Jack Paar: Smart Television

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Jack Paar: Smart Television

2003

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Comedy

Overview

PBS documentary examining the work of Jack Paar.

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Cast & Crew

28 members

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Fred Applegate

Narrator (voice)

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Jack Paar

Self

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Dick Cavett

Self

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Hugh Downs

Self

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Regis Philbin

Self

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Tom Shales

Self

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Tom Smothers

Self

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Dick Smothers

Self

Production

Hal Gurnee

Self

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Richard Kennedy

Self

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Woody Allen

Self

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Muhammad Ali

Self

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Liberace

Self

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Fidel Castro

Self

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Bill Cosby

Self

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John F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

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Richard Nixon

Self

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Oscar Levant

Self

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Jonathan Winters

Self

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Robert Goulet

Self

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Peggy Cass

Self

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Vaughn Meader

Self

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Judy Garland

Self

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Robert F. Kennedy

Self

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Nat King Cole

Self

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Liza Minnelli

Self

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Shirley MacLaine

Self

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Dick Van Dyke

Self

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