Bob Hope is host and Master Of Ceremonies for the 39th Annual Academy Awards ceremony, telecast live from the Santa Monica, Civic Auditorium, in Santa Monica, California.   

                                                                                         

Special: Hit numbers from the Great White Way are restaged in a follow-up to a program telecast in 1979. Once again, librettist Sylvia Fine (Mrs. Danny Kaye) sets up the plots and social contexts of four musicals: "Finian's Rainbow (1947); "South Pacific" (1949), which is also remembered by its director, Joshua Logan; "Sweet Charity" (1966); and the rarely revived "Lady in the Dark" (1941).

January 30, 1982-February 27, 1982.

 Fresh from his series, "Soap," Billy Crystal hosts this short-lived five week variety series. Crystal creatively reprises many of his comic characters.

In sketches, Fernando Lamas (Crystal) interviews Mel Tillis...a doctor's X-ray machine suddenly becomes a video game, and Uncle Julius (Billy) is upset with his bridge partner (Michael McManus).  Also, Mel sings, "It's Gonna Be One of Them Days."