Best guest band/house band appearances on TV shows (especially 'Get Smart')

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The Mothers-In-Law: In a special episode of this somewhat-forgotten series about the trials of two pairs of middle-agers coping with their married offspring, the older set have a go at managing wild primitive rockers Sky Saxon and The Seeds! This amazing show was directed by Desi Arnaz, and also features Joe Besser of The Three Stooges (what a meeting of the minds!).

The Flintstones: In "Shinrock-a-Go-Go," then-popular rock showcase Shindig and its host Jimmy O'Neill are caricatured, as are San Francisco's genius folk-rock/beat group The Beau Brummels. Fred inadvertently invents a new dance craze, "The Flintstone Flop," as "The Beau Brummelstones" play their hit "Laugh Laugh."

Plus much more, including The Andy Griffith Show (Opie's garage band play their first gig at a teen party), and Love American Style (with segments featuring both Davy Jones and Sonny & Cher).

http://www.cathleenheard.com/personal/secret_cinema/events1999.html

And Bob Dylan in 'Dharma and Greg'!

Actually, it seems like any time a band performs on BtVS, it's the best guest appearance. Wacky ...

recent favourite is splodgenessabounds on tv burp 8)

Don Ho on the Brady Bunch "Goes to Hawaii" two-parter
Charo's mutiple performances on The Love Boat
etc

Gawd, I wish we could still ask for YSIs...

There was another band on Pete and Pete (besides Polaris) that played at the weird dance...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xqx31g9Mes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyRXFd1Hv2o

I was gonna mention Boyce and Hart and Spector on "I dream of Jeannie" but someone did.

OK, how about Nilsson on "The ghost and Mrs Muir" then.

Buffalo Tom on My-So Called Life?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiwcLSpZsIM

Did the Meat Puppets appear on the remake Munsters series? Or does this not count since series otherwise dire?

& are Kraftwerk on Tomorrow's World.

Have definitely seen a pre Little Feat Lowell George on F Troop

I was gonna mention Boyce and Hart and Spector on "I dream of Jeannie" but someone did.

Wait, no Beau Brummelstones?

Mentioned above (2002).

Tiny Tim sang in a little folk club on an early Ironside. I can't find it on youtube but did find this amazing Ed Sullivan appearance, with Tim backed by "all-girl rock group" The Enchanted Forest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT8t0VxZXEM

were black flag on Quincy? there was definitely an episode where Quincy writes "punk rock" as cause of death for some poor misguided teen........... i seem to remember a legit band being on there....

Supposedly, the Quincy punk band (Mayhem) were based on Fear, but it was a fake band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjHV9wQv6u8

"Why listen to music that makes you want to hate, when you can listen to music that makes you want to love?"

Just read about some Paul Revere (RIP) appearance on some TV show, can't remember what though.

Does anybody (wish they could not) remember a TV comedy called "Throb", set in the offices of a record label? (The throb record label had a logo of a heart so stop that!)..

One episode had a 'punk' theme, where the three band members were all sulky and snotty and not nice, but when it came to the gig, one of the band members was all nice and rocky and the other two all rubbish. Clearly the two were actors and the rocky one was a bona fide star guest.

At the end the record label guy was all "yeah, I guess the kids go for it, I'm more a CSN&Y guy myself"

( I think Sammy Hagar was involved somehow)

(Like I don't actually know it was him, like)

Just read about some Paul Revere (RIP) appearance on some TV show, can't remember what though.

They were on Batman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA5X12RuoEY

John Mellencamp getting the name Cougar because he looked at the back end of a shitty 70s car!

this SCTV sketch was a parody of Jerry Lewis' Nutty Professor

CHiPs also had a legendary punk rock episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBnyaWt9V24

Does anybody (wish they could not) remember a TV comedy called "Throb", set in the offices of a record label? (The throb record label had a logo of a heart so stop that!)..

I had nearly purged that show out of my head completely. Here's the wedding episode with guests Donny Osmond and James Brown dubbed into German. Go to hell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=136SDR9mYro