In 1977, Bixby appeared with Donna Mills, Richard Jaeckel, and William Shatner in the last episode, entitled " The Scarlet Ribbon ", of NBC's western series The Oregon Trail, starring Rod Taylor and Andrew Stevens.

Enberg had essentially succeeded Gowdy as NBC's lead NFL play-by-play announcer in the 1978 regular season, and network producers didn't decide until nearly the last minute which man would get the Super Bowl call.

He is then hired as NBC's foley artist, performing shows for a division of the company labeled " XYZ " on the microphones, and becomes very famous, with the last scene showing him riding with his parents in a very expensive automobile among throngs of fans.

The Early Show, like many of its predecessors, traditionally ran last in the ratings to its rivals, NBC's Today and ABC's Good Morning America.

For many years starting with NBC's last run in the mid-1970s, all references to Underdog swallowing his super energy pill were censored, most likely out of fear that kids would see real medication that looked like the Underdog pills ( red with a white " U ") and swallow them.

NBC's other services, The Source and NBC Talknet, would last into the late 1990s before being retired.

Henry hosted NBC's Saturday Night Live ten times, appearing first in 1976, and for the last time in 1980.

Loving fell back to 11th place, hitting last place for the first time in early 1989 ( between the January series finale of Ryan's Hope and the March premiere of NBC's Generations ), and then back to 11th.

In 1977, Jaeckel appeared with Donna Mills, Bill Bixby, and William Shatner in the last episode, entitled " The Scarlet Ribbon ", of NBC's western series The Oregon Trail, starring Rod Taylor and Andrew Stevens.

On September 1, 1975, NBC's last Monday Night Baseball game, in which the Montréal Expos beat the Philadelphia Phillies 6 – 5.

CBS replaced Search for Tomorrow with Capitol, scheduled against the last halves of NBC's Another World and ABC's One Life to Live, the latter of which dominated the ratings at the time.

His other voice work included network TV promos ( he did a series of promos for NBC's NFL coverage for much of the 1980s ), narration for sketches on Saturday Night Live, movie trailers, and commercials for everything from toys to shampoo ( one of Beck's very last commercials was for Infusium Shampoo ).

NBC's next offering in that timeslot was the soap Santa Barbara, which ran for nine seasons and was also the last network program NBC aired in that slot ; following Santa Barbaras cancellation in 1993, NBC returned the hour to its affiliates.

Despite the program being produced in a 16: 9 frame since at least 2008, Last Call was still presented in a 4: 3 letterbox mode until September 19, 2011, when it became the last program ( outside of the network's outside-controlled Saturday morning Qubo block ) on NBC's schedule to make the full conversion to high definition broadcast.

This was the last NBC-broadcast World Series to air before General Electric acquired RCA, NBC's parent company.

" NBC's post-game locker-room television coverage infamously captured Bears players singing " Hooray for George, Hooray at last ; Hooray for George, He's a Horse's ass!

On January 26, 1961, he appeared in the last season of NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.

In 1941, it began sharing programs with W2XBS ( later WNBT and now WNBC-TV ) in New York City, becoming NBC's second television affiliate, and creating a link between the station and the network that would last for 54 years.

At one point in the 1980s, even with NBC's powerful primetime lineup, WPTF-TV was dead last in the Triangle television ratings.

Robinson will continue as NBC's diving commentator for the 2012 London Olympics and has been a play-by-play man for the last seven Olympic Games ( four Winter Olympics and three Summer Olympics ).

Walton and Jones worked the Christmas Day 2005 broadcast between the San Antonio Spurs and Detroit Pistons for ABC, the first game they called together since Game 4 of the 2002 NBA Finals for NBC ( NBC's last NBA telecast to date ).

Enberg had essentially succeeded Gowdy as NBC's lead NFL play-by-play announcer in the 1978 regular season, and network producers didn't decide until nearly the last minute which man would get the Super Bowl call.

Shows like the Fox-produced Small Wonder and NBC's Saved by the Bell were among the last series to be taped at this complex, as well as the sketch comedy series, In Living Color, and the first season of MAD TV.

Victor Rodman, formerly of NBC's Noah's Ark, made his last screen appearance in Brainstorm in the uncredited role of a prison inmate.

Not surprisingly, The Early Show enjoyed a relatively successful May sweeps, racking up a 5 percent increase in year-to-year total viewers and remaining flat in the 25-to-54-year-old demographic, at a time when both NBC's Today Show and ABC's Good Morning America were shedding viewers to the tune of 3 and 4 percent respectively.

Lawyers backing NBC's then-owner RCA convinced Tinker to sell his remaining shares of MTM.

Soon enough by August 2004, KNTV fell in line with the network's recommended time slot and now airs Days of our Lives ( NBC's remaining afternoon daytime drama ) at the recommended 1pm timeslot.

He is best known for playing the roles of Chris Kositchek ( he originated in 1977 ) and Roman Brady on the long-running American dramatic serial Days of our Lives and as Michael Hogan, the father figure on NBC's long running situation comedy The Hogan Family.

The popularity of The Doctors began flourishing in the late 1960s, when it was featured in advertisements for NBC's 90-minute serial block.

Following a 20 year-long successful career as a musician, he achieved fame as an actor as he began playing Doug Williams on NBC's long-running daytime serial Days of Our Lives in 1970.

Patterson remained on One Life to Live until 1970, when his character Joe Riley was presumed dead ; he returned to the show in 1972 and remained the romantic lead until 1979, when he left due to his unhappiness with the direction the show took after Doris Quinlan left to produce NBC's troubled serial The Doctors.

Its predecessor at 2: 00 PM Eastern / 1 Central was the original run of Password, which had run aground against NBC's serial Days of our Lives and ABC's The Newlywed Game.

She appeared in two key 1970s horror films, George A. Romero's The Crazies in 1973 and David Cronenberg's Shivers in 1974, followed by a sixteen-month role as the adulterer-heroine Sandra on NBC's short-lived soap opera How to Survive a Marriage, as well as a brief part on the daytime serial Another World.

It is the birthplace of Emmy Award-winning actress Suzanne Rogers, perhaps best known for her long-running role as Maggie Simmons Horton on NBC's Days of our Lives.

Later, as a guest on NBC's The Gisele MacKenzie Show, Karloff sang " Those Were the Good Old Days " from Damn Yankees, while Gisele MacKenzie performed the solo, " Give Me the Simple Life ".

Midland is the birthplace of the Emmy Award winning longtime American actress Suzanne Rogers, who has played the role of Maggie Simmons Horton on NBC's Days of our Lives continuously since 1973.

He guest starred on I Love Lucy with Janet Waldo and on NBC's 1955-1956 Frontier anthology series in the lead role of the episode entitled " The Ten Days of John Leslie ".

Known for his work as the head writer of NBC's Days of our Lives and creator / head writer of Passions, Reilly won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Writing as co-head writer for Guiding Light in 1993.

Overall, in daytime programming ( excluding Saturday and Sunday ), The Price Is Right is ranked sixth among the longest-continuing daytime television programs ( NBC's Today ranks the longest, followed by four daytime soap operas: Guiding Light, As the World Turns, General Hospital, and Days of our Lives ), and moved into fifth in September 2009 after Guiding Light aired its final episode on CBS.

Graham made his national television debut on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Friday, February 2, 2008 with a full band performance of " Best Days " which included a three-piece string section.

Five did buy NBC's other soap opera, Days of our Lives, to air in Sunset Beachs place, even running promos during Sunset Beach's final week, but the show failed to catch on and 5 dropped Days approximately a year later.

He is best known for playing Stefano DiMera, a role he originated in 1982 on NBC's long running Days of our Lives.

Deidre Ann Hall () ( born October 31, 1947 ) is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Dr. Marlena Evans on NBC's daytime drama Days of our Lives, which she played for almost 40 years.

Edward Macdonald Carey ( March 15, 1913 – March 21, 1994 ) was an American actor, best known for his role as the patriarch Dr. Tom Horton on NBC's soap opera Days of our Lives.

In 1992, she received national recognition when she first starred on NBC's Days of our Lives as Billie Reed.

Sweeney is best known for her portrayal of Samantha " Sami " Brady Hernandez on NBC's long running Days of our Lives ,< ref >

She played Beth Raines on the CBS series Guiding Light from ( 1983 – 1986 ), but is best known for playing Adrienne Johnson Kiriakis a role she originated in 1986 on NBC's long running Days of our Lives.

Jones is best known for playing Lexie Carver on NBC's long-running soap opera Days of our Lives, a role she originated in 1993.

The premiere of Texas came at a time when NBC's daytime lineup ( consisting of Another World, Days of our Lives, and The Doctors ) had fallen into ratings trouble, after a highly successful period in the early and mid-1970s.

She is known for her recurring role as Anna DiMera on NBC's long-running Days of our Lives.

The Monday after Survive ended, Days of our Lives expanded to an hour and assumed the vacant half-hour left in NBC's daytime schedule.

In the 1980s, Robinson was most notably known for his roles as ' Zammis ' in Enemy Mine, ' Clarence ' on NBC's Amen, ' Jonah Carver ' on Days Of Our Lives, and the acclaimed recurring character ' Leon ' on NBC's Night Court.