The Midnight Special · SEASON 1
Host: Paul Williams
Episode 7 · 1973-03-09
Episode overview
Paul Williams (host) - ""Old Fashioned Love Song,"" ""Drift Away"" & ""That's Enough for Me"" --Edward Bear - ""Last Song"" & ""Close Your Eyes"" --Loretta Lynn - ""One's On the Way"" & ""Coal Miner's Daughter"" --Seals & Crofts - ""Hummingbird"" & ""Summer Breeze"" --Sha Na Na - ""Hound Dog,"" ""Yakety Yak"" & ""I Wonder Why"" --Lakshmi Shankar (Ravi's sister) - sings ""Nata Nagara"" in praise of Krishna. --Ravi Shankar - ""Tilak Shyam"" --Jonathan Winters (cameo appearance, following Paul Williams' first song) --On film: the ""Dueling banjos"" segment from ""Deliverance""
90 minutes
Season 1 episodes
1. Pilot1972-08-19
2. Host: Helen Reddy1973-02-02
3. Host: Johnny Rivers1973-02-08
4. Host: Mac Davis1973-02-16
5. Host: Harry Chapin1973-02-23
6. Host: Anne Murray1973-03-02
7. Host: Paul Williams1973-03-09
8. Host: Paul Anka1973-03-16
9. Host: Lou Rawls1973-03-23
10. Host: Ray Charles1973-03-30
11. Hosts: The Bee Gees1973-04-06
12. Bill Cosby1973-04-13
13. Host: Doc Severinsen1973-04-20
14. Host: Jerry Lee Lewis1973-04-27
15. Host: Johnny Nash1973-05-04
16. Hosts: Burns and Schreiber1973-05-11
17. Host: Chubby Checker1973-05-18
18. Hosts: Gladys Knight & the Pips1973-05-25
19. Host: Paul Williams1973-06-01
20. Host: Curtis Mayfield1973-06-08
21. Host: Jim Croce1973-06-15
22. Host:The Bee Gees1973-06-22
23. Host: Paul Williams1973-06-29
24. Host: Jose Feliciano1973-07-06
25. Host: Smokey Robinson1973-07-13
26. Host: Joan Baez1973-07-20
27. Host: Dionne Warwick1973-07-27
28. Host: Al Green1973-08-03
29. Hosts: The Bee Gees1973-08-10
30. Host: Richard Pryor1973-09-17
31. Co-hosts: Loretta Lynn & Marty Robbins1973-08-24
32. Host: Billy Preston1973-08-31
33. Host: Mac Davis1973-09-07
34. Host: Curtis Mayfield1973-09-14
35. Host: Wilson Pickett1973-09-21
36. Host: Seals & Crofts1973-09-28
37. Host: Gladys Knight & The Pips1973-10-05
38. Host: The Bee Gees1973-10-12
39. Host: War1973-10-19
40. Host: Chuck Berry1973-11-02
