WLS Channel 7 - 30th Anniversary Special (Part 6, 1978)
Here's Part 6 of
WLS Channel 7's
30th Anniversary Special, broadcast from
Chicago's
Park West and hosted by
Eyewitness News anchors
Fahey Flynn and
Joel Daly.
This part includes:
Long shot of anniversary audience and show title on screen, with intro of preview of films to be shown on
ABC's movie shows in the 1978-79 season (introductory voiceover by
Gary Gears)
"
The Movies on
ABC" promo (voiceover by
Ernie Anderson), with clips from the following films to be shown in the coming season:
- "
The Pink Panther Strikes Again" (
1976) with
Peter Sellers as
Inspector Clouseau and
Herbert Lom as his nemesis
Dreyfus
- "
Walking Tall -
The Final Chapter" (
1977) with
Bo Svenson as
Buford Pusser
- "
Shampoo" (
1975) with
Warren Beatty,
Julie Christie,
Goldie Hawn,
Lee Grant and
Jack Warden
- "
The Little Girl Who Lives
Down The
Lane" (1976) with
Jodie Foster and
Martin Sheen
- "
Mother, Jugs & Speed" (1976) with
Bill Cosby,
Raquel Welch and
Harvey Keitel (respectively)
- "
Gumball Rally" (1976) with
Michael Sarrazin and featuring
Gary Busey and
Susan Flannery
- "
The Odessa File" (
1974) with
Jon Voight,
Maximilian Schell and
Maria Schell
- "
Taxi Driver" (1976) with
Robert De Niro,
Cybill Shepherd and Jodie Foster
- "
Fun With Dick And Jane" (1977) with
George Segal,
Jane Fonda and
Ed McMahon
- "
The Bad News Bears" (1976) with
Walter Matthau and
Tatum O'Neal (ironically, the short-lived
TV series based on that film would run on
CBS)
This is followed by an "
Encore!" of the following titles:
- "
The Way We Were" (
1973) with
Robert Redford and
Barbra Streisand
- "
The Longest Yard" (1974) with
Burt Reynolds
- "
Butch Cassidy and
The Sundance Kid" (
1969) with Robert Redford,
Paul Newman and
Katherine Ross
- "
The Sting" (1973) with
Newman and
Redford
Next comes "Novels for
Television" to air the upcoming season:
- "
Pearl" (about the lead-up to the
December 7th 1941 bombing of
Pearl Harbor by the
Japanese) with an all-star cast including
Angie Dickinson,
Dennis Weaver,
Robert Wagner and
Lesley Ann Warren (
Trivia Note: One of the parts aired opposite
The Star Wars Holiday Special on CBS)
- "
Roots:
The Next Generations" (a follow-up to the hugely successful 1977 miniseries "Roots"), with an all-star cast including
Dorian Harewood,
Ruby Dee,
Henry Fonda,
Richard Thomas,
Georg Stanford Brown, and
Olivia de Havilland
This is followed by another "We're the One" promo (with voiceover by Ernie Anderson), with previews of the following shows in the coming season:
-
Charlie's Angels
-
Vega$
-
Battlestar Galactica (the title of which is shown on the screen as "
Battle Star: Galactica")
30th Anniversary
Show title with long shot of audience and preview of final segment (voiceover by Gary Gears)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday,
September 9th 1978 during the 9pm to
10pm timeframe.
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