CBS re-aired the special annually through 2000, with ABC picking up the rights beginning in 2001, where it now airs annually at Halloween, followed by You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown, as if to emphasize the proximity between Halloween and Election Day ; furthermore, the latter includes mention of the " Great Pumpkin " as well.

In 2006, the documentary " Alex Scott: A Stand for Hope ," written and directed by Larry Mendte, aired in prime time on KYW-TV in Philadelphia that was re-aired on 21 CBS stations across the country.

In 1979, the film was remade for CBS television by Delbert Mann, starring Richard Thomas of The Waltons as Paul Bäumer and Ernest Borgnine as Kat.

Its success ( coupled with some theatrical releases of the film in Europe ) convinced CBS to turn it into a weekly series, which began airing in the Spring of 1978.

In 2005, Elwes played the young Pope John Paul II in the CBS television film Pope John Paul II.

Her film credits also include a featured role in Marked For Death opposite Steven Seagal, Pass The Ammo with Tim Curry, and the CBS feature 83 Hours Till Dawn with Peter Strauss and Robert Urich.

* The Tenth Level was a 1975 CBS television film about the experiment, featuring William Shatner, Ossie Davis, and John Travolta.

Until 2009, the video rights to My Fair Lady were with original theatrical distributor Warner Bros., under license from CBS ( the video license to that film has now reverted to CBS DVD under Paramount ).

One of the earliest mainstream manifestations of the steampunk ethos was the original CBS television series The Wild Wild West ( 1965 – 69 ), which inspired the film Wild Wild West ( 1999 ).

After a failed attempt to acquire CBS, Turner purchased the film studio MGM / UA Entertainment Co. from Kirk Kerkorian in 1986 for $ 1. 5 billion.

Reasons for this remain unknown to this day, but because the film at that time was telecast during the second week of December and the nation was still in mourning over the Kennedy assassination then, it could be that CBS executives decided it would be inappropriate to show it less than three weeks after such a tragic event.

** MGM's classic film The Wizard of Oz makes its NBC debut after being telecast on CBS since 1956.

* March 14 – After eight years on NBC, The Wizard of Oz returns to CBS, where it will remain for the next twenty-two years, setting what was likely then a record for the most telecasts of a Hollywood film on a commercial television network.

* December 11 – MGM's The Wizard of Oz is rerun on CBS only a year after its previous telecast, thus beginning the tradition of annual telecasts of the film.

* November 3 – MGM's film The Wizard of Oz makes its TV debut on the CBS network.

It will skip a telecast in 1963, so beginning in 1964, first on CBS, then on NBC, and finally again on CBS, it will nearly always be telecast during the early part of the year until Turner Entertainment buys the rights to the film in the 1990s.

makes its network TV debut, when CBS telecasts the 1955 film version as a 3-hour Thanksgiving special.

However, CBS would, in later years, schedule the film so that it would no longer pre-empt 60 Minutes.

Peckinpah became Akkad's mentor in Hollywood and hired him as a consultant for a film about the Algerian revolution that never made it to the big screen, but he continued to encourage him until he found a job as a producer at CBS.

She is known for her roles as Willow Rosenberg in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Lily Aldrin on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, and Michelle Flaherty in the four main original American Pie film series.

It is also because of these rights issues that Animal Crackers did not see an appearance on television until July 21, 1979, when CBS broadcast the film.

Violinist Isaac Stern also visited the group with a CBS film crew, speaking to the young musicians about lyrics and music after Joe Linus performed his song " Circus Lion " for Stern.

In 1984 CBS produced a television film based on Flynn's autobiography, starring Duncan Regehr as Flynn.

The condition agreed upon for Hitchcock's appearance was that CBS make a pitch to the listening audience about his and Wanger's latest film, Foreign Correspondent.

Lorimar produced the series, CBS produced the pilot film, which is why Paramount, under CBS Home Entertainment, handles home video rights for The Homecoming.

Between 1952 and 1972, he hosted at least five television shows – three different talk shows called The Al Capp Show ( 1952 and 1968 ) and Al Capp ( 1971 –' 72 ), Al Capp's America ( a live " chalk talk ," with Capp providing a barbed commentary while sketching cartoons, 1954 ), and a CBS game show called Anyone Can Win ( 1953 ).

He hosted his own variety hour on CBS television, The Danny Kaye Show, from 1963 to 1967, which won four Emmy awards and a Peabody award.

Unbeknownst to Musburger, this would be the last Super Bowl he hosted for CBS, as he was fired on April 1, 1990.

Initially, 60 Minutes aired as a bi-weekly show hosted by Harry Reasoner and Mike Wallace, debuting on September 24, 1968, and alternating weeks with other CBS News productions on Tuesday evenings at 10: 00 p. m.

In 1992, Urich hosted the CBS TV special The Bat, the Cat, and the Penguin, which was a behind-the-scenes look of the upcoming motion picture Batman Returns.

The cast of Captain Kangaroo also hosted the CBS coverage of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade for several years in the 1960s.

A brief resurgence of production beginning in the early 1970s yielded the Mutual Broadcasting System's The Zero Hour ( hosted by Rod Serling ), National Public Radio's Earplay, and veteran Himan Brown's CBS Radio Mystery Theater and General Mills Radio Adventure Theater, later followed by the Sears / Mutual Radio Theater, The National Radio Theater of Chicago, NPR Playhouse, a newly produced episode of the former 1950s series X Minus One, and works by a new generation of dramatists, notably Yuri Rasovsky, Thomas Lopez of ZBS and the dramatic sketches heard on humorist Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.

CBS shot a second pilot hosted by Sandy Baron, but chose not to pick up the program with either host.

Ray Combs ( who hosted a revival of Family Feud for CBS in 1988 ) once led the audience in singing a rendition of the theme to The Brady Bunch.

On June 22, 2006 Match Game was the sixth of seven classic game shows featured in CBS ' month-long Gameshow Marathon hosted by Ricki Lake and announced by Rich Fields, and the second of two " semi-final " games in the tournament.

Cavalcade of Stars, a variety show hosted by Jackie Gleason, was the birthplace of The Honeymooners ( Gleason took his variety show to CBS in 1952 but filmed the Classic 39 Honeymooners episodes at DuMont's Adelphi Theater studio in 1955-56 ).

* The Morey Amsterdam Show, a comedy / variety show hosted by Morey Amsterdam, which started on CBS before moving to DuMont in 1949

In 1986, Rogers hosted the short-lived CBS television series High Risk.

Late Show with David Letterman is a U. S. late-night talk show hosted by David Letterman on CBS.

In the late 1950s UPA produced a television series for CBS hosted by Gerald McBoing-Boing.

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan.

Chung left NBC for CBS where she hosted Saturday Night with Connie Chung, and on June 1, 1993, she became the second woman ( after Barbara Walters with ABC in 1976 ) to co-anchor a major network's national news broadcast ( the solo national news anchor title in the United States goes to Katie Couric at CBS ).

While hosting the CBS Evening News, Chung also hosted a side project on CBS, Eye to Eye with Connie Chung and also Face to Face with Connie Chung.

Thereafter, he hosted numerous game and variety shows, including The Steve Allen Show, I've Got a Secret, The New Steve Allen Show, and was a regular panel member on CBS ' What's My Line?

In the summer of 1959, Douglas hosted eleven original episodes of a CBS Western anthology television series called Frontier Justice, a production of Dick Powell's Four Star Television.

They hosted their own radio shows for ABC and CBS from 1944 – 1951, singing specially-written commercial jingles for such products as Wrigley's chewing gum, Dole pineapples, Nash motor cars, Kelvinator home appliances, Campbell's soups, and Franco-American food products.

From 1953 to 1957, Cronkite hosted the CBS program You Are There, which reenacted historical events, using the format of a news report.

* February 18 – Tattletales, hosted by Bert Convy, premieres on CBS daytime ( 1974 – 1978, 1982 – 1984 ).