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#9696: TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JOHNNY CARSON, THE

1977-03-16, NBC, 90 min.

October 1, 1962-May 22, 1992. Johnny Carson, host of NBC's network late-night "Tonight Show" reigned for 30 unprecedented years...five times the combined tenure of Steve Allen, and Jack Paar. Carson was impervious to competition, including efforts to dethrone him by Les Crane, Joey Bishop, Merv Griffin, Dick Cavett, Jack Paar, Pat Sajak, Joan Rivers, and Arsenio Hall. Sadly, very few complete "Tonight Show" broadcasts survive during Johnny Carson's first ten years of broadcasting. Around 1965, through the early 1970s, oldest tapes were first erased systematically by orders from myopic NBC executives, to be recycled for purposes of saving money. Ironically, in many cases, these older master tapes were too brittle and portended probable drop-outs for re-use after being erased. Subsequently blank after being erased, these older questionable master 2" Quad tapes were either sparingly used or never used again for recording new programming and eventually were discarded. Saving thousands of dollars at the time (wiping master tapes for potential re-use) resulted in losing millions of dollars by NBC in today's marketplace, and more importantly wiping thousands of historic TONIGHT SHOW broadcasts, which contain precious personal anecdotes from political, show business, and sports icons of the past.




Johnny's guests are William Holden, Mel Tillis, Kelly Monteith, and Dan Haggerty.

#9809: UNITED STATES AGAINST THE WORLD, THE

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1977-09-07, NBC, 120 min.

This sports special pitted celebrities from film and television in the United States against stars from the United Kingdom and the rest of the world. Competition included bowling, darts, rowing, swimming, running relays, and soccer goal kicking. 

Co-hosts: Jack Klugman and Ed McMahon.

#2129: DEAN MARTIN SHOW, THE

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1977-11-02, WNBC, 52 min.

Dan Haggerty takes the punches on this season's first "Dean Martin Celebrity Roast." The roasters joining Martin include Denver Pyle (Haggerty's costar on "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams"), Harry Morgan, William Conrad, Orson Welles, Marilyn Michaels, Abe Vigoda, Roger Miller, Pat Harrington, Rich Little, Jimmie Walker and LaWanda Page.

#2132: DEAN MARTIN SHOW, THE

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1978-05-31, WNBC, 52 min.

Betty White is roasted by her husband Allen Ludden, Georgia Engel and John Hillerman (costars of her 1977 TV series), host Dean Martin, Phyllis Diller, Milton Berle, Peter Marshall, Bonnie Franklin, Dan Haggerty, Orson Welles, Jimmie Walker, LaWanda Page and Abe Vigoda.

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#9696: TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JOHNNY CARSON, THE

1977-03-16, NBC, 90 min.

#9809: UNITED STATES AGAINST THE WORLD, THE

1977-09-07, NBC, 120 min.

#2129: DEAN MARTIN SHOW, THE

1977-11-02, WNBC, 52 min.

#2132: DEAN MARTIN SHOW, THE

1978-05-31, WNBC, 52 min.