ABC Network - The Barbara Walters Special - "Hope/Crosby/Foxx" (Complete Broadcast, 5/31/1977) 📺
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- Here's an early Barbara Walters Special (the third, in fact) as aired over WLS Channel 7, before they (and her particular interviewing style) became the subject of many a parody; here, the interviewees are Bob Hope and wife Dolores, Bing Crosby, and Redd Foxx and his third wife, Joi. Sponsored by General Electric.
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Station ID / promo for "Fort Apache" (voiceover by Al Parker - is cut off by what's coming up)
Show opening, with preview of upcoming edition with interview excerpts with each of the celebrities, followed by GE sponsor billboard
Barbara outside the LA skyline at night, setting up coming show and those who she'll be speaking with
Bob Hope interview, starting off on golf course and going through his vast property in Toluca Lake with wife Dolores and Barbara, and going on about the twists and turns in his career, his marriage, and who he worked with; mementos including pictures of him with U.S. Presidents are shown, as is a clip of Dolores singing on one of USO trips to Vietnam
Commercial: General Electric - "Progress For People" with actor Pat Hingle as Thomas Edison from 1928
The next segment is with Bing Crosby, then celebrating his 50th year in show business; at the time he was recovering from injuries sustained after falling into an orchestra pit while taping a TV special (though still managed a little soft shoe with Barbara); a look inside his vast mansion outside San Francisco, with various photos from within his career shown; he speaks of his convalescence (this was aired nearly five months prior to his death on 10/14/77), his life and career, and those he worked with
Another GE "Progress For People" commercial with actor Pat Hingle impersonating Thomas Edison
Animated ABC ID with lower-third station ID
Last up is Redd Foxx, whose 6-season-long Sanford and Son series "on another network" is about to end and is about to start his own variety show on this network (Redd Foxx, a.k.a. The Redd Foxx Comedy Hour, which would end up going down like a lead balloon by midway in the coming season); Barbara mentions the start-up of his third marriage after the dissolution of his second after 23 years; plus inside his house, including an art studio for his wife and a mini-zoo for a collection of animals - and that's before he goes on about the challenges of his new venture, and other topics
Yet another GE "Progress For People" commercial with actor Pat Hingle playing Thomas Alva Edison.
Barbara mentions that none of her interviewees tonight used their own real first names, thinking they could have made it that way, before ending the program and one more GE sponsor billboard
Ending credits (with voiceover by Ms. Walters promoting upcoming ABC News Special, "Fidel Castro Speaks," for June 9th, followed by voiceover promo for 1977 Tony Awards for June 5th by Wally Parker):
Produced by Daniel Wilson
Directed by Don Mischer
Coordinating Producers - JoAnn Goldberg, Linda Marmelstein
Production Administrator - David J. Goldberg
Lighting Consultant - Jack Horton
Assistant to the Producer - Wendy Cornell
Production Assistants - Sylvia Pancotti, Betty Rothenberg
Researcher - Judy Weiss Bougades
Assistant to Barbara Walters - Mary Hornickel
Graphics - Hy Bley
Videotape Editors - Ed Brennan, Richard Audd, Douglas Kahan
Camera - Hank Geving, Don Jones, Mike Keeler
Audio - Mike Gannon
Video - Dean Terrell
Technical Director - Terry Green
Videotape Facilities - Compact Video
Post Production Facilities - Milestone Teletronics
The Barbara Walters Special
With the Cooperation of ABC News
A Barwall Production, Inc.
(C) 1977 Barwall Productions, Inc.
Promo for Barney Miller and Fish for Thursday (main voiceover by Ernie Anderson) (ending voiceover by Wally Parker)
"Like a white Richard Pryor."
This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, May 31st 1977 during the 9:00pm to 10:00pm timeframe.
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Thanks for posting this. I never watched the complete interview with Redd Foxx. I loved how candid and honest he was bout race in Hollywood. The Bob Hope interview was cool. Too bad he was having MULTIPLE affairs during their marriage well into his 70s. Either Mrs. Hope was in denial, lying, had an arrangement, or just put on a good face for the cameras.
Always watched the Christmas Specials with my Dad. He loved them. He only would get gas at our local Texaco Station
BING'S VOICE IS SO SMOOTH AND SOOTHING..
Barbara with legends in the entertainment business!!! The late Regis Philbin (1931-2020) idolized Bing Crosby!!!! as a child in the 30s'. Redd Foxx (1922-1991) of Sanford & Son (1972-1977) fame along with The Royal Family (1991)- blue 🔵 comedian to the end. And of course Bob Hope, another great!!! Rest in Peace all of you- including Barbara Walters (1929-2022)
Seems like a lifetime ago.
RIP Miss Barbara. You brought us many hours of entertaining television over the years. My condolences to her family. 😔😔
Of course! Pat Hinge...I KNEW I recognized that voice! Thank you SO much for including that little detail. I really appreciate this whole video!
Thanks for this upload :)
Aired a few months before Bing died.
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RIP ALL THREE LEGENDS
Thanks for sharing
I remember these BaBa WaWa interviews before the Oscars. When people actually watched the Oscars, that is.
I wish the interview with Red was longer.
Barbara looks like a babe here 😍
Especially during interviews but not as an anchor.
Great interview! Barbara's a beast 👍
I was impressed at how eloquent Bob Hope spoke. Interestingly that he supposedly actually did not like Bing much. Their relationship was basically a working one. Bing spoke well too, but willing to never speak to his child again because of a minor moral difference said so much about him. Also, I so agree with Redd with his angers. It's so blatantly obvious that he was not respected for the man he was. His show was one of the all-time best in my opinion. Other than "All In The Family", it's the only show that I can watch over and over and still laugh just as loud.
Hope loved Crosby...in a book I read that Bob actually authored himself he wrote that his friendship with Bing was the best one he ever had and that he thought Bing could do no wrong. Debunked rumours regarding Bing and new info are restoring his good name.
Bing Crosby died like 5 months after this interview.
The GE ads with Pat Hingle as Thomas Edison were parodied in an "SCTV" episode in this year.
He looks like the actor that played the wizard from the wizard of oz
RIP Barbara Walters
She was tan, She just arrived from Cuba. Beautiful
I'm curious to know what films Bing made that he didn't like.
Loved this retro special. Barbara sure asked these celebrities some very tough questions. Very interesting conversations too. The one I found the most interesting is the one on one with Bing Crosby. The man was obviously old fashioned. He was against sex before marriage but was for legalizing marijuana? At a time when smoking a joint would of got you arrested and possibly done jail time? Well he was a Republican and a conservative so to me it's really not that surprising about his marital views but the weed one got me a little confused. Now Redd Foxx's interview was my personal favorite. His second wife was so beautiful and his lavish lifestyle was over the top just like the athletes and rappers today. And that mirror above his bed? 😂 We all know why he had that. He really did live up to his explicit material.
Bing himself was a heavy pot smoker when he was in the Rhythm Boys in the late 20's and he continued to smoke it through the early 30's. He and Louis Armstrong smoked together, see Gary Giddin's two volume biography of Bing for more on this issue. So obviously Bing would be pro-marijuana.
Hey Edison!! You forgot Tesla!!
Too bad Red Foxx died owing millions to the IRS. Likely all those clothes and items were seized. His wife Joi and he separated in 1979 and divorced in 81. He had to pay her $300000 in the proceedings.
I love ❤️ Redd Foxx
Poor Redd died dead broke. But Grady Grady he:s still shady.
It's interesting that the Hopes adopted children instead of having their own. Burns and Allen did the same. And Jack Benny & Mary Livingstone.
Fertility issues.
All enuics n comics.
THE REASON FOR THE LONG MARRIAGE HAS TO DO WITH THE FACT HE WAS NEVER HOME MORE THAN 2 WEEKS AT A TIME.
Plus he was sausage swinging round the 🌎 world.
Yes he plugged many women with his sausage by all accounts.
Amen👽👍
BabaWawa
31:18 bing was ahead of his time
Sad that Redd was such a genius but couldn't get out of his own way
I'm ever much an authoritarian pretty much as Bing says he is.
I'm into setting my children straight.And yes,I did learn to be a proper parent strictly from Bing and other loving,successful parents.Learn early on from Bing(I look to Bing some to set my kids right)you'll parent without hurting them.
16 dogs? Damn,Redd
Softball craaap questions
Yikes, Bob Hope was naive about politics. Or am i just jaded?
Bing Crosby was mean to his children.
Um debunked rubbish.
Said by a nepo baby. That then retracted it.
Crosby's son blew his brains out. Der Binger said "Ah Boom boom boom."
People were too hard on Nixon. If a democrat did the same crap, it would be okay. SAD.
Calm down, grandpa. You know deep down in your tired old heart that ain't true.
Don’t mess with Sam Irwin.
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Nixon WAS a crook.
Even back then bashing Christianity straight garbage.