Der Tag des Lebens steht kurz bevor, ein Feiertag der Wookiees. Chewbacca ist auf dem Weg nach Hause, um seine Wookiee-Familie wiederzusehen und dort den Feiertag mit ihnen zu verbringen. Der Schmuggler Han Solo begleitet seinen Copiloten Chewbacca mit seinem Raumschiff, der Millennium Falcon. Auf dem Weg zu Chewbaccas Heimatplaneten Kashyyyk werden sie von zwei Sternenzerstörern angegriffen. Han beschließt umzukehren, jedoch möchte Chewbacca unbedingt zu seiner Familie und dort den Feiertag verbringen. Nach kurzer Überlegung lässt sich Han darauf ein, aber sie werden sich wohl verspäten, da der Hyperantrieb ihres Raumschiffs schwer beschädigt wurde.
Kaum dass Lady Laura Henderson ihren schwerreichen Gatten zu Grabe getragen hat, kauft sie das leer stehende Windmill-Theater im Herzen Sohos. Als Manager heuert sie den jüdischen Impresario Vivian Van Damm an, einen Dickschädel und Streithahn wie sie, der aber zumindest gleich eine zündende Idee mitbringt: flott-freche Musicals rund um die Uhr! Als postwendend alle umliegenden Bühnen sein "Revuedeville"-Konzept kopieren und die Einnahmen drastisch sinken, müssen neue Einfälle her: Wie wär's mit einem Nackt-Variété?
A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).
Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house medical staff, a measles risk sends the whole building into quarantine, and a madcap millionaire crashes dinner in his autogyro. Hotel and radioscope become a stage for an all-star cast of comedians and musicians, from vaudeville to the new generation.
A young executive is trying to convince an airline to sponsor a travel show on television, but he's not getting anywhere. When he tells his fiancé that he may have to postpone their honeymoon, she goes off on him, and as he backs away from her he hits his head on a fire extinguisher and knocks himself out. While unconscious he dreams his own version of the show he's trying so hard to sell.
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions was to break up the ORTF with the creation of three new television channels: TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3. Three new public channels but autonomous and competing. It is a race for the audience which is engaged then, and from now on the channels will make the war! This competition will give birth to a real golden age for television programs, with variety shows in the forefront. The stars of the song are going to invade the living rooms of the French for their biggest pleasure. This unedited documentary tells the story of the metamorphosis of this television of the early 1970s, between freedom of tone, scandals, political intrigues and programs that have become mythical.
A comedy/variety special hosted by Goldie Hawn featuring special guests Ruth Buzzi, Johnny Carson, Bob Dishy, and the Muppets.
The portrait of a woman who remembers. Sheila tells the story of Sheila, without concessions or evasions. Her childhood, her parents, her beginnings, the rumors, her love affairs, her marriage, her son, her successes, her farewells, her return, her mourning. The journey of an extraordinary popular icon who never stopped fighting. The courage of an artist who never gives up. "Sheila, toutes ces vies-là" is also a journey through time. 60 years of pop music, punctuated by numerous archives, personal films, timeless hits and illustrations by Marc-Antoine Coulon. But also 60 years of fashion, through a legendary wardrobe (her TV show outfits) that Sheila invites us to rediscover.
Mentalist Derren Brown will einen ganz normalen Mann in einem Psychoexperiment durch Manipulation dazu bringen, sich für einen wildfremden Menschen zu opfern.
Jack Parr hosts a variety program of comedic sketches.
The first variety show produced by AB Svenska Ord. It was the first of the three "Dog-revues", the second being "Gula Hund" and the third one "Svea hund".
Maya Rudolph's take on the variety show special with guest stars in the vein of the Carol Burnett Show.
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
Spanish-language version of PARAMOUNT ON PARADE (q.v.), with new sequences of interest to Spanish-speaking audiences mixed with original- version sequences.
Two competing hair care companies demonstrate their products on stage at a Helsinki amusement park, using celebrities from television, the hottest new media of the early 1960s.
Die ausgefallenen Ideen einer Broadwaytänzerin bringen einer Werbeagentur sensationelle Erfolge.
Naima Wifstrand, leading old lady, dressed as a Primadonna presents the variety revue "The Old, Happy 40's", a dark time of angst, depression and derailed, wild happiness. Those were the days. Music, dance, songs and hillarious sketches follow.
Gula Hund (English title: Yellow Dog) is a Swedish variety show that was the second of "three dog-revues" (so called because they all have "dog" in their name). The first one being Gröna Hund (Green Dog) and the third and last one was Svea Hund.
Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.
Various Hollywood performers put on a pirate-themed variety show on Catalina Island, with a number of amiable stars in the audience.