BROADCAST DATE: Monday, April 29, 2002, ABC.
DESCRIPTION: "GILDA RADNER'S GREATEST MOMENTS" celebrates Gilda's unique brand of comedy with clips from her career, including rare and never-before-seen home movies, some of her best-loved Saturday Night Live sketches, her earliest TV work, later feature films, her one-woman Broadway show and much more. Lynda Carter appears on a clip from 1978 of "THE 30TH ANNUAL EMMY AWARDS" where Lynda was an award presenter and Gilda the winner.

	Broadcast Network: ABC. Time slot: 8:00 P.M. Featuring: Gilda Radner, Molly Shannon, Victor Garber, Steve Martin, Paul Shaffer, Lily Tomlin, Barbara Walters. Also Featuring: Dan Aykroyd, Don E. Carney, Lynda Carter, Bob Christianson, Pat Corley, Jane Curtin, Jim Henson, Eric Idle, Madeline Kahn, Michael Kane, Kelly LeBrock, Eugene Levy, Bill Murray, Mike Myers, Nils Nichols, Bryan Pringle, Gene Wilder. Director: Dennis Rosenblatt. Writer: David Leaf. Producers: Daniel L. Oppenheim, James Tumminia. Co-Producer: Michael Sachs. Director of Photography: James Mathers. Production Design: Bruce Ryan. Staging Supervisor: Edwin McCormick.
EPISODE SYNOPSIS: Gilda Radner was America's comedic sweetheart of the 70s and 80s, creating unforgettable and hilarious characters — Roseanne Rosannadanna, Emily Litella, Lisa Loopner, Baba Wawa and others that live on in reruns today. She exuded charm, talent and personality, but most of all she made us laugh. In addition the program features interviews with her friends and contemporary stars whom she inspired, including Lily Tomlin, Paul Shaffer, Barbara Walters, Eugene Levy and Victor Garber (Alias). Also, Steve Martin remembers his emotional reaction to the news of her death which, ironically, he received the day he hosted an edition of Saturday Night Live. Gilda's older brother, Michael Radner, is a consultant on the special and has provided stills from his personal collection, as well as home movies. These rarities include footage from her childhood birthdays and family vacations, footage in which Gilda already showed a love for performing. Another featured element is Gilda's appearance on programs like The Muppet Show, as Emily Litella, her sharply funny Emmy acceptance speech for SNL and her appearance on a Canadian talk show (90 Minutes Live) in which she reveals her inspirations for some of her best-known SNL characters. Viewers will also enjoy some of Gilda's other rarely-seen Canadian TV work, such as her dramatic TV debut in The Collaborators, the 1972 rock opera Jack: A Flash Fantasy, with then-unknown Victor Garber, and a sketch TV series, Dr. Zonk and the Zunkins, with John Candy.

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			RUNNING TIME:	00:43:00 [60 minutes including commercials].
			VHS:	Not available on commercial video.
			DVD:	Not available on commercial video.
			INFO:	LYNDA CARTER only appears in archival footage from 1978.
			TRIVIA:	[•] n 1975 Lorne Michaels cast Gilda as the first Not-Ready-For-Primetime Player on Saturday Night Live, and she helped make the show a cultural phenomenon, achieving acclaim and fame during her five years on it.
				[•] Gilda met her husband, Gene Wilder, on the set of their movie Hanky Panky, and went on to appear together in the films The Woman in Red and Haunted Honeymoon. They married in 1984.
				[•] Gilda was diagnosed with ovarian cancer which she valiantly battled. She died in 1989, three weeks after recording the audiotape for her bestselling autobiography. She left behind a legacy of hope, laughter and a wish to help others with cancer. In 1991 Gene Wilder and others founded the first of many Gilda's Clubs, a network of centers worldwide where people living with cancer, their families and friends, come together for emotional and social support.

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