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The Midnight Special is an American late-night musical variety series originally broadcast on NBC from 1972 to 1981, created and produced by Burt Sugarman. It premiered as a TV special on August 19, 1972, and then began its run as a regular series from February 3, 1973, to March 27, 1981. [2] The 90-minute program aired on Saturday mornings at ...
Episodes Originally aired Premiere Finale 1: 33 August 19, 1972 September 8, 1973 2: 50 September 15, 1973 September 14, 1974 3: 48 September 28, 1974 September 13, 1975 4: 43 September 20, 1975 September 11, 1976 5: 38 September 18, 1976 August 13, 1977 6: 44 September 10, 1977 September 8, 1978 7: 35 September 16, 1978 September 15, 1979 8: 34
As with The Midnight Special, Don Kirshner's Rock Concert was noted for featuring live performances, which was unusual for the period since most television appearances at that time used lip-synching to prerecorded music. Kirshner's show was recorded in stereo utilizing simulcast to broadcast on FM Stereo radio stations and early Cable TV.
The Midnight Special, the once hugely popular music program that featured such now legendary performers of the 1970s and early ’80s as David Bowie, Tina Turner, Elton John and too many others to ...
The 1980 Floor Show was a rock musical spectacle featuring English rock musician David Bowie as the protagonist, held at the Marquee Club in Soho, London, on October 18–20, 1973. It was broadcast in the United States by NBC on November 16, 1973, as part of the series The Midnight Special, [1] and presented the last performance of Bowie as his ...
Burt Sugarman. Burton Roy Sugarman (born January 4, 1939) is an American film and television producer [1] best known for creating and producing the iconic 1970s/early '80s variety series The Midnight Special, which served as a showcase for popular musical groups of the time. Sugarman also produced the 1970s game shows Celebrity Sweepstakes ...
"The Midnight Sun" was telecast on the day the U.S. consolidated its drive for "push-button warfare" with the first successful launching of a Minuteman missile from an underground silo. The episode substitutes a kink in the Earth's orbit—an analogue to what we currently call "the greenhouse effect"—for an atomic holocaust. Instead of ...
Francis Kip Addotta (June 16, 1944 – August 13, 2019) was an American stand up comedian.He made several appearances on television during the 1970s including The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Mike Douglas Show, Dinah!, American Bandstand, The Midnight Special, Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, and the game shows The Hollywood Squares and Make Me Laugh.