Literally my childhood. I miss the days before all this technology. We played outside till the lights came on. Say on the porch and talked till late in the evening. Talked on the phone to our friends for hours. Called into radio stations to dedicate songs to our crush. Best days ever.
Yes, and didn't watch a fraction of the TV/online streaming that teens watch today. I recognized names of actors and show titles in above video, but never watched one episode of these shows.
Same here. The facts of life was the show for me. I could recite half the dialogue to this day. The golden girls intro here is definitely different than what originally was shown. Loved 227 as well.
@@kingovharts You got that right, hey, abc Thursday Nights couldn't compete with CBS during the early 80's nor could it compete with NBC during the 2nd half of the 80's and abc and CBS definitely couldn't couldn't compete with NBC Saturday Nights in the 80's with The Facts of Life, 227, Amen, The Golden Girls, Empty Nest or HUNTER NBC was Da Bomb and it was OUR Saturday Night in the 80's
That NBC lineup was killer. I hadn't heard of some of those shows on ABC or CBS, though seeing Christina Applegate before Married with Children and Freddy freaking Kreuger (!) was a surprise
I was 11 years old and a 6th grader. I was definitely watching NBC must see TV on Sat Nights. Loved the entire line up. I remember i would make pizza and sometimes had a friend over and stay up watching all night and wait for WWF Saturday Nights Main Event on some occasions. And At some point American Gladiators and GLOW...........AH YES GOOD TIMES GOOD TIMES
S.S. MUZE Projects I was 12 at the time I remember it was either the rollerskating rink or stay home and watch the lineup. While calling the radio station to dedicate songs to our crushes 😂😂
Gripit L I live in a small town it wasn't much to do on Saturday night's so I stayed home and just watch the lineup. The only show I didn't watch was Hunter. 227 and Amen were my favorites. But I definitely watched all four of the comedies.
You might want to take note that Warner archive released all three seasons of Spenser For Hire on DVD a few years ago. The original pressing was glassmaster, because they got enough call for it, though whether currently ordered discs would be that or custom manufactured I couldn't tell you. Worth noting, too, of course, that this was not the 86 show open, because Barbara Stock is back on it, this had to be the 87 - which I also believed because of the choice of theme music. I cannot think right now of the name of the redheaded actress who played lawyer Rita Fiore in 86 when she replaced Barbara for a year.
I love everything about the "Heart of the City" intro. "Spencer for Hire," another great intro. Robert Eurich had a residence in my town near Boston during the filming of the show, and I was actually in Cub Scouts with his son. Got to go over to his house a couple of times (Dad wasn't home). I was too young to be interested in the show at that time, but I should go back and watch it.
Golden girls stands out as one that was unquestionably destined for success due to its all star, veteran, cast that had proven on-screen chemistry from other top rated shows. I don't know too many other shows that were started from the get-go in that way.
It *was* a disappointing show. Ball's sense of humor/slapstick, which had worked for her in her three previous series, was sorrowfully dated by this fourth show.
Tina Caspary was the original Kelly Bundy on the first pilot episode before the producers felt her and the actor that played the original Bud (Hunter Carson) lacked what they felt was needed and so recasted, refilmed, the segments. There are clips that can searched to compare the two.
It always takes me a couple of hours watching these "Stay Tuned....." vids because by the time I look up various stars in wikipedia to see what they've done that I missed, or see if they're still alive while pausing the "Stay Tuned", and many times that leads to other videos and thus 2 or 3 hours have passed. Kind of my own "Where Are They Now?"
I used to watch 227 too. My granddaughter and I still watch the Golden Girls. She loves to watch Full House when she finds it on. He mother loved the Sonny and Cher show. I remember Amen too. I was so in love with Hunter. Loved that show.
I was definitely watching NBC Fall 86. As were most I assume.That Sat night block was unstoppable. Though my family was always a CBS heavy family, Spenser For Hire was the only show I remembered at all from the other networks.
Me too, NBC all the way that year. I don't even remember any of the others except for Spencer for Hire. I think that show moved to another night possibly. I remember my mom watching that sometimes but I was into facts of life, etc.
We would have got some of these shows a little bit later in Ireland, maybe 6 months after the US. I loved Spenser for hire, Twilight Zone, the golden girls and the new Mike Hammer.
Yeah, yeah, and back then parents whined about shows not being as wholesome as the 50s. "Parental discretion" has never really done anything anyway. My parents wouldn't let me watch Three's Company because it was "too sexual" back in the late 70s/early 80s, but a TV in my room and afternoon syndication meant I could watch it all I wanted.
My family was definitely watching NBC on Saturday nights back in '86, although we alternated between CBS, ABC, and NBC in the 10/9Central time slot: I remember watching Spencer For Hire, the new Twilight Zone, and Hunter.
Rather obvious in the first season... but it found it's own 'legs' thereafter... But the timing (Sudden Impact ; the 4th Dirty Harry hit theaters December 83... Hunter was Fall of 84) is fairly obvious as well
NBC had the best Saturday night line up. I'm instantly transported back to having a baked chicken and mashed potatoes dinner, followed by doing my hair for church the next day. I can smell the Aquamarine conditioner! Great memories
A couple of things: 10:02 Put a mustache on Mackenzie Astin and you'd never be able to tell him apart from his dad, the great John Astin. He's the spitting image. 12:21 Ahhh, those glory days before every car had remote locking:-)
Lol we had all 3 but our tv stayed on nbc. My grandma watched days of our lives, another world and Santa Barbara during the day, so we just never changed the channel at night 😁
The only one of these shows I watched on the regular was Amen, 227 and the twilight zone. The rest was fox or cable(which at the time a millions times better than broadcast tv).
Downtown, featuring a show with THREE supporting cast members more famous (Blair Underwood, Mariska Hargitay, and Robert "Freddy Krueger" Englund) than the lead. Can't say I've ever seen that before. But as everyone has rightfully said, Saturday Night's were NBC night.
My favorite shows from that line up was Hunter, The Facts of Life, 227, The Golden Girls, The Twilight Zone, & Amen. NBC clearly had the better slate of shows for Saturday evenings. The only one that I even heard of on ABC was Spencer For Hire.
Great stuff! You obviously must know someone that is/was affiliated with the major t.v. networks to get all this footage. Nobody has this just laying around on old VHS lol, and the quality is good as well. Thanks for sharing all this!
The majority of the intros are from other TH-cam uploaders. All a matter of searching them out (using precise keywords helps), collecting them and then piecing them all together into videos.
I remember as a kid having one tv in the house and Saturday night I got to watch wrestling then whatever my parents were watching after that...great times
NBC was the obvious winner that season. I remember that lineup of shows, whereas the shows on CBS and ABC we’re mostly forgotten (aside from Spencer For Hire and Twilight Zone).
She also hitchhiked with Fred Savage and his brother in The Wizard. Also, is that the same Johnathan Ward who played Douglas on the first season of Charles in Charge?
Not to mention that this was when NBC got a new "golden cast" beginning for Saturday Night Live (Dana Carvey and Phil Hartman joined while Kevin Nealon was a featured cast member, and we only began to get accustomed to seeing Dennis Miller on Weekend Update). I know you're focused on the Prime Time Saturday Night lineup, but I think it's interesting to note that this was the year SNL got its footing back, too, telling you how strong Saturday nights were for NBC that season.
I think later on 227 Pearl Martin's name was added on later. Also I think when The facts of life got cancelled everyone went up a hr hour earlier and Empty Nest took over Amen's time slot. Later on Nurses was added. Simpler times then.
So Megan Mullally had a short gig on Ellen Burstyn show before joining up with Will & Grace... It's always fun to watch where some celebrities started off from.
Lucille Ball and Bob Newhart: the only two TV stars to have four shows each of which had their name in the title in some form or other (I LOVE LUCY, THE LUCY SHOW, HERE'S LUCY, LIFE WITH LUCY; THE BOB NEWHART SHOW (variety), THE BOB NEWHART SHOW (sitcom), NEWHART, BOB). That said, didn't watch THIS Lucy...or much of any of the others.
I have absolutely no memory of Lucy having a television show in 1986. My first reaction was that this was a mistake in dating. And the Ellen Burstyn show is using the Woody Allen credits font.
If you were around in 1986 it was NBC on Saturday Night...It dominated both ABC & CBS...Lucille Ball was an icon & why didn't ABC put her show on a better night instead? At 10pm Eastern Hunter was another good show...Idk how I watched that show as a kid when probably shouldn't have, but it was a good ass show....great tv in those days....
If I had to guess this show was either granted out of Pity or Obligation... 1986 was well past the point that Lucy should have been allowed/encouraged to do her old 'Lucy-shtick'... so my guess is it was stuck as Saturday Opener to get it done with... that said Saturday did not equal 'death' (like it does today) until the mid-late 90s
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Literally my childhood. I miss the days before all this technology. We played outside till the lights came on. Say on the porch and talked till late in the evening. Talked on the phone to our friends for hours. Called into radio stations to dedicate songs to our crush. Best days ever.
Yes, and didn't watch a fraction of the TV/online streaming that teens watch today. I recognized names of actors and show titles in above video, but never watched one episode of these shows.
I can't be the only one who gets a nice almost warm feeling while watching this. Makes me feel good. 😊
227, golden girls, Amen! oh the memories are flooding back
Same here. The facts of life was the show for me. I could recite half the dialogue to this day.
The golden girls intro here is definitely different than what originally was shown. Loved 227 as well.
Briar Bear that was my childhood right there. Good times back then.
NBC was dominating the 80s. Thurdays and Saturdays were owned by NBC. Them other networks could only go for second place.
@@kingovharts You got that right, hey, abc Thursday Nights couldn't compete with CBS during the early 80's nor could it compete with NBC during the 2nd half of the 80's and abc and CBS definitely couldn't couldn't compete with NBC Saturday Nights in the 80's with The Facts of Life, 227, Amen, The Golden Girls, Empty Nest or HUNTER
NBC was Da Bomb and it was OUR Saturday Night in the 80's
I was only a couple months old but I remember these shows.
Based on this, I must've watched a whole lot of NBC Saturday nights as a child.
That NBC lineup was killer. I hadn't heard of some of those shows on ABC or CBS, though seeing Christina Applegate before Married with Children and Freddy freaking Kreuger (!) was a surprise
Karen from Will and Grace was on the Ellen Burstyn Show, which was another surprise.
Yup! NBC had Saturday night on lockdown, I barely remember most of those shows on other networks.
I was about to say the same damn thing, NBC had that on lock, nothing but classics
Yasmin88 Saturdays and Thursdays belonged to NBC by far!
Mostly the same for me. I watched Twilight Zone, not Hunter, but the rest of it was that killer NBC sitcom block.
I watched NBC for sure that year. Facts of Life and Golden Girls!
I used to love the facts of life. Had to watch it every week.
Steven J. Cannell was an absolute genius. I loved all his shows.
True. He was excellent
Wow! Fall of 1986 was my freshman year of college. I spent Saturday nights working at McDonald's, but NBC clearly ruled the night!
Same here, but I worked at Ross.
I was 11 years old and a 6th grader. I was definitely watching NBC must see TV on Sat Nights. Loved the entire line up. I remember i would make pizza and sometimes had a friend over and stay up watching all night and wait for WWF Saturday Nights Main Event on some occasions. And At some point American Gladiators and GLOW...........AH YES GOOD TIMES GOOD TIMES
S.S. MUZE Projects I was 12 at the time I remember it was either the rollerskating rink or stay home and watch the lineup. While calling the radio station to dedicate songs to our crushes 😂😂
Yea, good times. I was 11 as well.
When Megan Mullaly was co-starring on The Ellen Burstyn Show, Nick Offerman was in high school.
I was always looking forward to Saturday nights on NBC what a lineup I had just graduated high school
Chris Hinnant I watched it every week. I remember I was 12 going on 13. So it’s pretty much the rollerskating rink or stay home and watch the lineup.
Gripit L I live in a small town it wasn't much to do on Saturday night's so I stayed home and just watch the lineup. The only show I didn't watch was Hunter. 227 and Amen were my favorites. But I definitely watched all four of the comedies.
I love HUNTER.. I watched it Saturday nights on NBC.
I believe NBC had the best lineup for Saturday night back then. I remember those shows on the other networks to much except for Spencer For Hire.
Is it allowed to be nostalgic over shows you never watched or didn't like, but you still remember their promos every day?
Sure it is
God I miss Spenser For Hire......
That was a good show. Robert Urich was the best.
You might want to take note that Warner archive released all three seasons of Spenser For Hire on DVD a few years ago. The original pressing was glassmaster, because they got enough call for it, though whether currently ordered discs would be that or custom manufactured I couldn't tell you.
Worth noting, too, of course, that this was not the 86 show open, because Barbara Stock is back on it, this had to be the 87 - which I also believed because of the choice of theme music.
I cannot think right now of the name of the redheaded actress who played lawyer Rita Fiore in 86 when she replaced Barbara for a year.
I love everything about the "Heart of the City" intro. "Spencer for Hire," another great intro. Robert Eurich had a residence in my town near Boston during the filming of the show, and I was actually in Cub Scouts with his son. Got to go over to his house a couple of times (Dad wasn't home). I was too young to be interested in the show at that time, but I should go back and watch it.
I sure do miss all the over-the-top saxophone playing. It stayed hip into the 90s as well.
Golden girls stands out as one that was unquestionably destined for success due to its all star, veteran, cast that had proven on-screen chemistry from other top rated shows. I don't know too many other shows that were started from the get-go in that way.
So glad my life in 1986 didn't include Life With Lucy.
lol!
It *was* a disappointing show. Ball's sense of humor/slapstick, which had worked for her in her three previous series, was sorrowfully dated by this fourth show.
NBC was where it was at for Saturday nights in the mid-late 80's
Golden girls, Cheers, WKRP in Cincinnati, Good times, Bosom buddies..... top five best intro music ever, prove me wrong
If "Heart of the City" was a hit, we may never have had the "Married with Children" we know and love.
If that was the case, I could picture Juliette Lewis playing the role of Kelly Bundy.
Tina Caspary was the original Kelly Bundy on the first pilot episode before the producers felt her and the actor that played the original Bud (Hunter Carson) lacked what they felt was needed and so recasted, refilmed, the segments. There are clips that can searched to compare the two.
It always takes me a couple of hours watching these "Stay Tuned....." vids because by the time I look up various stars in wikipedia to see what they've done that I missed, or see if they're still alive while pausing the "Stay Tuned", and many times that leads to other videos and thus 2 or 3 hours have passed. Kind of my own "Where Are They Now?"
bodybuilder slave I thought I was the only one doing that lol
I thought I was the only one that done this. Currently on FOX 1ST FALL PRIME TIME TV LINEUP 1987
I was only 6 years old but I remember half of these because my grandmother watched them.
I used to watch 227 too. My granddaughter and I still watch the Golden Girls. She loves to watch Full House when she finds it on. He mother loved the Sonny and Cher show. I remember Amen too. I was so in love with Hunter. Loved that show.
What about Family Matters
0:43. When Night Court's Harry Anderson isn't available, you end up settling for his non-union Mexican equivalent Larry Anderson.
+birdmantd RIP Harry Anderson.
Oh wow...was I the only 10 yr old boy watching that Lucy show...then it disappeared. I was a strange kid.
I was definitely watching NBC Fall 86. As were most I assume.That Sat night block was unstoppable. Though my family was always a CBS heavy family, Spenser For Hire was the only show I remembered at all from the other networks.
Me too, NBC all the way that year. I don't even remember any of the others except for Spencer for Hire. I think that show moved to another night possibly. I remember my mom watching that sometimes but I was into facts of life, etc.
jason3fc I’d watch it on the phone with my best friend. The good old days.
i did too.even though i watched Spenser For Hire sometimes and The New Twilight Zone also
We would have got some of these shows a little bit later in Ireland, maybe 6 months after the US. I loved Spenser for hire, Twilight Zone, the golden girls and the new Mike Hammer.
I was an NBC person on Thurs and Sat when I was 11 remembering this Line-up, great shows!!
you and i must be the same age because i was 11 back then too and i also watched most of these shows
even though thursdays i watched Knots Landing on CBS
NBC killing it. Amen was great.
I love watching all of these show at least once because we just got our first VCR, but if I was home them it was all about NBC.
Golden Girls still holds up to this day.
No it doesn’t ☹️
Man all the saxophone 🎷 lol
I should look up to see if there are any episodes of Downtown just because of Mariska Hargitay! She is an awesome actress! Looooove her!
Still remember Saturday night line up on NBC 227 amen golden girls empty nest
Awesome : these are classic.program..wonderful job thank you so much
NBC had me on lock on Saturdays during that time. I never heard of those other shows except Spencer for Hire.
Me too. I was in college and we would watch those shows before hitting the clubs lol
omg the golden girls,,
me and my mom always watched them
So this is what my parents were watching when I was out having fun on Saturday nights.
Yep. At 16 I was not home watching TV on a Saturday night. lol
Me too lol
So what is your old ass doing now lmao
john coctoasten I was 13. My best friend and I would watch on the phone together. Good old days.
This is what me and my friend would watch while my parents were out having a good time. I was in 8th Grade.
That’s when you can let your children watch tv without parental discretion. Quality shows
Yeah, yeah, and back then parents whined about shows not being as wholesome as the 50s. "Parental discretion" has never really done anything anyway. My parents wouldn't let me watch Three's Company because it was "too sexual" back in the late 70s/early 80s, but a TV in my room and afternoon syndication meant I could watch it all I wanted.
My family was definitely watching NBC on Saturday nights back in '86, although we alternated between CBS, ABC, and NBC in the 10/9Central time slot: I remember watching Spencer For Hire, the new Twilight Zone, and Hunter.
5:55 Wow. Hell, the whole cast of that show is amazing.
hunter was basically dirty harry as a tv show
Rather obvious in the first season... but it found it's own 'legs' thereafter...
But the timing (Sudden Impact ; the 4th Dirty Harry hit theaters December 83... Hunter was Fall of 84) is fairly obvious as well
I love HUNTER
Fred Dryer was actually considered for the role of Sam Malone on Cheers!
NBC had the best Saturday night line up. I'm instantly transported back to having a baked chicken and mashed potatoes dinner, followed by doing my hair for church the next day. I can smell the Aquamarine conditioner! Great memories
A couple of things: 10:02 Put a mustache on Mackenzie Astin and you'd never be able to tell him apart from his dad, the great John Astin. He's the spitting image.
12:21 Ahhh, those glory days before every car had remote locking:-)
Apparently we only had NBC back then
Lol we had all 3 but our tv stayed on nbc. My grandma watched days of our lives, another world and Santa Barbara during the day, so we just never changed the channel at night 😁
Spencer for Hire was a favorite show! All these great shows made staying home on Saturday a treat!
The theme song to Life with Lucy was probably the best thing that show had.
Stepfanie Kramer... underrated beauty
I couldn't help but notice how pretty she is when I watched that Hunter intro.
And her beauty is still hot today, although reprised by others.
I LOVED Hunter.
When I was little, I would always get her and Susan Lucci confused with each other.
@@EvansSt83 lol!
The only one of these shows I watched on the regular was Amen, 227 and the twilight zone. The rest was fox or cable(which at the time a millions times better than broadcast tv).
Best shows facts of life and golden girls...... what #nohomo
I was in love with Christina Applegate even back then.
she's still classy today trust me
Thank you for showing this good old days
Jason Windrow Makes me a little bit sad. That was my childhood
I don't remember any of these, but then it was my family's habit to watch movies on the VCR on Saturday nights. War Games, etc.!
Man I was a big Facts of Life fan.
OHHHHHHHH Yeahhhhhhhh Tv Must See!
Loved Spencer for Hire aand Dect Benson and Freddy Krueger on the same show, and a younger Christina Applegate wow
That s when tv was worth watching ! Thats why I watch Cable tv not local tv !
That intro to Downtown was of course a cover of "Money (That's What I Want)."
Loved the guide at the end. Very helpful
Downtown, featuring a show with THREE supporting cast members more famous (Blair Underwood, Mariska Hargitay, and Robert "Freddy Krueger" Englund) than the lead. Can't say I've ever seen that before. But as everyone has rightfully said, Saturday Night's were NBC night.
NBC just dominated in that era of network television.
Was I the only one that was waiting for BIG BIRD to walk up to Alaina Reed when she was sitting on the stoop on 227??
Downtown looks interesting... at least cast-wise.
Outside The Golden Girls, numbers-wise, had the most talented cast. The writing must have been dreadful with a cast like Downtown.
Spensah!
Now we are talking. Spenser for Hire was shown on AFN. I remember watching it.
you mean ABC
My favorite shows from that line up was Hunter, The Facts of Life, 227, The Golden Girls, The Twilight Zone, & Amen. NBC clearly had the better slate of shows for Saturday evenings. The only one that I even heard of on ABC was Spencer For Hire.
holy crap mariska was a cutie!
Great stuff! You obviously must know someone that is/was affiliated with the major t.v. networks to get all this footage. Nobody has this just laying around on old VHS lol, and the quality is good as well. Thanks for sharing all this!
The majority of the intros are from other TH-cam uploaders. All a matter of searching them out (using precise keywords helps), collecting them and then piecing them all together into videos.
I loved Hunter, watched it every week, I wish I owned a vcr then
H&I has a 3? hour block of Hunter on Saturdays now
I think Facts of Life & Golden Girls shared the same wardrobe in some cases, which is just very wrong.
It was the 80s
the 80's Twilight Zone was awesome.
The good ole days
The Ellen Burstyn show was actually very good!!!!
"Amen" and "227" were awesome!
Spenser for Hire was a really good show.
John Krolczyk I loved it.
Geez i must have never been on in high school.. Ive forgotten most of these.. Except for the nbc lineup
I remember as a kid having one tv in the house and Saturday night I got to watch wrestling then whatever my parents were watching after that...great times
NBC was the obvious winner that season. I remember that lineup of shows, whereas the shows on CBS and ABC we’re mostly forgotten (aside from Spencer For Hire and Twilight Zone).
Great job!
I remember two of the CBS shows, none of the ABC shows, and all of the NBC shows.
you dont remember Spenser For Hire on ABC?
Theme songs TV so good back in 80s
Was there ever a TV series Robert Urich WASN'T in?
have you ever seen Invitation to hell with him & susan Lucci? crazy abc movie he was in everything RIP
S1500 He was so hot even at 12 years old had the biggest crush on him.
NBC dominated television during the 80's.
& one year later Jenny Lewis would be on The Golden Girls to hold Rose's teddy bear hostage.
She also hitchhiked with Fred Savage and his brother in The Wizard. Also, is that the same Johnathan Ward who played Douglas on the first season of Charles in Charge?
@@BrianRetro Johnathan was also Beans Baxter.
Don't forget Troop Beverly Hills in 1989.
Not to mention that this was when NBC got a new "golden cast" beginning for Saturday Night Live (Dana Carvey and Phil Hartman joined while Kevin Nealon was a featured cast member, and we only began to get accustomed to seeing Dennis Miller on Weekend Update). I know you're focused on the Prime Time Saturday Night lineup, but I think it's interesting to note that this was the year SNL got its footing back, too, telling you how strong Saturday nights were for NBC that season.
Amen was a short lived but hilarious show! Sherman Helmsley was so funny in that so!
It was on for 5 years
It was a full-fledged second hit series starring Sherman Hemsley. I love “Amen.”
I think later on 227 Pearl Martin's name was added on later. Also I think when The facts of life got cancelled everyone went up a hr hour earlier and Empty Nest took over Amen's time slot. Later on Nurses was added. Simpler times then.
NBC ruled this night. But Spencer and TTZ weren't going to give in!
So Megan Mullally had a short gig on Ellen Burstyn show before joining up with Will & Grace...
It's always fun to watch where some celebrities started off from.
Captain Sisko
11:58 There was a baby's funeral going on in there...
Lucille Ball and Bob Newhart: the only two TV stars to have four shows each of which had their name in the title in some form or other (I LOVE LUCY, THE LUCY SHOW, HERE'S LUCY, LIFE WITH LUCY; THE BOB NEWHART SHOW (variety), THE BOB NEWHART SHOW (sitcom), NEWHART, BOB). That said, didn't watch THIS Lucy...or much of any of the others.
I have absolutely no memory of Lucy having a television show in 1986. My first reaction was that this was a mistake in dating.
And the Ellen Burstyn show is using the Woody Allen credits font.
If you were around in 1986 it was NBC on Saturday Night...It dominated both ABC & CBS...Lucille Ball was an icon & why didn't ABC put her show on a better night instead? At 10pm Eastern Hunter was another good show...Idk how I watched that show as a kid when probably shouldn't have, but it was a good ass show....great tv in those days....
If I had to guess this show was either granted out of Pity or Obligation... 1986 was well past the point that Lucy should have been allowed/encouraged to do her old 'Lucy-shtick'... so my guess is it was stuck as Saturday Opener to get it done with...
that said Saturday did not equal 'death' (like it does today) until the mid-late 90s
you know lucy got a butt load of money for the 13 episodes that actually aired.
And of course Gale Gordon. He got paid a full season’s worth just to get cast. Goes to show what a good, smart agent can do for you.
Funny how both Blair and Mariska went on to other law/cop dramas
A glimpse of Larry Bird at 4:43.