1985 NBC All Star Hour Full Special - Knight Rider, A-Team, Miami Vice, Cheers, Family Ties & More!

The star aligned in 1985 at the NBC All-Star Hour! Knight Rider, The A-Team, Miami Vice, Cheers, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Family Ties, 227, Alfred Hitchcock, The Cosby Show, The Facts of Life, Punky Brewster, Silver Spoons, The Golden Girls, Riptide, Bob Hope, Hunter, Night Court, David Letterman, Burt Reynolds and MORE!
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[@wiedietie]

When you're an 80's kid 💖

[@LoneReads]

This is awesome, times will never be the same again.

[@davidfischer6923]

I agree

[@ejwa12]

Fall of 1985, I was in 4th grade. Wonderful memories of my childhood are coming back after seeing these talented faces, many of which are now gone. And now, trying to recover from the trials of 2020, one realizes how depressing life has become. Thanks for helping me have a few smiles tonight and to relive a part of a happier time, even if just for a few minutes.

[@wudaddy]

This was when the networks tried to maintain a closeness with their actors. This, Battle of the Network Stars.....TV was so different and enjoyable then.

[@photolabguy]

I miss the old world.

[@wolvenar]

Ditto. I'm sad that our children never had the fun we did living through the 80s.

[@makayla3563]

@@wolvenar I'm a 2000s baby and I would have loved to see the 80s

[@wolvenar]

@@makayla3563 Sadly I doubt humanity will ever see anything like it again. The 60's was like a preview, but with more drugs lol. Even while I was living through them it felt like a special time.

[@dustinolvey8877]

It wasn't the 50's.

[@corrbenbernsten4902]

80's the Greatest Decade ever ❤

[@danielstorm281]

That was really cool! A television time capsule 😃 Better than modern day Emmy or Oscar shows 🎞

[@Anarchist86ed]

Looks like NBC has got some great shows this season. Can't wait to tune in! 😣

[@danalong1237]

The 1985-86 season brought NBC some exciting new shows like The Golden Girls, 227 and Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears, and, by the end of the season, The Cosby Show, which premiered a year earlier, was the #1 rated show in prime time, and NBC itself replaced ABC as the #1 rated network.

[@seanm6215]

Sad they only did 3 of these. They were great.

[@videox222ify]

i think it's awesome that they did 3 of these

[@danalong1237]

And these three were produced by Pete Calabrese and directed by Don Mischer with art direction by the late Bobby Keene, choreography by Wally Painter and Carl Jablonsky, assistant art direction by Jimmy Carhart and Tom Buderwitz and musical direction by Lenny Stack, Dennis McCarthy and Bob Rozario.

[@TGGaineyProductions]

NBC had a lot of towering giants this season. Kevin Peter Hall, Richard Moll, Tony Longo, David Hasselhoff, John Larroquette, and Fred Dryer.

[@makayla3563]

So far my favorite Chanel's are Knight Rider Historians & Knight Rider Official

[@devinmceachern]

Fun fact: Lisa Whelchel, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Soleil Moon Frye, Cherie Johnson, Ami Foster and Chase Ellison were reunited in the NBC TV special, _Back to Next Saturday._ It's on KZbin. It's a classic.

[@MissDaisyDuke01]

Personally speaking, Edward Mulhare died early on before the age of social media really taking off, therefore there is not much AT ALL of him, on line..... Very much appreciated this man, but there is not much available online. The little bits helps. Tks guys !!

[@TiltBrook]

I love how we all used to take this “event” seriously as if it was like a legitimate award show! Looking back on this, it is CLEARLY one big giant infomercial for the very network that it is broadcast on… And I am loving every minute of it!

[@shaneharrisnj3484]

We sadly don't see that effort anymore when it comes to fall tv campaigns.

[@FomorViceroy]

This was the season that pushed NBC right to the top of the ratings.

[@billbixby7877]

80s flight one nine eight five now boarding.. rabbit ears required!

[@kimberlywalters7592]

David and Neil scene was hilarious!! Love these memories it takes me back to my childhood and being an 80s kid!!Thanks for sharing!! ❤

[@corrbenbernsten4902]

1985 what a year to be alive

[@megankumamoto3645]

i Can't not Believe that Mackenzie Astin was beside the Golden Girls Cast

[@digitalmagicAR]

Ahhh I remember 1985 and most of those shows. Sadly 1986 would soon come and be the end of the "car chase era" when Knight Rider, The Dukes of Hazzard, Street Hawk, Hardcastle and McCormick, The Fall Guy and other big time action shows like Airwolf would end. Only the A-Team would manage to last another year...

[@Eminem200183]

Wouldn’t Hunter count? Given it stayed on until ‘91

[@digitalmagicAR]

@@Eminem200183 I don't remember that one being a major car chase / stunt / action show. Was it? I rarely watched it. A show like Magnum PI or Miami Vice, while having action and sometimes car chases, were not at the same level as something like Knight Rider which had major stunts and chases on a regular basis.

[@Eminem200183]

@@digitalmagicAR Hunter was kinda like Magnum P.I. but more of a cop show. They did have some car chase scenes, but as much as what Knight Rider had

[@ryan8211982]

Airwolf is on CBS, Hardcastle and McCormick is on ABC.

[@ryan8211982]

Street Hawk was short-lived in early 1985 when it aired on ABC.

[@tj921able]

This was so marvelous! So many great actors that are no longer with us are now forever preserved! God Bless You and thank you for sharing this with KZbin viewers.

[@pdennis93]

Holy 80s!

[@LisaSargent03]

I wish they showed Punky Brewster again. I've been searching for episodes for months.

[@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial]

I believe the entire series is on Peacock

[@LisaSargent03]

@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial I live in the UK, we don't get that.

[@pdennis93]

@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial iirc Punky Brewster played on Sunday nights before Knight Rider? Funny note, I never realized Knight Rider played on Friday nights opposite the Dukes of Hazzard until an early 2000s VH1 segment on I love the 80s 1983 when Mark Hoppus of Blink 182 mentioned watching it on Friday nights with his girlfriend when he was 10.

[@martinromocubero4114]

@@LisaSargent03 use a VPN (Hola VPN for example! to switch into USA networks) and you'll see them! :-)

[@LisaSargent03]

@@martinromocubero4114 thanks, trying now

[@mikefitchNYC1971]

Those parties use to be so much fun to watch. I miss the 80s. Awesome video!

[@AldenRDavis]

38:16 - "When the producers of the All-Star Hour asked me to make this next introduction, I was very grateful. Because I recently was fortunate enough to work with Steven Spielberg. This fall, Mr. Spielberg brings his wonderful imagination and unique storytelling talent to NBC in a new anthology series of mini-movies called "AMAZING STORIES." Ladies and gentlemen, the man himself: Steven Spielberg." - Michael J. Fox

[@Ganiscol]

Its a nice blend of cheesy '70s gala shows with '80s humor and my childhood favorite shows as the theme 😅

[@maximusprime3459]

That Stefanie Kramer can really put on a show, huh?😍

[@brotherofjunk]

Could.

[@TGGaineyProductions]

It's crazy seeing the 7'2" Kevin Peter Hall towering over the 6'8" Richard Moll.

[@OurOnlyHope]

Seeing this makes you miss the 80s. The little kids today will never know what it was like then. Far worse than that, they will never know what it was like to be an American and to have the rights and freedom our forefathers fought for. As the family unit is strategically destroyed along with the middle class most will also never realize the American dream, now that we have been overtaken by communist forces. Someone will have to tell them what America was because great effort is rapidly erasing everything. Michael and the Foundation would've fought against the evil darkness that we have allowed to take the land....But instead, deceived blind Americans fight against the very ones trying to save our constitution, family, Church, freedom and nation. Tragic.

[@makayla3563]

Im a 2000s baby and most of my favorite shows are from the 1900s, but Knight Rider is my favorite of all time!

[@AaronSmith-xx5zb]

Perfectly stated! Thank you! Agree 100%!!

[@bustyrandit]

Yep. Too bad we can t call The A Team, or F.L.A.G.

[@88_TROUBLE_88]

I agree with all you said.. Thankfully, you left out most of the gospel church stuff which I know you were struggling to omit mentioning, but I'm glad you didn't go that direction with it because it's very relevant and factual in its current form without the Bible thumping.. With that said, I just wanted to thank you for saying exactly what was on my mind and that I was headed here to say myself, thereby saving me from having to think about how to phrase it and how to frame it contextually.. Everything is true and you're spot on with the diagnosis, the culprits and the cure (none) so bravo for having a spine and the willingness to submit it to the comments section here for others like myself and be reminded that we're not the only ones who have watched in horror as the nightmare our heroes warned us about have now been turned into the reality we wake up to face each day, continually disappointed that waking up each morning mercilessly begins with a sense of dread as a new unthinkable waking nightmare commences instead of the other way around where waking up would be the ending of that nightmare, and a sense of relief =/

[@juliemcarthur3004]

Love the eighties

[@reesepacker7983]

NBC was THE network for young tv viewers that middle to high school demographic ...this network had the coolest and funniest shows especially during this mid 80s era that started a couple yrs back..mostly thanks to then network head the late Brandon Tartikoff who got so many show green lit like The A Team , "V" , Fame , The Powers Of Matthew Star , Knight Rider ,Buck Rogers and Silver Spoons that maybe would not have gotten a chance at ABC and definitely not CBS in the early /mid 80s

[@ryan8211982]

The 1985-86 season for NBC marked the final season of the Let’s All Be There campaign and also the final year for NBC’s proud N logo until the then-current Six-feathered NBC peacock logo was introduced in 1986 at the end of NBC’s 60th anniversary show.

[@TGGaineyProductions]

It felt kinda weird seeing this (especially the children/grownups piece) without Diff'rent Strokes, as they were canned by NBC and moved over to ABC.

[@davidfischer6923]

I don,t like today,s world let,s bring back 1985 the year I turned 4 when TV was awesome

[@videox222ify]

thanks for posting

[@TheAbba1964]

I miss shows like this

[@LosAngeles-yz1yn]

Thank you so much:)))))) One day I hope you can post the 1983 one,but if not,im very grateful for these:))))

[@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial]

I dont think we have 1983 unfortunately!

[@75aces97]

Was there one fir 1983? NBC didn't make one of these every year, but if they did make one in 1983 that would be retroactively hilarious. Every show they introduced that fall got canceled by summer. 1984-5 (the season just before this special) was their first successful season since the 70s.

[@Miss_Chick]

Amazing!!! Such a great time!

[@MIAMI.VICE-CROCKETT.MADRID]

Miami Vice.. The Best On Nbc ..... yesssss

[@kimberlywalters7592]

Love this!! ❤

[@James-seafan]

awesome video thank you

[@MIAMI.VICE-CROCKETT.MADRID]

48:25 .. THE SEVEN ACTORS WONDERS OF NBC

[@geraldlewis432]

Congratulations

[@jnadle1]

Next thing you know, the kinds of things like this, you may as well do "NBC Says Goodbye" if all their entertainment based programs flee to streaming.

[@jwilliams7554]

41:30 missed opportunity for Marla and Bea to joke about working for Norman Lear

[@DXFAN6909]

80s were such a better time

[@jerichompm]

Be there

[@jerichompm]

+ Thank you Joe & KRHO for all the extras and stuff in general.. greatful

[@jwilliams7554]

Does anyone know why they stopped doing the all star hour after this? With NBCs momentum, it could’ve continued until the early nineties

[@corrbenbernsten4902]

RIP Michael Landon Richard Moll Florence Halop Charlotte Rae Ed McMahon George Gaynes Helen Martin Dolph Sweet Selma Diamond Bea Arthur Betty White Estelle Getty Rue McClanahan Stephen Furst Charlie Robinson Burt Reynolds George Peppard Dom Deluise Coach Colasanto Robert Prosky Franklin Seales Rene Enriquez

[@ryan8211982]

Don’t forget Edward Mulhare, Ed Flanders, Norman Floyd, Richard Dysart, Victor French, Cloris Reachman, Barbara Bosson and Kiel Martin.

[@Katzenhase]

A young George Clooney at minute 3:53.

[@Ganiscol]

Good eye! That completely escaped me but its unmistakably him 😄

[@manfredfritz6068]

I think this is like when your company has Mandatory Training for the rest of us. You have to go so just make the best of it and when it's over thank God!

[@stupidstopmotion4265]

Have you ever gone through a period when you didn’t want anything to do with Knight Rider?

[@crgray1979]

Don Johnson almost became Michael knight

[@pdennis93]

Hmm. Never heard that. He did almost become Brewster Baker in a TV adaptation of the movie Six Pack in 1983. If that hadn't flopped, he'd have missed out on his most iconic role, Sonny Crockett. Speaking of actors who almost became Michael Knight, Jeff Osterhage, who would guest star as John Stanton in KITT vs KARR was also in the running. More useless trivia: 2 people who appeared on Knight Rider would go on to have lead roles in 2 late 80s cop show reboots. Jeff Osterhage in the new Dragnet and Peter Parros in The new Adam-12.

[@Eminem200183]

@@pdennis93 I know Pete Parros(R.C. in Knight Rider) was on the New Adam-12, thanks to KZbin

[@dustinolvey8877]

@@pdennis93 I saw the white guy from Chips audition for Sonny Crockett.

[@pdennis93]

@@dustinolvey8877 Larry Wilcox?

[@dustinolvey8877]

@@pdennis93 yes

[@Goldnfoxx]

Welp...I can truly say I've never wished I was Ted Danson quite like I do at the moment.

[@JLvatron]

227 was amazing, but Steven Spielberg tanked. Thanks for this great video!

[@shawnturner5768]

Can you tell me where this version of the golden girls' break-in scene actually is I think it would be interesting to see the other version of that scene starting with the alarm salesman if it was at any time available and seeing if the reactions from Blanche and rose were actually bigger when Sophia went into the kitchen to get some chips and if that version of the scene might have had Blanche pulling down her sleeve what might have been cut? wishful thinking.

[@MileHighEAS]

Who is that at 47:02 ? Thank-you!

[@andyrose5616]

Joey Lawrence

[@FirstDan2000]

They really churned out a lot of TV shows on their network back then. The only ones who appear to do the same these days are Amazon and Netflix. Can't imagine either putting on an event like this though.

[@dustinolvey8877]

Orange Is The New Black could do a musical number.

[@jwilliams7554]

Bill Cosby was like, sh!t I run this network so ya’ll can’t make me show up and do these corny a$$ musical numbers 😂😂😂

[@ta5885ta5885]

46:37

[@motherlanddarrenssessions]

48:49

[@megankumamoto3645]

11:26 11:37 46:28 47:46

[@patientmental875]

Who is the woman at 19:27 i cant place her

[@halon7476]

Stephanie Kramer from Hunter TV show

[@kingsports1113]

Micheal Phillips Thomas was Denzel Washington before Denzel so what made Mike fall off

[@dustinolvey8877]

Who got Rudy after George Peppard died?

[@susanmarks416]

Why tf is Don Johnson dressed in character?

[@JimAllder11]

A one-hour commercial for NBC's own programming schedule LOL I remember laughing so hard at this. Still in disbelief that they did this. Pompous and arrogant in the extreme. And sparkly all over the place LOL.

[@kingsports1113]

Denise Huxtable Sondra Huxtable Kim fields

[@manfredfritz6068]

Hahahaha!

[@88_TROUBLE_88]

Switching from my default setting 360p to 1080p changes absolutely *nothing* and there's still no more than roughly 20 or 30 pixels in total each frame.. Speaking of which: the framerate appears to be somewhere in the 3 or 4 frames per second range which is characterized by choppy-ass images that look like Claymation from the horror movies of the late 50.. Stupid ass television standards back in the day here in USA while Europe was enjoying much higher resolution standards, from what I've heard.. Either way, our shit sucked back then! 👎🏻 Booooooo!!!