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The Dick Cavett Show

The Dick Cavett Show is the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks, including:

The Dick Cavett Show

Dick Cavett

United States

English

90 minutes

March 4, 1968 (1968-03-04) –
December 30, 1986 (1986-12-30)

Cavett normally taped his programs in New York City, though occasionally he would venture elsewhere, including Los Angeles, New Orleans and London.

senior Republican Senator from Arizona

Barry Goldwater

former FBI agent, one of the head White House Plumbers one of the original Watergate Seven

G. Gordon Liddy

Attorney General succeeding John N. Mitchell and followed by Elliot Richardson

Richard Kleindienst

and Carl Bernstein, Washington Post metropolitan writers and Watergate investigative reporters

Bob Woodward

CBS Evening News anchor who aired segments on Watergate using Woodward and Bernstein's Washington Post coverage

Walter Cronkite

Nixon chief domestic policy advisor and one of the later Watergate Seven

John Ehrlichman

CRP coordinator turned witness

Jeb Magruder

Nixon White House counsel and cover-up coordinator turned star witness

John Dean

Sam Ervin

Gore Vidal

House Minority Leader, Vice President following Spiro Agnew's resignation and President following Nixon's resignation

Gerald Ford

National Security Advisor and Secretary of State

Henry Kissinger

Resurgence[edit]

Global Image Works, the current owner of the footage of the show, has made a YouTube channel with clips from the show. It launched on June 7, 2018. As of February 2024, the channel has over 134 million views.[19] News outlets have covered clips from the show, mostly because of the celebrities.[20][21][22] HBO released a documentary called Ali and Cavett: The Tale of Tapes, which is about Muhammad Ali's friendship with him, making the show even more popular in the 2020s.[23]


Reruns of the show currently air weeknights on the Decades cable network, though 90-minute episodes have been cut to fit a one-hour slot, and musical performances are almost always removed, presumably for licensing reasons. However, as of March 27, 2023, it will no longer be shown on Decades as it rebrands itself as Catchy Comedy.

In popular culture[edit]

In a scene from the 1977 Woody Allen–directed film, Annie Hall, Allen appears on the show in character as comedian Alvy Singer, with Cavett interviewing. There is a scene in the 1994 film Forrest Gump, where Tom Hanks in the titular role, appears in the show together with John Lennon. The creation of this scene was achieved via the use of ground-breaking special visual effects.[24] Both films wound up winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.


The Dick Cavett Show plays a prominent role in the season finale of the first season of Bojack Horseman. In the show, a young Bojack is watching a cartoon version of Cavett interview Secretariat. Cavett asks Secretariat a question from a rambling letter sent by Bojack: "What do you do when you get sad? How do you not be sad?" Secretariat responds by saying, in part: "BoJack, when you get sad, you run straight ahead a-and you keep running forward, no matter what." In the second season of Bojack Horseman it is revealed that Bojack did not hear the Secretariat response because of a loud argument between Bojack's parents.


The set of The Adam Friedland Show is a replica of the Dick Cacett Show set.

List of late night network TV programs

Dick Cavett and Christopher Porterfield, Cavett (Bantam Books, August 1974)  0-15-116130-5

ISBN

Dick Cavett's is published by the New York Times: "Talk Show: Dick Cavett Speaks Again".

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