Talk:The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast

Repeated linking
The names in this article are linked way more than WP:REPEATLINK calls for. The people editing it should remove the extraneous wikilinks - once per name is enough.  PK T (alk)  21:33, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

DMCR air dates not authoritative (case in point: DMCR Evel Knievel)
This is a tough one. I was not able to find an authority I can trust for when any of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts actually aired, so inference seems all that is possible.

The original date I came upon in this article was Saturday, October 11, 1975. However, IMDb has this as airing Tuesday, November 11, 1975 (so I changed Wikipedia article to that date) and TV.com shows Monday, November 10, 1975. I tend to favor the majority indication of the November dates since no authority given for Wikipedia's original Saturday, October 11, 1975 date.

I checked to see what NBC's schedule was for the November dates and it appears that it could have aired on either November date because episodes of NBC Monday Night at the Movies (Monday) and Police Story (Tuesday) didn't air on those days. However, I doubt it aired when Monday Night Football was airing on ABC (KC vs. Dallas - which game started on Central time), so I lean toward Tuesday, November 11th, when there was a spot open between 9pm and 10pm when Police Story was supposed to air, but didn't.

Evidence gathered in seeking a conclusion which favors the IMDb authority:

http://www.tvtango.com/series/nbc_monday_night_movies/episodes <-- there was no NBC Monday Night at the Movies for Monday, November 10th, 1975 (possible spot)...however ABC Monday night football would have occurred in the same slot in some time zones making airing of DMCR problematic for ratings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisible_Man_(1975_TV_series) <-- there was no Invisible Man episode for Monday, November 10th (possible spot)...however ABC Monday night football would have occurred in the same slot in some time zones making airing of DMCR problematic for ratings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Monday_Night_Football_results_(1970%E2%80%9389)#1975_NFL_season <-- shows KC vs. Dallas game that same day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movin%27_On_(TV_series) <-- there was a Movin' On episode for Tuesday, November 11th, making this time slot unavailable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Police_Story_episodes <-- there was no episode of Police Story on Tuesday, November 11th, making this the most likely slot that DMCR: Evel Knievel occurred if either November date is credible.

This assumes the authority of the one TVTango.com and four Wikipedia sources cited above.

Ssybesma (talk) 20:31, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

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Joe Namath 1979-01-19 Airing
I don't know if the air date is correct on this listing. The credits so 1978 as the year. Does anyone know for sure? 2600:6C44:7DF0:3F0:B3E0:E71C:25D6:2344 (talk) 00:06, 28 September 2023 (UTC)