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June 29 (2017-06-29) – September 7, 2017 (2017-09-07) Battle of the Network Stars is a series of competitions in which television stars from ABC, CBS and NBC would compete in various sporting events. A total of 19 of these competitions were held between 1976 and 1988, all of which were aired by ABC. In 2003, NBC attempted to revive Battle of ...
- I Protest!
- Freestyle Or breaststroke?
- What It Was, Was Football
- “High and Dry, I Need A Ball Player…”
There was dissent in the ranks from the get-go. CBS team captain Telly Savalas (puffing away on a cigarette during an athletic competition, no less) raised a protest after the relay race. It seems that Ben Murphy (Gemini Man, better known for the “Riding with Death” episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000) stepped off of his line and accepted the b...
Adrienne Barbeau and Lynda Carter were a little nervous—but buoyant with hope—as they stepped onto the starting blocks for the swimming competition. Once they hit the water they lost that deer-in-the-headlights look and went for the jugular. Perhaps it was a little tit-for-tat after that contentious relay race, but it was clear that neither woman w...
Not to say that any of the other contests were necessarily frivolous, but one event that was played very seriously was the 3-on-3 football competition. Maybe it was because many of the male TV actors had played some ball back in the day and were eager to relive their wonder years. Whatever the reason, the men actually took the time to plan some gam...
Believe it or not, the Dunk Tank was an actual “athletic” event in BOTNS. Athletic is in quotation marks because there was some controversy as to the accuracy of the dunking mechanism. Skeptical TV viewers noted that the more comely the dunkee, the less accurate the dunker had to be when hitting the target. Notice how a pre-Mad About YouHelen Hunt ...
- Cristina Everett
- Let's Get Physical.
- Lynda Carter, Gabe Kaplan, and Penny Marshall (1976)
- Farrah Fawcett and Penny Marshall (1976)
- Ron Howard (1976)
Aug 14, 2017 · Shari Belafonte: When Battle Of The Network Stars first started, it was a totally different ballgame, because it was just the three networks: ABC, NBC, and CBS. At that time, Fox wasn’t even in ...
Following the adventures of a bunch of nobodies who get up to a whole lot of nothing in the fictional prairie town of Dog River, Saskatchewan, Corner Gas focuses on the life (or lack thereof) of ...
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Jun 28, 2017 · Photo: Kelsey McNeal/ABC. Battle of the Network Stars, the competition series that once pitted TV’s biggest stars against each other in a battle for athletic-actor supremacy, returns to the ...
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A nostalgic throwback to the original series where TV celebrities blended athleticism with hilarious antics. The 10-episode summer event pits teams of current and classic TV stars from multiple eras and different genres against one another in a variety of athletic games.
