The America We Knew: March 1978

My mother was a member of ILGWU.

Great one again liked the line up at the end.

This was a lousy time for me personally and here I see that the world and pop culture wasn't any better!

Curly wasn't much taller than Goldie. And see? Those are proper shorts, not those idiotic floppy things they were these days down to their knees. How ugly are those?

I thought the CBS 50-year special was in 1977.

I was almost 17 in 78 and remember there was such a mystic and taboo with R rated movies

I turned 20 at that time. Going to Community College.

Thank you for this series! Great memories of growing up in Canada! I miss the old days!

Back when we had talented actors/actresses and we had no clue who they voted for.

Excellent presentation.

A woman at the very first of that garment worker's union ad looked just like Gloria Gaither. Nah, it couldn't be.

for Tesse Meevis.

The Bionic Woman (NBC)
The Six Million Dollar Man (ABC)
Carol Burnett And Friends And
Tattletales On CBS Daytime Ended Their Run

But dust in the wind is 77 not 78. American band stand an AOR strike again

I love this but I hate that Dust in the Wind song. Hated it all my life. Scared me as a child😂

I recall watching Cindy vividly. I was 7❤

$5800 for a Thunderbird , amazing

March '78. I was preparing to flunk out of college, but not regretting it much. I was having fun DJing at the College radio station. Unfortunately, it was a non-credit thing. Figures. That last 2 minutes made me dizzy but it was so cool Fred.

It was amazing to see over 60 years of some of the greatest entertainers in our history on one stage. Danny Kaye, Lucille Ball, Andy Griffith, George Burns and so many others were once-in-a-lifetime blessings. Most of them are long gone. I don't think we'll ever see entertainers of this caliper again. It's not a slight against modern day entertainers; it's an acknowledgement of the unmatched genius and artistry of these people. I miss them all so very much. I'd give anything to hear George Burns tell one more joke or see Lucille Ball perform in some zany off-the-wall skit! Thanks again for the great memories! 😄

Thank You Very Much for Sharing!! On this date in the United States: March 1978 was the same time where PBS stations around the country including my local PBS station: KPBS from San Diego, California All Conducted the Festival '78 Membership Pledge Drive from Saturday March 4th through Sunday March 19th, 1978 with the 30-Hour National Marathon of Non-Stop Entertainment (Saturday March 18th through Sunday March 19th, 1978) as the BIG Finale for Festival '78 - Live from the Marathon Studios from Thirteen-WNET from New York and also via videotaped messages with Hugh Downs, Julia Child, Rita Moreno, Dick Cavett, Jean Marsh, The Muppets of Sesame Street, Carol Burnett, Sidney Poitier, Mitch Miller, Bernadette Peters and Many Others!! 16 Days of Special Programming Designed to Increase National Awareness and Support of Public Television!! Festival '78 premiered many NEW Specials like "Live From The Grand Ole Opry", "Song By Song By Gershwin", "National Geographic Specials: The Living Sands of Namib", "Evening at Pops Special: On The Esplanade", "Survival in Limbo" starring Duncan Carse, Great Performances' Count Dracula starring Louis Jourdan, "Meeting of Minds" starring its second season with Steve Allen hosting, "The Johnny Mathis Special" with one of the greatest romantic singers when Johnny had a tour in England, A Birthday Party for Josef Strauss" features Willi Boskovsky conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in celebration of the 150th birthday of the wonderful composer: Josef Strauss..."White Bear" a documentary about the story of the polar bear, "Live From The Met" returns with a grand performance by Don Giovanni-starring James Morris and Joan Sutherland with Tony Randall hosting, "Great Expectations" a 1947 movie starring Alec Guinness, John Mills and Jean Simmons, Big Band Bash brings the wonderful big band swinging musical experience from the 1930's and 1940's starring Woody Herman, Count Basie, Lynne Roberts and the Pied Pipers, Maynard Ferguson and many more special guests, The Great American Dream Machine Revisited tells the story and history of public television when it was celebrating its 25th anniversary (1953-1978), and MUCH MORE Specials and Regular Favorites!! Join the Celebration on Public TV!! Festival '78!!

By July of that year, ABC would retool their evening newscast into World News Tonight with 3 anchors in 3 cities & Harry Reasoner would return to CBS & 60 Minutes.

I found the CBS 50th anniversary shows on DVD several years ago and transferred digitally. What memories!

In the aftermath of the election, this is too much to bare (bear). I had so much riding on a return to decency. That would make America better again. Not great, that's too much to ask. Besides when exactly was America "great"? You tell me. I guess Saturday night with Mary Tyler Moore and Newhart+Emily and Carol Burnett WAS pretty great. Certainly more innocent than what lay ahead, which was unimaginable then. Still is, right, given all that has happened. I'm sorry that so many people in America will never look so forward to staying home on a Saturday night as we did. Hard to explain to anyone who wasn't around how you couldn't do better than TV on a Saturday night. I'm rambling cause otherwise I'm gonna weep, real bad. Where did our Country go? What happened to the Country I was born in? Did people just get tired of living without catastrophe? Remember when god was benevolent? When church people were on the side of love, not hatred? How did it all go so wrong? How did Evil conquer America?

Shorter shorts were a basketball uniform for white players. When so many black guys joined the ranks, their skinny long legs didn't look good. Thats why they added those long, baggy, things, which were staples in black ghetto courts.

Thanks for all the time effort and energy you put into this as well as the tv commercials , magazines etc.
Any chance you could add some old radio station recordings from the 1970s as well.

Use to have many of those K-Tel LPs back then.

I just turned 9!!

I was a Sophomore @ Benson Polytechnic HS fabrication shop making drinking fountains for downtown Portland Oregon

I can remember when I was a kid, watching specials like this with my mother, these were memories of happier times.

Poor Walter Cronkite dragged out like that did not increase his journalist credentials .

Glad I was in my early 20’s out and about those Shows looked awful

When actors were actors, and not activists!!

This brought a smile to some very sore Gen X eyes today! Thank you so much for your creativity in this video. The Star magnitude on that stage was phenomenal. I remember watching almost all of the shows those people selflessly entertained me throughout my life. This is what I long for today; oh how much I miss those days…

I visited USA in march 78, I remember the cover of the TV guide on our friends coffee table and there was an advert on TV where the Pittsburg steelers we’re throwing suit cases around the place to show the toughness of the item. I was 16 and staying in DC, looking around the capital and visiting civil war sites. Great holiday.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I even saw my childhood favorite… Captain Kangaroo! Thanks again, Fred, my husband and I were married in March of 1978… great looking back.

What a TV hall of fame in that lineup! I wonder how many of them are still alive? Probably no more than 5 or 6. The good ole days are gone forever

2 months b4 I was born

We Just Didn’t Know…..TRULY, WE JUST DIDN’T KNOW ANY BETTER!!!! Now, I’m a 70yo Who is LOOKIN BACKWARDS and Sadly the BEST IS BEHIND ME.😮

damn. 46 years ago. where did time go...........

I remember watching the Sunday and Saturday episodes of the week-long CBS 50th specials. I was in 7th grade.

I was in 9th grade then.

LOVE,LOVE, LOVE
Dust in the Wind!!! 😊
I was 17 in March of 78!!! Didn't watch to much tv, I was "in love" 😅

My generation now lives in what we collectively saw as "the future" and it 's nothing like what people said it would be. "Deathsport" was only 22 years into the future. Plausibility didn't seem to matter back then. Sure there could be a nuclear apocalypse, but it's ridiculous that civilization would have made it back to that level of technology so soon.

What an incredible ensemble at the end. I found myself pausing to see how many I could name.
I could name roughly 4-5
Of course i know all the faces..but I didn't do great with name recall.
Good times.

I don't miss old Amerikkka.

what happened???

I was 9 going on 10(May 7).

I turned 15 in 78.
It is so hard to believe that things could change as much as they have.Back then no one could imagine newspapers would one day be gone.

Newspapers had more than news, lots of diverse knowledge that everyone learned together. Today everyone learns different things and individually. To be honest with newspapers gone, I believe society is less intelligent.

Back in the good ole days before David Muir disgraced the screen .