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The Richard Pryor Show Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
4 Episodes 1977 - 1977
Episode 1
Episode #1.1
Tue, Sep 13, 197760 mins
At the Star Wars bar, a bartender from Earth tries to explain baseball and Hank Aaron to one of his bizarre customers. A spaghetti western anti-hero ends up with too much anti- and not enough hero. The U.S. President proffers inoffensive double-talk at a news conference until the reporters bring up racial issues. A construction worker with a secret sings "I Gotta Be Me." Mojo the Snake Handler proves even crazier than you'd expect from someone in his line. Two servicemen in the 1940s visit Club Harlem, one of them to propose to his former sweetheart, who is now a successful nightclub singer.
Episode 2
Episode #1.2
Tue, Sep 20, 1977
Richard Pryor is a Black samurai, a Mississippi prosecutor, the owner of a pet head, an archeologist in Egypt, a come-from man, and a rock-star from Black Death. A woman in the projects encourages three teenage boys to keep singing. The O'Jays perform "Work on Me." African dancers whoop it up.
Episode 3
Episode #1.3
Tue, Sep 27, 1977
Richard Pryor is a diner who uses his food as foreplay; a caveman who discovers fire; the silent comedy character, Mr. Fixit; the drunken Dr. Shanahan, forced to treat a member of the Dalton gang; and Little Richard. In Ward 8 we meet a policeman, a man ordering fast food, a Black radical, a stewardess, a weatherman, an announcer, a woman giving an acceptance speech, a ghetto mother demanding money, a shady politician, a wigger and a violent-tempered football player. A woman in a rooming house gives a conflicting account of a lesbian encounter. Pryor gives an angry monologue that the NBC spokesman smooths over. Later, he talks about children, their way of talking and the way they curse; the time his father demanded to know why he had a reefer in his pocket; the way hillbillies give directions; and the difference between white and black funerals. The cast improvises scenes about a woman who is unhappy with her hairdresser; crying schoolchildren; a Martian hitchhiker; and a stick-up at the unemployment office.
Episode 4
Episode #1.4
Thu, Oct 20, 1977
Richard Pryor is a chef in a Hitchcock-like Chinese food commercial; a wino encountering Mr. Hyde; the Zorro-like El Neggro; a cowardly ranch owner; a survivor of the Titanic; a customer in a gun shop who can hear the stories the guns have to tell; and a drunken Santa Claus. The cast roasts Pryor, mocking him for the show's low ratings, his womanizing, his predilection for white women and the ex-wives who have to hold their meetings at Dodger Stadium. The American Indian stand-up comic, Charlie Hill does his act.