Joe Franklin Was One Of A Kind
It had to be some time in the mid
to late 1980s that I discovered Joe Franklin. I actually had two of
his books at that point and still pick up Classic's of the Silent
Screen every so often, but I really didn't know about his place on Television history. I certainly had no idea the guy still hosted a talk show until I found him late
one night on WOR-TV Out of New York. At the time WOR was making a
real effort to match WTBS out of Atlanta, and WGN out of Chicago, as
a national independent super station.
I
thought it was so odd that this sort of kooky little guy on a cracker
box set got the Ramones, Spinal Tap, Oscar and Tony Winners and any
number of Big Stars. And he did it while acting like he was hosting
a talk show from the 1950s. So wonderfully odd.
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