The Buster Keaton Show (Blu-ray)

It was one of the thrills of my life when I got a chance to do my own TV show. I'd almost given up hope of getting another chance as an actor By the late 1940s, it seemed Buster Keaton's career had ended. With the exception of increasingly rare daywork, he'd barely worked in almost 5 years, other than a four week part in a famous Paris based circus in 1947 and prior to that, touring in a summer theater production of The Gorilla in 1941.But in 1949, comedian Ed Wynn had a variety show on the relatively new broadcast format of television and he invited Keaton to appear on his CBS show, which was televised live only on the West Coast and then recorded on kinescope, then film prints were made and distributed to other parts of the country.(there was no transcontinental broadcast until September, 1951).'So it was one of the thrills of my life when I got a chance in December of 1949 to do my own weekly TV show on KHJ (KTTV), the 'Los Angeles Times' broadcasting station. By then I had al