Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Knock, knock. Who's there? Nancy Reagan, if one happened to be on the set of the NBC series Different Strokes in Los Angeles last week. The former actress, last seen in 1956's Hellcats of the Navy with Ronald Reagan, agreed to do the show as part of her crusade against teen-age drug abuse. On the program, which airs this Saturday, Arnold, played by Gary Coleman, writes a story about a drug ring in his school, and his report winds up in a New York City newspaper. Nancy, playing Nancy, reads it and drops...
...Hope's Road to Hollywood, an NBC special set for this week, the comedian has dusted off a ton of old film clips from many of his more than 55 feature films, including the seven Road pictures he did with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, 68. And so, to say "Thanks for the memories," Hope gathered a chorus of his past leading ladies. Lined up from left to right, Virginia Mayo, 62, Janis Paige, 60, Jill St. John, 42, Martha Raye, 66, Rosemary Clooney, 54, Lucille Ball, 71, Rhonda Fleming, 59, Lamour, Jane Russell, 61, Dina Merrill...
...alltime highest-rated shows (a list that ranges from the Who Shot J.R.? segment of Dallas at the top to a 1964 episode of The Beverly Hillbillies). More people may have seen "some segment" of Winds simply because, at 18 hours compared with twelve for Roots and NBC's 1980 Shogun, there was more...
...other networks professed polite corporate pleasure at Winds' success. Says Susan Baerwald, NBC's vice president for miniseries: "Winds was a gamble for ABC, and I'm thrilled it paid off. It gives the mini-series another lease on life." NBC is cranking up 15 new miniseries, CBS is playing it conservative with only three, and ABC will admit to having only two in the works. One of them, the ten-hour The Thorn Birds, will air starting in late March...
...bunch of lies." The purported criticisms from colleagues, all made in unattributed quotes, were contradicted in separate letters to TV Guide by: Executive Producer Don Hewitt and Correspondents Harry Reasoner, Morley Safer and Mike Wallace; David Burke, a former 60 Minutes producer now working for rival NBC; and 16 staffers at 60 Minutes, who said that Ribowsky did not interview any of them...