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.
Video: 'Chico and the Man'
(Friday, September 13, 1974, 8:30 p.m. EDT) — Chico and the Man, a sitcom television series about a cantankerous owner of a run down garage in an East Los Angeles barrio and an upbeat, optimistic Chicano young man who comes in looking for a job, debuted tonight as a regular television series on NBC. It starred Jack Albertson and Freddie Prinze. Continue reading ‘Chico and the Man’ series debuts on NBC-TV 40 years ago this hour (Sep 13 1974)
Video: 'Little House On The Prairie [1974] - Opening and Ending Videos'
(Wednesday, September 11, 1974, 8:00 p.m. EDT) — Little House on the Prairie, a Western drama about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s, debuted tonight as a regular television series on NBC. It starred Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, Karen Grassle and Melissa Sue Anderson.
Video: 'Paul Simon' (5-video playlist)
(Thursday, September 5, 1974, 11:30 p.m. EDT) — Musician Paul Simon appeared on tonight’s season 9 premiere of the late-night program The Dick Cavett Show on ABC-TV.
