Bob Hope tours China, takes in the culture and meets up with Big Bird, Crystal Gayle, Peaches and Herb, and others.
A young executive is trying to convince an airline to sponsor a travel show on television, but he's not getting anywhere. When he tells his fiancé that he may have to postpone their honeymoon, she goes off on him, and as he backs away from her he hits his head on a fire extinguisher and knocks himself out. While unconscious he dreams his own version of the show he's trying so hard to sell.
For years, this question has been repeatedly asked of the Raleigh Ringers: When will you record another DVD? The answer became clear when UNC-TV approached the group in 2012 with its offer to help the Raleigh Ringers produce a sequel to the ensemble's critically-acclaimed "One Winter Evening at Meymandi." The PBS special, "Holiday Handbells," was produced from this DVD and now airs nationally each year. Digitally recorded in the acoustically superior Meymandi Concert Hall in Raleigh, NC, and produced by the talented UNC-TV professionals in 5.1 channel surround sound using six HD cameras, "A December Tradition" is bound to become another fan favorite, regionally and nationwide.
Writer/director Blake Edwards chronicles his wife Julie Andrews' decision to star in a TV variety show while balancing her home and family life.
As dancer Ginny Walker performs on stage, a veiled woman in the audience stands up, accuses Ginny of stealing her husband and then fires a gun at her. After Ginny collapses and is taken to her dressing room, the woman, Julia Westcolt, a friend of Ginny's, dashes backstage, discards her veil, and then congratulates her friend on their successful publicity stunt. When Ginny's press agents, Gus Crane and his son Junior, visit their client backstage, she brags about her feat and chides them for not being more creative in promoting her. Horrified at Ginny's brashness, Junior, a conservative Harvard graduate, chastises her and leaves the room.
The program on this DVD is basically a retrospective produced in the early 1990s for public television that was originally called «A Bing Crosby Christmas: Just Like the Ones You Used to Know» that was narrated by Gene Kelly and hosted by Bing's widow, Kathryn Crosby. The program itself features clips from fifteen of Bing's classic television specials, concentrating on the period from the early 1960s onwards when he included Kathryn and their three children in the programs.
Jack Parr hosts a variety program of comedic sketches.
Lumières sur la fête du Canada
Each year, the Christmas concert presented by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square is seen by more than 85,000 people live and by millions more via television broadcast. This year the Choir was joined by none other than multiple Grammy-award winner Natalie Cole and Pulitzer prize-winning author David McCullough.
Lynda Carter's second musical TV special.
Lynda Carter's first musical TV special.
Lynda Carter's third musical TV special.
On a set resembling a yacht, Roger Wolfe Kahn leads his orchestra in several popular tunes of the day. Billed and un-billed guest acts also perform. At the end, Kahn thrills his guests by piloting a biplane.
dream's Christmas Party 2004 was filmed on December 23 and 24th, 2004.
dream Party 2006 X'mas is a concert film from vocal/dance unit dream. The concert was filmed live on December 24, 2006 at Zepp Tokyo.
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
Ça c'est Claude François
15 complete performances that were filmed when these bands played live on The Ed Sullivan Show. Michelle Phillips of The Mamas and Papas narrates between songs and shows still photographs or film clips of these band members as they are interviewed by Ed or others.
Celebrate Christmas with the Tabuchi family as they bring their sold out music show to home video. Recorded live at the Shoji Tabuchi Theater in Branson, MO.
A group of feisty, talented young performers pool their resources and buy a dilapidated theatre to showcase their acts – but unscrupulous property developers also want the theatre and resort to dirty tricks to disrupt the first night's performance!