The PM Flyers and Dick Clark and Billy Crystal and Witness Protection

Who ARE the PM Flyers?!  Paul Vaughn (the one with the glasses) had been hilarious in supporting roles since his days as Paul on "Cheers" (a background role that, in later years, came foreground at times).  Here he is -- possibly his first appearance -- with the "words" to the theme from "Bonanza" (based on a real segment of that western series, which is rarely seen in syndication... alternatively, I think I remember reading that it was actually cut from the pilot).

Back to the PM Flyers... their only appearances seem to be on Dick Clark's Nitetime Show, which was syndicated in 1985-86.  From the clips I've seen, it is a very sad exercise in "young people are up late and ONLY I KNOW WHAT THEY LIKE, and they'll watch anything at that hour."  Checkout some of the other clips online... just a pathetic mess of promotional videos and bad comics and.... I have to stop.  Here, the other guy (not Paul) "imitates" Billy Crystal.  Wow.


Speaking of which, Dick Clark's various high-profile TV ventures should have been enough for his pocketbook... "American Bandstand" and "Bloopers and Practical Jokes" should have been enough.  Why did he need to do radio shows and "Nitetime" and "Pyramid" and a thousand other shows?  The man could have lived to 1,000 if he'd just slowed down.  Read this article and decide for yourself if he was TOO busy (bonus points for using the archaic term "sh*theel"; he's like e.e. cummings in UPPERCASE).