the date is 1965 (New Year's Eve, 1966), as Criswell's appearance consumed the final 15-minutes of New Year's Eve before 1966 rang in.
The whole episode sounds amazing, the other guests included Woody Allen and the Muppets, both soon to become major figures in pop culture.
As for Criswel, he milked this shtick for all it was worth for decades, but his appearances in films by Edward D. Wood Jr. (a close friend and drinking buddy) would ultimately cement his legend.
A brilliant time capsule!
Here is a clip of Criswell predicting the future on the Johnny Carson show.
Criswell Predicts 1966 IS BACK!
One of my favorite characters has to be Jeron Criswell King, a pop psychic who was active in the 1960s and '70s.
Most of you probably know that he was in schlock director Ed Wood's stable of "actors," and appeared in many of his disastrous films.
Transcript:
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eternity
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the
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not invited
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got woody allen
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within walking distance
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do you know
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five lives
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here
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have mister woody allen we have with walker seal of the land of criswell will
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be here
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somehow sticking for us tonight
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yes going to predict
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muppets are with us all look like a great show thanks for dropping by and
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we'll be right wing it
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defrocked hope for the world free but tonight is the new year's only about
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seventeen fifteen minutes away
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routed by the gentleman who was that was before he has
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seal it and i think this with some of his
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startling predictions
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so we thought we'd get a jump on everybody and find out what physical
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freedict
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for nineteen sixty-six which you're welcome chris but
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dot happy new year used as well
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it is a great already and he was
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you and all of your friends on the rear of the since nineteen sixty five
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and i'd like to think released my friend we are all interested in the future of
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for that for you and i are going to spend the rest of our lives
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for the we want to know
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you can argue with that
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here
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part of predictive data that i don't think that the reminding sixty six
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will be here
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off-track
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and deceptive nineteen fifty six
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who knows
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he's been working as expense account already here ice tea but i don't think
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the other
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on april predicted many executives will go on strike important against
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lamenting union regulations
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what kind of executives
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indication general the averages like this
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for n_b_c_ executive died
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