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ABC's Wide World of Sports (TV Series 1961–1997) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
ABC's Wide World of Sports: With Jim McKay, Howard Cosell, Muhammad Ali, Angelo Dundee. ABC's weekend extravaganzas about everything that can be called a sports event.
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Wide World of Sports - Full Cast & Crew. 1961 -1998. ABC. Sports. Watchlist. Where to Watch. Television's longest-running sports anthology show, showcasing the 'thrill of victory and the...
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- Off to A Rocky Start
- Intro Said It All
- The Host with The Most
- Where Stars Were Born
- Show Ran Its Course
Gowdy was almost correct. In his 1998 memoir, McKay recalled that early ratings were “miserable.” The show was nearly canceled that first summer. Mostly due to the lack of a better replacement option, it managed to get picked up for a full season in 1962. That’s when Arledge’s audacity paid off. At the height of the Cold War, he secured the rights ...
No matter how many events, characters, and locales — the show also doubled as a not-so-subtle travelogue — “World Wide of Sports” introduced, its opening credits remained more famous than any segment. If you’re of a certain age — one that remembers when televisions had rabbit ears and it felt like a jackpot when three channels came in clearly — may...
The underlying message of “Wide World of Sports” — people competing passionately are what make sports so compelling — would not have been so clear if not for McKay’s geniality and gravitas. Born James Kenneth McManus, he was a son of Philadelphia who moved to Baltimore as a teenager and began his career as a newspaperman before turning to televisio...
McKay wasn’t the only broadcaster to gain prominence on “Wide World of Sports.” Cosell hitched himself to Ali, perhaps the most charismatic athlete of all time, from the first Sonny Liston fight through the end of his career, while boxing became a bigger part of the show in the ’70s and into the ’80s. Before he became the granddaddy of all college ...
McKay was genial, but he was not naïve, and he recognized that the landscape was changing even in the ’70s. The world had become more accessible, and cable television and, later, the Internet would make it even smaller, eroding the mystery of unfamiliar sports in appealing locales. Events that “Wide World of Sports” had popularized and perhaps even...
1961 -1998. ABC. Sports. Watchlist. Television's longest-running sports anthology show, showcasing the 'thrill of victory and the agony of defeat,' was a Saturday-afternoon staple in the 1960s,...
Emma Freedman. as Herself (Co-Host) View full cast list » Show Guide for Wide World of Sports. Includes an episode list, cast and character list, character guides, gallery, and more.
