View Full Version : Late 1970’s CBS. How many people can you identify?


opus
12-10-2022, 01:23 AM
Warning—LOTS of people to identify in the video. Moves fairly quickly too

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https://youtu.be/pAoWajULp6E

1960'sTVfan
12-10-2022, 11:00 AM
Several familiar faces here including Bonnie Franklin looking very pretty around the 1:40 mark. Hot damn honey! :eyes: :heart:

Yong Fang
12-10-2022, 12:00 PM
I was trying to find a huge group picture of about two to three hundred people who were CBS stars or players in the late 1970's. The group was in a triangle and Mary Tyler Moore was in front (of course this hottie was in front). Jean Stapleton was off to the left, and left of her was Lassie.

The picture was in, maybe 1978 or so? Demond Wilson was in it because of "Baby, I'm Back", but there are numerous legends in that including Lucy Ball.

I have tried to find the picture online, does anyone have it and can post it? It is interesting to see how many people are still alive (not many, the photo is 45 years old).

merlinjones
12-10-2022, 03:43 PM
My what stars we had then -- so charming and lovely. I miss them all.

Lynda Carter's there with dazzling smile!

Zoneboy
12-10-2022, 09:52 PM
Most of them were very easy to identify, but the man and woman just after Bob Keeshan I'm not sure about. Something tells me I should know who they are.

opus
12-10-2022, 11:13 PM
Several familiar faces here including Bonnie Franklin looking very pretty around the 1:40 mark. Hot damn honey! :eyes: :heart:

She was even in the preview photo, which is what caught my attention in the first place. I thought you know who might also be in there. But you know who wasn’t in there.

1960'sTVfan
12-11-2022, 01:50 PM
She was even in the preview photo, which is what caught my attention in the first place. I thought you know who might also be in there. But you know who wasn’t in there.

I'm assuming that when you said "you know who", you were referring to Valerie B. Maybe she didn't appear in this CBS special from years ago.

Alan Brady's Hair
12-11-2022, 06:19 PM
I was trying to find a huge group picture of about two to three hundred people who were CBS stars or players in the late 1970's. The group was in a triangle and Mary Tyler Moore was in front (of course this hottie was in front). Jean Stapleton was off to the left, and left of her was Lassie.

The picture was in, maybe 1978 or so? Demond Wilson was in it because of "Baby, I'm Back", but there are numerous legends in that including Lucy Ball.

I have tried to find the picture online, does anyone have it and can post it? It is interesting to see how many people are still alive (not many, the photo is 45 years old).


Here you go:

https://playingintheworldgame.com/2021/07/04/the-cbs-50th-anniversary-photo/

biffbronson
12-12-2022, 07:09 AM
Most of them were very easy to identify, but the man and woman just after Bob Keeshan I'm not sure about. Something tells me I should know who they are.

I can't ID the lady in the video, but next to her is Danny Kaye.

Really sad that so many of these stars are no longer with us. Here's the photo being referenced, with thanks to Yong Fang & Alan Brady's Hair:

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Yong Fang
12-12-2022, 10:18 AM
From the picture above, who is still alive? A few are unknown to me but since they are young will type (the young man?) and then you can tell me who they are and still alive..
_______________________________________________________________________

Back row left to front...

Back Row:
Dick Van Dyke (more than likely the oldest one still alive)
Rob Reiner
(The lady next to Reiner?)
John Amos
Bob Barker (who will never die)
Dan Rather (is the guy next to Rather, Richard Crenna?, if he is, he died)

Second Back Row
Michael Learned
Carol Burnett
Loretta Swit
Lee Meriwether
Demond Wilson
Lynda Carter

Third Row
Richard Smothers (since his first name would be bleeped here)
Ron Howard
(The woman right of Valarie Harper?)
(The kid left of Bill Macy?)

Fourth Row down
(The lady to the left of Bob Denver?)
(The man to the right of Carrol O'Connor?)
(The lady to the right of Will Geer?)
Bob fking Newhart (another immortal)

Fifth Row
Jamie Farr
Adrian Barbeau
Vicki Lawrence
(The young lady between Vicki and Don Knotts?)

Sixth Row
Sally Struthers
Linda Lavin (lookin' good Alice)

Seventh Row
(The two kids from The Waltons)

Eight Row
All passed away.

Below
(The lady above left of Vivian Vance?)
(The lady to the right of George Burns?)

Out of 100 of them, 19 are confirmed alive, and 9 who I do not know who were young then and are more than likely alive now.

Alan Brady's Hair
12-12-2022, 10:22 AM
I can't ID the lady in the video, but next to her is Danny Kaye.

That's Julie Kavner. In the still photo, she's next to Valerie Harper, third row from the top.

The link I provided above has an answer key to the still photo.

opus
12-12-2022, 02:59 PM
By the way, this is where all this originated from….


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TVLegend
12-12-2022, 04:05 PM
From the picture above, who is still alive? A few are unknown to me but since they are young will type (the young man?) and then you can tell me who they are and still alive..
_______________________________________________________________________

Back row left to front...

Back Row:
Dick Van Dyke (more than likely the oldest one still alive)
Rob Reiner
(The lady next to Reiner?)
John Amos
Bob Barker (who will never die)
Dan Rather (is the guy next to Rather, Richard Crenna?, if he is, he died)

Second Back Row
Michael Learned
Carol Burnett
Loretta Swit
Lee Meriwether
Demond Wilson
Lynda Carter

Third Row
Richard Smothers (since his first name would be bleeped here)
Ron Howard
(The woman right of Valarie Harper?)
(The kid left of Bill Macy?)

Fourth Row down
(The lady to the left of Bob Denver?)
(The man to the right of Carrol O'Connor?)
(The lady to the right of Will Geer?)
Bob fking Newhart (another immortal)

Fifth Row
Jamie Farr
Adrian Barbeau
Vicki Lawrence
(The young lady between Vicki and Don Knotts?)

Sixth Row
Sally Struthers
Linda Lavin (lookin' good Alice)

Seventh Row
(The two kids from The Waltons)

Eight Row
All passed away.

Below
(The lady above left of Vivian Vance?)
(The lady to the right of George Burns?)

Out of 100 of them, 19 are confirmed alive, and 9 who I do not know who were young then and are more than likely alive now.
I’m sure the lady to the right of George Burns is Cicely Tyson.

Frank Gannucci
12-12-2022, 04:54 PM
I’m sure the lady to the right of George Burns is Cicely Tyson.

Bob barker turned 99 today and he is older than Dick Van Dyke.

TVLegend
12-12-2022, 05:54 PM
Bob barker turned 99 today and he is older than Dick Van Dyke.
:eek: Let’s just pray he doesn’t die during the holidays like Betty White. :(

24/7 reruns
12-13-2022, 05:01 PM
I just now saw this. Without reading the other post I came up with the following list.

Spelling might be wrong on some. Normally having the headliners listed last is good, but having the credits overlap Lucy and Steve Allen shouldn't have happened.

I didn't realize CBS had such a stable of talent. Didn't see Tom Smothers. I guess he was still passed with CBS for messing with their show.

Can anyone fill in my Question marks and the Newscasters?

Demont Wilson
Newscaster
Betty White
Dennis Weaver
?
Mike Wallace
Nancy Walker
Ralph Wait
Dick Van Dyke
Vivian Vance
?
Danny Thomas
Loretta Swit
Sally Struthers
?
Jean Stapleton
Newscaster
Ann Southern
Dick Smothers
Red Skelton
Newscaster
Newscaster
Telly Savalas
Isabel Sanford
Newscaster
Dale Evans
Roy Rogers
Ester Rolls
Rob Reiner
Dan Rather
Tony Randell
Carrol O’Conner
Jim Nabers
?
Gary Moore
Lee Meriwether
Audrey Meadows
?
June Lockhart
Art Linkletter
Most of the Walton kids
Michael Lerner
Vicky Lawrence
?
Charle Kuralt
Walter Cronkite
Mary Tyler Moore
Don Knots
Ted Knight
Captain Kangaroo
Julie Canova
Danny Kaye
?
?
Dwayne Hickman
Sherman Hemsley
?
Valerie Harper
David Groh
Andy Griffith
Arthur Godfrey
Will Gear
Eva Gabor
Allen Funt
Bonnie Franklin
Arlene Francis
John Forsyth
Jamie Farr
Georgia Engle
?
Buddy Ebsen
Sandy Duncan
Bob Denver
Richard Crenna
Ellen Corby
Jackie Cooper
Tim Conway
Bert Convey
William Conrad
Mike Connors
?
Lynda Carter
Art Carney
George Burns
Carol Burnett
Newscaster
Ken Berry
Ned Beatty
Bob Barker
Adrian Barbou
Lucille Ball
?
Ed Asner
Bea Arthur
?
Steve Allen

Yong Fang
12-14-2022, 05:14 AM
The Newscasters:

Dan Rather is between Bert Convey and Richard Crenna (90% sure that is Crenna, wrong?)

Ed Bradley between Loretta Swit and Andy Griffith

Bob Schieffer(?) right of Lucy Ball (maybe wrong on that one.)

Walter Cronkite on the first row right of Jean Stapleton.

(Actually someone on this thread at my request has offered a link to this picture and the key to who everyone is. But it is fun to guess without looking).

24/7 reruns
12-14-2022, 08:30 AM
The Newscasters:

Dan Rather is between Bert Convey and Richard Crenna (90% sure that is Crenna, wrong?)

Ed Bradley between Loretta Swit and Andy Griffith

Bob Schieffer(?) right of Lucy Ball (maybe wrong on that one.)

Walter Cronkite on the first row right of Jean Stapleton.

(Actually someone on this thread at my request has offered a link to this picture and the key to who everyone is. But it is fun to guess without looking).

Thanks, I did list Rather and Cronkite but wasn't sure of the other 2 you listed.

Zoneboy
12-14-2022, 10:44 AM
It becomes easier to identify these legends once you realize most of them are in reverse alphabetical order.

Ray Walston is next to Dennis Weaver
Jack Lord is next to Audrey Meadows
Linda Lavin is next to Vicky Lawrence
Martin Landau is next to Charles Kuralt

Babalu
12-15-2022, 07:21 PM
https://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/attachment.php?attachmentid=283150&d=1670843528


I didn't realize until this picture what a gigantic head Carroll O'Connor had.


Who is the woman to the right of Mary Tyler Moore?

TVLegend
12-15-2022, 08:08 PM
I didn't realize until this picture what a gigantic head Carroll O'Connor had.


Who is the woman to the right of Mary Tyler Moore?
Ellen Corby from The Walters it looks like.

Babalu
12-16-2022, 06:58 AM
Ellen Corby from The Walters it looks like.


That figures. Whenever I said, "Who the hell is that?", they're probably from The Waltons, which I never saw one second of.

Yong Fang
12-16-2022, 09:49 AM
Ellen Corby was a character actress who played mostly cranky old women in the 1960's. She played a criminal con artist who sold Barney Fife a car on Andy Griffith and was Lurch's mother on The Addams Family.

Yong Fang
12-16-2022, 10:50 AM
Let's play this game.....

Who should be in the picture that isn't?

Alan Alda
Jimmie Walker
Harvey Korman
Cloris Leachman
The other Smothers Brother that Bill Cosby decked.
Bill Cosby
Suzanne Pleshette
Tom Poston

24/7 reruns
12-21-2022, 02:58 AM
Looks like ABC outdone CBS

https://youtu.be/Ou9ELddBHvo

The song is a bit much, though.

24/7 reruns
12-22-2022, 01:50 PM
Well NBC wouldn't be out done.

https://youtu.be/YhtZmZcu7fg

Another cheezy song to deal with.