Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In on Nick at Nite in 1987, although they were included when the program was rerun on the Decades over-the-air television channel in 2017. Of over three dozen entertainers to join the cast, only Rowan, Martin, Owens, and Buzzi were there from beginning to end. However, Owens was not in the 1967 pilot and Buzzi missed two first-season episodes. The writers for "Laugh-In" were: Digby Wolfe and Paul Keyes, Allan Manings and Hugh Wedlock, Jr., Phil Hahn and Jack Hanrahan, Marc London and David Panich, Chris Bearde (credited as Chris Beard), Coslough Johnson (Arte Johnson's younger brother), Jim Mulligan and Jack
Letters to Laugh-In Match Game", which had been canceled after a seven-year run in that slot. Like "Match Game", "Letters to Laugh-In" faced the popular "Dark Shadows" on ABC and reruns of "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C." on CBS. "Letters to Laugh-In" was soundly beaten in the ratings. As such, unlike the nighttime "Laugh-In" (which enjoyed a five-year run on NBC), "Letters to Laugh-In" lasted only three months before being canceled on December 26. Its replacement was "Loman & Barkley's Name Droppers", an equally short-lived game that was replaced on March 30, 1970, by the soap opera "Somerset". One episode of "Letters to Laugh-In" was