Video: 'The Midnight Special 1973 - 19 - Anne Murray - Dannys Song'
(Saturday, March 3, 1973, 1:00 a.m. EST) — Anne Murray (host) and Don McLean are among the performers on tonight’s episode of the late-night musical variety NBC series The Midnight Special. Continue reading Anne Murray, Don McLean appear on ‘Midnight Special’ 40 years ago this hour (1973)
Video: 'The Midnight Special More 1973 - 13 - Harry Chapin - Taxi'
(Saturday, February 24, 1973, 1:00 a.m. EST) — Harry Chapin (host) and The Hollies are among the performers on tonight’s episode of the late-night musical variety NBC series The Midnight Special. Continue reading Harry Chapin, The Hollies appear on ‘Midnight Special’ 40 years ago this hour (1973)
(Friday, February 23, 1973, 11:30 p.m. EST) — Comedian and actor Jerry Lewis appeared on tonight’s The Dick Cavett Show on ABC-TV.
(Wednesday, February 21, 1973, 11:30 p.m. EST) — Comic legend Jack Benny, comedian-actor Bill Cosby, boxer Joe Frazier and comic actor Phil Silvers appeared on tonight’s The Dick Cavett Show on ABC-TV.
Video: 'The Midnight Special More 1973 - 23 - (Bonus) Stand Up Comedy - Ace Trucking'
(Saturday, February 10, 1973, 1:00 a.m. EST) — The Ace Trucking Company comedy troupe, Steely Dan and The Spinners are among the performers on tonight’s episode of the late-night musical variety NBC series The Midnight Special with host Johnny Rivers. Continue reading Steely Dan, Spinners appear on ‘Midnight Special’ 40 years ago this hour (1973)
Video: '"A Date with Doug"'
(Friday, February 9, 1973, 8 p.m. EST) — Peter’s wildly thrown football hits Marcia’s nose, causing it to swell and bruise (“Oh, my nose!”) on tonight’s ABC television sitcom series The Brady Bunch.
TV Guide and TV Land ranked this episode #98 out the “100 Most Memorable TV Moments of All Time” in 2004.
Video: 'Helen Reddy - I Am Woman (Midnight Special - Feb 2, 1973)'
(Saturday February 3, 1973, 1:00 a.m. EST) —Midnight Special, a late-night musical variety series, debuted this morning as a regular series (it had premiered as a special on Aug. 19, 1972) on NBC-TV, with Helen Reddy as the host. Continue reading ‘Midnight Special’ debuts as a series on NBC 40 years ago this hour (1973)
Video: 'Barnaby Jones - S1E1 - Requiem For A Son' (Jan. 28, 1973)
(Sunday, January 28, 1973, 9:30 p.m. EST) —Barnaby_Jones, a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles, debuted tonight on CBS-TV.
Video: 'Schoolhouse Rock Classics: Multiplication Rock'
(Saturday, January 6, 1973) —Schoolhouse Rock!, an American interstitial programming series of animated musical educational short films that aired during the Saturday morning children’s programming, debuted today on ABC-TV.
Video: Aug. 30, 1972 (only 'Imagine' missing from ABC-TV broadcast of Dec. 15, 1972)
(Friday, December 15, 1972, 10 p.m. EST) — An Aug. 30, 1972, performance by ex-Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono with The Plastic Ono Elephant’s Memory band at Madison Square Garden in New York City to benefit the Willowbrook School for Children, a home for retarded children, was televised tonight on ABC.
