Martin Mull (RIP) Satirically Interviews a Younger Tom Waits on Fernwood 2 Evening (1977)

As of late, ref­er­ences to sev­en­ties tele­vi­sion increas­ing­ly require prefa­to­ry expla­na­tion. Who beneath the age of 60 recollects, for examination­ple, the cul­tur­al phe­nom­e­non that was Mary Hart­man, Mary Hart­man, an absur­dist satire so religion­ful to the soap-opera type it par­o­died that it aired each week­night time, placing out 325 episodes between ear­ly 1976 and mid-1977?…