CBS : On The Air - 50th Anniversary (Incomplete)

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  • Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
  • In 1977, CBS opted for an extravagant nine-and-a-half-hour, week-long series of specials called “CBS: On The Air - A Celebration of 50 Years” - Hosted by Walter Cronkite and Mary Tyler Moore. Running for an astounding nine-and-a-half-hours over the course of one week, CBS attempted to bring together as many of its stars as possible, opening with a two-hour installment airing from 9-11PM. Titled “The Night of 100 Stars,” it opened with a massive gathering of CBS stars, between 115 and 125 of them.*
    This is not the anniversary special in its entirety. It is missing the Tuesday and Sunday opens and a few more segments.
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    The posting of this video is designed to facilitate criticism, commentary, scholarship, and research relating to the television broadcasting industry, and for purposes of historic preservation, consistent with the provisions set forth in Section 107 of Title 17, United States Code.

Комментарии • 89

  • @nicolekenna7822
    @nicolekenna7822 Год назад +14

    It's so sad that we don't have these talented entertainers anymore. VERY few

    • @springstud
      @springstud Год назад

      where was the cast of gunsmoke

    • @gerrypeet4861
      @gerrypeet4861 Год назад +3

      People die. You can't stop that. I'd just enjoy what you see here.

    • @stirlwm
      @stirlwm Год назад

      @@springstud James Arness, Milburn Stone & Dennis Weaver all there...

    • @garycarpenter6433
      @garycarpenter6433 3 месяца назад +1

      Not to mention Lucille Ball, Vivian Vance,Bea Arthur, George Burns,Lou Grant, Dick Van Dyke The Walton's Lee Meriwether, Buddy Ebsen and Audrey Meadows

  • @anman40
    @anman40 Год назад +11

    Legends.. don't make them like that anymore. The 20th century.. the best of all time. All downhill from here.

  • @arienfox
    @arienfox Год назад +6

    I was 16 when this was happening and I'm glad I saw it today.

    • @Dana_inc
      @Dana_inc 7 месяцев назад +1

      I was almost 1.

  • @kevinbutler1955NYC
    @kevinbutler1955NYC 5 месяцев назад +1

    The announcer of this 50th anniversary tv tribute to CBS was Dick Tufeld..who was also the announcer/narrator and voice of "The Robot"on "Lost In Space".

  • @albertpeterson5585
    @albertpeterson5585 Год назад +5

    ...the Tiffany network at its best. Why does this always make me smile when I see it?

  • @MrJoeybabe25
    @MrJoeybabe25 Год назад +6

    Hilarious Carol Burnett singing with her arm in a noose!

  • @vitani1999
    @vitani1999 2 года назад +10

    CBS - what a powerhouse!

  • @lesliebell4189
    @lesliebell4189 Год назад +4

    It was a miracle to have so many stars yet so many egos in one sitting.

  • @Bryan-kj7lx
    @Bryan-kj7lx Год назад +5

    They Should Have Mentioned
    Lost In Space
    That Was Definitely A CBS Program 📺

    • @arienfox
      @arienfox Год назад +1

      June Lockhart was there though.

  • @milancue2061
    @milancue2061 2 года назад +8

    They don't make it like this anymore

    • @arienfox
      @arienfox Год назад +2

      This was the best Anniversary Celebration for CBS; No comparison to the rest of them.

  • @austinfeyd
    @austinfeyd Год назад +4

    Thank you for this! Richard Thomas at 6:25! 20:34

  • @davidmorris6443
    @davidmorris6443 2 года назад +5

    Lassie's real name is PAL. Lassie is just a stage name for the television series ever since Lassie was under contract to metro-goldwyn-mayer John witherwax call his collie pal

  • @Kevintucky
    @Kevintucky Год назад +1

    What a treasure! Cannot thank you enough for sharing it with strangers. God Bless!

  • @donnadaisy333
    @donnadaisy333 2 года назад +3

    Simply wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing! Loved it!

  • @ericsamuelson5656
    @ericsamuelson5656 3 месяца назад

    21:13 will be on the set of CBS News Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt and Weekday Morning with Bob Scheiffer by Jan 1979

  • @JohnboyRichardThomasFandom
    @JohnboyRichardThomasFandom Год назад +3

    Richard Thomas is so great, at 6:27 and 20:35

  • @garynajera7484
    @garynajera7484 Год назад +2

    god such great childhood memories watching this especially the start during the weekday roll call such great talent back then plus better tv shows i miss those days

  • @maxhubmann1696
    @maxhubmann1696 Год назад +2

    This might be the best video on RUclips.

    • @historyofnetworktv
      @historyofnetworktv  Год назад +2

      My only regret is that I wasn’t able to compile more of it.

  • @theironclads
    @theironclads Год назад +2

    I'll bet that Jack Lord was thrilled to be there.

  • @markryaniversen
    @markryaniversen Год назад +1

    No Mary Stuart from Search For Tomorrow, which was a huge show for CBS in the early days. Search For Tomorrow and Love of Life were massive hits in the 50s and 60s and there was no mention of them.

    • @jeffkiper8199
      @jeffkiper8199 Год назад

      Those were daytime shows. I think this special was focusing on primetime shows.

  • @richmanjackson1971
    @richmanjackson1971 6 месяцев назад +1

    ARE YOU KIDDING ME???!!!! WOW!!!!!!!

  • @syferdet
    @syferdet Год назад +1

    32:30 I love that there's a 9 in the low of the 4th position and a 7 in the high of the 3rd position in the Dice Game. Things that would never happen in reality today (but when Dice Game first premiered it could).

  • @franky11ist
    @franky11ist Год назад +2

    I thought Roy Rogers and Dale Evans' show was on NBC. Also, who thought of having Alfred Hitchcock? He passed away about 18 months later. He looks like he can barely walk.

  • @mounttahoma100
    @mounttahoma100 3 месяца назад

    Many, many legends!!

  • @kennixox262
    @kennixox262 Год назад +2

    I think that I remember that.

  • @ThePoobears
    @ThePoobears 11 месяцев назад +3

    very touching to see all the great actors and actresses had passed away :(

  • @michael.prescott4016
    @michael.prescott4016 5 месяцев назад

    people with class, now we have the kardashians

  • @alanvallazza9781
    @alanvallazza9781 Год назад +1

    The museum of classic Chicago television posted on their channel a Bob Newhart show that ran before the special and they posted the first several minutes of the special which was not included here however it ends when they're talking about Westerns that ran on CBS and they show a clip of John Wayne introducing the beginning of Gunsmoke at that point the video ends and it doesn't look like anything on this particular video can actually continue that segment so there's a bit missing from this special.
    P.S. A different part of the special was posted by another account and has all the stars coming out to applause. That video had Mary Tyler Moore talking with Walter Cronkite before the stars came out. It's different than the other one that started with Carol Burnett singing. This is the same anniversary special from March 1978 and has the same logo. Starting to think that one video was edited and made to look like the beginning but was not the beginning. The other clip was the actual beginning.
    Either way I want to note that I was several days old when the special ran as I was born that month on the 13th of March in 1978. The special ran on March 28th of 1978. Also that month about 10 days earlier from the date of the special was the rock concert California Jam II which was televised on local TV in California.

    • @historyofnetworktv
      @historyofnetworktv  Год назад +2

      Please post the link. If I find more footage in the future I will re-edit and repost a more complete retrospective. The hardest challenge with CBS : On The Air is that it ran for different nights throughout the course of one week - Finding all surviving footage and trying to compile it (in order) into one program will inevitably come out a bit disjointed.

    • @kwebster62
      @kwebster62 10 месяцев назад

      @@historyofnetworktv Yep. the coverage was 9.5 hours. The footage being referred to can be found by searching "CBS Network - The Bob Newhart Show - "Happy Trails to You"- KDFW-TV (Complete Broadcast, 4/1/1978)"

  • @dillon9378
    @dillon9378 3 месяца назад

    i have over an hour of audio from this special on cassette if your interested

  • @tamaramartin3784
    @tamaramartin3784 Год назад +2

    Excellent

  • @beeweejr
    @beeweejr 6 месяцев назад +1

    👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

  • @nicolekenna7822
    @nicolekenna7822 Год назад +1

    Love this❤

  • @craigstjohn4470
    @craigstjohn4470 Год назад +4

    what yr is this from?/. looks like from..mid 1970's! even Will Greer is there!

  • @faststop4
    @faststop4 Год назад +2

    What happened to Tuesday on cbs😊

    • @kwebster62
      @kwebster62 10 месяцев назад

      They highlighted stars from Tuesday on 4:44 to 5:21

  • @remixchild
    @remixchild 4 месяца назад

    So CBS will be 100 in 2027

    • @historyofnetworktv
      @historyofnetworktv  4 месяца назад

      Do you think they will air a network special?

    • @remixchild
      @remixchild 4 месяца назад

      @@historyofnetworktv let’s hope so

  • @dvd7826
    @dvd7826 2 месяца назад

    My favorite network in the 80s until FOX came around lol

    • @historyofnetworktv
      @historyofnetworktv  2 месяца назад

      What are some of your favorite CBS shows from that period?

  • @megankumamoto3645
    @megankumamoto3645 6 месяцев назад

    52:26

  • @joestocking
    @joestocking Год назад +1

    Jackie Gleason???

    • @historyofnetworktv
      @historyofnetworktv  Год назад

      You are not the first person to notice his absence. Was he doing movies at the time?

  • @richparsons4205
    @richparsons4205 Год назад +1

    Wait. All in the Family (Carroll O’Connor, Jean Stapleton, Sally Struthers and Meathead) was on SATURDAYS, not SUNDAY!

    • @kwebster62
      @kwebster62 10 месяцев назад +3

      All in the Family spent time on different nights: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday. When this special aired, they were on Sundays.

  • @greggkimball4110
    @greggkimball4110 2 года назад +16

    Disturbing to be mixing up journalists with showbiz celebrities. And we've been doing it for quite some time.

    • @historyofnetworktv
      @historyofnetworktv  2 года назад +5

      I agree. They've been trying to put the newscaster on a similar platform - why?

    • @donnabailey566
      @donnabailey566 2 года назад +23

      I worked on this show behind the scenes. CBS is both a news channel as well as entertainment. Same goes for ABC and NBC. Hence, this special. You missed the point.

    • @pamgoodson9688
      @pamgoodson9688 Год назад +7

      @@donnabailey566 exactly.
      These journalists were part of the programming, as well as the actors.
      Plus there's something about these journalists that was just different!

    • @inthewoods80
      @inthewoods80 Год назад +6

      I think it’s more of who was a part of CBS for its first 50 years, tv actors and newscasters & presenters alike. It’s not saying that the news people are stars per se, just that they are well known (and loved in the case of Walter Cronkite)

    • @howardpackowitz6759
      @howardpackowitz6759 Год назад +4

      Only one CBS Sportscaster - Jack Whittaker

  • @springstud
    @springstud Год назад +1

    where was gunsmoke cast

    • @arienfox
      @arienfox Год назад +1

      James Arness and Millburn Stone were there.

  • @wiedep
    @wiedep 3 года назад +2

    No Jackie Gleason...

    • @britishtvlover2038
      @britishtvlover2038 2 года назад +1

      Was he alive in 1978

    • @donnadaisy333
      @donnadaisy333 2 года назад +4

      Mr Gleason passed in 1987. I wonder why he wasn’t included.

    • @cdgates1
      @cdgates1 2 года назад +5

      He suffered a mild heart attack while performing in a play in 1978. This is probably why he didn't attend the event

    • @codychristopher3744
      @codychristopher3744 2 года назад +2

      @@cdgates1 that would been cool if Jackie Gleason could have made it on The CBS 50th Anniversary I know he definitely was big part of CBS History Definitely In The Golden Age of Television With His Television Variety Shows

  • @jasonrfoss248
    @jasonrfoss248 Год назад +1

    Should have called it All singing, all dancing. Is this what passed for entertainment back then?

  • @QueensLadyDay
    @QueensLadyDay Год назад +2

    "I see dead people" 😳

    • @victorturturici4446
      @victorturturici4446 Год назад

      If they invited The Beatles what beatle would it show up ?

    • @Scottie10p
      @Scottie10p Год назад +1

      A few live ones too. Linda Lavin, Julie Kavnar, Carol Burnett, The Smother Brothers, Sally Struthers, Adrian B, Dan Rather, all the Walton kid actors including Richard Thomas, Vicky Lawrence, Leslie Stahl, Bill Cosby, Bess Armstrong, Rob Reiner Sandy Duncan, Alan Alda, Desmond Wilson, Jamie Farr, John Amos, Loretta Swift, Dick Van Dyke, Jimmy Walker, Michael Learned, Bob Barker, Linda Carter, and Bob Newhart.

    • @rhyancoleman6462
      @rhyancoleman6462 6 месяцев назад

      RIP Bob Barker