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Pink Lady were superstars in their native country with a string of million-selling singles stretching back to 1976. In 1979, they made a serious run at the American market, appearing on a Creator/LeifGarrett TV special and releasing an English-language album, which included a minor U.S. Top 40 hit, "Kiss in the Dark" (the first song by a Japanese act to hit the North American charts since 1963). [[note]](They also hosted ''The Chance!'', a Japanese version of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''. Clips can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDuA-jyUZ3g here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQhMyQxmbrU here]]. And they were the subjects of a biographical TV anime series, though oddly they did not voice themselves ''or'' sing the theme songs.)[[/note]] For a time, Pink Lady's record sales in Japan ''alone'' surpassed the global record sales of ''every other pop group'', including Music/{{ABBA}}.
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Pink Lady were superstars in their native country with a string of million-selling singles stretching back to 1976. In 1979, they made a serious run at the American market, appearing on a Creator/LeifGarrett TV special and releasing an English-language album, which included a minor U.S. Top 40 hit, "Kiss in the Dark" (the first song by a Japanese act to hit the North American charts since 1963). [[note]](They also hosted ''The Chance!'', a Japanese version of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''. Clips can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDuA-jyUZ3g here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQhMyQxmbrU here]]. And they were the subjects of a biographical TV anime series, though oddly due to scheduling conflicts they did not voice themselves ''or'' sing the theme songs.)[[/note]] For a time, Pink Lady's record sales in Japan ''alone'' surpassed the global record sales of ''every other pop group'', including Music/{{ABBA}}.
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Mie and Kei did not speak English (the songs on their earlier U.S. album were recorded phonetically), so the producers brought in then-unknown comedian Jeff Altman, who was under contract to NBC. The girls learned their few English lines phonetically, making improvisation or even much interaction with Jeff impossible. Plus, they weren't allowed to sing the songs that made them popular in Japan, instead being forced to sing covers of American disco hits [[DiscoSucks as the genre was rapidly losing its popularity]].
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Mie and Kei did not speak English (the songs on their earlier U.S. album were recorded phonetically), so the producers brought in then-unknown comedian Jeff Altman, who Altman to co-host the program, as he was under contract to NBC. The girls learned their few English lines phonetically, making improvisation or even much interaction with Jeff impossible. Plus, they weren't allowed to sing the songs that made them popular in Japan, instead being forced to sing covers of American disco hits [[DiscoSucks as the genre was rapidly losing its popularity]].
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Mie and Kei did not speak English (the songs on their earlier U.S. album were recorded phonetically), so the producers brought in then-unknown comedian Jeff Altman, who was under contract to NBC. The girls learned their few English lines phonetically, making improvisation or even much interaction with Jeff impossible. Plus, they weren't allowed to sing the songs that made them popular in Japan, instead being forced to sing covers of American disco hits [[DiscoSucks as the genre was dying]].
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Mie and Kei did not speak English (the songs on their earlier U.S. album were recorded phonetically), so the producers brought in then-unknown comedian Jeff Altman, who was under contract to NBC. The girls learned their few English lines phonetically, making improvisation or even much interaction with Jeff impossible. Plus, they weren't allowed to sing the songs that made them popular in Japan, instead being forced to sing covers of American disco hits [[DiscoSucks as the genre was dying]].
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The show died after five episodes, [[GenreKiller taking the already-dying variety show genre with it.]] Pink Lady ended up disbanding less than a year later (though they have reunited a few times in the years since).
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The show died was canceled after five episodes, [[GenreKiller taking the already-dying variety show genre with it.]] A sixth episode never aired. Pink Lady ended up disbanding less than a year later (though they have reunited a few times in the years since).
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Ah, the VarietyShow. A quirky, wide-ranging mish-mash of celebrity star power, musical acts, and comedy sketches. Definitely the highlight of television entertainment in TheSeventies.
Then came ''Pink Lady and Jeff''.
As the story goes, in 1980 Creator/{{NBC}} head Fred Silverman saw a Walter Cronkite report on a popular [[JapanesePopMusic Japanese pop]] duo called Pink Lady (Mitsuyo "Mie" Nemoto and Keiko "Kei" Masuda), who were superstars in their native country with a string of million-selling singles stretching back to 1976. In 1979, they made a serious run at the American market, appearing on a Creator/LeifGarrett TV special and releasing an English-language album, which included a minor U.S. Top 40 hit, "Kiss in the Dark" (the first song by a Japanese act to hit the North American charts since 1963). [[note]](They also hosted ''The Chance!'', a Japanese version of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''. Clips can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDuA-jyUZ3g here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQhMyQxmbrU here]]. And they were the subjects of a biographical TV anime series, though oddly they did not voice themselves ''or'' sing the theme songs.)[[/note]] For a time, Pink Lady's record sales in Japan ''alone'' surpassed the global record sales of ''every other pop group'', including Music/{{ABBA}}.
Echoing a similar situation with Ed Sullivan and Music/TheBeatles in 1964 (when Sullivan saw the Beatles in a Cronkite report and immediately booked them) Silverman, not unreasonably, thought that importing a couple of gorgeous, intriguingly exotic young pop stars would be a '''huge''' success in the United States.
He was so sure of it, in fact, that he went right ahead and gave Pink Lady their very own eponymous variety show. It would be helmed by [[Creator/SidAndMartyKrofftProductions Sid and Marty Krofft]], featuring Creator/MarkEvanier as head writer and seasoned variety show veteran Art Fisher as director. It didn't hurt that this also came after a year of declining record sales in Japan, with Pink Lady's previously squeaky-clean image having been damaged by a scandal involving kids from a school for the blind being invited to the taping of their New Year's TV special and the school denying having been told about it. And Mie and Kei were ambitious girls who ''really'' wanted to make it in the States.
[[TemptingFate What could go wrong?]]
Well... for starters, somehow Silverman had managed to book a Japanese pop group for primetime American television ''without bothering to inquire if they knew any English whatsoever''. Which - surprise! - it turned out they didn't (the songs on their earlier U.S. album were recorded phonetically). So the producers brought in then-unknown comedian Jeff Altman (who was under contract to NBC) as a co-host based on the fact that, hey, he was under contract.
Mie and Kei were assigned clichéd American-style "personalities" (basically, one was cute and sassy, the other cute and shy) and learned their few English lines phonetically, making improvisation or even much interaction with Jeff impossible. Plus, the girls weren't allowed to sing the songs that made them popular in Japan, instead being forced to sing covers of American disco hits. Which, if you recall your music history, [[DiscoSucks wasn't exactly a guaranteed ratings-booster in 1980.]]
And wouldn't you know it, the show died after five episodes, [[GenreKiller taking the already-dying variety show genre with it.]] It gained a reputation as one of the worst TV shows ever. As if failing in the States wasn't enough, Mie and Kei went home to Japan to find their record sales had gone into free-fall in their absence, and ended up disbanding less than a year later (though they have reunited a few times in the years since).
Website/TheAgonyBooth eventually recapped all five episodes (plus a MissingEpisode) in 2010. You can read their reviews [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Pink_Lady_and_Jeff/ here.]]
Then came ''Pink Lady and Jeff''.
As the story goes, in 1980 Creator/{{NBC}} head Fred Silverman saw a Walter Cronkite report on a popular [[JapanesePopMusic Japanese pop]] duo called Pink Lady (Mitsuyo "Mie" Nemoto and Keiko "Kei" Masuda), who were superstars in their native country with a string of million-selling singles stretching back to 1976. In 1979, they made a serious run at the American market, appearing on a Creator/LeifGarrett TV special and releasing an English-language album, which included a minor U.S. Top 40 hit, "Kiss in the Dark" (the first song by a Japanese act to hit the North American charts since 1963). [[note]](They also hosted ''The Chance!'', a Japanese version of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''. Clips can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDuA-jyUZ3g here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQhMyQxmbrU here]]. And they were the subjects of a biographical TV anime series, though oddly they did not voice themselves ''or'' sing the theme songs.)[[/note]] For a time, Pink Lady's record sales in Japan ''alone'' surpassed the global record sales of ''every other pop group'', including Music/{{ABBA}}.
Echoing a similar situation with Ed Sullivan and Music/TheBeatles in 1964 (when Sullivan saw the Beatles in a Cronkite report and immediately booked them) Silverman, not unreasonably, thought that importing a couple of gorgeous, intriguingly exotic young pop stars would be a '''huge''' success in the United States.
He was so sure of it, in fact, that he went right ahead and gave Pink Lady their very own eponymous variety show. It would be helmed by [[Creator/SidAndMartyKrofftProductions Sid and Marty Krofft]], featuring Creator/MarkEvanier as head writer and seasoned variety show veteran Art Fisher as director. It didn't hurt that this also came after a year of declining record sales in Japan, with Pink Lady's previously squeaky-clean image having been damaged by a scandal involving kids from a school for the blind being invited to the taping of their New Year's TV special and the school denying having been told about it. And Mie and Kei were ambitious girls who ''really'' wanted to make it in the States.
[[TemptingFate What could go wrong?]]
Well... for starters, somehow Silverman had managed to book a Japanese pop group for primetime American television ''without bothering to inquire if they knew any English whatsoever''. Which - surprise! - it turned out they didn't (the songs on their earlier U.S. album were recorded phonetically). So the producers brought in then-unknown comedian Jeff Altman (who was under contract to NBC) as a co-host based on the fact that, hey, he was under contract.
Mie and Kei were assigned clichéd American-style "personalities" (basically, one was cute and sassy, the other cute and shy) and learned their few English lines phonetically, making improvisation or even much interaction with Jeff impossible. Plus, the girls weren't allowed to sing the songs that made them popular in Japan, instead being forced to sing covers of American disco hits. Which, if you recall your music history, [[DiscoSucks wasn't exactly a guaranteed ratings-booster in 1980.]]
And wouldn't you know it, the show died after five episodes, [[GenreKiller taking the already-dying variety show genre with it.]] It gained a reputation as one of the worst TV shows ever. As if failing in the States wasn't enough, Mie and Kei went home to Japan to find their record sales had gone into free-fall in their absence, and ended up disbanding less than a year later (though they have reunited a few times in the years since).
Website/TheAgonyBooth eventually recapped all five episodes (plus a MissingEpisode) in 2010. You can read their reviews [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Pink_Lady_and_Jeff/ here.]]
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As the story goes, in 1980 Creator/{{NBC}} head Fred Silverman saw a Walter Cronkite report on a popular
An American VarietyShow starring [[JapanesePopMusic Japanese pop]] duo
Pink Lady were superstars in their native country with a string of million-selling singles stretching back to 1976. In 1979, they made a serious run at the American market, appearing on a Creator/LeifGarrett TV special and releasing an English-language album, which included a minor U.S. Top 40 hit, "Kiss in the Dark" (the first song by a Japanese act to hit the North American charts since 1963). [[note]](They also hosted ''The Chance!'', a Japanese version of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''. Clips can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDuA-jyUZ3g here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQhMyQxmbrU here]]. And they were the subjects of a biographical TV anime series, though oddly they did not voice themselves ''or'' sing the theme songs.)[[/note]] For a time, Pink Lady's record sales in Japan ''alone'' surpassed the global record sales of ''every other pop group'', including Music/{{ABBA}}.
In 1980, Creator/{{NBC}} head Fred Silverman saw a Walter Cronkite report about the duo. Echoing a similar situation with Ed Sullivan and Music/TheBeatles in 1964 (when Sullivan saw the Beatles in a Cronkite report and immediately booked
He was so sure of it, in fact, that he went right ahead and gave Pink Lady
Mie and Kei
[[TemptingFate What could go wrong?]]
Well... for starters, somehow Silverman had managed to book a Japanese pop group for primetime American television ''without bothering to inquire if they knew any
Mie and Kei were assigned clichéd American-style "personalities" (basically, one was cute and sassy, the other cute and shy) and
And wouldn't you know it,
The show died after five episodes, [[GenreKiller taking the already-dying variety show genre with it.]]
Website/TheAgonyBooth eventually recapped all five episodes (plus a MissingEpisode) in 2010. You can read their reviews [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Pink_Lady_and_Jeff/ here.]]
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And wouldn't you know it, the show died after five episodes, [[GenreKiller taking the already-dying variety show genre with it.]] It gained a reputation as one of the worst TV shows ever. As if failing in the States wasn't enough, Mie and Kei went home to Japan to find their record sales in free-fall due to their lack of visibility there while doing the American show, and ended up disbanding less than a year later (though they have reunited a few times in the years since).
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And wouldn't you know it, the show died after five episodes, [[GenreKiller taking the already-dying variety show genre with it.]] It gained a reputation as one of the worst TV shows ever. As if failing in the States wasn't enough, Mie and Kei went home to Japan to find their record sales in had gone into free-fall due to in their lack of visibility there while doing the American show, absence, and ended up disbanding less than a year later (though they have reunited a few times in the years since).
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As the story goes, in 1980 Creator/{{NBC}} head Fred Silverman saw a Walter Cronkite report on a popular [[JapanesePopMusic Japanese pop]] duo called Pink Lady (Mitsuyo "Mie" Nemoto and Keiko "Kei" Masuda), who were superstars in their native country with a string of million-selling singles stretching back to 1976. In 1979, they attempted a run at the American market for the first time, appearing on a Creator/LeifGarrett TV special and releasing an English-language album, which included a minor U.S. Top 40 hit, "Kiss in the Dark" (the first song by a Japanese act to hit the North American charts since 1963). [[note]](They also hosted ''The Chance!'', a Japanese version of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''. Clips can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDuA-jyUZ3g here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQhMyQxmbrU here]]. And they were the subjects of a biographical TV anime series, though oddly they did not voice themselves ''or'' sing the theme songs.)[[/note]] For a time, Pink Lady's record sales in Japan ''alone'' surpassed the global record sales of ''every other pop group'', including Music/{{ABBA}}.
Echoing a similar situation with Ed Sullivan and Music/TheBeatles in 1964 (when Sullivan saw the Beatles in a Cronkite report and immediately booked them), Silverman, not unreasonably, thought that importing a couple of gorgeous, intriguingly exotic young pop stars would be a '''huge''' success in the United States.
Echoing a similar situation with Ed Sullivan and Music/TheBeatles in 1964 (when Sullivan saw the Beatles in a Cronkite report and immediately booked them), Silverman, not unreasonably, thought that importing a couple of gorgeous, intriguingly exotic young pop stars would be a '''huge''' success in the United States.
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As the story goes, in 1980 Creator/{{NBC}} head Fred Silverman saw a Walter Cronkite report on a popular [[JapanesePopMusic Japanese pop]] duo called Pink Lady (Mitsuyo "Mie" Nemoto and Keiko "Kei" Masuda), who were superstars in their native country with a string of million-selling singles stretching back to 1976. In 1979, they attempted made a serious run at the American market for the first time, market, appearing on a Creator/LeifGarrett TV special and releasing an English-language album, which included a minor U.S. Top 40 hit, "Kiss in the Dark" (the first song by a Japanese act to hit the North American charts since 1963). [[note]](They also hosted ''The Chance!'', a Japanese version of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''. Clips can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDuA-jyUZ3g here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQhMyQxmbrU here]]. And they were the subjects of a biographical TV anime series, though oddly they did not voice themselves ''or'' sing the theme songs.)[[/note]] For a time, Pink Lady's record sales in Japan ''alone'' surpassed the global record sales of ''every other pop group'', including Music/{{ABBA}}.
Echoing a similar situation with Ed Sullivan and Music/TheBeatles in 1964 (when Sullivan saw the Beatles in a Cronkite report and immediately bookedthem), them) Silverman, not unreasonably, thought that importing a couple of gorgeous, intriguingly exotic young pop stars would be a '''huge''' success in the United States.
Echoing a similar situation with Ed Sullivan and Music/TheBeatles in 1964 (when Sullivan saw the Beatles in a Cronkite report and immediately booked
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Well... for starters, somehow Silverman had managed to book a Japanese pop group for primetime American television ''without bothering to inquire if they knew any English whatsoever''. Which - surprise! - it turned out they didn't (the songs on their earlier U.S. album were all in English, but were recorded phonetically). So the producers brought in then-unknown comedian Jeff Altman (who was under contract to NBC) as a co-host based on the fact that, hey, he was under contract.
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Well... for starters, somehow Silverman had managed to book a Japanese pop group for primetime American television ''without bothering to inquire if they knew any English whatsoever''. Which - surprise! - it turned out they didn't (the songs on their earlier U.S. album were all in English, but were recorded phonetically). So the producers brought in then-unknown comedian Jeff Altman (who was under contract to NBC) as a co-host based on the fact that, hey, he was under contract.
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As the story goes, in 1980 Creator/{{NBC}} head Fred Silverman saw a Walter Cronkite report on a popular [[JapanesePopMusic Japanese pop]] duo called Pink Lady (Mitsuyo "Mie" Nemoto and Keiko "Kei" Masuda), who were superstars in their native country with a string of million-selling singles stretching back to 1976. In 1979, they attempted a run at the American market for the first time, appearing on a Creator/LeifGarrett TV special and releasing an English-language album, which included a minor U.S. Top 40 hit, "Kiss in the Dark" (the first song by a Japanese act to hit the North American charts since 1963). [[note]](They also hosted ''The Chance!'', a Japanese version of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''. Clips can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDuA-jyUZ3g here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQhMyQxmbrU here]]. And they were the subjects of a biographical TV anime series, though oddly they did not voice themselves ''or'' sing the theme songs.)[[/note]] For a time, Pink Lady's record sales in Japan ''alone'' surpassed the global record sales of ''every other pop group'', including Music/{{ABBA}}. Echoing a similar situation with Ed Sullivan and Music/TheBeatles in 1964 (when Sullivan saw the Beatles in a Cronkite report and immediately booked them), Silverman, not unreasonably, thought that importing a couple of gorgeous, intriguingly exotic young pop stars would be a '''huge''' success in the United States.
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As the story goes, in 1980 Creator/{{NBC}} head Fred Silverman saw a Walter Cronkite report on a popular [[JapanesePopMusic Japanese pop]] duo called Pink Lady (Mitsuyo "Mie" Nemoto and Keiko "Kei" Masuda), who were superstars in their native country with a string of million-selling singles stretching back to 1976. In 1979, they attempted a run at the American market for the first time, appearing on a Creator/LeifGarrett TV special and releasing an English-language album, which included a minor U.S. Top 40 hit, "Kiss in the Dark" (the first song by a Japanese act to hit the North American charts since 1963). [[note]](They also hosted ''The Chance!'', a Japanese version of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''. Clips can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDuA-jyUZ3g here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQhMyQxmbrU here]]. And they were the subjects of a biographical TV anime series, though oddly they did not voice themselves ''or'' sing the theme songs.)[[/note]] For a time, Pink Lady's record sales in Japan ''alone'' surpassed the global record sales of ''every other pop group'', including Music/{{ABBA}}. Music/{{ABBA}}.
Echoing a similar situation with Ed Sullivan and Music/TheBeatles in 1964 (when Sullivan saw the Beatles in a Cronkite report and immediately booked them), Silverman, not unreasonably, thought that importing a couple of gorgeous, intriguingly exotic young pop stars would be a '''huge''' success in the United States.
Echoing a similar situation with Ed Sullivan and Music/TheBeatles in 1964 (when Sullivan saw the Beatles in a Cronkite report and immediately booked them), Silverman, not unreasonably, thought that importing a couple of gorgeous, intriguingly exotic young pop stars would be a '''huge''' success in the United States.
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Mie and Kei were assigned clichéd American-style "personalities" (basically, one was cute and sassy, the other cute and shy) and learned their few English lines phonetically, making improvisation or even much interaction with Jeff impossible. Plus, the girls weren't allowed to sing the songs that made them popular in Japan, instead being forced to sing covers of American disco hits. Which, if you recall your music history, [[DeaderThanDisco wasn't exactly a guaranteed ratings-booster in 1980.]]
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Mie and Kei were assigned clichéd American-style "personalities" (basically, one was cute and sassy, the other cute and shy) and learned their few English lines phonetically, making improvisation or even much interaction with Jeff impossible. Plus, the girls weren't allowed to sing the songs that made them popular in Japan, instead being forced to sing covers of American disco hits. Which, if you recall your music history, [[DeaderThanDisco [[DiscoSucks wasn't exactly a guaranteed ratings-booster in 1980.]]
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As the story goes, in 1980 Creator/{{NBC}} head Fred Silverman saw a Walter Cronkite report on a popular [[JapanesePopMusic Japanese pop]] duo called Pink Lady (Mitsuyo "Mie" Nemoto and Keiko "Kei" Masuda), who were superstars in their native country with a string of million-selling singles stretching back to 1976, and had hit the American top 40 and Canadian top 100 in 1979 with a phonetically-sung English-language disco tune called "Kiss in the Dark". [[note]](They also hosted ''The Chance!'', a Japanese version of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''. Clips can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDuA-jyUZ3g here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQhMyQxmbrU here]]. And they were the subjects of a biographical TV anime series, though oddly they did not voice themselves ''or'' sing the theme songs.)[[/note]] For a time, Pink Lady's record sales in Japan ''alone'' surpassed the global record sales of ''every other pop group'', including Music/{{ABBA}}. Echoing a similar situation with Ed Sullivan and Music/TheBeatles in 1964 (when Sullivan saw the Beatles in a Cronkite report and immediately booked them), Silverman, not unreasonably, thought that importing a couple of gorgeous, intriguingly exotic young pop stars would be a '''huge''' success in the United States.
He was so sure of it, in fact, that he went right ahead and gave Pink Lady their very own eponymous variety show. It would be helmed by [[Creator/SidAndMartyKrofftProductions Sid and Marty Krofft]], featuring Creator/MarkEvanier as head writer and seasoned variety show veteran Art Fisher as director.
He was so sure of it, in fact, that he went right ahead and gave Pink Lady their very own eponymous variety show. It would be helmed by [[Creator/SidAndMartyKrofftProductions Sid and Marty Krofft]], featuring Creator/MarkEvanier as head writer and seasoned variety show veteran Art Fisher as director.
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As the story goes, in 1980 Creator/{{NBC}} head Fred Silverman saw a Walter Cronkite report on a popular [[JapanesePopMusic Japanese pop]] duo called Pink Lady (Mitsuyo "Mie" Nemoto and Keiko "Kei" Masuda), who were superstars in their native country with a string of million-selling singles stretching back to 1976, and had hit 1976. In 1979, they attempted a run at the American top 40 market for the first time, appearing on a Creator/LeifGarrett TV special and Canadian top 100 in 1979 with a phonetically-sung releasing an English-language disco tune called album, which included a minor U.S. Top 40 hit, "Kiss in the Dark".Dark" (the first song by a Japanese act to hit the North American charts since 1963). [[note]](They also hosted ''The Chance!'', a Japanese version of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''. Clips can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDuA-jyUZ3g here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQhMyQxmbrU here]]. And they were the subjects of a biographical TV anime series, though oddly they did not voice themselves ''or'' sing the theme songs.)[[/note]] For a time, Pink Lady's record sales in Japan ''alone'' surpassed the global record sales of ''every other pop group'', including Music/{{ABBA}}. Echoing a similar situation with Ed Sullivan and Music/TheBeatles in 1964 (when Sullivan saw the Beatles in a Cronkite report and immediately booked them), Silverman, not unreasonably, thought that importing a couple of gorgeous, intriguingly exotic young pop stars would be a '''huge''' success in the United States.
He was so sure of it, in fact, that he went right ahead and gave Pink Lady their very own eponymous variety show. It would be helmed by [[Creator/SidAndMartyKrofftProductions Sid and Marty Krofft]], featuring Creator/MarkEvanier as head writer and seasoned variety show veteran Art Fisher asdirector.
director. It didn't hurt that this also came after a year of declining record sales in Japan, with Pink Lady's previously squeaky-clean image having been damaged by a scandal involving kids from a school for the blind being invited to the taping of their New Year's TV special and the school denying having been told about it. And Mie and Kei were ambitious girls who ''really'' wanted to make it in the States.
He was so sure of it, in fact, that he went right ahead and gave Pink Lady their very own eponymous variety show. It would be helmed by [[Creator/SidAndMartyKrofftProductions Sid and Marty Krofft]], featuring Creator/MarkEvanier as head writer and seasoned variety show veteran Art Fisher as
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* DropInCharacter: Since the show was already suffering in the beginning, NBC decided to bring in an ensemble cast of comedy players to try and help boost the slumping ratings, including a then-unknown [[RetroactiveRecognition Jim]] [[Film/ErnestPWorrell Varney]].
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* DropInCharacter: Since the show was already suffering in the beginning, NBC decided to bring in an ensemble cast of comedy players to try and help boost the slumping ratings, including a then-unknown [[RetroactiveRecognition Jim]] [[Film/ErnestPWorrell Jim Varney]].
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As the story goes, in 1980 Creator/{{NBC}} head Fred Silverman saw a Walter Cronkite report on a popular [[JapanesePopMusic Japanese pop]] duo called Pink Lady (Mitsuyo "Mie" Nemoto and Keiko "Kei" Masuda), who were superstars in their native country with a string of million-selling singles stretching back to 1976, and had hit the American and Canadian pop charts in 1979 with a phonetically-sung English-language disco tune called "Kiss in the Dark". [[note]](They also hosted ''The Chance!'', a Japanese version of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''. Clips can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDuA-jyUZ3g here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQhMyQxmbrU here]]. And they were the subjects of a biographical TV anime series, though oddly they did not voice themselves ''or'' sing the theme songs.)[[/note]] For a time, Pink Lady's record sales in Japan ''alone'' surpassed the global record sales of ''every other pop group'', including Music/{{ABBA}}. Echoing a similar situation with Ed Sullivan and Music/TheBeatles in 1964 (when Sullivan saw the Beatles in a Cronkite report and immediately booked them), Silverman, not unreasonably, thought that importing a couple of gorgeous, intriguingly exotic young pop stars would be a '''huge''' success in the United States.
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As the story goes, in 1980 Creator/{{NBC}} head Fred Silverman saw a Walter Cronkite report on a popular [[JapanesePopMusic Japanese pop]] duo called Pink Lady (Mitsuyo "Mie" Nemoto and Keiko "Kei" Masuda), who were superstars in their native country with a string of million-selling singles stretching back to 1976, and had hit the American top 40 and Canadian pop charts top 100 in 1979 with a phonetically-sung English-language disco tune called "Kiss in the Dark". [[note]](They also hosted ''The Chance!'', a Japanese version of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''. Clips can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDuA-jyUZ3g here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQhMyQxmbrU here]]. And they were the subjects of a biographical TV anime series, though oddly they did not voice themselves ''or'' sing the theme songs.)[[/note]] For a time, Pink Lady's record sales in Japan ''alone'' surpassed the global record sales of ''every other pop group'', including Music/{{ABBA}}. Echoing a similar situation with Ed Sullivan and Music/TheBeatles in 1964 (when Sullivan saw the Beatles in a Cronkite report and immediately booked them), Silverman, not unreasonably, thought that importing a couple of gorgeous, intriguingly exotic young pop stars would be a '''huge''' success in the United States.
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As the story goes, in 1980 Creator/{{NBC}} head Fred Silverman saw a Walter Cronkite report on a popular [[JapanesePopMusic Japanese pop]] duo called Pink Lady (Mitsuyo "Mie" Nemoto and Keiko "Kei" Masuda), who were superstars in their native country with a string of million-selling singles stretching back to 1976, and had hit the American Top 40 in 1979 with a phonetically-sung English-language disco tune called "Kiss in the Dark". [[note]](They also hosted ''The Chance!'', a Japanese version of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''. Clips can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDuA-jyUZ3g here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQhMyQxmbrU here]]. And they were the subjects of a biographical TV anime series, though oddly they did not voice themselves ''or'' sing the theme songs.)[[/note]] For a time, Pink Lady's record sales in Japan ''alone'' surpassed the global record sales of ''every other pop group'', including Music/{{ABBA}}. Echoing a similar situation with Ed Sullivan and Music/TheBeatles in 1964 (when Sullivan saw the Beatles in a Cronkite report and immediately booked them), Silverman, not unreasonably, thought that importing a couple of gorgeous, intriguingly exotic young pop stars would be a '''huge''' success in the United States.
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As the story goes, in 1980 Creator/{{NBC}} head Fred Silverman saw a Walter Cronkite report on a popular [[JapanesePopMusic Japanese pop]] duo called Pink Lady (Mitsuyo "Mie" Nemoto and Keiko "Kei" Masuda), who were superstars in their native country with a string of million-selling singles stretching back to 1976, and had hit the American Top 40 and Canadian pop charts in 1979 with a phonetically-sung English-language disco tune called "Kiss in the Dark". [[note]](They also hosted ''The Chance!'', a Japanese version of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''. Clips can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDuA-jyUZ3g here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQhMyQxmbrU here]]. And they were the subjects of a biographical TV anime series, though oddly they did not voice themselves ''or'' sing the theme songs.)[[/note]] For a time, Pink Lady's record sales in Japan ''alone'' surpassed the global record sales of ''every other pop group'', including Music/{{ABBA}}. Echoing a similar situation with Ed Sullivan and Music/TheBeatles in 1964 (when Sullivan saw the Beatles in a Cronkite report and immediately booked them), Silverman, not unreasonably, thought that importing a couple of gorgeous, intriguingly exotic young pop stars would be a '''huge''' success in the United States.
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As the story goes, in 1980 Creator/{{NBC}} head Fred Silverman saw a Walter Cronkite report on a popular [[JapanesePopMusic Japanese pop]] duo called Pink Lady (Mitsuyo "Mie" Nemoto and Keiko "Kei" Masuda), who were superstars in their native country with a string of million-selling singles stretching back to 1976, and had hit the American Top 40 in 1979 with a phonetically-sung English-language disco tune called "Kiss in the Dark". [[note]](They also hosted ''The Chance!'', a Japanese version of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''. Clips can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDuA-jyUZ3g here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQhMyQxmbrU here]]. And they were the subjects of a biographical TV anime series, though oddly they did not voice themselves ''or'' sing the theme songs.)[[/note]] Echoing a similar situation with Ed Sullivan and Music/TheBeatles in 1964 (when Sullivan saw the Beatles in a Cronkite report and immediately booked them), Silverman, not unreasonably, thought that importing a couple of gorgeous, intriguingly exotic young pop stars would be a '''huge''' success in the United States.
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As the story goes, in 1980 Creator/{{NBC}} head Fred Silverman saw a Walter Cronkite report on a popular [[JapanesePopMusic Japanese pop]] duo called Pink Lady (Mitsuyo "Mie" Nemoto and Keiko "Kei" Masuda), who were superstars in their native country with a string of million-selling singles stretching back to 1976, and had hit the American Top 40 in 1979 with a phonetically-sung English-language disco tune called "Kiss in the Dark". [[note]](They also hosted ''The Chance!'', a Japanese version of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''. Clips can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDuA-jyUZ3g here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQhMyQxmbrU here]]. And they were the subjects of a biographical TV anime series, though oddly they did not voice themselves ''or'' sing the theme songs.)[[/note]] For a time, Pink Lady's record sales in Japan ''alone'' surpassed the global record sales of ''every other pop group'', including Music/{{ABBA}}. Echoing a similar situation with Ed Sullivan and Music/TheBeatles in 1964 (when Sullivan saw the Beatles in a Cronkite report and immediately booked them), Silverman, not unreasonably, thought that importing a couple of gorgeous, intriguingly exotic young pop stars would be a '''huge''' success in the United States.
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As the story goes, in 1980 Creator/{{NBC}} head Fred Silverman saw a Walter Cronkite report on a popular [[JapanesePopMusic Japanese pop]] duo called Pink Lady (Mitsuyo "Mie" Nemoto and Keiko "Kei" Masuda), who were superstars in their native country with a string of million-selling singles stretching back to 1976, and had hit the American Top 40 in 1979 with a phonetically-sung English-language disco tune called "Kiss in the Dark". [[note]](They also hosted ''The Chance!'', a Japanese version of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''. Clips can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDuA-jyUZ3g here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQhMyQxmbrU here]].)[[/note]] Echoing a similar situation with Ed Sullivan and Music/TheBeatles in 1964 (when Sullivan saw the Beatles in a Cronkite report and immediately booked them), Silverman, not unreasonably, thought that importing a couple of gorgeous, intriguingly exotic young pop stars would be a '''huge''' success in the United States.
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As the story goes, in 1980 Creator/{{NBC}} head Fred Silverman saw a Walter Cronkite report on a popular [[JapanesePopMusic Japanese pop]] duo called Pink Lady (Mitsuyo "Mie" Nemoto and Keiko "Kei" Masuda), who were superstars in their native country with a string of million-selling singles stretching back to 1976, and had hit the American Top 40 in 1979 with a phonetically-sung English-language disco tune called "Kiss in the Dark". [[note]](They also hosted ''The Chance!'', a Japanese version of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''. Clips can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDuA-jyUZ3g here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQhMyQxmbrU here]]. And they were the subjects of a biographical TV anime series, though oddly they did not voice themselves ''or'' sing the theme songs.)[[/note]] Echoing a similar situation with Ed Sullivan and Music/TheBeatles in 1964 (when Sullivan saw the Beatles in a Cronkite report and immediately booked them), Silverman, not unreasonably, thought that importing a couple of gorgeous, intriguingly exotic young pop stars would be a '''huge''' success in the United States.
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As the story goes, in 1980 Creator/{{NBC}} head Fred Silverman saw a Walter Cronkite report on a popular [[JapanesePopMusic Japanese pop]] duo called Pink Lady (Mitsuyo "Mie" Nemoto and Keiko "Kei" Masuda), who were superstars in their native country with a string of million-selling singles stretching back to 1976, and had hit the American Top 40 in 1979 with a phonetically-sung English-language disco tune called "Kiss in the Dark". [[note]](They also hosted ''The Chance!'', a Japanese version of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''. Clips can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDuA-jyUZ3g here]] and [[ here]].)[[/note]] Echoing a similar situation with Ed Sullivan and Music/TheBeatles in 1964 (when Sullivan saw the Beatles in a Cronkite report and immediately booked them), Silverman, not unreasonably, thought that importing a couple of gorgeous, intriguingly exotic young pop stars would be a '''huge''' success in the United States.
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As the story goes, in 1980 Creator/{{NBC}} head Fred Silverman saw a Walter Cronkite report on a popular [[JapanesePopMusic Japanese pop]] duo called Pink Lady (Mitsuyo "Mie" Nemoto and Keiko "Kei" Masuda), who were superstars in their native country with a string of million-selling singles stretching back to 1976, and had hit the American Top 40 in 1979 with a phonetically-sung English-language disco tune called "Kiss in the Dark". [[note]](They also hosted ''The Chance!'', a Japanese version of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''. Clips can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDuA-jyUZ3g here]] and [[ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQhMyQxmbrU here]].)[[/note]] Echoing a similar situation with Ed Sullivan and Music/TheBeatles in 1964 (when Sullivan saw the Beatles in a Cronkite report and immediately booked them), Silverman, not unreasonably, thought that importing a couple of gorgeous, intriguingly exotic young pop stars would be a '''huge''' success in the United States.
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Ah, the VarietyShow. A quirky, wide-ranging mish-mash of celebrity star power, musical acts and comedy sketches. Definitely the highlight of television entertainment in TheSeventies.
Ah, the VarietyShow. A quirky, wide-ranging mish-mash of celebrity star power, musical acts and comedy sketches. Definitely the highlight of television entertainment in TheSeventies.
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Ah, the VarietyShow. A quirky, wide-ranging mish-mash of celebrity star power, musicalacts acts, and comedy sketches. Definitely the highlight of television entertainment in TheSeventies.
Ah, the VarietyShow. A quirky, wide-ranging mish-mash of celebrity star power, musical
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As the story goes, in 1980, Creator/{{NBC}} head Fred Silverman saw a Walter Cronkite report on a popular [[JapanesePopMusic Japanese pop]] duo called Pink Lady, who were superstars in their native country with a string of million-selling singles stretching back to 1976, and had hit the American Top 40 in 1979 with a phonetically-sung English-language disco tune called "Kiss in the Dark." Echoing a similar situation with Ed Sullivan and Music/TheBeatles in 1964 (when Sullivan saw the Beatles in a Cronkite report and immediately booked them) Silverman, not-unreasonably, thought that importing a couple of gorgeous, intriguingly exotic young pop stars would be a HUGE success in the United States.
He was so sure of it, in fact, that he went right ahead and gave Pink Lady--Mitsuyo "Mie" Nemoto and Keiko "Kei" Masuda--their very own eponymous variety show. It would be helmed by [[Creator/SidAndMartyKrofftProductions Sid and Marty Krofft]], featuring Creator/MarkEvanier as head writer and seasoned variety show veteran Art Fisher as director.
He was so sure of it, in fact, that he went right ahead and gave Pink Lady--Mitsuyo "Mie" Nemoto and Keiko "Kei" Masuda--their very own eponymous variety show. It would be helmed by [[Creator/SidAndMartyKrofftProductions Sid and Marty Krofft]], featuring Creator/MarkEvanier as head writer and seasoned variety show veteran Art Fisher as director.
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As the story goes, in 1980, 1980 Creator/{{NBC}} head Fred Silverman saw a Walter Cronkite report on a popular [[JapanesePopMusic Japanese pop]] duo called Pink Lady, Lady (Mitsuyo "Mie" Nemoto and Keiko "Kei" Masuda), who were superstars in their native country with a string of million-selling singles stretching back to 1976, and had hit the American Top 40 in 1979 with a phonetically-sung English-language disco tune called "Kiss in the Dark." Dark". [[note]](They also hosted ''The Chance!'', a Japanese version of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''. Clips can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDuA-jyUZ3g here]] and [[ here]].)[[/note]] Echoing a similar situation with Ed Sullivan and Music/TheBeatles in 1964 (when Sullivan saw the Beatles in a Cronkite report and immediately booked them) them), Silverman, not-unreasonably, not unreasonably, thought that importing a couple of gorgeous, intriguingly exotic young pop stars would be a HUGE '''huge''' success in the United States.
States.
He was so sure of it, in fact, that he went right ahead and gave PinkLady--Mitsuyo "Mie" Nemoto and Keiko "Kei" Masuda--their Lady their very own eponymous variety show. It would be helmed by [[Creator/SidAndMartyKrofftProductions Sid and Marty Krofft]], featuring Creator/MarkEvanier as head writer and seasoned variety show veteran Art Fisher as director.
He was so sure of it, in fact, that he went right ahead and gave Pink
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Well... just for starters, somehow Silverman had managed to book a Japanese pop group for prime-time American television ''without bothering to inquire if they knew any English whatsoever''. Which--surprise!--it turned out they didn't. So the producers brought in then-unknown comedian Jeff Altman (who was under contract to NBC) as a co-host, based on the fact that, hey, he was under contract.
Mie and Kei were assigned cliched American-style "personalities" (basically, one was cute and sassy, the other cute and shy) and learned their few English lines phonetically, making improvisation or even much interaction with Jeff impossible. Plus, the girls weren't allowed to sing the songs that made them popular in Japan; instead they were forced to sing covers of American disco hits. Which, if you recall your music history, [[DeaderThanDisco wasn't exactly a guaranteed ratings-booster in 1980.]]
And wouldn't you know it, the show died after five episodes, [[GenreKiller taking the already-dying variety show genre with it.]] It gained a reputation as one of the worst TV shows ever. As if failing in the States weren't enough, Mie and Kei went home to Japan to find their record sales in free-fall due to their lack of visibility there while doing the American show, and ended up disbanding less than a year later (though they have reunited a few times in the years since).
Mie and Kei were assigned cliched American-style "personalities" (basically, one was cute and sassy, the other cute and shy) and learned their few English lines phonetically, making improvisation or even much interaction with Jeff impossible. Plus, the girls weren't allowed to sing the songs that made them popular in Japan; instead they were forced to sing covers of American disco hits. Which, if you recall your music history, [[DeaderThanDisco wasn't exactly a guaranteed ratings-booster in 1980.]]
And wouldn't you know it, the show died after five episodes, [[GenreKiller taking the already-dying variety show genre with it.]] It gained a reputation as one of the worst TV shows ever. As if failing in the States weren't enough, Mie and Kei went home to Japan to find their record sales in free-fall due to their lack of visibility there while doing the American show, and ended up disbanding less than a year later (though they have reunited a few times in the years since).
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Well... just for starters, somehow Silverman had managed to book a Japanese pop group for prime-time primetime American television ''without bothering to inquire if they knew any English whatsoever''. Which--surprise!--it Which - surprise! - it turned out they didn't. So the producers brought in then-unknown comedian Jeff Altman (who was under contract to NBC) as a co-host, co-host based on the fact that, hey, he was under contract.
contract.
Mie and Kei were assignedcliched clichéd American-style "personalities" (basically, one was cute and sassy, the other cute and shy) and learned their few English lines phonetically, making improvisation or even much interaction with Jeff impossible. Plus, the girls weren't allowed to sing the songs that made them popular in Japan; Japan, instead they were being forced to sing covers of American disco hits. Which, if you recall your music history, [[DeaderThanDisco wasn't exactly a guaranteed ratings-booster in 1980.]]
And wouldn't you know it, the show died after five episodes, [[GenreKiller taking the already-dying variety show genre with it.]] It gained a reputation as one of the worst TV shows ever. As if failing in the Statesweren't wasn't enough, Mie and Kei went home to Japan to find their record sales in free-fall due to their lack of visibility there while doing the American show, and ended up disbanding less than a year later (though they have reunited a few times in the years since).
Mie and Kei were assigned
And wouldn't you know it, the show died after five episodes, [[GenreKiller taking the already-dying variety show genre with it.]] It gained a reputation as one of the worst TV shows ever. As if failing in the States
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* HotterAndSexier: The show was a spicier take on the VarietyShow format to make it palatable for the more jaded tastes of the post-Watergate era. It would become a key example why the first wave of {{Jiggle Show}}s didn't get past 1980.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The show was actually called ''Pink Lady'', since the girls' manager demanded that the show be Pink Lady's and Pink Lady's ONLY. Except you wouldn't know it [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/bored/tvguideads5.html from the adverts at the time]], which billed it as ''Pink Lady And Jeff'', and which pissed off the band's manager to the point where he threatened to sue ([[ShortRunner which was a moot point anyway]]). At the same time, Jeff Altman's manager demanded the show be named ''Pink Lady and Jeff'', since he was, for all intents and purposes, the anchor of the show. In the public consciousness, the show is still referred to by the latter name, and was even listed as ''Pink Lady and Jeff'' on the DVD release.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The show was actually called ''Pink Lady'', since the girls' manager demanded that the show be Pink Lady's and Pink Lady's ONLY. Except you wouldn't know it [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/bored/tvguideads5.html from the adverts at the time]], which billed it as ''Pink Lady And Jeff'', and which pissed off the band's manager to the point where he threatened to sue ([[ShortRunner which was a moot point anyway]]). At the same time, Jeff Altman's manager demanded the show be named ''Pink Lady and Jeff'', since he was, for all intents and purposes, the anchor of the show. In the public consciousness, the show is still referred to by the latter name, and was even listed as ''Pink Lady and Jeff'' on the DVD release.
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* HotterAndSexier: The show was a spicier take on the VarietyShow format to make it palatable for the more jaded tastes of the post-Watergate era. It would become a key example of why the first wave of {{Jiggle Show}}s didn't get past 1980.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The show was actually called ''Pink Lady'', since the girls' manager demanded that the show be Pink Lady's and Pink Lady'sONLY.only. Except you wouldn't know it [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/bored/tvguideads5.html from the adverts at the time]], which billed it as ''Pink Lady And and Jeff'', and which pissed off the band's manager to the point where he threatened to sue ([[ShortRunner which was a moot point anyway]]). At the same time, Jeff Altman's manager demanded the show be named ''Pink Lady and Jeff'', Jeff'' since he was, for all intents and purposes, the anchor of the show. In the public consciousness, the show is still referred to by the latter name, and was even listed as ''Pink Lady and Jeff'' on the DVD release.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The show was actually called ''Pink Lady'', since the girls' manager demanded that the show be Pink Lady's and Pink Lady's
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* SexSells:
** Pretty much the reason for the RunningGag with Pink Lady stripping down to bikinis for "Hot Tub Time" at the end of every episode.
** Pretty much the reason for the RunningGag with Pink Lady stripping down to bikinis for "Hot Tub Time" at the end of every episode.
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**SexSells: Pretty much the reason for the RunningGag with Pink Lady stripping down to bikinis for "Hot Tub Time" at the end of every episode.
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** Not only that, but one episode's guest stars were HughHefner and some of the then-current Playmates.
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As the story goes, in 1980, Creator/{{NBC}} head Fred Silverman saw a Walter Cronkite report on a popular [[JapanesePopMusic Japanese pop]] duo called Pink Lady, who were superstars in their native country with a string of million-selling singles stretching back to 1976 1976, and had hit the American Top 40 in 1979 with a phonetically-sung English-language disco tune called "Kiss in the Dark." Echoing a similar situation with Ed Sullivan and Music/TheBeatles in 1964 (when Sullivan saw the Beatles in a Cronkite report and immediately booked them) Silverman, not-unreasonably, thought that importing a couple of gorgeous, intriguingly exotic young pop stars would be a HUGE success in the United States.
