"Dream Girl of '67" (1966) TV series 1966-1967

Directors:

John Dorsey
Bill Howell

Seasons:

unknown

Release Date:

19 December 1966 (USA)

Genre:

Game-Show | Reality-TV

Plot:

This entry had 3 Hosts and 1 sub-host for a week presided over the daily all-year-long beauty pageant...

Plot Keywords:

Beauty Contest | Non Fiction | Number In Title

Cast

Maria Cole	...	Herself (5 episodes, 1967)
Mark Goddard	...	Himself (5 episodes, 1967)
Noel Harrison	...	Himself (5 episodes, 1967)
David Hedison	...	Himself (5 episodes, 1967)
Shari Lewis	...	Herself (5 episodes, 1967)
Rich Little	...	Himself (5 episodes, 1967)
Louis Nye	...	Himself (5 episodes, 1967)
Tommy Sands	...	Himself (5 episodes, 1967)
Guy Williams	...	Himself (5 episodes, 1967)
Marty Allen	...	Himself (2 episodes, 1967)
Jacques Bergerac	...	Himself (2 episodes, 1967)
Carol Lawrence	...	Herself (2 episodes, 1967)
Vera Miles	...	Herself (2 episodes, 1967)
James Mitchum	...	Himself (2 episodes, 1967)

Runtime:

USA:25 min (270 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White (1966-1967) | Color (1967)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:TV-PG

Filming Locations:

Hollywood Palace Theater - 1735 N. Vine Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

Soundtrack:

Hunk O' Love

More notable for the interruption than the show

This was a short-lived attempt at placing a beauty pageant program in the context of a regular daytime game show - a sort of early American Idol format without the focus on talent. Aired in mid-afternoon on, as I recall, ABC-TV, it really represented little more than filler on the last-rated national television network at the time. ("Batman" was ABC's only real hit in that era.) That it was little more than eye-candy pap is strongly suggested by the fact that in its one year run it had no fewer than three regular hosts.

Possibly its most memorable moment had nothing to do with the show itself. On August 25, 1967, this viewer was killing a bit of summer vacation before sixth grade classes began in a fortnight, watching the show in Falls Church, Virginia, when the local Washington, D.C. network affiliate broke in on Wink Martindale to give a news bulletin that American Nazi Party founder George Lincoln Rockwell had been slain while pulling out of the parking lot of an Arlington, Virginia laundramat by a disaffected follower, a location only five miles from my home.

Aside from this singular event, I doubt that I would have any recollection of the program, which died a deserved death at the end of the only season it was aired.