26 years after it had a short-lived, five-episode run on NBC, The Richard Pryor Show will be dusted off and buffed up with all sorts of bonus features for a DVD package due out in the summer from Image Entertainment and Paul Brownstein Productions. The musical variety show, which constantly butted heads with network censors in the fall of 1977, featured an ensemble cast of up-and-comers including Sandra Bernhard, a pre-"Mork & Mindy" Robin Williams, Tim Reid, Paul Mooney, Argus Hamilton and Marsha Warfield.
The DVD will feature uncut versions of the series for the first time, plus another two hours of outtakes and rare material, including footage of Pryor having an impromptu conversation with the studio audience one night to fill time. "We found some amazing stuff, and Richard said we could use every frame of it," according to disc producer Brownstein. "He could not believe that people could have a chance to see this stuff again, as it was meant to be seen."
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