Paar returned to television with a show in January 1973, on "Jack Paar Tonite", which aired one week per month as one of several rotating shows on "ABC's Wide World of Entertainment". Paar said it was the most he was willing to appear, and that he would not have appeared at all unless ABC had committed to keeping Dick Cavett, one of his former writers, on the air. Paar's announcer for this program was comic actress Peggy Cass. Perhaps its most memorable event was the national television debut of comic Freddie Prinze. Paar stayed on the show, which was in direct competition with "Tonight", for one year before quitting. Dissatisfied with the rotation scheme, he complained that even his own mother did not know when he was on. Paar later expressed discomfort with developments in television media and once said he had trouble interviewing people dressed in "overalls", a reference to young rock acts.