Sitting on my couch and watching that intro when I was a kid always motivated me to get off my couch and find some friends in the neighborhood to play sports.
To Tell the Truth was on opposite General Hospital and Another World. The following Monday, September 9, its time slot was taken over by The Secret Storm. Was this when Joan Crawford took over temporarily the role of Joan Kane from her daughter Christina?
ALL HAIL STANLEY RALPH ROSS WHO WROTE AND DIRECTED THIS. as someone's made a living in TV writing for 40 years now, trust me: IT DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS. Music by Charles Fox, who also brought us "Love American Style" among others.
Ronni Smith tells us she lives in East Orange, N.J. Gene asks her, "And what brings you to New York today?" Oh, just doing a little shopping, and I thought I'd duck into this studio at random and see if perchance there's a game show going on.
As I'm sure most recognize the soccer player is Edson Arantes do Nascimento, perhaps you know him as Pele. That goal was in the 1970 World Cup final that gave Brazil a 1-0 lead and they would go on to win their 3rd Cup 4-1.
Color videotape of anything from daytime TV in 1967 is quite a rarity. This was definitely the tail end of the black and white era as evidenced by a couple of monochrome commercials. Less than 20% of U.S. households owned a color set in early 1967 but that was the year all three networks went full color with their programming.
I have to say that of all the "Wide World" openings I've seen here, this version has a particularly good selection of clips. Lots of action, good variety, and that shot of the soccer guys scoring the goal and celebrating is just sublime. ABC nailed it with this one.
i'm watching this with the audio off so i don't bother my wife watching her television program but i know all the jim mckay dialog and music in my head. it's amazing to me some of the things you can remember and what a great show it was, we watched it on most saturdays and it came on about 4 or 5 in the afternoon. 'the constant variety of sport'.
@@MONSTERDR451Oh yea! Once upon a time, before the advent of cable TV, boxing, which was also featured on WWOS, was completely free to watch on regular tv.
