Jack Paar: Smart Television

PBS documentary examining the work of Jack Paar.

2003

Documentary·Comedy

1h 0min

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Top Billed Cast

Fred Applegate
Narrator (voice)
Jack Paar
Self
Dick Cavett
Self
Hugh Downs
Self
Regis Philbin
Self
Tom Shales
Self
Tom Smothers
Self
Dick Smothers
Self
Richard Kennedy
Self
Muhammad Ali
Self
Liberace
Self
Fidel Castro
Self
Bill Cosby
Self
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
Self
Oscar Levant
Self
Jonathan Winters
Self
Robert Goulet
Self
Peggy Cass
Self
Vaughn Meader
Self

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