Thursday, April 24, 2025

Found It! Pre-Mad About You Paul Reiser's Hilarious NBC Promo Video from 1989 - Rare Lost NBC Gem from the 1980s

Ever dig through old TV clips and stumble upon a lost gem (that happened to the TAT Communications Company logo)? That's what this NBC promotional video hosted by Paul Resier (before Mad About You) (pictured on the right) feels like - a delightful time capsule from NBC in the 1980s. Forget the standard interview format; Reiser embarks on a hilarious Hollywood ad
venture seeking advice from Bob Hope, finding Betty White (Rose Nylund, Golden Girls) at the LA Zoo, visiting Cloris Leachman (post-FOL) on the set of "The Nutt House", jamming with Sherman Hemsley (Ernest Frye, Amen) on Ain't that A Kick in the Head (nice song, you can hear it here). 

It's like a nostalgic trip through NBC's golden era, and yes after the end credits, the 1989-90 "Come Home to the Best" promo plays. The purpose of this special from 1989 is that Brandon Tartikoff (pictured here) asked a pre-Mad About You Reiser to interview all the new and returning NBC shows for the 1989-90 season.

Brandon Tartikoff

This included interviews with Bob Hope at a Golf (pictured here)

Bob Hope

Sherman Hemsley (pictured here) at a Record Studio singing "Ain't that a Kick in the Head" (nice banger)

Sherman Hemsley

If you are a fan of Mad About You, My Two Dads, and NBC especially their 80s era, you should check out this VHS promotion tape right here:


(Fun Fact: Seinfeld debuted during the 1989-90 season in July 1989 (with the pilot episode, four more episodes aired at the end of the 1989-90 season in June/July when NBC was starting their 1990-91 season ("The Place to Be") before the season ("Only On NBC").) officially started in September 1989)

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