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Post by jlthorpe on Jul 30, 2014 20:50:59 GMT -5
I wanted to create this thread for a while, but don't have the time to do it every week. I thought it would be interesting to list what was going on in history, pop culture, etc. around the time of this week's AT40 shows.
This week's shows:
August 1, 1970
* Chet Huntley retires from "The Huntley-Brinkley Report". * "American Top 40" has been on the air for one month.
July 28, 1979
* #1 movie at the box office this weekend: "The Amityville Horror".
August 4, 1984
* The 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles are underway. * In theaters: "Bachelor Party", "Ghostbusters", "Gremlins", "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom", "The Karate Kid", "Revenge of the Nerds". * Soap opera "Santa Barbara" premieres on NBC. * Also on TV: "A-Team", "Cagney and Lacey", "The Facts of Life", "Falcon Crest", "Gimme a Break", "Magnum, P.I.", "Scarecrow and Mrs. King", "Simon & Simon", "St. Elsewhere".
EDIT: Changed thread title
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Post by rayshae3 on Aug 2, 2014 1:20:40 GMT -5
FYI: Box office #1 for the last weekend in July 1970 (broadcast date of option “B”) is Joe (Drama with Peter Boyle, film debut of Susan Sarandon) and for the first weekend in August 1970 (chart date of option “B”) is Chisum (John Wayne western). Box office #1 for the first weekend of August 1984 is Ghostbusters.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2014 13:51:57 GMT -5
Box office #1 for the first weekend of August 1984 is Ghostbusters. Which Casey's voice is in to bring it full circle. Also, for anyone interested and did not know, later this month to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the movie it's being released back into theaters and a special blu ray of both 1 & 2 are coming out. I'm not one to go to the theatre for these rereleases or old movies that get played but I'm actually interested in going to see this one. Maybe because I did go originally and it's a chance to relive that sort of again? I don't know.
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 4, 2014 19:19:28 GMT -5
This week's shows:
August 12, 1972
* The last American ground combat units are pulled out of South Vietnam (air and sea operations would continue). * The Watergate break-in happened two months ago. * #1 movie at the box office: "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)".
August 13, 1977
* David Berkowitz (a.k.a. the Son of Sam) is arrested in New York. * #1 movie at the box office: "The Kentucky Fried Movie". * Elvis Presley and Groucho Marx would die within one week.
August 7, 1982
* Prince William, the first child of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, is less than two months old. * #1 movie at the box office: "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial". * Also in theaters: "Annie", "The Best Little Wh*rehouse in Texas", "An Officer and a Gentleman", "Poltergeist", "Rocky III", "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", "Tron", "The World According to Garp". * On television: "Benson", "Diff'rent Strokes", "Dynasty", "The Fall Guy", "Fame", "Greatest American Hero", "Hart to Hart", "Hill Street Blues", "Lou Grant", "Real People". * Henry Fonda would die within one week.
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Post by rayshae3 on Aug 10, 2014 10:37:48 GMT -5
Network TV’s day-by-day capsule highlights from TV-Guide listings (repeats excluded) : Wednesday, 8/9/72; CBS: “David Steinberg Show” w/Tommy Smothers, Valerie Harper; PBS: Film Odyssey “Intimate Lighting” (1965) Thursday, 8/10/72: NBC; “Dean Martin Presents the Bobby Darin Amusement Co.” w/Joan Rivers, Dusty Springfield Saturday, 8/12/72; ABC: “War and Peace” (1968) (nightly mini-movie, part one of four); PBS: “Theater for the Deaf: My Third Eye” Sunday, 8/13/72; ABC: “War and Peace” (1968, the second part); CBS: “To All My Friends on Shore” (TV Movie with Bill Cosby), “The Life of Leonardo da Vinci” (1st of a five-part series) Monday, 8/14/72; ABC: Special-“College Football ‘72” preview look at the season, “War and Peace” (part 3); NBC: Baseball; PBS: “Harlem Professional Basketball” feature Tuesday, 8/15/72; ABC: “War and Peace” (part 4); CBS: “John Byner Comedy Hour” (w/Bill Bixby and Michele Lee); NBC: “New York Illustrated” (docu.); PBS: “Black Journal”-“Take Back Your Mind”(Part 1),
In Music News: Aug. 10, 1972: Not only Paul McCartney but the entire Wings are arrested in Sweden on drug possession charges. Aug. 15, 1972: Deep Purple, play first night live in Osaka, Japan; the subject of soon to be released hugely successful live set, “Made in Japan”.
In theatres this week in 1972: British comedy “Alf ‘n’ Family” (original inspiration for Archie Bunker from ‘Till Death Do Us Part); “Last of the Red Hot Lovers” (Neil Simon comedy); “Greaser’s Palace” (comedy-western by the father Robert Downey, Sr.); “Snoopy Come Home” (animation)
Sign of the times: With a reminder of what Casey said ahead of playing #39 by Barbra Streisand (an apartment on NYC’s Park avenue was $240,000); gallon of a regular gas: $0.36; popcorn at the movie: $0.75; average new car: $4500; hourly minimum wage: $1.60
In Music News Aug, 13, 1977: BTO disbands following Randy Bachman exit from the band.
Aug. 16, 1977; Radio News: Watermark, the original producer of the 13-part “The Elvis Presley Story”, reportedly send telegrams, on the day of Elvis Presley’s death, to all the stations to tell them not to air now outdated program and prepare for a new version. Neverthless, WMPS-AM in Memphis airs the older version. That leads to Watermark suing the station (and its parent company Plough Broadcasting) shortly thereafter.
Network TV’s day-by-day capsule highlights from TV-Guide listings (repeats excluded) : Thursday, 8/11/77; NBC: TV premiere of 1968’s movie “Finian’s Rainbow” (w/Fred Astaire, Petula Clark) Friday, 8/12/77; ABC: 1972’s “What’s up Doc?” (w/Barbra Streisand, Ryan O’Neal); CBS: The Keane Brothers (premiere of the variety show), “A Year at the Top” (sitcom) Saturday, 8/13/77; ABC: “Sugar Time” (summer sitcom premiere) Sunday, 8/14/77; ABC: “The Carter Report” (news feature); CBS: “60 Minutes” Monday, 8/15/77; ABC: “The Primary English Class” (sitcom pilot), Baseball; CBS: “Sonny & Cher” ; NBC: 1969 chaotic comedy movie “Buena Sera, Mrs. Campbell” (w/Telly Savalas, Gina Lollobrigida) Tuesday, 8/16/77; ABC: 1974’s “For Pete’s Sake” (another Barbra Streisand comedy); CBS: “CBS Reports”(news special about the West Bank)
In Theaters this week in 1977: “The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane” (horror w/Jodie Foster and Martin Sheen); “Bad News Bears in Breaking Training”; “A Bridge Too Far” (multi-star WWII drama); “MacArthur”(Gregory Peck in the title role)
Radio News: This month of August in 1982 sees the premiere of the longest running urban chart show ever (lasting 29 years until 2011): “The Countdown” w/Walt ‘Baby’ Love. This is also one of the first that uses R&R ranking. Hosted by the editor of the Radio and Records urban pages, the 2-hour program showcases the Top 25 chart. Tagline: “Airborne”.
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 11, 2014 21:42:02 GMT -5
This week's shows:
August 16, 1975
* Serial killer Ted Bundy is initially arrested in Utah. * Jimmy Hoffa has been missing for less than three weeks. * "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" premieres in London. * #1 movie this weekend: "Jaws" (with a weekend gross of $4,940,596). * Bruce Springsteen's album "Born to Run" would be released in less than 10 days.
August 16, 1986
* #1 movie this weekend: "The Fly" (with a weekend gross of $7,007,423). * Also in theaters: "Aliens", "Back to School", "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", "Friday the 13th Part VI", "Howard the Duck", "The Karate Kid Part II", "Ruthless People", "Top Gun", "Transformers: The Movie" (had to mention the last one because it's my favorite movie). * On television this week: "The Cosby Show", "The Equalizer", "Growing Pains", "Highway to Heaven", "Hunter", "Miami Vice", "Moonlighting", "Perfect Strangers", "Punky Brewster", "Silver Sp00ns", "Spenser: For Hire", "227", "Who's the Boss?" * "The Oprah Winfrey Show" would become nationally syndicated in one month. * The Fox Network would launch two months from now.
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Post by rayshae3 on Aug 17, 2014 9:04:56 GMT -5
In music news: 8/13-17/75: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band play a sold-out five-night concert in NYC’s Bottom Line venue, a turning point in transition of Bruce Springsteen into stardom. 8/15/75: One night’s preformance of Springsteen is broadcast live on WNEW-FM/NYC. 8/16/75: Peter Gabriel quits Genesis.
New in theaters this week in 1975: “The Great McGonagall” (British comedy with Peter Sellers); “Farewell, My Lovely (w/Robert Mitchum), “The Land that Time Forgot”
Network TV’s day-by-day capsule highlights from TV-Guide listings (repeats excluded) : Thursday, 8/14/75; CBS: Movie: “The Great White Hope” (1970 drama w/James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander); NBC: “Ben Vereen Show” (w/Wayne Newton), Movie: “Rachel”(1968 drama, dir: Paul Newman, starring: Joanne Woodward) Friday, 8/15/75; ABC: TV premiere of 1966 movie “Born Free”, “News Closeup” (“Autos: Spoiled by Success” about auto industry); CBS: Movie: “The Games” (1970, fictional sports drama w/Ryan O’Neal, written for screen by: Erich Segal, early Elton John song for the soundtrack) Saturday, 8/16/75; CBS: “Doc” (sitcom pilot), “The Dick Cavett Show” (variety’s premiere episode moving from ABC latenight to CBS primetime); NBC: Movie “Manchurian Candidate” (premiere of original 1962 suspense thriller w/Frank Sinatra) Sunday, 8/17/75; CBS: “The Manhattan Transfer” (comedy and music), “60 Minutes”; NBC: “Hispanic Special-The Festival of Loiza Aldea” Monday, 8/18/75; NBC: Baseball BTW, as Casey said in this week’s AT40/70s show when introducing #14 by Tony Orlando & Dawn, their high-rating variety show at the time was part of CBS schedule (Wednesday 8/13/75 at 8pm Eastern), but with a repeat. It would return with fresh episodes for one more complete season in fall 1975. Then in fall 1976 after getting renewed one last time, but being on a different night, it has to compete this time against “Happy Days” and “Laverne & Shirley”, so gets cancelled later on because of bad rating.
In music news: 8/17/86: Long Beach-CA; Riot at Run-DMC concert, 40 people are injured.
In radio news: 8/16-17/86: This weekend Kenny Loggins is featured in three syndicated shows- “Rock Chronicles”, Scott Shannon’s “Rockin’ America Countdown”, and “Spirit of Summer”. 8/18/86: Howard Stern first nationally syndicated morning show on WYSP-FM in Philadelphia.
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 18, 2014 5:23:10 GMT -5
This week's shows:
August 24, 1974
* Richard Nixon resigned from the Presidency two weeks before, with Gerald Ford succeeding him as President. * #1 movie at the box office: "The Longest Yard" (with a weekend gross of $4,249,686). * Aviator Charles Lindbergh would die within a couple of days.
August 22, 1981
* Prince Charles and Princess Diana have been married for almost one month. * MTV premiered three weeks ago, but its impact on the pop charts would not be felt for another year or two. * #1 movie at the box office: "An American Werewolf in London" (with a weekend gross of $4,623,333). * "Charlie's Angels" and "The Waltons" end their network TV runs. * Also on television: "Bosom Buddies", "Buck Rogers", "Little House on the Prairie", "Mork and Mindy", "Too Close for Comfort", "Vegas", "WKRP in Cincinnati".
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Post by rayshae3 on Aug 23, 2014 20:46:34 GMT -5
In music news: 8/23/74 Release date of Bachman-Turner Overdrive most popular album, “Not Fragile”
Also in Theaters this week in 1974: “Pink Floyd-The Program” (’72 concert docu. “Live at Pompeii” re-released with additional interviews and footage about ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ in a new 85-min. package); “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz” (comedy-drama with Richard Dreyfuss); “Buster and Billie”(period dramas of the 1940s continue after the commercial success of ‘Summer of ‘42’ and its sequal ‘Class of ‘44’, this time in 1948 rural Georgia, with future TV’s Airwolf star Jan-Michael Vincent).
Network TV’s day-by-day capsule highlights from TV-Guide listings (repeats excluded) : Thursday, 8/22/74; CBS: TV Movie-“Senior Year” (some changes from the 1st airing in March 1974 ahead of premiere of the weekly series based on this tele-film called “Sons and Daughters") ; NBC: “The Mac Davis Show” Friday, 8/23/74; CBS: TV premiere of 1970’s British drama movie “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” Saturday, 8/24/74; NBC: Football Sunday, 8/25/74; CBS: CBS Sports Special-“There Have Been Some Changes Made”(reports on the new rules in professional football w/Pat Summerall); Pre-Season Football Monday, 8/26/74; ABC: NFL Pre-Season Football; NBC: Baseball Tuesday, 8/27/74; CBS: “The Great American Parade”(“The 34th Star”, historical drama about birth and growth of the state of Kansas)
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 26, 2014 19:34:00 GMT -5
This week's shows:
August 29, 1970
* #1 at the box office this weekend: "Diary of a Mad Housewife" (with a weekend gross of $2,965,689). * Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin would both be dead within the next six weeks.
August 31, 1985
* Samantha Smith, the young girl famous for writing to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov about nuclear war, dies in a plane crash. * Serial killer Richard Ramirez, A.K.A. the L.A. Night Stalker, is captured. * #1 at the box office this weekend: "Back to the Future" (with a weekend gross of $9,049,668). * Also in theaters: "Cocoon", "National Lamp00n's European Vacation", "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure", "Rambo: First Blood Part II", "Real Genius", "Teen Wolf". * On television this week: "Airwolf", "Cheers", "Family Ties", "Friday Night Videos", "Highway to Heaven", "Mr. Belvedere", "Remington Steele", "T. J. Hooker".
Bonus: Y2K Special (January 1, 2000)
* The third millennium unofficially begins. * The United States turns over complete administration of the Panama Canal to the government of Panama. * Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia, leaving Vladimir Putin (then Prime Minister) as acting President. * Musician Curtis Mayfield, and actor Clayton Moore (best known for playing the Lone Ranger), die. * #1 at the box office this weekend: "Stuart Little" (with a weekend gross of $16,022,757). * Also in theaters: "American Beauty", "Any Given Sunday", "Being John Malkovich", "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo", "The Green Mile", "Man on the Moon", "The Talented Mr. Ripley", "Toy Story 2". * On television this week: "Ally McBeal", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Charmed", "Dawson's Creek", "Dharma & Greg", "The Drew Carey Show", "ER", "Frasier", "Friends", "JAG", "Just Shoot Me!", "King of the Hill", "Spin City", "3rd Rock from the Sun", "Touched by an Angel", "The West Wing", "Whose Line Is It Anyway?", "The X-Files". * #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and on Radio and Records: "Smooth" by Santana featuring Rob Thomas. * Also on the charts: "Back at One" by Brian McKnight, "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" by Eiffel 65, "I Knew I Loved You" by Savage Garden, "I Need to Know" by Marc Anthony, "That's the Way It Is" by Celine Dion, "Then the Morning Comes" by Smash Mouth, "Waiting for Tonight" by Jennifer Lopez, "What a Girl Wants" by Christina Aguilera.
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Post by seminolefan on Aug 26, 2014 19:48:17 GMT -5
TV shows getting set to debut for the fall 1985 season include The Golden Girls, 227, MacGyver, and Growing Pains.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2014 19:57:53 GMT -5
This week's shows: August 31, 1985 * On television this week: "Airwolf", "Cheers", "Family Ties", "Friday Night Videos", "Highway to Heaven", "Mr. Belvedere", "Remington Steele", "T. J. Hooker". Also dreaming it's way to the #6 ranked show that coming year was "Dallas"
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Post by jlthorpe on Aug 26, 2014 20:25:28 GMT -5
TV shows getting set to debut for the fall 1985 season include The Golden Girls, 227, MacGyver, and Growing Pains. Thanks for the list. I wanted to mention "The Golden Girls" since it's one of my favorite TV shows, but chose not to. By the way, shows set to debut in Fall, 1970: "The Flip Wilson Show", "Josie and the Pvssycats", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", "Monday Night Football", "The Odd Couple", and "The Partridge Family".
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Post by rayshae3 on Aug 31, 2014 6:00:58 GMT -5
In Music News: 8/20/70: Isley Brothers’ film-concert “It’s Your Thing” (featuring the Isleys, Ike & Tina Turner, the Stairsteps, others) in theatres on limited release in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. 8/25/70: Elton John’s first US apperance in Los Angeles. First song performed on solo piano: “Your Song”; followed by “Bad Side of the Moon’ (after introduction of Nigel Olsson and Dee Murray). Also performed on the openning night, early classics “60 Years On”, “Border Song”, “Burn Down the Mission” and “Take Me to the Pilot”. 8/26/70: “Carry It On” documentary movie following Joan Baez and husband David Harris opens on limited release in New York City. Music includes 13 numbers sung by Baez. 9/2/70: Phil Collins sees the ad in the publication ‘Melody Maker’ leading him to replace John Mayhew in Genesis. 9/3/70: Bill Haley & His Comets reject an offer of $30,000 for a 15-day Australian Tour 9/4/70: George Harrison-penned “My Sweet Lord” first release date by Billy Preston in Europe, ahead of all subsequest famous album and single releases by Harrison himself.
In Radio News; 8/30/70: Ron Jacobs, one of the big four founders of AT40, narrates a special 6-hour broadcast of “A History of Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio” featuring giant air personalities, on progressive rocker WLS-FM/Chicago, later on Syndication.
In theaters around this time in 1970: “Dreams of Glass” (Danny DeVito’s first film); “The People Next Door”; “Lovers and Other Strangers” (comedy w/Gig Young and Bea Arthur with Oscar-winning theme song “For All We Know” by the Carpenters); “Borsalino” (French ganster movie w/Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon); “Pound” (cult film by Robert Downey, Sr., with the debut performance from the 5-year-old Robert Downey, Jr.); “Entertaining Mr. Sloane”; “They Call Me Mr. Tibbs!”
Network TV’s day-by-day capsule highlights from TV-Guide listings (repeats excluded) : Saturday 8/15/70; NBC: network TV’s premiere of 1965’s “Masquerade” w/Cliff Robertson 8/16/70; CBS: “Comedy Tonight” (summer replacement series w/Robert Klein) Monday 8/17/70; ABC, “Now”(“We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us”) on the population explosion; NBC: Baseball Wednesday 8/19/70; NBC: “Music Hall-The Des O’Connor Show” (variety, Al Martino guest); ABC: Comedy Preview-“Three for Tahiti” (TV pilot) “Johnny Cash Presents” (w/an Everly Brothers feature) Thursday 8/20/70; CBS: “Happy Days” (a special about 1930’s-style comedy and music); NBC: “Dean Martin Presents” (variety) Saturday 8/22/70; CBS: Football Sunday 8/23/70; CBS: “Comedy Tonight” Monday 8/24/70; NBC: “News Special-Trip to Nowhere” (drugs among the youth epidemic); ABC, Network TV premiere of an old 1953 movie, “Sacred Stiff” (comedy w/Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis), “Now”(“Anatomy of Youth”) on the unrest and youth rebellion. Tuesday 8/25/70; NBC: network TV premiere of the Beatles’ 1965 movie “Help!”; CBS: Network TV premiere of an old 1959 movie, “Me and the Colonel” (comedy w/Danny Kaye), News Special-“The Arms Debate” (Barry Goldwater vs. William Proxmire D-Wis.) Wednesday 8/26/70; ABC: Comedy Preview-“Prudence and the Chief” (comedy-western spoof of “The King and I”, unsold TV pilot), “Johnny Cash Presents” (another Everly Brothers feature, also Bill Medley among the guests); NBC: “Music Hall-The Des O’Connor Show” (Phil Silvers guest) Thursdsay 8/27/70; CBS: “Happy Days” (a special about 1930’s-style comedy and music), TV premiere’s of 1964 great suspense movie “The Visit” (w/Ingrid Bergman, and Anthony Quinn”); NBC: “Dean Martin Presents” (variety); ABC: “College Football 1970” (sport special preview) Friday 8/28/70; CBS: “Free to Live” (docu. on African elephants); ABC: Football Special-Pregame Show w/Howard Cosell followed by, Football-Giants vs. Steelers in an exhibition game; NBC: Special-“Turning off” (another film documentary on drugs and young people) Sunday 8/30/70; CBS: “The Soupy Sales Show” (dance and music); NBC: Football; ABC: network TV premiere of 1966 movie “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold” Monday 8/31/70; ABC: “Now-Unions and Blacks”; NBC: “Special Program” (news extra on the Indochina war issues) Tuesday 9/1/70; CBS: “60 Minutes Special”; NBC: “First Tuesday” (magazine report) Wednesday 9/2/70; NBC: “The Virginian” (season 5 episode “The Long Way Home” with not-before-seen inserts, ahead of the western’s last season); ABC: Comedy Preview-“The Murdocks and the McClays” (comedy, unsold TV pilot) Thursday 9/3/70; CBS: “Crisis” (revamped premiere of the pilot); NBC: “Dean Martin Presents” (variety) Friday 9/4/70; ABC: sport special-“Vince Lombardi: What His life Was All About” (tribute w/Howard Cosell narrating) Saturday 9/5/70; CBS: news special-“Vietnam: Voices in Opposition”
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Post by jlthorpe on Sept 2, 2014 17:19:47 GMT -5
This week's shows:
September 9, 1978
* Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin start negotiations that ultimately lead to the Camp David Accords. * Keith Moon dies. * Jack Warner (of Warner Bros.) dies. * Number one at the box office this weekend: "Grease" (with a weekend gross of $5,300,745). * Set to debut in September for the Fall television season: "Battlestar Galactica", "Mork & Mindy", "Taxi", "WKRP in Cincinnati".
September 3, 1983
* Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson dies. * Number one at the box office this weekend: "Mr. Mom" (with a weekend gross of $8,221,715). * Also in theaters: "Cujo", "National Lamp00n's Vacation", "Return of the Jedi", "Risky Business", "Staying Alive", "Trading Places", "WarGames". * The first annual Miss Teen USA pageant airs on CBS. * Also on television this week: "Alice", "Family Ties", "Joanie Loves Chachi", "Matt Houston", "Square Pegs", "Too Close for Comfort". * Set to debut in September on television: "AfterMASH", "Hardcastle and McCormick", "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe", "Inspector Gadget", "Love Connection", "Manimal", "Webster".
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