Biggest Group of Stars Ever Assembled! 

Oh the memories of growing up in the late 70s and early 80s! Special Times!!!!

wow! this was a great time in TV. I loved all these actors back when I was a kiddie! Thanks for posting!

Wow, I am glad that they did this.. Considering that most of the stars have past on by now.. To see them all on the same stage is amazing and wonderful.. Especially for today.. Something that will be forever even though some are no longer with us..

Networks wont do stuff like this nowadays. So kool to remember

I'm from Brazil My Generation grew up watching The American Big Starts with yours wonderfully shows. Thank You Share Wonderful Memories

"Gonna Fly Now," the theme song for ROCKY. ROCKY had such a cultural impact on this Nation. Incredible. Did anyone know that Henry Winkler (seen in this video) saved ROCKY from being a made-fot-tv movie. Stallone had sold the script to ABC and asked Henry Winkler to get it back from them to him because Winkler had pull with ABC through HAPPY DAYS. He got the script back into Stallone's hands so he can make it into the movie it was. The rest, as they say, is history. If it wasn't for Winkler, they wouldn't have been singing that song, lol!

Late '70's was also a special time of my youth as a pre-teen.

Fascinating. Here in Brazil, my generation grew up watching actors like Chuck Connors, Cheryl Ladd, Barbara Eden shows as Roots, Charlie's Angels...I love american tv showbiz.

Met Toni Tennille in person a couple of years

Great celebration

Tennille did a great job getting hundreds of people up on the stage in seemingly no particular order in a few minutes with her energy and enthusiasm. I'm going to have to figure out what some of those people had to do with ABC, but back in the day, nearly everyone in Hollywood appeared on something for each of the three networks, even if it was as a guest, who would be introduced as having a show "on another network". It's a shame that ABC has not put out a video with the whole show. Love this.

Thanks For Posting. It Brings Back Great Memories When The Big 3 ABC-TV And Their Rivals Were At The Height Of There Nielsen Ratings Monopoly Before Cable TV The Internet And Home Video Came Along Do You Agree?

Here for the Fonz👍👍

From 2:45: Chuck Conners, Cheryl Ladd, Ernest Borgnine, David Doyle, Tom Bosly, Red Foxx, Henry Winkler, Valerie Harper, Adam Rich, Parker Stevenson, Wink Martindale, Paul Lynde, Hal Linden, Gavin McCloud, Bruce Jenner, Kate Smith, Ron Carey, Margo Thomas, Fred McMurray, Loveboat/Welcome Back Kotter casts, Vic Morrow, Robert Conrad, Haywood Nelson, John Forsythe, Barry Manilow, Christy McNichol, Olivia Newton John, John Wayne, Abe Vigotta....I'm working from childhood memories and blurry images.

That was legendary

Thank you, so much for sharing this celebration!!

Wow, that was super cheesy. . .but still so much fun!

The great celebrities including Henry Winkler, Tom Bosley, Charo, Hal Linden, Chuck Connors, Ted Lange, Gabe Kaplan, Bruce Jenner, Paul Lynde, Jack Klugman, Redd Foxx, Howard Cosell, Alan King, Dick Clark, Adam Rich, and many others were in this ABC 25th Anniversary celebration.

No Silvester stalone ! lol John wayne singing as well amazing.

Hey, John Wayne did record an album where he sang/talked, called "America, Why I Love Her." I wish I still had it. Must be worth a fortune now.

That's one powerful stage!

That probably couldn't be accomplished now. Maybe during the Academy Awards they could ask all the stars attending to crowd on stage together, but I'm unsure how many stars would do it. Also, with the punching that goes on during the Academy Awards, I wonder if they'll be fights on stage.

Wow 🎉

Toni Tennille was chose to lead this song...She is TRULY one of the BEST Singers in the world....

I Love You, Lady Toni Tennille

Wow!!! Great memories. I wish there was a time machine for real.

I recognize so many faces in one place.

I know so many on here see this as korny, stupid etc., but some of us would soon turn 18 in the early 80s graduate high school and become adults somewhere in Panama or Grenada and did not come home to re watch these great memories. So many of us grew up with all these fine people every night for over 15 years 7 days a week 360 and remember the good times of Scooby, Happy days and so many more. They were like family to a lot of people. Oh well we cant go back but we can remember how life was so much more...........fill in the blank

Who would have ever thought Bruce Jenner would become Caitlin?

Boy do i miss that world

I love this song

I recognized so-ooo many faces I couldn't count them all! That was fun to watch :)

Cette vidéo est un régal pour les yeux et les oreilles. 👏

One of John Wayne's last tv apperances

Great to see Debra Clinger and Louise Duart, in the women's choir. They were Superchick and Nashville, on The Krofft Supershow. The best part, was seeing the great John Wayne, enjoying himself.

I was just watching the CBS one. It's very CBS. And this was, well, very ABC.

somebody needs to find all 4 parts of that 25th anniversary special

We will never see this kind of true harmony among stars young and old, people just respected people back then.

Rifleman Chuck Connors, with Witchiepoo Billy Hayes.

Yes..That is Ms.Billie Hayes with Chuck Connors..Bill(Ingram).

would love to see the whole show

holy crap,thats the biggest festival of cheesiness ive ever seen..

All of that talent on stage! It's sad this could not happen today. Today's spoiled celebrities will want to get paid a lot of $$$$$!

There's the cast of The Love Boat w/ Fred Grandy and Bernie Kopell, the cast of Barney Miller (shortly before Jack Soo died a year and half later), Gabe Kaplan of WBK, Paul Lynde, Adam Rich, Dick Clark. Even though this paled in comparison to CBS's anniversaries, ABC had that whole studio and set like one big bisco ball room and had quite a catchy tune here.

Huh. And I always thought there would be a singularity if Tom Bosley ever stood next to David Doyle.

Everybody's up on the stage. One dude left in the audience, and a few busboys standing around.

Why do I keep watching this lol

As I watch this, we lost Adam Rich two months ago.

I love the 70s cheese! People just did fun shit ! It’s so Uber PC now which takes the fun out of anything ! Haha this is gloriously cheesey!!!! How does Charo still look the same ?

Seeing John Wayne in his last days brought a tear to my eye. John Wayne we need you now more than ever.

Wouldn’t be surprised if Bill Conti himself was musical director that night.

I'm surprised Richard Dawson and Monty Hall weren't there.

WoW BRAVA bravo

Rocky was definitely an influence.

And then the whole thing was hit by a giant wave, flipped over and capsized.

To the Rocky theme tune 😆

"Gonna Fly Now", the theme from Rocky.

We Love and Miss You Robin Williams and Tom Bosley.

Is that Bosley (David Doyle) and Tom Bosley together?? Never have Gabe Kaplan, John Wayne and Howard Cosell been in a frame together. Aaah, Marcia Strassman, Pamela Sue Martin, Leslie Uggams and Cheryl Ladd.

Oh Dear Lord!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

floatin free and easy...

Leslie Uggams and Lola Falana on the same stage!

ABC is just not the same without David Doyle.

I Will Always Love You, Little Lady Barbara Jean Eden

So chessy...lol

Barbara Eden, I just love her. She'll always be Jeannie to me & to see the Bruce Jenner of old....OMG who would have guessed what would happen with him. A lot of great faces we'll never see the likes of again.

Who is the little kid that Tom Bosley lifts up?

So many are gone now.

Mr.Ingram I Forgot This 4 Hour Special Was Broadcast On February 5th 1978.

I think Yankee Radio play by play guy John Sterling is seen here too

How in the hell did I get here?

4:10 wow, "The Duke"

Nashville and Superchick, from the Krofft Supershow were the last ladies introduced.

Is There A Group Photograph Of This Special With There Names?

John Wayne Passed Away in 1979

At what point does the stage collapse?

Bunch of A-list stars thinking, why the FUCK am I standing next to Jack Soo?

that was really strange

Mr.Ingram Is There A 1978 Group Photo Of Some 250 ABC-TV Stars Past And Present At That Time?

This is right before the tidal wave comes and turns the set upside down, right???

Jaw-dropping, cringe-inducing, awful. Fascinating.

Friends that was before Shonda took over the network.

The news department went under massive changes in 1978 1) Roone Arledge was hired away from the sports division 2) A brand-new newscast was created, changing the name from "ABC Evening News" to "World News Tonight" 3) along with that came the return of Peter Jennings to the anchor desk 4) the famous four-note musical logo was born, and it was the answer to the NBC chimes; the four-note music logo still runs to this day.

No, it wont. Unfortunately, the entertainment business devolved to the lowest common denominator. Red Skelton was as family friendly as it gets, but he saw it coming because he has a raunchy Vaudeville show but realized that TV was entering people's homes where respect was necessary. No one since has seen that. There's just more money in pandering than in performing so trash gets hired to make trash.

2:45

That sounded like the rocky theme the way that lady was singing!

why are they singing the Rocky song?

a nightmare I would prefer not to have had.

Most of these comments are sweet and wistful which is ok but, is no one here for the irony? Is no one here for the in your face douchebaggery? The horrible rewrite of the Rocky Theme? The ridiculous 80’s hair? The corporate appropriation? For Gods sake ... PAUL LIND!!! I laughed my ass off.

Is this from 1978?

Not sure what's worst, this or the Brady bunch variety hour?

Where's Ernie Anderson? The voice of ABC.

No, the biggest assembly of stars is called the universe. 😀

Tom Bosley perving out, getting all gropey on Toni Tenille.

Where's Adam West and Burt Ward on the stage

MIND FUCK !!!!

so...where's Stallone?

So lame, CBS did waaaaay better on their celebration

This paled in comparison to the CBS 50th anniversary program

I would have SPRINTED to the exit if Toni Tenille called out my name!