Jack Paar: Smart Television (2003)

8.0/10 • 60 min • Documentary Comedy

Overview

PBS documentary examining the work of Jack Paar.

Cast

Fred Applegate

Narrator (voice)

Jack Paar

Dick Cavett

Hugh Downs

Regis Philbin

Tom Smothers

Dick Smothers

Self

Woody Allen

Muhammad Ali

Liberace

Fidel Castro

Bill Cosby

John F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

Oscar Levant

Jonathan Winters

Robert Goulet

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