Dixon's Trading Page: Daytime Non-Game

All shows w/o/c unless stated otherwise.

Daytime soaps:

All My Children
--10/25/02 deals with the funeral of a main character; ironically the funeral is interrupted by an ABC News Special Report in which Peter Jennings reports that Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone and members of his family and staff were killed in a plane crash; opening and final scenes missing, rest of the show (51 minutes)  w/o/c

Another World
--1989 show (1 hour)

Days of Our Lives
--2/22/79 (1 hour)

The Doctors
--4/24/81 a lot of scenes set in a period disco (30 minutes)

The Guiding Light
--3/25/53 15 minutes
--1/25/07 70th anniversary show which re-enacts how the show was created and developed for radio and early TV; not entirely accurate but highly recommended

Love of Life
--1/13/53 15 minutes
--3/6/53  "  "  "

One Life to Live
--1985 snowy pic because it was taken from a cheap satelittle dish; network feed, but some cool commercials and a great cliffhanger; 1 hour

Search for Tomorrow
--3/27/53, possibly the only existing episode with series regular Don Knotts; 15 minutes

Saturday morning material:

The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine
--1974 pollution-themed ep w/the Globetrotters, Rodney Allen Rippy, Avery Schreiber and guest Tom Bosley; rather dark B&W kine

H.R. Pufnstuf
--one ep from NBC run

The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show
--1974 show; B&W kine, subpar video

Jackson 5ive
--10/71 "Drafted" b&w w/some of the commercials in color

Linus the Lionhearted
--1968 premiere

The New Casper Cartoon Show
--one show from 1968

The Pink Panther Show
--NBC early 1970s (video fair)

Underdog
--an early ep from '64


Misc:

ABC's Wide World of Sports
--2/74 show w/the Muhammad Ali/Joe Frazier fight; Howard Cosell calls the fight and O.J. Simpson fills in for Jim McKay (90 minutes)

The Bear Bryant Show (highlights show featuring the legendary Univ. of Alabama football coach)
--12/4/79 Iron Bowl, Bama wins again (commercials deleted)
--11/28/82 Iron Bowl w/Bear and Stedman Shealy; Bear's last show (unannounced; he hadn't even announced his retirement when this was taped!) w/o/c Coca Cola, Golden Flake, Kero-Sun

CBS This Morning
--7/17/89 w/Harry Smith and Faith Daniels; guests include Mel Gibson (promoting "Lethal Weapon II"), Shimon Peres, Bob Goen and Vanna White (discussing "Wheel of Fortune" and its move to CBS), and triplets born months apart (2 hours)

Donahue
--12/24/80 topic: hypnotism

The Today Show
--12/24/80 w/Jane Pauley, Tom Brokaw and Willard Scott; 70 minutes of a Christmas Eve show full of warm-hearted stories from the past year, w/o/c
---January 14, 2002, celebrating the show's 50th anniversary; a *lot* of clips, guests include Bill Cosby, Sigourney Weaver (whose father, NBC executive Pat Weaver, created the show), and former "Today" hosts Hugh Downs, Barbara Walters, Jim Hartz and Tom Brokaw

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