CBS Newsbreak with Morton Dean 1977

[recto89]

Morton Dean I heard of him in the 1990's at ABC News!

[Stevis82]

Oh, no! They missed Maude that night! I don't know how life went on.

[johnbubbanewsdude]

RIP Andy Rooney

[TheJediCharles]

That Burger Chef commercial warrants it's own, stand-alone YouTube upload.

[MattTheSaiyan]

Any special that results in "Maude" being pre-empted can't be all bad.

[TheUbercharge1]

1:19 "with Will Smith"? its 1977! how is he a grown man?

[KJTV67]

@TheUbercharge1 That's Flip Wilson, you philistine!

[TheUbercharge1]

@KJTV67 lol,ok,i was joking

[Superbook4Eva]

Two questions:

1) When did CBS stop using that 'Special Presentation' graphic? If I remember correctly, it was being used as late as 1984 to 1986 - I have memories of seeing it used before the annual airing of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" on WJBK-TV in Detroit.

2) What is the Burger Chef/Burger King connection? I thought I read somewhere that BK bought out Burger Chef.

[GregNoll61]

@Superbook4Eva The only real connection is that the founders of Burger Chef were a couplea guys who who hired to create a flame broiling machine for Burger King. After they built the machine they decided to use it for themselves and open their own burger place, and Burger Chef was born. The company was eventually was sold to the Hardee's chain, who still bring back the Super Chef sandwich every year or so.

[parlet]

And Bea Arthur was PISSED

[pav777tube]

Tony Randall was on almost every variety show/music special of the 70's

[suspekt29]

Open wide america, you're the predecessor to the fat fucks we are now.

[turbo1964]

Julie London - An American legend - and Rose Milk spokesperson!

[peteradaniel]

Too many eerie silences and dead air back then. No wonder we hated watching the tub. I had a shit load of night mares from those awful graphics.

[peterdarker1]

@peteradaniel Just saw this clip while searchin You Tube for clips on the NYC blackout of 1977. Man, how right you are about the scary silences and newtork graphics in the mid to late seventies! I too, had numerous nightmares as a kid from the sounds and visuals alone. They are ubercool to me now, but the CBS Special Presentation spinning logo had me running behind the couch in fear of it landing in the livving room and raping me.

[richardmcboingboing]

julie london made phoning it in real hot

[laronmaron98]

WOW! I thought that was Cromwell in that ad...then thought, nah...couldn't be him.

Poster: thanks for sharing this. How do you know for a fact it was Cromwell?

[Hawaiifive01]

Damn! We're gonna miss Maud!

[nakamichiguy]

This does bring back memories of watching TV as a kid. I love old news clips. I do think that TV has gotten better. MUCH better...does anyone really want to see that 'special' they teased? ;-) Network news, however, has suffered greatly since then. It's very sad.

[seanpdineen]

strech cunningham, to george hw bush.

Woah!

[crassyfrake]

isnt the dad from the burger chef commercial James Cromwell?

[robatsea2009]

@crassyfrake Yes; that's actually mentioned in my clip description.

[thefirefighter2011]

@robatsea2009

was that Richard Crenna from the short lived CBS sitcom "All's Fair?"

[RichHartley19671]

Why wonder what the special was? They said it on the commercial before the Burger Chef plug: "Yankee Doodle to Ragtime...coming up next!" (and if you still wanted your Bernadette Peters fix for the evening, you could watch her sing and dance in the special which pre-empted her show "All's Fair.").

[MattTheSaiyan]

Back when they reported real news....

[bybeert]

This brings back lots of memories of growing up in the 70s. My how TV has changed and not for the better either!

[TheAndyinSeattle]

makes you wonder what the special presentation was

[floooky1]

@TheAndyinSeattle The Special Presentation was "They Said It With Music: Yankee Doodle to Ragtime."

I miss many things about the 70's, but a music variety special preempting scheduled programming isn't one of them!

[twylo]

Jesus Christ, did Andy Rooney EVER look young? Was he born old?

[Oodus]

Announcer: "The Sonny and Cher Show will not be presented this evening."

U.S. Population: "Thank God."

[MarkJ1961]

Great Memories! I do remember when CBS-TV also went "BONG" at the top-of-the-Hour. At least CBS-Radio still goes "BONG" at :00 before the hourly newscast-- the Radio side of the Columbia Broadcasting System has been going "BONG" since 1938!

[moosewelch]

Ha haha.. That hijacked bus is a Vermont Transit.. I think that's kinda goofy.. cause I live in Vermont.. that's all.

[rosrychaplet]

Thanks for the memories.

[raposofan]

How many of us miss when TV sounded and looked like this? (Raises hand)

[evergreenpotato]

@raposofan I never would have guessed I ever would at the time, but yes, I miss it, too.

[linusvanpelter]

@raposofan I'm raising my hand!

[Juliaflo]

@raposofan Forever raising my hand.

What do you think television has become today?

[StormsongK]

@raposofan Me!

[eci4r]

I remember burger chef back in michigan

[AarHan3]

Happy 201st birthday, America! ;^)

[Monty22001]

They didn't show Maude that night?!!?

[tommiej3]

OMG Burger Chef -there was one on Rt 73 southbound right before the Marlton NJ Circle near where the Kohl's is today.

[shella2bella]

Wow....I forgot all about burger chef. All are great memories...Thank you.

[HowieP]

WKZO is now WWMT as of 1985. I know, cause I live in Grand Rapids.

[noahf67]

Hey, where's that "Yankee Doodle" CBS special?! I remember seeing it when it

aired, 7/4/77. We had our apt. windows in Queens wide open as the streets exploded with M80s.