CBS Network - Flying High - "Fun Flight" - KOIN Channel 6 (Break & First 10 Minutes, 11/17/1978) ✈
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- Wish it was the whole thing, but here’s just the first 10 minutes (before the recording ended) of a first-run broadcast of the short-lived Flying High series, most specifically "Fun Flight" (S01E07), as presented over CBS affiliate KOIN Channel 6 in Portland, OR, immediately following the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special (which was primarily what was being recorded that night).
The show starred Pat Klous, Kathryn Witt and Connie Sellecca as a trio of airline stewardesses (or, as they would later be known, "flight attendants"), and also co-starred Howard Platt as the main pilot (or "captain").
(Useless and Tenuous-Connection Trivia Department: Ms. Sellecca's future husband, John Tesh, was at this time a correspondent and occasional anchorman for WCBS Channel 2 in New York - where, on this night, 11pm co-anchor Rolland Smith uttered the now-famous "Fighting the frizzies - at 11" tease seen in most bootleg copies of The Star Wars Holiday Special floating around.)
In this installment of Flying High, an advertising executive proposes to use the three girls as a centerpiece for an ad campaign for the airline they work for. The guest stars, in alphabetical order, are Jim Backus, Nancy Dussault, Dave Madden, Charlotte Rae, late '60's/early '70's teen idol Bobby Sherman, and Lyle Waggoner (co-star on one of the programs pre-empted this evening - see below).
Includes:
Tail end of Star Wars Holiday Special credits (with voiceover promo for Flying High by Bill Martin)
CBS Network notice that Wonder Woman (on which the aforementioned Mr. Waggoner was a co-star) and The Incredible Hulk will return next week (voiceover by Bill Martin)
Valerie Bertinelli introduces CBS promo for Bobby Vinton's Rock 'n Rollers ("Like Grease on Wheels") (voiceover by ??)
CBS promo for Harold Robbins' "The Pirate" (voiceover by ??)
Bill Bixby introduces CBS promo for Lucy Comes to Nashville (voiceover by Mark Elliott?)
CBS 'Eye-D' (voiceover by Bill Martin)
Commercials for:
Meier & Frank sale on boots
Jack Livingston Dodge at 1215 McLoughlin Blvd. in Gladstone
Newsbreak 6 update (with Mike Donahue reporting)
Commercial: S&W Roasted Colombian Coffee
More capsuled news and weather forecast
"KOIN-TV - Portland" Station ID (voiceover by ??)
Episode preview, show opening titles, and Act I (with episode title, writing, producing and directing credits shown) - recording cuts out after over 7½ minutes of Act I
This aired on local Portland TV on Friday, November 17th 1978 during the 9:57pm to 10:10pm (Pacific) timeframe.
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8 year old me would’ve been watching this exact channel for the Star Wars Holiday Special! This is bringing back a lot of memories.
Also loved that RiffTrax guys riffed the Star Wars Holiday special complete with commercials. “Flying High we don’t even have a Wikipedia entry!” Of course immediately afterwards a Wikipedia entry entry was created!
The KOIN anchorman is Mike Donahue, who was at the station for almost 45 years. He died just last year.
Thanks, TK! :-)
Star Wars Holiday special bumped both Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk??? Unforgivable!
The curse of Star Wars.
I've seen that special. I would concur.
Bill Corbett: "Flying High; we're so obscure, we don't have a Wikipedia entry".
Wikipedia: "Now they do".
Sure, this show was cheesy, but I loved it. I watched every episode and was crushed when it was cancelled. Nice to see it again, Thank you for sharing MoCCT.
television history . im not ashamed at all !
This reminds me of "The Naughty Stewardesses"
Connie Sellecca - what a beauty.
“Wonder Woman starring Lynda Cahtah”
The way announcer Bill Martin enunciated her name was but a hint he came from Massachusetts - as came out upon his death in 2011.
This was day before the Jonestown Massacre.
True, but it was the day OF the Star Wars Massacre.
@@FuzzyMemoriesTV Ouch.
@@FuzzyMemoriesTV it's canon. Merry Life Day.
@@tedrohe9048 Might as well.
Very true. Canonically bad.
3:26 - Mike Donahue, longtime KOIN 6 news anchor, was a fixture on Portland TV for decades. Sadly, he passed away in Aug of 2023.
Compared to the disaster that was the Star Wars Holiday Special, this is quite the “departure” lol
No wonder the Star Wars Holiday Special has never surfaced as of yet on Disney Plus.
I like Connie Sellecca
1:20 "Funny What Passes For Selling Points Back Then"
Odd what passed as "entertainment" on CBS in the late 1970's.
Yes!!
Imagine how excited they must have been when they heard "Star Wars is our lead-in!"
I think the voice of the Rock 'n Rollers promo is Dick Tufeld. The Lucy Goes to Nashville promo sounds a bit like Bern Bennett, but I'm not sure.
Was the Bobby Vinton Rock 'n Rollers special produced by Sid and Marty Krofft?
@@darrylh1971I wouldn't doubt if it was. They were quite big by then.
@@darrylh1971 Yes, this was a Krofft production. Written by one of their variety show mainstays, Mark Evanier.
Wonder if Evanier has ever written about it on his blog, which is a terrific daily read.
Also, just came here to post the same about Dick Tufeld.
I wonder if that United plane was the one that crashed on approach to the Portland airport the following month, killing 10 people (179 survived).
Love the boots! Wow
1978 was the year two network staff announcers had moments of infamy, by dint of being on duty when such travesties aired. Here, Bill Martin had his with "The Star Wars Holiday Special." About a month or so before, so did NBC Burbank's Peggy Taylor - by dint of being the announcer heard on the bumpers for "NBC Saturday Night At The Movies' " presentation of "Kiss Meets The Phantom Of The Park." (Alas, for her that film would be a millstone - as she also was on duty a couple years later when it was rerun on "NBC Late Night Movie.")
"TSWHS" also aired five years to the day after President Nixon's 1973 press conference where he uttered those now-famous words, "I'm not a crook." On CBS, the opening and closing announcer for that Special Report was Pat Connell - the first African-American to be hired as a staff announcer on any major broadcast network, in 1961 - preceding NBC's Fred Facey by six years. (And, tying to this show, Mr. Connell was a licensed pilot who flew his own airplane.)
1:29 Valerie Bertinelli "you're on", she used that phrase way before it was used by other actors in fall 1995, "you're on..... CBS".
The only GOOD thing about the SWHS..? The animated short with Boba Fett
Thank you Nelvana!
Flying High was trying to be "The Love Boat in the air." Pun intended, the show crashed and burned in flames. As for Connie Selleca (who was a knockout back then and could've been Lynda Carter's double) three years after this show she would play Pam Davidson the love interest of William Katt's Ralph Hunley on "The Greatest American Hero" followed by her biggest role, promotions manager Christine Francis on "Hotel." Both shows were on ABC.
And Pat Klous actually went on to Love Boat, playing the cruise director in the later seasons.
Ralph HINKLEY.
Temporarily changed to Ralph HANLEY when on March 30, 1981, an assassin named John Hinckley Jr. shot President Ronald Reagan in a attempt to impress actress Jodie Foster.
It was not known at the time that she was a lesbian.
Got a couple episodes on 16mm.
@@andrewweisneck1102and what does that have to do with anything?
You’ve got flying high on 16mm? Have you ever had them transferred?
Fuzzy: I wish you found the "Bobby Vinton's Rock 'n Rollers" special somewhere.
Do you ever have anything to comment that isn’t a disappointment?
@@FuzzyMemoriesTVI'm just glad we're seeing this much of Flying High at all. My local CBS station never aired this!
This was CBS trying to copycat ABC w/ their success of shows like Charlie's Angels and Three's Company.
It was a bomb.
The series was cancelled after 15 episodes.
Flying High wasn't a bad show, it just wasn't all that good. Kinda poor. Like falling out of the sky poor.