by G. Jack Urso
Broadcast Date: Dec. 8, 1979.
Interviews: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Pam
Dawber, Robert Guillaume, and Ms. Michael Learned in conversation with Dr. Tom
Cottle.
Musical Guests: Joe Jackson, The Hot Hero
Band.
Themes: Family, fathers, race, self-image,
childhood dreams, bullies, dating.
Note: The links below go to the corresponding video clips hosted on Hot Hero Sandwich Central!
SCENES
5.1. Interview Segment:
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Pam Dawber, Robert Guillaume,
and Ms. Michael Learned discuss their families in conversation with Dr. Tom
Cottle.
5.2. Nightmare High Segment: Career
Day. Students played by Matt McCoy and Vicky
Dawson bring their parents to school for career day, but they haven't been
honest about what their parents do for a living.
5.3. Interview Segment: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Pam Dawber, and Michael
Learned discuss their fathers and families in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.
5.4. Sketch: What’s New. Matt McCoy does a pretty good Tom Snyder impression in this
parody of daytime talk shows. L. Michael Craig, and Jarrett Smithwrick play teenagers
who swap parents (Frankie Faison and Saundra McClain and Andrew Duncan and Claudette
Sutherland) and find out the grass is not always greener on the other side.
5.5. Sketch: The Black Family Epiphany. In this sketch by
series writer Andy Breckman, the show critically, and humorously, explores the
immediate post-war environment when cultural integration for African American
families also meant adopting mainstream European American culture. Actors include:
Frankie Faison, Nan-Lynn Nelson, and Vicky Dawson.
5.6. Interview Segment: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Robert Guillaume
discuss growing up as a minority and dealing with racism growing up, in
conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.
5.7. Ted’s Café Segment: In
this segment, Jarrett Smithwrick's character writes a paper for school about
dealing with racism, and drops the N-Word on NBC network television at 11:30 AM
on a Saturday morning in 1979. Smithwrick discusses this scene in his interview
with the Hot Hero Sandwich Project.
5.8. Music Performance: Joe
Jackson sings, “On the Radio,” a classic tale of being underestimated growing
up but proving your doubters wrong.
5.9. Interview Segment: Michael Learned and Pam Dawber discuss
their self-images growing up, feeling different from everyone else and trying
to fit in, in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.
5.10. Sketch: Fitting In. Denny Dillon gets a makeover by Claudette Sutherland. Growing up and
trying to fit in we sometimes end up looking like everyone else.
5.11. Interview Segment: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Pam Dawber
discuss their physical self-image and hidden
talents growing up, in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.
5.12. Animation Segment: A young girl dreams of stage fame.
5.13. Interview Segment: Michael Learned does not
share a childhood memory, in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.
5.12. Interview Segment: Pam Dawber discusses gender roles when playing as a
young girl, in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.
5.13. Captain Hero Segment: In
his civilian disguise as a mild-manner child, Captain Hero (Adam Ross) needs a
babysitter, but the babysitter needs CAPTAIN HERO to save her from the
villainous machinations of a greased-up Matt McCoy! Also stars Andrew Duncan
and Claudette Sutherland.
5.14. Interview Segment: Michael Learned and Kareem-Abdul Jabbar discuss bullies, in
conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.
5.15. Interview Segment: Robert Guillaume discusses having
girlfriends growing up, in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.
5.16. Sketch. Hooking Up: Andrew Duncan plays the Greek
Chorus to Matt McCoy’s and Vicky Dawson’s characters negotiating the tricky
waters of teen dating in high school.
5.17. What’s In, What’s Out Segment: Kids in 1979
discuss the latest slang for making out.
5.18. Interview Segment: Pam Dawber and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
discuss dating in high school, in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.
5.19. Nightmare High Segment: Stanley Dipstyck (Paul O’Keefe) tries
to write a note to his crush asking for a date.
5.20. Interview Segment: Michael Learned on dealing with emotions as a child, in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.
5.23. Music Performance: The Hot Hero Band performs “Get
Together,” a cover of the classic Youngbloods song that was produced by Felix
Pappalardi of Mountain, who was also the Hot Hero Band's producer!
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