NBC 60th Anniversay Show…Mega Memory Tour #1
NBC 60th Anniversay Show…Mega Memory Tour #1
From now through Tuesday, we’ll have the NBC, CBS and ABC network anniversary shows for you here, plus a couple of surprises, but now, it’s time for tour #1.
This is 2 1/2 hours of NBC’s glorious history without commercials…well, almost. Ed Herlihy is here to tell you about the Kraft commercials he did, and we’ll see him in this NBC Tour themed production that has kind of a clunky intro, but all through this, there are a lot of looks at 30 Rock and Burbank, where it was all shot.
NBC has presented more recent anniversary specials, but none of those are available in their entirety like this one. As part of the tour, Milton Berle stands outside Studio 6B and confirms that the first TV show from that studio was his “Texaco Star Theater”.
Hope, Paar, Carson, Jolsen, Vallie, Chancelor, Allen, Huntley, Brinkley, Pauley, Cantor, Martin, Lewis, Abbott, Costello, Landon…westerns, dramas, soaps, sitcoms, news, radio, milestones, sports…it’s all here! Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiQT81Pe0uY
On May 12, 1986, more than 100 stars celebrated the National Broadcasting Company’s 60 years on the air in this special that features the debut of the new (a…
Where was Cosby?
I can’t wait to watch this all the way through but I honestly have to say that the opening looked like Mel Brooks directed it LOL
Here’s my version of the closing number where the NBC peacock logo is revealed. Much better quality, coming from a digital Beta master:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhtZmZcu7fg
This show was edited by my old friend Matty Powers at Unitel in 1986, right before I started working there. Matty had been an NBC editor for years before but left for greener pastures at Unitel. He’s one of the best editors I’ve ever known and has the Emmys to prove it!
I happen to have a complete copy of this show.