In 1964, not long after he'd been removed as Producer of the legendary Judy Garland Show on CBS, George Schlatter produced this special starring Jonathan Winters and his guests, Art Carney and the New Christy Minstrels. It was the second attempt to package Winters' unique comedic talents into a TV program, the first being The Jonathan Winters Show — a fifteen-minute long series that ran on NBC from October of 1956 until June of 1957. There would be many more attempts after this.
Mr. Schlatter himself recently recorded an introduction to this video…