This was back in the day when being on network television was a big deal. There was no RU-vid, no Twitter, no Facebook, or Instagram. Nobody knew your name unless you were featured on TV in some way. So, I figure when these singers were asked to provide the theme song for the 1986 NBC Network Season Opener, they put their all into it knowing that when it aired they'd be showing it off to friends and family.
This is the first Come Home to NBC campaign for the 1986-87 season and also the first year to have its current six-feathered peacock logo. It also marked the final season for The A-Team.
WOW, the star power they had in that decade. Hard to believe it but none of those stars are with the network anymore. Correction, Michael J. Fox is returning this fall with his own show. Other than that, it is definitely an era that can never be recaptured. Probably the best decade of television ever. Come Home, Be There, Proud as a Peacock, and Just Watch Us Now are campaigns we don't see on network television anymore. It identified who they were and what they meant to the American people.
It's my understanding ... Bob Bibb and Lewis Goldstein are responsible for the NBC COME ON HOME promotion. They also did network promotions for FOX and the WB. I had an opportunity to speak with both of them on the phone after a letter to the FOX network got their attention and they made a phone call to me! I just LOVE these network jingles!!
they certainly don't make 'em like this anymore! is it sad that while i was only a few months old when this originally came out... i can name nearly all of the shows and stars in this little clip?
Tartitkoff's Legacy has'nt been Forgotten to NBC, the Mid-Late 1980's started NBC's Dominance. America Started the Day with Bryant Gumbel and Jane Pauley, Watched the World with Tom Brokaw and Went to Bed with Johnny Carson and David Letterman, In Between those, Game Shows and Soap Operas made NBC's Daytime and at Night, An Array of Hits including, Family Ties, The Cosby Show, Night Court, Cheers, The Golden Girls, Matlock, Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere, Hunter and L.A. Law.
And yet, it took someone like Jeff Zucker to destroy that "dominance" within five years- because, unlike Tartikoff, HE didn't have the same ability to deal with producers, agents, and talent, and generate new ideas (anyone for "HIDDEN HILLS", "WATCHING ELLIE", "EMERIL", "PRIDE OF THE FAMILY", "COUPLING" and "JOEY"?). HIS big ideas were more "reality shows" and games, and "supersizing" the Thursday night comedies by ten minutes. NBC is still trying to dig itself out of the hole Zucker created....and now he's doing the same thing to CNN.
which of the stars were appearing in front of the NBC Peacock backdrop aside from Jane Pauley, Michael Landon, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Betty White, a young Jason Bateman, Michael Gross, Ed McMahon & Paul Shaffer?
Come Home to 33!! WRBT-TV (now WVLA-TV) Baton Rouge, LA. Come Home to Channel 8 (The Spirit of Tampa Bay)!! WXFL-TV (now WFLA-TV) Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL. Come Home to WSVN!! Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Channel 7.
Someone had posted some bumpers and station IDs from the Baton Rouge metro (I think for all 4 major OTA and some of the minor ones too). I love television history so yes I did lose tens of hours to watching all that stuff.
NBC only got one daytime drama days of our lives ,no Saturday moring cartoon no real show to watch on Thursday night ,and they got sunday night football I don't cared for and not the AFC.right had since the 1960's and no baseball
"Come Home to Channel 4" KRON-TV San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose, California (now a MyNetworkTV affiliate/independent station) Well, if KNTV was an NBC affiliate/O&O station instead of being an ABC affiliate at the time of that fall campaign rather than KRON-TV, their slogan should be like this: "Come Home to KNTV/Channel 11" KNTV San Jose/San Francisco/Oakland, California (an NBC O&O station)
Come home to WPTF 28 Durham-Raleigh-Fayettevile if it was WNCN it would Come on Home to WNCN 17 Goldsboro-Raleigh-Durham-Fayettevile (an NBC Owned Station, or now WRAL Come Home To WRAL 5 Raleigh-Durham (your twice tenured NBC Station).
I agree with barber747. In fact, ALL the Big Three networks are in a major rut--variations on a theme, clones of trite material.CSI and its progeny all over the place. Same with American Idol with this network's The Voice and others. Sitcoms that aren't the least bit enjoyable to watch. Game shows too serious to be much fun (with the exception on CBS' the Price is Right and revival of Let's Make a Deal) (perhaps its most successful ever, having practically all previous attempts to revive it except The All New Lets make a Deal 1984-1986). SOMETHING needs to be done to ensure TRUE VARIETY is the rule and NOT the exception at the BIG THREE!!! Brandon Tartikoff, where art thou?
+Donna Mendoza "Major rut" is a very subjective term. ABC and CBS are still among the top three-ranked networks. The Big Three are now the Big Four, as Fox has risen in stature considerably over the last couple of decades. Single-camera comedies and "niche" shows of all types are the norm, but for quite a few of the networks, they're still bringing in plenty of ratings and revenue. I do agree that more variety needs to be infused into all the outlets. Brandon Tartikoff died in 1997.
@@PJVids83 The last season of *Silver Spoons* was syndicated during the 1986-1987 season. *Punky Brewster* came back in late 1987, the animated version having ended by that point, and they interspersed new episodes in the same Monday through Friday schedule as old ones, with season 4 airing in the spring of 1988.
Fourth season of spitting image from United States of America - same name puppet show from United Kingdom Channel by NBC Voiced by Michael Landon as Michael Landon puppet Jerry Nelson as Ronald Reagan puppet Carol Burnett as Queen Elizabeth puppet Judith light as princess Diana puppet Charlton Heston as prince Charles puppet
