My Favorite Year

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces My Favorite Year, 1982.

Guest host Dave Karger introduces My Favorite Year, 1982.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces My Favorite Year, 1982.

Opening titles with Nat Cole singing "Stardust," and narration by Mark Linn-Baker as "Benji Stone," setting up the director Richard Benjamin's "Peter O'Toole as Errol Flynn" comedy My Favorite Year, 1982, executive producer Mel Brooks.

Inebriated guest Alan Swan (Peter O'Toole) arrives as TV star King Kaiser (Joseph Bologna) and staff are sampling clips of his old movies, writer Benji (Mark Linn-Baker) mediating, in Richard Benjamin's My Favorite Year, 1982.

Dissolute movie star Alan Swann (Peter O'Toole) with his TV variety-show minder Benji (Mark Linn-Baker) at The Stork Club, makes nice with a fan and contrives to escape with a dishy spectator, in My Favorite Year, 1982.

An interlude in Central Park, TV writer Benji (Mark Linn-Baker) shares secrets with errant movie star Alan Swann (Peter O'Toole) whom he's minding, in Richard Benjamin's My Favorite Year, 1982.

Rehearsing for the TV show, and a momentary reconciliation between the star "King" (Joseph Bologna) and guest star Alan Swann (Peter O'Toole), from Richard Benjamin's My Favorite Year, 1982.

A flamboyant star throws a TV comedy show into chaos in My Favorite Year (1982) starring Peter O'Toole.