Video: '21st GRAMMY Awards Highlights'
(Thursday, February 15, 1979, 6:00-8:00 p.m. PST) — Billy Joel was the big winner tonight at the 21st Annual Grammy Awards tonight at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, winning both Record and Song of the Year for “Just the Way You Are.” Continue reading Billy Joel big winner at Grammy Awards 40 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Feb 15 1979)
Video: 'WKRP in Cincinnati S01E07 Turkeys Away'
(Monday, October 30, 1978, 8:00-8:30 p.m. EST) — Mr. Carlson puts on a Thanksgiving promotion involving turkeys tossed from a helicopter at a shopping mall on tonight’s episode of the CBS situation comedy television series WKRP in Cincinnati. Continue reading ‘Turkeys Away’ episode airs on ‘WKRP in Cincinnati ‘ 40 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 30 1978)
Video: 'WKRP in Cincinnati S01E01 Pilot'
(Monday, September 18, 1978, 8:40-9:10 p.m. EDT, delayed by President Carter’s address to Congress) — WKRP in Cincinnati, an American prime time television sitcom series that featured the misadventures of the staff of a struggling fictional radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio, debuted tonight on CBS. Continue reading ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’ series debuts on CBS-TV 40 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 18 1978)
Video: 'Julie Kavner Wins Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series | Emmys Archive (1978)'
(Sunday, September 17, 1978, 8:00-11:35 p.m. EDT) — Holocaust, NBC’s saga of two German families caught in the Nazi terror, and All in the Family, a comedy series about America’s favorite bigot, won top honors tonight at the 30th Primetime Emmy Awards tonight at Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California. Continue reading ‘Holocaust,’ ‘All in the Family’ big winners at Emmy Awards 40 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 17 1978)
Video: 'Mork & Mindy Season 1 Episode 1 2 Pilot'
(Thursday, September 14, 1978, 8:00-9:00 p.m. EDT) — Mork & Mindy, an American prime time television sitcom series about an extraterrestrial who comes to Earth from the planet Ork in a small, one-Orkan egg-shaped spaceship, debuted tonight on ABC. Continue reading ‘Mork & Mindy’ series debuts on ABC-TV 40 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 14 1978)
Video: 'S1 - E1 Like Father Like Daughter'
(Tuesday, September 12, 1978, 9:30-10:00 p.m. EDT) — Taxi, an American prime time television sitcom series about the everyday lives of a handful of New York City taxi drivers and their abusive dispatcher, debuted tonight on ABC. Continue reading ‘Taxi’ series debuts on ABC-TV 40 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 12 1978)
Video: 'Who killed Bob Crane? Part 1'
(Thursday, June 29, 1978, at around 2:00 p.m. MST) — Actor Bob Crane, the star of television’s Hogan’s Heroes, was found bludgeoned to death this afternoon in his apartment in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he was appearing in the play Beginner’s Luck at the Windmill Dinner Theater.
The murder remains officially unsolved.
Crane was 49.
Video: 'Who killed Bob Crane? Part 2'
Video: 'Who killed Bob Crane? Part 3'
Video: 'Who killed Bob Crane? Part 4'
Video: 'Revealing the DNA evidence - Who killed Bob Crane?'
Video: '20/20 Pilot (ABC) June 1978'
(Tuesday, June 6, 1978, 10:00-11:00 p.m. EDT) — 20/20, an American television newsmagazine featuring in-depth story packages, created by ABC News executive Roone Arledge and hosted by Harold Hayes and Robert Hughes, debuted tonight ABC. Continue reading ’20/20′ news magazine debuts on ABC-TV 40 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 6 1978)
Video: '1978 Ringo' (6 videos)
(Wednesday, April 26, 1978, 9:00-10:00 p.m. EST) — Ringo, a television film starring former Beatle Ringo Starr as both a fictionalized version of himself and his fictional half-brother “Ognir Rrats” (loosely based on The Prince and the Pauper), was broadcast tonight NBC. Continue reading ‘Ringo’ television film debuts on NBC 40 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Apr 26 1978)
(Tuesday, April 25, 1978) — Former Beatle Ringo Starr appeared on today‘s Newscenter 4 broadcast on WNBC (taped some time in March 1978) to promote his television film Ringo, set to premiere the following evening on NBC (click here to watch the interview).
