January 27th, 1974-March 3rd, 1974, January 5th, 1975-March 23rd, 1975, January 11th,1976-April 4th, 1976, January 2nd, 1977-March,1977- January 8th,1978-March 26th,1978, January 14th, 1979-April 1st,1979- January 20th, 1980-March 30th, 1980, January 25th, 1981-March 29th, 1981- January 24th, 1982-March 28th, 1982- February 6th, 1983-February 20th, 1983.

Sunday afternoon sports show featuring professional athletes competing against each other in various athletic competition

 

In this competition, members of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team meet members of the Oakland A's baseball team in various athletic endeavors. Keith Jackson and OJ Simpson report.                                                                        

Live coverage of the 214th annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York City. 

Host: Arthur Godfrey.        

Television's first mini-series with Hal Holbrook portraying Abraham Lincoln.            

Special on the surrender of South Vietnam.                        

1975-1977

Sammy Davis Jr. hosted this ninety-minute variety series.

Regulars included Joyce Jillson, Kay Dingle, Avery Schreiber, and Johnny Brown. William B. Williams served as the announcer.

Sammy welcomes guests Billy Eckstine, Bob Hope, Sarah Vaughn, 
and Count Basie.                         

Fourth annual presentation of patriotic music and variety hour starring Bob Hope and guests.           

Live coverage of the docking and first greeting in space between the United States Apollo spacecraft and the Russian Soyuz. John Chancellor reports.              

A variety special starring Tom Jones and Julie Andrews. It featured John Lennon's final public performance.                                                               

September 20, 1975-January 17, 1976. 

This was the first broadcast of the series. This hour-long variety show was hosted by Howard Cosell. Among Cosell's regulars was Bill Murray.

Telecast, live, from New York's Ed Sullivan Theater the opening-night lineup includes Shirley Bassey, John Denver, Paul Anka, Jimmy Connors, making his singing debut, the cast of the Tony-winning musical "The Wiz," the Scottish rock group The Bay City Rollers (via satellite from London), and child actor Mason Reese.

HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE

"Send in the Clowns," "This is my Life".........Shirley Bassey

"I'm Sorry," "Calypso"......................John Denver

"Ease on Down the Road," "Rejoice"................The Wiz

September 20, 1975-January 17, 1976. This hour-long variety show was hosted by Howard Cosell. Among Cosell's regulars was Bill Murray.             

Musical Tribute To George and Ira Gershwin.                         

Musical Tribute To George and Ira Gershwin starring Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme. 

Duplicate of # 7413.                                      

June 30th, 1975-December 26th, 1975. 

Daytime game show hosted by Bobby Van. Two teams competed in a game of charades. The original host was scheduled to be Larry Blyden but he died just before production.

Announcer: Gene Wood.                                                     

  Syndicated 1976- June 7 - August 23, 1976. WOR TV New York. 

Premiering in the Summer of 1976, broadcasting 11 programs with a few new episodes along with re-runs October 18, 1976 - December 27, 1976.    

A brief series of approximately a dozen 90 minute broadcasts in which Steve Allen uses clips form 200 hours related to his different past television shows (1950's and  1960's) broadcast on three networks and Metromedia. He mixes these segments with new material featuring studio guests before a live audience.      

About two-thirds of the show is contemporary, with some of the guests reminiscing about their past performances. 

The broadcasts contain a full-sounding live band and the guests, including, Martha Raye, Gabe Dell, Pat Harrington Jr., Jayne Meadows, Buck Henry, Don Knotts, Bill Dana, Foster Brooks, Andy Griffith, Steve Lawrence, Skitch Henderson, Jonathan Winters, Mort Sahl, George Gobel, Frank Gorshin, Peter Ustinov, Bill Daily, often gathered around Steve Allen's piano for some lively and seemingly very relaxed musical numbers. 

NOTE: This series seems to have disappeared from view, archivally. There are no extant examples of any of these shows archived at The Library of Congress, or  Paley Center for Media, or any samples seen or heard on the internet.  The one exception is show number one archive as a U-Matic 3/4" Video which is not circulated to the public, housed at UCLA Film & TV Archive.

Other than his hosting stint on 1972's "I've Got a Secret" this was  Steve Allen's only syndicated contribution of the decade. Distributed by Hughes Television.                                                                                                              

March 30th, 1970-December 31st, 1976.

This daytime drama was a spin-off of Another World. It was the first daytime soap to be spun-off from another and originally titled Another World/Somerset.                      

The life of Abraham Lincoln from his acceptance of the 1860 Republican nomination for President through his first inauguration. Hal Holbrook portrays Abraham Lincoln.          

September 20, 1975-January 17, 1976. This was the final broadcast of the series. Joined in Progress. Missing opening minutes. This hour-long variety show was hosted by Howard Cosell. Among Cosell's regulars was Bill Murray.   

NOTE: There is a powerful rendition by Tommy Butler of Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Butler created the musical play SELMA which centers on the life of Reverend Martin Luther King, a black cultural hero and a figure deeply respected by a great many Americans for his massive role in the civil rights movement.                                     

Jackie Gleason and Andy Williams co-host this variety special one night prior to the playing of the 1975 Super Bowl.                                        

Jackie Gleason and Andy Williams co-host this variety special one night prior to the playing of the 1975 Super Bowl.       

Duplicate of # 10160.