Quote Originally Posted by marybrewster View Post
All misfires though. I mean, COME ON. Tarzan? Endorsing HH? Funny Girl?
i think those were all done to simply solidify the group in the mainstream. Clearly the girls and motown would not have endorsed Nixon! lol and in reading the Call Her Miss Ross recap of the endorsement, it was a bit of a clusterF. the press sort of hounded Diana about political positions. so yep - Berry and team didn't think that one through all the way

correct me if i'm wrong, but i don't recall that tv shows did as much with "celebrity guest stars" in the 60s as they started doing more in the 70s and exploded with shows like Love Boat built all around the idea of guest stars. Tarzan was a very big show at the time and so this would probably have been seen as sort of a big deal. sure the girls weren't very thrilling as nuns - their acting is wooden and the whole thing is rather contrived. but it did help jumpstart the talks with NBC on TCB. the ratings for Tarzan were through the roof.