Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine' from 1970-1982:
- Barbara Feldon (1972)
- Fred Smoot (1972)
- Lenny Schultz (1972)
- Marty Feldman (1972)
- Spike Milligan (1972)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
February 7, 1972:
Season 0, episode 1
With Art Carney, Lonnie Shorr, Skiles and Henderson, The Honey Cone.
British comic Marty Feldman stars in a pilot for a comedy-variety series. In skits and blackouts, Art and Marty are plastic pilots of a child's toy plane; Marty is a boxing referee who is determined that one fighter will win; Jo Ann, Art and Marty take part in a Great Moment From History: the discovery of men's suspenders.
April 12, 1972:
Season 1, episode 1
With Orson Welles, Sunday's Child.
The British comedian who made his U.S. TV debut on Dean Martin's summer program begins his own series. In skits and blackouts, Marty does a takeoff on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, battles a flower that doesn't want to be picked, plays the world's greatest cameraman (with Welles assisting) and tangles with a cannon that has its own personality.
Season 1, episode 2
With Roger Moore, Marsha Hunt, Tom Paxton.
In skits, Marty has trouble with a pay phone booth, assists a famous concert pianist and plots the D-Day invasion. Marsha Hunt sings "Freaks and Heroes". Roger Moore plays the male lead in a way-out Swedish flick.
Season 1, episode 3
With Gilbert O'Sullivan.
Barbara Feldon plays Marty's wife who, in planning a surprise party for him, gets a big surprise of her own. In other skits, Marty has trouble with the seating arrangement at a church so he disrupts the sermon to protest, and plays George Washington writing to Congress.
Season 1, episode 4
With Godfrey Cambridge, Thelma Houston.
In skits, Marty is a bank robber who is so polite that he waits in line; a tree surgeon par excellence; a trapped traveler in Customs; a soldier with an unusual weapon. (Last show of the series.)
Season 1, episode 5
With Sunday's Child singing group.
In skits and blackouts the British comic plays a singer who catches a bug that makes influenza look good, a Buckingham Palace guard affected by a sentry box with a mind of its own, a Spanish dancer so strong that his talent literally shakes the world, and a knight whose efforts to rescue Barbara Feldon from a medieval tower result in total disaster.
Season 1, episode 6
With Orson Welles, Thelma Houston.
In one segment, Welles is a circus ringmaster putting a group of tuxedoed bankers through their paces, then he narrates a documentary on a dying species -- the British aristocrat. Marty tries to solve an almost "perfect crime".
Season 1, episode 7
With Honey Cone.
Honey Cone sings "Son of a Preacher Man". Spike and Barbara Feldon perform a scene in an unusual operating room; Marty and Barbara as a husband and wife who have been arguing about going out on Sunday afternoons for a little too long; Marty as a man-on-the-make in a restaurant with Barbara as his target; Marty and Barbara in a surrealistic drama about the new mistress of ancient Lock Jaw Manor.
Season 1, episode 9
With Godfrey Cambridge, Ray Hastings, The Honey Cone.
Segments involve a reluctant soldier and a live bomb, a doctor who makes sure his predictions come true, and a spoof of "Gone With the Wind" with Cambridge as Rhett Butler. Honey Cone sings "Stick Up".
Season 1, episode 10
With Randy Newman.
Highlights: a man in a post office buying stamps according to flavor; Marty, in peglegs, singing "Tiptoe Through the Tulips"; a photographer's demands for "just one more" drives his subject up the wall; Barbara Feldon sings "Come Together".
Season 1, episode 11
With Jackie Vernon, Thelma Houston.
In skits, Marty treats the problem of teaching a man to walk in the same way driving is taught; Marty is a confused and busy man trying to find an address; Marty and Barbara Feldon have a series of torrid partings and meetings over a period of years in the London fog; Marty makes the mistake of being a man with a ship tattooed on his chest who discovers his bath water contains an enemy sub.
Season 1, episode 12
With Thelma Houston, Randy Newman, Beryl Reid.
Highlights: Marty, as host of a TV interview show, runs out of guests and has to talk to other TV hosts; Marty is an Army commander trying to rally his dead troops to battle; a group of taxi drivers are treated like Air Force men about to go to war. Thelma sings "Cheap Love" from the film "Carnal Knowledge".
Season 1, episode 13
With Roger Moore, The Honey Cone.
Roger joins Marty in skits as a dentist who really believes in getting into his work, a competing undertaker, and a photo machine director. Marty, in other segments, plays a 1930's flyboy hero and a motorist with a tire problem.
Season 1, episode 14
With Orson Welles, Dusty Springfield, John Barbour.
Welles, in the style of the movies' coming attractions, narrates the superlative features of a production known as "The Dictionary". Marty performs as the world's most inept magician and is a law-abiding citizen whose hat blows off onto a forbidden grass area.
Season 1, episode 15
With Orson Welles, Marsha Hunt, Osibisa.
Highlights: Marty is a jury foreman who can't make up his mind; Orson and Marty do serious poetry readings; Marty is a captured British flyer interrogated by a Nazi officer.
Season 1, episode 16
Barbara Feldon, in a production number, sings "Dry Bones". Comedy highlights: Marty is an elevator operator who gets stuck in a lift with passengers en route to the roof to jump; Marty tries to release a giraffe stuck in a deep hole; Marty and Barbara have trouble ordering in a restaurant.
Season 1, episode 17
With Marsha Hunt, Osibisa.
Highlights: Marty is a member of a symphony orchestra having trouble playing cymbals; Marty is a drunk who gives a unique twist to taking a sobriety test.