Women commemorate the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the 19th amendment, which granted suffrage to women.
 
An in depth ten minute report leads off this news broadcast.

Women march and demonstrate all over New York City  advocating equality. They picket a multitude of sights. Women's power are on display representing 100 million females in the USA.

In an on location report, women take over radio station WBAB, demanding their voice be heard. Interviews and comments are heard. 

Also, demonstrations are covered in Times Square, Bryant Park,  Washington D.C. and Boston Massachusetts. 

In other news, Palestine crisis, Israeli crisis addressed at UN,
Vice President Spiro Agnew's trip in the East, latest Viet Nam statistics, American marine John Sweeney asks for asylum in Sweden. His family is interviewed, NYC hippies battle police, Nigerian execution of three enemies of the country, Narcotic raids in NYC, Manson case horrors of killings described in court, Black Panther trial, search for wanted criminal Angela Davis, British Airways fire at Kennedy Airport, increasing amount of guns being stored by college students. 

Rona Barrett reviews new TV programs scheduled to debut and return to television in the Fall 1970 season.                                       

A report from all major cities in the United States celebrating the 50th anniversary of women's right to vote in our country. 2000 marchers parading for equal rights. Gloria Steinem and others voice their protests.  Women strive for better laws related to contraception, child care, and abortion rights. Denying the female stereotype is advocated. 

Rally at City Hall in NYC. Gabe Pressman  reports on location. Philp Morris company debate on how women ads are created, demeaning their equality from men. 

From NYU in the Bronx  at the Susan B. Anthony statue an inscription is read. Women in the street interviews are heard. Opinions on woman's liberation, pro and con, with women comprising 51% of the USA population and 38% of the work force.
 
Opposing groups state reasons for marching and demonstrating. 
From San Francisco, Liberty Day Demonstration. We hear the song "Liberation Now."     Day of the Woman.                      

September 26, 1976 - July 26, 1981

THE BIG EVENT was the umbrella title for assorted movies and specials broadcast frequently throughout  the latter part of the 1970's. 

A 90 minute spoof of 1976's memorable and not so memorable news events.                       

1963-1982 (SYNDICATED). Mike Douglas hosted one of television's longest-running talk shows (19 years). Each week Douglas was joined by a different co-host. In 1967, "The Mike Douglas Show" became the first syndicated talk show to win an Emmy Award.



Broadcast from 1963-1978 in Philadelphia
Broadcast from 1978-1982 in Los Angeles  

Guests are Neil Sedaka, Roy Rogers, Carole Bayer Sager, Robert Carradine, Ann Lockhart, and Gloria Steinem.