Yes, and if you lined up all of today's TV stars they wouldn't come close to the poise and professionalism of the stars of that era.

@@FredFlix indeed Fred. This was done in the days before the million dollar an episode mini-mogul actors, divas, ego-over-talent musicians, and journalists that put personal feelings over journalistic integrity. even when NBC celebrated its 75th they overempphasized their recent 10 years while ignoring and skipping a lot of their history, that itself was nearly 2 decades ago. after the early 90s as these venerable broadcast institutions became part of giant labyrinthe conglomerates. the protocols changed. Quality took seconds to quantity. The traditional platforms are no longer "the place to be" The flipside is that thanks to technology, you do have things like YT,Netflix and the networks/studios various off broadcast platforms (All Access,Disney+/hulu,Peacock,HBO Max,Crunchyroll,etc) you have independent journalism and independent creators. In their own way they capture the spirit of the old days of TV and movies.

@@thewipsportstalkfan3160 You are absolutely right! Today in 2022 NBC would ban most of its own TV series from the 1940s til the 2000s. Why? Because most of it is not politically correct, Woke Culture, Cancel Culture, Social Justice Warriors and Liberals!

Indeed. Who is left as of September, 2022? As far as I know, Bess Armstrong, Sandy Duncan, Julie Kavner, Linda Lavin, June Lockhart, Dan Rather, Rob Reiner, The Smothers Brothers, Sally Struthers, Adrienne Barbeau, Bill Cosby, Demond Wilson, Alan Alda, Jamie Farr, Loretta Swit, John Amos, Bob Schieffer, Dick Van Dyke, Jimmy Walker, Michael Learned, Kami Cotler, David Harper, Mary Elizabeth McDonough, Judy Norton (Taylor), Eric Scott, Jon Walmsley, Lee Meriwether, Richard Thomas, Bob Barker, Lynda Carter, Bernard Kalb (100 years old!), Lesley Stahl, Barbara Bain, Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, Bob Newhart. Actually, 54 years later, that's not half bad. There was one name I couldn't make out just before Valerie Harper, and a face I couldn't recognize, who was young enough then to still be alive now. Please correct any other mistakes I've made. PS Beatrice Arthur looked downright sullen. Did she just have an argument with Lucille Ball?

​@@gnirolnamlerf593Joan Hackett was standing next to Valerie Harper.

They worked their butts off to pull off that roll call. Pure class.

You're right. All my favorite are from the past. Isis. Shazam. Lucan. Man from Atlantis. Amazing Spider-Man. Bigfoot and Wildboy. California Fever. Bad News Bears. Such a perfect time of life it seemed.

Sad but true..Jessica..there are no real talented performers..like the ones that appeared on ABC's and CBS Tv's 25th and 50th anniversary tv tributes..the recent tv tributes to these two tv network and NBC's 60th and 90th tv tributes are little more than celebrity babble festivals.

Hollywood was awesome but now it’s degrading and degenerate. Hollywood was family friendly back then and now it promotes weirdness.

@@NiceChest1 agreed theres been a brain drain since 2004!

@@NiceChest1 As the late great 3 Stooges would say...And how!

CBS had a much deeper bench of stars to draw from than did ABC.

You're welcome.

Yep. Easily knew who 95% of these people were. I couldnt tell you who 10-15% of the top TV stars are on today. I have better luck identifying cats from YT cat videos than tv and movie people.

You're welcome, Joe. Thanks for the credit ID.

People are more focused on the ones who have passed on...I'm blown away at many of the survivors as of 2017..like Bill Macy who's like 98. Richard Crenna is the only one I spotted in both specials.

If you know the story of ABC it was really the blue channel that NBC ran on radio but the FCC told them they can't run two stations on radio. NBC radio became what was originally the red channel of NBC. ABC radio became what was the blue channel. ABC joined television later than NBC and CBS. ABC radio at one point was sold to Citadel Broadcasting but they merged with Cumulus. Basically then Cumulus is what is left of the old ABC radio network. ABC entered radio in 1943. They enter TV in 1948. CBS in some shape or form dates back to 1927. Paramount was basically the entity that created CBS. Paramount begin in 1912. 1941 was the first television broadcast of CBS television and that was 2 years before ABC began on radio.

Glad you enjoyed it, Len.

@Karen Carpenter Only when she takes that cat off her lap

Yes! ABC considers February 9, 1953 as the date that the network was "born". It was not: that was the day the FCC allowed United Paramount Theaters to acquire the network for $25 million in shares. The ACTUAL date the network came into its own was October 12, 1943, when NBC sold its "Blue Network" radio division to Edward J. Noble; he officially renamed it the "American Broadcasting Company" in June 1945.

I agree. I was always caught between both of them. I wrote to Carter in 2010 and wrote to Barbeau in 2014.

CBS 👍👍

Yes, and there will be nothing like it again.

Hitchcock died in 1980, so this would have been his last appearance on TV.

@@stewartlynch7859 John Wayne passed away shortly after the ABC 25th celebration, so this was his last appearance on teevee…

@@stewartlynch7859 Alfred Hitchcock was from NBC, and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premiered on NBC on Sunday Nights @ 8:30PM/7:30PM CT/MT, following "Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories" effective September 29, 1985.

@@stewartlynch7859 Also, NBC scored the highest ratings in the 1984-1985 TV season with the made-for-television movie "The Burning Bed", which received high ratings on the night of it's premiere and rebroadcast!

If u ever want to sell a copy of the full ABC 4 hr. show I'm in

I saw Fred McMurray twice as well.

Steve Allen was the host of "I've Got A Secret" on CBS after Garry Moore left.

Thank you, Gary. I hadn't remembered that.

FredFlix My Three Sons was on both ABC & CBS for nearly the same amount of time...

Yes, because ABC didn't want the expense of converting to color. CBS didn't mind and I started watching the show regularly on CBS as soon as Tina Cole signed on. She was a doll.

I don't think the news division at ABC wanted to be associated with the programming division.

David Groh was starring in a brand new CBS show that they were promoting heavily at the time so that’s probably why they broke he and Valerie apart onto different nights.

Though Joan Hackett came after Don Knotts.

Actually, They did. ABC aired a 50th anniversary show around May 2003 and CBS aired "CBS at 75" in November 2003.

Because "True Grit" was the highest rated feature film on the network. Enough said.

I think he had an exclusive deal with ABC to show his movies on their network. I think that’s the only connection aside from him hosting an anniversary special previous to this.

At best it would be a bunch of lightweights whom very people would know or care about. It wouldn't be nearly as spectacular or historical

That didn't become a regular feature on "60 Minutes" until a couple years later I believe.

There was NO 90th anniversary tribute to CBS; now, it's too late.

I notice Ron Howard didn't make an appearance on the CBS special, probably because the show he was on at that time was on ABC (I did spot him in the giant crowd that amassed on stage in that special).

Fred MacMurray?

She didn’t want to sing, though.