After its airing, reformatted versions of the Welk show were released to public television stations. The film was a retrospective on Welk's life and career, featuring interviews with surviving members of Welk's "musical family", and scenes from the show. In order to introduce the show to a new generation, they produced a documentary film, Lawrence Welk: Television's Music Man, hosted by Kathy Lennon of The Lennon Sisters.
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The Oklahoma Educational Television Authority acquired the broadcast rights to the series in 1986. In one of his most infamous incidents, he asked singers Gail Farrell and Dick Dale to perform Brewer & Shipley's hit song "One Toke Over the Line" (a mock gospel tune riddled with drug references) as a modern spiritual, apparently oblivious to the meaning of the word " toke." Brewer responded that although it was "absurd," the duo "got more publicity than we could pay for" from the out-of-place performance. Despite other stations having banned the original song from the broadcast airwaves, neither Welk nor anyone else received any sort of punishment from the FCC for performing the song. Welk frequently had performers sing and play standards from the big band era and the first half of the 20th century (Welk had a particular admiration for his contemporary composers, such as Hoagy Carmichael, Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer, Cole Porter, and Harry Warren, among others), although the show's repertoire was in reality much broader and would often include pop songs from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s (Welk even devoted an entire show to the music of the 1970s in 1978) as well as country music, patriotic music, and religious music, especially if it was thought to appeal to older listeners (and, as Welk stated in 1956, "as long as it's done in the champagne style").
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