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#9649: TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JOHNNY CARSON, THE

1975-11-11, NBC, 90 min.

October 1, 1962-May 22, 1992. Johnny Carson, host of NBC's network late-night "Tonight Show" reigned for 30 unprecedented years...five times the combined tenure of Steve Allen, and Jack Paar. Carson was impervious to competition, including efforts to dethrone him by Les Crane, Joey Bishop, Merv Griffin, Dick Cavett, Jack Paar, Pat Sajak, Joan Rivers, and Arsenio Hall. Sadly, very few complete "Tonight Show" broadcasts survive during Johnny Carson's first ten years of broadcasting. Around 1965, through the early 1970's, oldest tapes were first erased systematically by orders from myopic NBC executives, to be recycled for purposes of saving money. Ironically, in many cases, these older master tapes were too brittle, and portended probable drop-outs for re-use after being erased. Subsequently blank after being erased, these older questionable master 2" Quad tapes were either sparingly used or never used again for recording new programming and eventually were discarded. Saving thousands of dollars at the time (wiping master tapes for potential re-use) resulted in losing millions of dollars by NBC in today's marketplace, and more importantly wiping thousands of historic TONIGHT SHOW broadcasts, which contain precious personal anecdotes from political, show business, and sports icons of the past.

Johnny's guests are Joan Embery, Orson Bean, Charlie Callas, and Lynda Carter.

#9656: TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JOHNNY CARSON, THE

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1976-02-25, NBC, 60 min.

October 1, 1962-May 22, 1992. Johnny Carson, host of NBC's network late-night "Tonight Show" reigned for 30 unprecedented years...five times the combined tenure of Steve Allen, and Jack Paar. Carson was impervious to competition, including efforts to dethrone him by Les Crane, Joey Bishop, Merv Griffin, Dick Cavett, Jack Paar, Pat Sajak, Joan Rivers, and Arsenio Hall. Sadly, very few complete "Tonight Show" broadcasts survive during Johnny Carson's first ten years of broadcasting. Around 1965, through the early 1970's, oldest tapes were first erased systematically by orders from myopic NBC executives, to be recycled for purposes of saving money. Ironically, in many cases, these older master tapes were too brittle, and portended probable drop-outs for re-use after being erased. Subsequently blank after being erased, these older questionable master 2" Quad tapes were either sparingly used or never used again for recording new programming and eventually were discarded. Saving thousands of dollars at the time (wiping master tapes for potential re-use) resulted in losing millions of dollars by NBC in today's marketplace, and more importantly wiping thousands of historic TONIGHT SHOW broadcasts, which contain precious personal anecdotes from political, show business, and sports icons of the past.

Johnny's guests are Lynda Carter, William Demarest, Orson Bean, and Paul Williams.

#7687: BATTLE OF THE NETWORK STARS, THE

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1976-11-13, ABC, 120 min.

November 13, 1976 - December 10, 1988.

Teams of current and classic TV stars from multiple eras and different genres go head-to-head in a variety of athletic games, including events like Tug o' War, the Obstacle Course and the Dunk Tank. 

Host: Howard Cosell and others.

#10015A: GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS, 34TH ANNUAL, THE

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1977-01-29, NBC, 90 min.

The 34th Annual Golden Globe Awards for 1976 are presented.

Host: Harry Belafonte.

#8890: MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW, THE

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1977-10-12, SYN, 79 min.

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   

From Hollywood, on location at Paramount Studios, Mike visits with Cindy Williams, Penny Marshall, David L. Lander, Michael McKean, Phil Foster and director Alan Rafkin on the set of "Laverne and Shirley." The entire ensemble reenact a script reading rehearsal. Also, Mike visits with Telly Savalas and Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman").