BROADCAST DATE: January, 1995, Syndicated.
DESCRIPTION: Oprah was the first black woman to host a successful daytime talk show. She started her career at age 19 in Nashville as a news anchor, not long after that,  she was co-hosting a talk show in Baltimore. "THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW" concentrates on a single topic each day and it's taped in front of a live audience which is encouraged to make questions to the guests. Lynda is shown in the "TV HALL OF FAME" feature of "THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW".

	Series Run: September 8, 1996-Present. Broadcast Network: Syndicated. Hostess: OPRAH WINFREY. Director: Duke Struck. Executive Producer: Diane Atkinson Hudson. Supervising Senior Producers: LeGrande Green, Alice McGee, Dana Newton, Ellen Rakieten. Senior Producer: David Boul. Producers: James Kelley, Pauline Canny, Mary Donahue, Angie Kraus. Production Manager: Irma Norris. Theme Song: “Get With The Program” performed by Patti LaBelle, written by Butch Stewart and Patti LaBelle. Senior Associates: Judy Banks, Jeanne Carow-Kurtzhaltzs, Elizabeth Coady, Amy Craig, Lisa Erspamer, Jill Van Lokeren, Lesia Minor, Lauta Grant Sillars. Associate Producers: Jill Adams, Dana Brooks, Kevin Borenstein, James Brady, Teresa Crawford, Ray Dotch, Terry Goulder, Kelly Groves Olson, Lisa Youngblood Hall, Natalie Jason, Jenna Kostelnik, Becky Liscum, Tara McNally, Jack Mori, Mary Monahan, Melinda Morrison, Candi Nichols, Jillian Straus, Sandy Wilson, Andrea Wishom. Associate Director: Sally Jo Connor. Production Coordinator: Julie Reeder. Production Assistants: Marcia Anderson, Robert Green, Jennifer Kinnear, Sylvia Maldonado, Gregg Sherkin.
EPISODE SYNOPSIS: Lynda is featured in the "TV HALL OF FAME" feature where she talks about what "WONDER WOMAN" represented, a character with a life of its own, which meant hoper for young women, and for men a beautiful, smart, fun and strong woman. She tells she receives a lot of men's mail and she concludes that is strange being a pop icon and not being dead.

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			RUNNING TIME:	00:50:00 [60 minutes including commercials].
			VHS:	Not available on commercial video.
			DVD:	Not available on commercial video.
			INFO:	This is the first of LYNDA CARTER's appearances on "THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW".
			VIDEO:	[1]  "THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW". Video clip.
			TRIVIA:	[•] It is the longest running daytime television talk show in the United States, with 20 seasons and thousands of episodes since it debuted on September 8, 1986. The show has now been renewed for a twenty-fifth season, which will be broadcast in 2011.
				[•] Oprah, as it is often referred to, has been seen by many critics as one of the finest television talk shows ever; it was included in Time magazine's shortlist of the best television series of the twentieth century in 1998, and it made the top 50 of TV Guide's countdown of the greatest shows of all time [1] in 2002.
				[•] The highest-rated episode is entitled "The Weight Wagon". Airing in 1988, Oprah wheeled out a wagon containing fat, representing the weight she had lost.

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