The Billy Barty Show

I remember the Billy Barty Show but I don't remember the toons or routines he offered, but he was really good with the kids in the audience. If you are too young to remember him, he played "The Dwarf" in the movie "Foul Play". He was, of course, a real dwarf.

- Ogopogo

Hi...I have been tring to find some info on the Billy Barty show you mention on your blog. I was a contestant on the show when I was 8 (with my brownie troop in my uniform and all...we also went on the Jack-in-the-Box show).
I am really having a touch time finding out info or is there is ANY possibility of any tapes anywhere of the show.
Just as an FYI... I won the GRAND prize in the "Surpise Prize" game, played at the end of the show. I think it was taped at KTTV, and I do remember it was BLAZING hot, no air conditioning in the very large studio (Jack-in-the Box was a much smaller studio).
- Maureen Smullen

Billy Barty, the 3-foot-10 actor whose career included LA local kid show host, died Saturday Dec. 23, 2000 of heart failure. He was 76. Barty had been hospitalized in Glendale for heart problems and a lung infection. There are no known existing episodes of The Billy Barty Show.

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