Muhammad Ali vs. George Chuvalo from Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto for the heavyweight championship of the world. Ali wins a unanimous fifteen-round decision.
Don Dunphy reports from ringside.
The worlds of art, the delights of a circus, and a concert stage are the settings for Barbra Streisand's second
one-woman show.
Dupe Of # 992 and #7868.
"The Republicans." Regional reporters evaluate the Republican party as it prepares for the 1966 congressional election. Included are interviews with Richard Nixon, Governors George Romney and William Scranton, and Senators John Tower of Texas, and Thurston Morton of Kentucky. Reporters are Marlon Sanders, New York City, Mel Wax, San Francisco, Neil Maxwell, Salt Lake City, Eugene Dietz, Nashville, Jim Mathis, Edinburgh, Hal Bruno, Chicago, Frank Hawkins, Pittsburgh, Sylvan Meyer, Athens, Georgia, and Al Otten, Washington, DC.
The current state of the Vietnam war with comments from Hubert Humphrey. Humphrey states "we will not withdraw." "We will persevere until free elections can be held in South Vietnam."Comment by Senator William Fulbright.
Moderator: Frank McGee
Mary Martin is joined by the Radio City Rockettes in this Easter special from New York's Radio City Music Hall.
Miss Martin sings "Reve Angelique" as an introduction to the Music Hall's traditional "Glory of Easter" pageant.
The Rockettes display their precision dancing to "The Stars and Stripes Forever."
Mary Martin performs a medley of songs including "The Sound of Music," "You Do Something to Me," "There is Nothing like a Dame,"Zing When the Strings of My Heart," "Anything Goes," and "The Sweetest Things."
At the conclusion of the broadcast, Miss Martin recites the poem "Song of Innocence."
Duplicate Of # 7279
Mary Martin is joined by the Radio City Rockettes in this Easter special from New York's Radio City Music Hall.
Miss Martin sings "Reve Angelique" as an introduction to the Music Hall's traditional "Glory of Easter" pageant.
The Rockettes display their precision dancing to "The Stars and Stripes Forever."
Mary Martin performs a medley of songs including "The Sound of Music," "You Do Something to Me," "There is Nothing like a Dame,"Zing When the Strings of My Heart," "Anything Goes," and "The Sweetest Things."
At the conclusion of the broadcast Miss Martin recites the poem "Song of Innocence."
An Easter music special program spanning 16 centuries. The NBC Orchestra and chorus are conducted by John F. Grady. Narrated by Msgr. Timothy J. Flynn.
Richard P. Condie conducts the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in this concert of Easter music, taped at the Mormon Tabernacle and other locations in Salt Lake City.
Host Bert Parks chats with various celebrities attending the movie Premiere of "Cast a Giant Shadow" starring John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, Senta Berger, Kirk Douglas, Angie Dickinson, Yul Brynner, James Donald, others.
Includes David-Ben Gurion on film and clips of the movie.
November 11th, 1964-January 27th, 1968 (ABC)
A news analysis program hosted by Howard K. Smith. The series focused mainly on the war in Vietnam.
"Tour Of Duty in Vietnam." A GI recalls his tour of duty after one year in Vietnam.
Howard K. Smith reports
The 38th Annual Academy Award ceremonies telecast live from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. This was the first color broadcast of the award ceremonies.
Best Actor: Lee Marvin (Cat Ballou)
Best Actress: Julie Christie (Dr. Zhivago)
Best Supporting Actor: Martin Balsam
Best Supporting Actress: Shelley Winters
Best Film ( Sound Of Music)
Best Musical Score: Dr. Zhivago
William Wyler is awarded the Irving Thalberg Award.
Host: Bob Hope.
September 12, 1955-June 12, 1963. This was the final broadcast of the season. In the fall of 1955 Perry Como returned to NBC where he hosted a weekly hour show. From 1955 to 1959 it was seen Saturday evenings and was titled "The Perry Como Show." From 1959 to 1963 it was seen Wednesday evenings and was titled "The Kraft Music Hall." Regulars included Frank Gallop and the Ray Charles Singers. After his final weekly June 12, 1963 broadcast Perry Como appeared in scores of specials, beginning October 3, 1963, airing on NBC, CBS & ABC, and concluding on December 6, 1986.
Arthur Godfrey and Don Ameche are hosts for a nostalgic review of the great stars and favorite programs of radio and television history.
This television special celebrates fifty years of radio and television broadcasting. Arthur Godfrey hosts this nostalgic look back at the stars and programs that catapulted radio and television to success. Highlights include: Ed Wynn's first radio show "The Perfect Fool," a 1922 variety show; how radio became network oriented in 1927 and began to change American lifestyles; the first coast-to-coast broadcast of a football game from the Rose Bowl; the Fireside Chats with Franklin D. Roosevelt; the comedy duo of Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, better known as "Amos 'n' Andy"; the Kraft Music Hall, hosted by Bing Crosby, which showcased the great singers of the 1930s and 40s such as Arthur Tracy, Morton Downy, Helen Morgan, and Kate Smith; Frank Sinatra, who was brought into the public eye through radio; Bing Crosby, who sings "Pennies From Heaven"; John Scott Trotter's reminiscences about the big bands such as those of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, and Spike Jones; how television began to make strides with the telecast of the New York Worlds Fair in 1939 until World War II put an abrupt stop to the advancement; how the very popular Milton Berle was responsible for the television revolution after the war was over; a survey of other pioneering programs including "Kukla, Fran, and Ollie," "Your Show of Shows," "I Remember Mama," and "Howdy Doody"; a day at the studio with big-time television producer Sheldon Leonard whose credits range from the slow-starting "Dick Van Dyke Show" to "The Gomer Pyle Show"; Godfrey, who sings "I'm in Love with You Honey"; a look at the great comedy teams and solo comedians such as Abbott and Costello, Burns and Allen, Fibber McGee and Molly, Jimmy Durante, Fred Allen, and W.C. Fields; the first lady of television, Lucille Ball, who is followed through a day of rehearsal for her show; how radio soap operas paved the way for the radio drama programs such as "Inner Sanctum," "Suspense," and "The Whistler"; how the live drama show became the first step in a new direction for television; Rod Serling's examination of the rise and somewhat quick fall of this form of programming; the We Five singing "Beyond the Sea"; and the great radio commentators such as Edward R. Murrow and Walter Winchell.
Arthur Godfrey and Don Ameche are hosts for a nostalgic review of the great stars and favorite programs of radio and television history. Joining them in this special are Bing Crosby, Lucille Ball, Gale Gordon, Sheldon Leonard, Rod Serling, John Scott Trotter, and We Five, who sing "Beyond the Sea." Many others. Many archival transcripts are heard with Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll, Fanny Brice, Rudy Vallee, Milton Berle, and Fred Allen.
Duplicate Of # 997.
November 11th, 1964-January 27th, 1968 (ABC)
A news analysis program hosted by Howard K. Smith. The series focused mainly on the war in Vietnam.
Vietnam report. Letters from GI's, an oral report from GI's after a year in Vietnam, command by General Westmoreland in an optimistic mood.
Howard K. Smith reports
Orson Bean narrates this nostalgic trip back to the exciting escapist world of movie serials. Inspired by the recent prime-time airing of "Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe" (Wednesday's at 8PM) producer Ken Johnson screened over 60 hours of serial chapters before selecting the following excerpts:
"The Phantom Empire" (1935) with Gene Autry and Frankie Darro.
"Tailspin Tommy In The Great Air Mystery" (1935) with Noah Beery Jr., Jean Rogers, and Maurice Murphy.
"Flash Gordon's Trip To Mars" (1936 ) with Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, and Frank Shannon.
"Tim Tyler's Luck (1937) with Frankie Thomas and Jack Mulhall.
"Perils of Nyoka" (1942) with Kay Aldrige and Clayton Moore.
Still photos show theaters packing kids during Saturday matinees when the main attraction was usually the weekly serial chapter. Additional footage shows the serial as it existed during pre-soundtrack days.
A 1966 television film adapted from a play by Arthur Miller.
Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock re-create their Broadway roles in Arthur Miller's contemporary tragedy about the downfall and defeat of a man and his way of life.
Willy Loman, 63, is a Brooklyn salesman who has always talked and thought big. The important things in his life are to be "well liked" and to make money. But after 36 years of devoting his life to the company, Willy is tired, and exhausted in mind, body and spirit. He has begun talking to himself. And, during the next two days, he talks out his entire life.
"Death of a Salesman" opened in 1949, and won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award and Pulitzer Prize.
Produced by David Susskind.
Frank Sinatra performs in his first ever television special. He performs his many hits.
First broadcast on NBC on November 24th, 1965, marking the occasion of Sinatra's 50th birthday.
Winner of Prime time Emmy as Outstanding Musical Program.
The 8th annual Grammy Awards, telecast live from New York City, Nashville, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Duke Ellington receives a Golden Achievement Award. Jerry Lewis is the Master Of Ceremonies.
The 1966 Grammy Awards, televised May 16th, 1966 from Chicago, New York, Nashville, and Los Angeles.
"A Taste Of Honey" by Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass won for song of the year.
"September Of My Years" by Frank Sinatra won for album of the year. Roger Miller won five awards.
Host: Jerry Lewis.
Includes Timex Commercials.
A review of 20th century American political humor, with Jack Paar, satirist
Tom Lehrer, comic actor Elliot Reid, the Plaza 9 Players and the Buster Davis Singers.
To open the show Jack Paar does a lengthy monologue.
A review of 20th century American political humor. Films recall George Bernard Shaw's political spoofs, Will Rogers needling President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Cal=vin Coolidge at official ceremonies, the Truman-Kaltenborn feud, Al Smith's musical campaigns, Fiorello La Guardia reading the funnies on the radio, Robert F. Kennedy giving a speech with his mother's "help," spoofs and ad-lib humor by Senator Everett M. Dirksen and Huey Long, Eleanor Roosevelt joking with serviceman during World War 2, Bess Truman's attempt to christen an airplane, and many other selections.
Songs heard include a campaign song medley "George Murphy, "The Great Society," others.
Sketches: Convention impressions and Republican opinion Polls.
A David Wolper Production.
The 8th Annual Emmy Awards are presented live from the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, California.
Chet Huntley presents a special award to Edward R. Murrow
Outstanding Dramatic Series: The Fugitive
Best Variety Special: Bob Hope Christmas Special, Carol Baker accepting
Hosts: Danny Kaye and Bill Cosby.
November 11th, 1964-January 27th, 1968 (ABC)
A news analysis program hosted by Howard K. Smith. The series focused mainly on the war in Vietnam.
North Vietnam report.
Howard K. Smith reports
Narrator Frederic March presents a scrapbook of famous men and women who have contributed significantly to the history of the 19th & 20th centuries. Rare
recordings of voices heard are those of Florence Nightingale, Thomas Alva Edison, William Jennings Bryan, John Barrymore, W.C. Handy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding and others. The sign off for WBAI is heard, giving the complete programming day for tomorrow on this listener sponsored New York City
Radio station.
Stars of the movie "Stagecoach" are interviewed at the opening of the film May,15th,1966 in Denver,Colorado where it was filmed. Host Bill Welsh talks to Bing Crosby, Van Heflin, Robert Cummings, Ann-Margret, and Red Buttons.
Scenes from the film are broadcast.
Broadcast on WNEW-TV in New York City.
Ceremonies from Hollywood with celebrity stars of the motion picture including Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Elke Sommer, and Marjorie Lord.
Broadcast on WNEW-TV in New York City.
NBC special on the civil rights march in Mississippi. Interviews with Dr. Martin Luther King, James Meredith, and Stokely Carmichael.
Host: Frank McGee
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