Two rare Dean Martin TV specials: Dean's Place (feat. Foster Brooks, Jack Cassidy, Peter Graves) and Dean Martin's red hot scandals of 1926 (feat. Dom DeLuise, Jonathan Winters), three featurettes: The history of the roast, Politically incorrect and Behind-the-scenes, exclusive interviews: Van Alexander, David Bianculli, Jack Carter, Angie Dickinson, Barry Dougherty, Tom Dreesen, Greg Evans, Mitzi Gaynor, Mike Gibbons, Merle Ginsberg, Lee Hale, Florence Henderson, John McMahon, Bill Nye, Rip Taylor, Roger Warnix, Fred Willard, Jonathan Winters
Summary:
What began as a ratings booster for the final season of The Dean Martin show in 1973 evolved into The Dean Martin celebrity roasts, a franchise of regular NBC television specials that targeted the biggest names in the world of entertainment and beyond. Many, many celebrities appeared as roasters, throwing zingers at the men and women of the hour
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