BROADCAST DATE: Wednesday, May 20, 1998, CBS.
DESCRIPTION: "CBS: THE FIRST 50 YEARS" is a two-hour TV entertainment special that takes a surface skim over the history of CBS, quickly skipping past decades of CBS radio to concentrate on CBS television from the late '40s to the present. It features more than a dozen hosts introducing a parade of primetime clips covering a variety of shows, events, and people. Lynda Carter is shown on a clip of "WONDER WOMAN".

	Broadcast Date: Wednesday, May 20, 1998. Broadcast Network: CBS. Time Slot: 9:00-11:00 P.M. Hosts: Alan Alda, Adam Arkin, Ed Bradley, Carol Burnett, David Copperfield, Walter Cronkite, Roma Downey, Fran Drescher, Don Johnson, Angela Lansbury, David Letterman, Cheech Marin, Leslie Moonves, Mary Tyler Moore, Dan Rather, Della Reese, Ray Romano, Jane Seymour, Dick Smother, Tom Smother, Dick Van Dyke. Directors: Frank Martin, Andrew Solt. Writer: Alan Rucker. Executive Producers: Frank Martin, Andrew Solt, Rudy Poe. Producer: Greg Vines. Cinematographer: Ralf Bode Editors: Bud Friedgen, Leslie Tong, T.J. Mahar. Sound: Rodger Davis, Ron Malo, Stefan Springman.
EPISODE SYNOPSIS: "CBS: THE FIRST 50 YEARS" features more than a dozen hosts introducing a parade of primetime clips covering a variety of shows, events, and people -- Ed Sullivan, The Carol Burnette Show, 60 Minutes (Mike Wallace interviewing Barbra Streisand), Gunsmoke, The Honeymooners, Edward R. Murrow (his oft-seen editorial on Joe McCarthy), I Love Lucy, The Twilight Zone, The Waltons, Dan Rather reporting from Vietnam, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Green Acres, Dallas, Petticoat Junction, The Beverly Hillbillies, M*A*S*H, The Andy Griffith Show, Murphy Brown, the JFK assassination, and more -- with reminiscences from Tom and Dick Smothers, David Letterman (on Ed Sullivan), Larry Hagman (on "Who shot J.R.?"), Alan Alda, Ron Howard, Walter Cronkite, and others. Using the same computer technique that lets Fred Astaire dance with a Dirt Devil, CBS will have Jack Benny visit Cosby, Chad Everett on Chicago Hope, Lucille Ball on The Nanny, Edward R. Murrow on Murphy Brown, Rod Serling on Early Edition, James Arness on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, and Rob Petrie from The Dick Van Dyke Show on Mr. Van Dyke's Diagnosis Murder. Lynda appears in a brief clip from Wonder Woman.

© 1998 by Andrew Solt Productions and Eleventh Day Entertainment in association with CBS-TV. All Rights Reserved

			RUNNING TIME:	00:50:00 [60 minutes including commercials].
			VHS:	Not available on commercial video.
			DVD:	Not available on commercial video.
			INFO:	LYNDA CARTER only appears briefly on a clip from the "WONDER WOMAN" series.
			VIDEO:	[1]  "CBS: THE FIRST 50 YEARS". Video clip.
			TRIVIA:	[•] The special was certainly a predecessor to "CBS AT 75".
				[•] Lynda is only shown on a very brief clip from the "WONDER WOMAN" series with "THE INCREDIBLE HULK".
				[•] A soundtrack album featuring Themes from CBS series was released.

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