[1] Among the regulars on Thicke of the Night were Richard Belzer, Arsenio Hall, Rick Ducommun, Charles Fleischer, Gilbert Gottfried, Michael McManus, Chloe Webb, Isabel Grandin, Alvernette Jimenez, Tamara Champlin and Fred Willard.
Tom Canning led the house band, and Fred Silverman was the show's producer.
The show was produced by MGM Television in association with Metromedia, distributed in syndication by MGM/UA Television Distribution Intended as a rival to The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, the series debuted on September 5, 1983.
A year later, Thicke attained American TV stardom with the series Growing Pains.
After the show's cancellation, it inspired a Saturday Night Live skit, In Thickeness and In Health.