The brothers appeared in a segment of the television series "Burke's Law", in 1964, in which they played two compulsive hoarders. Their first television series was a situation comedy, "The Smothers Brothers Show" (1965–1966), produced by Four Star Television. Tom played an angel come back to earth to oversee his brother Dick, who played a swinging bachelor. It did not do well in the ratings and had little of the music that was identified with the brothers. Tom would say in 1969 that "Four Star gave me ulcers."