A star-studded salute to a great lyricist-Oscar Hammerstein 11 (1895-1960). Taped in April 1971 at the University of Southern California.    

Highlights and performers:

"A Cockeyed Optimist "       Dinah Shore
"All The Things You Are"     Helen Hayes
"I Am Going To Like It Here" Miyoshi Umeki
"Why Do I Love You?"         Leslie Uggams 
"Carefully Taught"           Burt Lancaster
"If I Loved You"             John Raitt
Medley:"I Whistle A Happy Tune" "The Folks Who Live On The Hill"
"Shall We Dance?" "I Won't Dance" "Stouthearted Men" "Getting To Know You" "Do Re Mi" ...Raitt, Uggams, Johnny Mercer, Janet Blair
"I Can't Say No" Celeste Holm
"The Surrey With The Fringe On Top" Harve Presnell
"The Desert Song" "Rose Marie" "Wanting You" Jean Fenn, Harve Presnell. 
"It Might As Well Be Spring" Janet Blair
"There Is Nothing Like A Dame" 
Desi Arnaz Jr, Milton Berle, Larry Hagman, Yaphet Kotto, Ryan O'Neal, Robert Stack, Ray Walston, 
"A Puzzlement" Ricardo Montalban 
"Climb Every Mountain" Jean Fenn 
                                                  

Live coverage of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.        

Continuing live coverage of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.                     

Live coverage of the 1972 Summer Olympic games.                      

The 1972 Summer Olympic games.          

25 years of television memories as 26 top stars, in person, celebrate a treasure of TV nostalgia. Performing and accepting awards for their roles in TV's success story are Judith Anderson, Russell Arms, James Arness, Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, George Chakiris, Maria Cole, Jimmy Durante, Dave Garroway, Lorne Greene, Bob Hope, George C. Scott, Rod Serling, Dinah Shore, the Smothers Brothers, Ed Sullivan, John Wayne, Robert Young, and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. There are 5 commercials including an opening commercial. 
Film clips from more than 400 shows (from Boston Blackie to Sonny and Cher) were culled for this tribute, which also includes elaborate production numbers, and a host of celebrities scheduled to accept awards in TV's success story. 

Songs and Performers: "September Song" - Jimmy Durante 
Fifties medley: "Shrimp Boats," "Shanghai," "Love Is Sweeping The Country," "Doggie In The Window," "This Old House," by Hit Paraders, Gisele Mackenzie, Snooky Lanson, Russell Arms, and Eileen Wilson. 
"How Sweet It Was," Florence Henderson 
"They Went Thataway," George Chakiris. 

Duplicate of #1118.

25 years of television memories as 26 top stars, in person, celebrate a treasure of TV nostalgia. Performing and accepting awards for their roles in TV's success story are Judith Anderson, Russell Arms, James Arness, Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, George Chakiris, Maria Cole, Jimmy Durante, Dave Garroway, Lorne Greene, Bob Hope, George C. Scott, Rod Serling, Dinah Shore, the Smothers Brothers, Ed Sullivan, John Wayne, Robert Young, and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. There are 5 commercials including an opening commercial.  

Duplicate of # 1118.             

The 1972 Summer Olympic Games conclude. Includes the closing ceremonies.       

August 1, 1971-September 5, 1971; December 27, 1971-May 29, 1974. This was the first broadcast of the season. "The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour" was introduced as a summer variety show and found a place in the network's schedule in midseason. By the 1973-1974 season it was television's top-rated variety series. Regulars included their daughter Chastity Bono, Peter Cullen, Freeman King, Teri Garr, Ted Zeigler, Billy Van, and Murray Langston.  


Duplicate of #4679.           

1971-1974

1971 (Syndicated). On this half-hour musical series host Johnny Mann, together with the Johnny Mann Singers and assorted guests, sang the praises of the good old U.S.A.   

Bob Crane's second appearance on the series. Crane does a tongue in cheek stand-up routine about Academy Award winning songs through the years. Bob sings, "Zip A  Dee Doo Dah," Baby It's  Cold Outside," "In The Cool Cool Cool Of The Evening," and "Talk To The Animals."  
The Singers present a tribute to Paul Simon, and to TV's  Sesame Street. The Johnny Mann singers sing songs from the show.                                  

August 1, 1971-September 5, 1971; 
December 27, 1971-May 29, 1974. 
"The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour" was introduced as a summer variety show and found a place in the network's schedule in midseason. By the 1973-1974 season it was television's top-rated variety series. Regulars included their daughter Chastity Bono, Peter Cullen, Freeman King, Teri Garr, Ted Zeigler, Billy Van, and Murray Langston.  

Barbara McNair sings "I Believe in You,' Without a Song."
Cher sings "A Song for You."
Sonny and Cher sing "For Once in My Life," Thunder and Lightning."           

August 1, 1971-September 5, 1971; 
December 27, 1971-May 29, 1974. 
"The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour" was introduced as a summer variety show and found a place in the network's schedule in midseason. By the 1973-1974 season it was television's top-rated variety series. Regulars included their daughter Chastity Bono, Peter Cullen, Freeman King, Teri Garr, Ted Zeigler, Billy Van, and Murray Langston.  

Barbara McNair sings "I Believe in You,' Without a Song."

Duplicate of #4697.
Cher sings "A Song for You."
Sonny and Cher sing "For Once in My Life," Thunder and Lightning."                        

August 1st 1971- September 5th, 1971- December 27th, 1971- May 29th, 1974 (CBS)          

Weekly variety series starring Sonny Bono and Cher. 

Long-running radio program heard on WFMT in Chicago. In 1998, WFMT donated over 7,000 of Terkel's audio recordings to the Chicago History Museum for preservation. 

On this episode: Annual Armistice Day program.                                      

Long-running radio program heard on WFMT in Chicago. In 1998, WFMT donated over 7,000 audio recordings of Terkel's shows to the Chicago History Museum for preservation. 

On this episode: E.R. Braeithway, Reluctant Encounter                                              

Long-running radio program heard on WFMT in Chicago. In 1998, WFMT donated over 7,000 of Terkel's audio recordings to the Chicago History Museum. 

On this episode: Murray MacLaughlin, songwriter.                                                                    

August 1, 1971-September 5, 1971; December 27, 1971-May 29, 1974. "The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour" was introduced as a summer variety show and found a place in the network's schedule in midseason. By the 1973-1974 season it was television's top-rated variety series. Regulars included their daughter Chastity Bono, Peter Cullen, Freeman King, Teri Garr, Ted Zeigler, Billy Van, and Murray Langston.  


Duplicate of #4715.           

Long-running radio program heard on WFMT in Chicago. In 1998, WFMT 
donated over 7,000 of Terkel's audio recordings to the Chicago History Museum for preservation.

On this episode: Frederick Wiseman, documentary film.                                                      

     Studs Terkel Program aired on 98.7 WFMT Chicago between 1952 and 1997. The one -hour program was broadcast each weekday, 10am-11:00am and on Thursday evenings 8:00pm-9:00pm. for 45 years. On his programs he interviewed guests as diverse as Martin Luther King Jr., Leonard Bernstein, Mort Sahl, Bob Dylan, Dorothy Parker, Tennessee Williams, Jean Shepherd, Frank Zappa and Frederick Wiseman.    

On this program Documentary Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman discusses many points of view related to five of his first six films, High School (1968), Law and Order (1969), Hospital (1970), Basic Training (1971) and Essene (1972). 
Sound clips from each of the above are played.   

NOTE: This rare Studs Terkel broadcast is not extant in the Studs Terkel Radio Archive, which contains  thousands of his programs. 
Two later broadcasts with Frederick Wiseman are archived, one which aired November 6, 1973, Wiseman discussing his film  Juvenile Court, and another which aired on February 6, 1976, Wiseman discussing his film Public Welfare.