While you're waiting for the release of "The Ernie Kovacs Collection" DVD set, here's something you can watch. While poking around for Kovacs pics, Google Images took me to a shot of Ernie on a website called "John Barbour's World". Yes, it's the John Barbour who made the documentary "Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius" (1982), which aired on Showtime and was available on VHS a long time ago.
Mr. Barbour has posted the entire documentary on his website. Click here to go to his page for the show, where you can watch it, in eight somewhat lo-fi Quicktime file segments.
Ben Model
Friday, February 11, 2011
"Television's Original Genius" - Out Of Print, But Still Viewable
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On Tuesday, November 19, 2013, MVD Entertainment Group will release "Here's Edie: The Edie Adams Television Collection"! This is a 4 DVD, 12 hr set of the
entire run of Edie Adams variety show which aired on ABC from 1962-64. It is the first-ever release of her classic variety show after more than 50 years.
Bonus material includes Edie''s musical numbers from the Ernie Kovacs show, a 16-page booklet with rare photos, program notes and her iconic Muriel Cigar
commercials. Here's a 
which will be officially released on Tuesday, October 23, 2012..jpg)
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How PBS - and Ernie Kovacs - changed my life:
http://www.tomdegan.blogspot.com
It's been real!
At the time this documentary was released on VHS the price was prohibitive: $99.00. I had taped it off of Showtime but the signal wasn't quite as strong as it could have been. I eventually got it from e-bay. In fact I watched the DVD transfer I made of it only last night. It's a great program!
Tom Degan
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