Video: '1975 Oscars' (25 videos)
(Tuesday, April 8, 1975, 7:00 p.m.-9:50 p.m. PDT) — The Godfather Part II, an American musical about a phonetics instructor who bets that he can pass a street urchin off as a lady, won eight Oscars tonight at the 47th Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Francis Ford Coppola for Best Director. Continue reading ‘The Godfather Part II’ wins Best Picture at 47th Academy Awards 40 years ago this hour (Apr 8 1975)
Video: 'Gunsmoke S20 E24 The Sharecroppers'
(Monday, March 31, 1975, 8:00 p.m. EST) — A comedy of errors puts Festus behind a plow, farming for a family of shiftless sharecroppers as the television Western drama series Gunsmoke closed out 20 seasons on CBS with its final first-run episode, “The Sharecroppers.”
Video: 'MASH Season 3 E-24 Abyssinia Henry'
(Tuesday, March 18, 1975, 8:30 p.m. EST) — The 4077th MASH’s commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake (played by McLean Stevenson), finally gets his discharge on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV sitcom M*A*S*H. Continue reading ‘Abyssinia, Henry’ episode airs on ‘M*A*S*H’ 40 years ago this hour (Mar 18 1975)
Video: '17th Grammy Awards 74' (5 videos)
(Saturday, March 1, 1975, 10:00-11:30 p.m. EST) — The blind singer-composer Stevie Wonder and composer Marvin Hamlisch each received four awards tonight at 17th Annual Grammy Awards at Uris Theatre in New York City.
Record of the Year went to a British-born singer Olivia Newton-John, for “I Honestly Love You.”
Video: 'Shirley Temple: From child star to ambassador'
(Sunday, February 9, 1975, 6:00 p.m. EST) — Legendary child actress Shirley Temple (Black) was interviewed by correspondent Morley Safer tonight on the CBS television magazine series 60 Minutes as she embarked on a new career as the U.S. ambassador to Ghana.
Video: 'Jack Benny - CBS News Tribute/Obituary (Dec 29, 1974)' (Benny's funeral at 32:47)
(Sunday, December 29, 1974) — The show-business world turned out today at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California, to say goodbye to Jack Benny, the gentle comedian who charmed millions of Americans over a long career that carried him through the top ranks of vaudeville, radio, movies and television.
Benny died Dec. 26, 1974, of cancer at the age of 80.
Video: 'Mony Python Party Political Broadcast'
(Thursday, December 5, 1974) — “Party Political Broadcast,” the final episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, a British sketch comedy series created by the comedy group Monty Python, aired today on BBC Television.
Video: 'Ed Sullivan Biography piece'
(Sunday, October 13, 1974) — Ed Sullivan, who entertained hundreds of millions of Americans over his long career as Broadway columnist and host of the long-running televised Sunday evening variety show, died tonight at New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital of cancer. He was 73 years old.
Video: 'Police Woman - The End Game (1974)' (Sept. 13, 1974)
(Friday, September 13, 1974, 10:00 p.m. EDT) — Police Woman, a police drama television series that revolves around Sgt. “Pepper” Anderson, an undercover police officer working for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, debuted tonight as a regular television series on NBC. It starred Angie Dickinson and Earl Holliman.
Video: 'The Rockford Files The Kirkoff Case' (Sept. 13, 1974)
(Friday, September 13, 1974, 9:00 p.m. EDT) — The Rockford Files, a drama television series about Los Angeles-based private investigator Jim Rockford and his father, a retired truck driver, debuted tonight as a regular television series on NBC. It starred James Garner and Noah Beery, Jr.
