard that last remark Mr. Wells, we're just both delighted to have you on the show tonight
- 00:59
Orson Welles ?
Well, I'm both delighted to be on it I've been looking forward to all that, you know Well, most of it, that dousing with the water, the jokes, the trapdoor And above all, I can't wait to do the farc
- 01:12
Dan Rowan ?
Oh, no, no, wait, wait, don't do that We're not going to do that tonight No, no, tonight, a special night. This is in honor of Halloween. We're going to explore the occult arts.
- 01:22
What? Yes.
- 01:24
Orson Welles ?
Incur the forces of witchcraft and sorcery?
- 01:27
Dick Martin ?
Oh, poo, piss, and tush. Just a lot of abacadabra.
- 01:31
Orson Welles ?
That word. The cabalistic shibboleth. It's dangerous even to say it.
- 01:37
Dick Martin ?
Dangerous to say abacadabra?
- 01:40
Orson Welles ?
An omen.
- 01:44
Dick Martin ?
Oh, there's no such thing. But it happened when I said ab... I mean that word.
- 01:50
What word? I forgot. Some cabalistic seblilth, or other.
- 01:56
Dick Martin ?
It's a sheer coinkydink. Maybe you're right. It probably had nothing to do with saying abacadabra.
- 02:02
No. He's gone.
- 02:05
Orson Welles ?
To recover him, we shall have to explore every art of the occult world.
- 02:11
Dan Rowan ?
Well, we were going to do that before.
- 02:13
Orson Welles ?
Well, we'd better do it now, or we'll never get him back. Follow me. Abacadabra.
- 02:19
Dick Martin ?
hey it's about time you guys came by we got a show to do
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