Barth and Jerry stage a telethon to save the show. Final episode of the series. Continues the next summer as ""America 2Night"".
Barth Gimble fan club president Mercedes Blyweiss presents an award to Barth.
On the show tonight: Indian princess Shosen Rising Star and psychologist Stanley Turnbull.
Bob and Joanne Herlick recite Shakespeare. Nelson Phipps of the Amusement and Healing Parks.
Harry Shearer discusses his work in TV news.
Virgil Simms introduces his battery powered car. Emanual Kasinski on Gay Liberation.
Six-year-old trombonist Kevin McCormick. Mrs. Lillian Lattimore describes her diet program.
Father George Reese plugs his theological correspondence course, and accordianist Frankie ""Kid"" Carbone.
Author Duane Goff plugs his book, ""Behind Hollywood"". The Mirth-makers perform ""Fifteen and Free"".
Historian Harrison Edwards. Also: Tony Rolletti and Jane Tiffany.
Connie Bushman on her computer pet mating service; Sherry McCormick performs "" I Like Dreamin'""; The Birchfield, Ohio mayor tells how he spent 90 days in jail.
Impressionist Reggie Morrison; Principal Marshall Petty; Susan Cloud.
Las Vegas entertainer Debbie Dunbar; Mobile home daredevil Virgil Simms.
Larry Guy takes questions from the audience; The Mirth-Makers play ""Skateboard Angel"".
Comic Buddy Brown; Author Dottie Ann Lee; Eddie Thomerson's real estate tips.
Vern Taylor; Sex therapy clinic founder Matthew Johnson; Happy sings about tooth decay.
Representative Chambers on solving water shortages with icebergs. Lucy and Ed Campbell show how they display affection.
Jane Tiffany; Sylvia Miller; Wrestler Rock Mondo and his assisstant.
Linda Barry, owner of the Fernwood Nudist Colony. Toy maker George Ellsworth.
Virgil Simms tells how to get the most out of your new-car waranty. Basically, you make sure that it goes into the shop just before that waranty expires.
Tony Rolletti plugs his autobiography. The Mirth-Makers perform ""Rock Around the Clock"".
Sportscaster Jane Tiffany and W. D. ""Bud"" Prize.
Hair stylist Sal Magglione and Presidential namesake James Earl Carter.
Alberta Cornwall on how colored clothing affects moods; poet Vernon Taylor.
Fernwood mayor Merle Jeeter honors champion Girl scout cookie seller Wendy Price. Also: contortionist Mike Timmins and Mary Lou Bridgewater.
Marin Worth reads one of his poems. Also: Susan Cloud and chauffeur Earl Simmons.
The founder of the Church of the Devine Lemonade, Billy Jenkins. George and Sally Krepps discuss the La Fromage method of childbirth.
Nettie and Barbara Forman on the elderly.
Doctor Alexander Beach discusses his findings on marijuana. How the Humdinger Barbershop Quartet became a trio.
Singer Laurie Gallagher performs, accompanied by her mother on drums. Also: Bud Prize and Sylvia Miller.
Singing duo Doug and Diana Mitchell; Fernwood blood drive chairman Larry Guy.
Local opera singer Donny Lee Savage; Dr. Hugh Slocum on his latest scientific discovery; Amateur photographer Marianne Cox.
Gilbert Ulysses Nelson discusses the treatment of criminals.
Mario Dorsett on his success as a singer; Tony Rolletti; Mrs. Walter Donker, whose husband sells cars.
Happy Kyne shares the latest gizmo developed by the Olfactory Center of Toledo; the nose aid.
A dumbness measuring machine is demonstrated. Actually, more like a dumbness alarm. Say a dumb thing, and the alarm goes off. Like every time that Jerry opens his mouth.
Tom Waits. ""Bud"" Prize on using CB radio to bring in tourists.
Insurance salesman Elliott J. Tubbs demonstrates his comedy sales techniques. Happy Kyne on shut-ins.
Vernon Taylor, better known as Uncle Sam, Jr. is back and as passionate as ever.
Lou Moffatt on land deals; Bassist Eddie Thomerson. Sylvia Miller also appears and discusses how a martian violated her with a beam of blue light.
Connie Bushman talks about her dating service for dogs. Radio personality Terry Guy plugs his disc jockey correspondence course.
Professional football consultant Emanual Kasinski on the breeding of large men.
Barth challenges Jimmy Carter to come on the show and compete with him to prove just who is a star. Lou Moffet offers tips on home music ripoffs and the presents the American Guitar Studios home study course offered by Gimblco Enterprises. Happy & band member Tommy Maranucci sit and chat.
Candy discusses gynacology and the need for female gynacologists. Bart plays the guitar while Happy and Vernon accompany him.
Grandmother Lillian Dunbar and presidential namesake James Earl Carter.
Daredevil Virgil Simms; Emanuel Kasinski on his latest findings on ethnic myths and prejudice.
Ambassador-at-large Harold Mislap talks about his efforts to bring tourism to Fernwood, Dr. Richard Osgood presents his no-frills hospital plan.
Pet control center director Connie Bushman on Hearing Ear Dogs for the Deaf. Also: dancer Lisa Martin; Garth Gimble, Sr. and his dog.
Vernon Taylor (AKA ""Uncle Sam, Jr"") reads one of his poems, Candy Lee Hargrove talks about the Fernwood Fascinating Females League.
Hula hoopist Darius Washington. South Vietnamese gardener Mein Ko Thein (?) plugs his book: ""Yankee Doodle Gook"". The Other Side of the News:High School Principal Marshall O. Petty discusses corporal punishment by demonstrating it on Debbie Dunbar. Lastly, Garth Sr. and his dumb dog.
Fernwood 2 Night was a comedic television program that ran from July 1977 – September 1977. It was created by Norman Lear and produced by Alan Thicke as a spin-off/summer replacement from Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. It was a parody talk show, hosted by Barth Gimble and sidekick/announcer Jerry Hubbard, complete with a stage band, Happy Kyne and His Mirthmakers. Barth was the twin brother of Garth Gimble from Mary Hartman. Like Mary Hartman, Fernwood 2 Night was set in the fictional town of Fernwood, Ohio. The show satirized real talk shows as well as the sort of fare one might expect from locally-produced, small-town, midwestern American television programming. Well-known actors usually appeared playing characters or a contrivance had to be written for the celebrity to appear as themselves. After one season of Fernwood, the producers revamped the show the following year as America 2-Night. In this second version, Barth and Jerry's show moved to California and was broadcast nationally on the fictional UBS network, whose slogan was "We put U before the BS". This change allowed the show to now have well-known actors on the show as themselves.