mediabear

Looks like a lot of memories

From abc.com:


ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration
Monday, May 19 at 8/7c

The ABC Television Network is commemorating its 50 historic years of television in a memorable three-hour special celebration. The event features appearances, clips and interviews with ABC stars past and present — from Primetime to Daytime, Sports to News — representing every genre of ABC's 50-year history of television programming.

Dozens of celebrities from ABC's 50-year history participated in the celebration, including Muhammad Ali, Tim Allen, Jim Belushi, Drew Carey, Richard Chamberlain, Dick Clark, Peter Falk, Farrah Fawcett, Dennis Franz, Jennifer Garner, Florence Henderson, Bonnie Hunt, Jimmy Kimmel, Carl Lewis, George Lopez, Susan Lucci, Joan Lunden, John Madden, Camryn Manheim, Penny Marshall, Al Michaels, Joe Namath, Ryan O'Neal, John Ritter, Roseanne, John Travolta, Barbara Walters, Damon Wayans, Jaleel White, Clarence Williams III, Oprah Winfrey and Henry Winkler, among many, many others.

Highlights of the celebration will include:

- Cast reunions from ABC's most beloved series, including Welcome Back Kotter, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, The Love Boat, The Mod Squad and NYPD Blue, among others.
- Fifty years of historic news events presented by such ABC news figures as Barbara Walters, Hugh Downs, Diane Sawyer, Peter Jennings, Ted Koppel, Charles Gibson, Joan Lunden, David Hartman and others.
- Unforgettable moments and tributes from the world of sports, including appearances by legendary sports figures like heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, football All-Star great Joe Namath, sports announcers Al Michaels, John Madden and Jim McKay, Olympic gold medalists Carl Lewis and Dorothy Hamill and many others.
- Oprah Winfrey and Richard Chamberlain present unforgettable scenes from ABC's most acclaimed movies and miniseries.
- Clips from ABC's favorite comedy and drama series past and present.

Venusian

wonder how they chose which shows to spotlight and which to just mention

LBPound

Did nobody watch this?

I like stuff like this, and enjoyed ABC's 50th like NBC's special celebration last year.

bigjim25

to the Alias spoof and Damon Wayans on Leave It To Beaver

retihsuhnt

I watched the first few minutes of this and damn neared fell off my couch laughing at Tim Allen roasting the ABC brass to start off the show with.

I am sorry buy Allen explaing what a "top rated" program is, was classic.

Chad

Yeah, that Damon Wayans bit talking about Whitey really cracked me up.

Eplicon

It was an enjoyable enough trip down memory lane, with several hilarious moments. I think I preferred the 25th Anniversary show (from 1978) more, since I watched more of their programming back then than I do now.

My only real disappointment was seeing that Peggy Lipton has not aged too well!

HistoryProf

any chance they'll reair this? I enjoy these kind of things and this one looked pretty fun....but i completely spaced it off and didn't see any of it

guywall

The Wonder Years ending was awesome. (Probably because I loved the show).

The last 10 mintues was all I got to see. What was the Alias spoof?

freedexter

I really wish they would rerun this. I was a bit preoccupied at the time, and missed it. Maybe, if I'm lucky, they will air it again over summer.