Celebrity (1984) Part 1 of 3

[@TheChristianaut]

My god, THANK YOU for this!!! I saw it when it originally aired! I was 17. For the past 30 years of marriage, I've been telling my husband about it, but never been able to find it anywhere! Two days ago, we were talking about old TV, and I brought it up again, then, as a lark, I did my 234th search for it, and here it is, posted just a month ago!!! Tonight we watched Part 1. Tomorrow is my birthday, and we'll be watching parts 2 and 3! I can't thank you enough for this excellent gift!

[@Sapphire586]

I was17 when it originally aired in 1984. I turn 54 in a few weeks. Back in the 80's most of those bestsellers came to life in miniseries. Far better quality than this reality shit they show today.

[@glensobchyshyn7483]

And I Was 16 The Acting And Story Were Incredible,,The Cast Should Have Received An Award For Best Ensemble!!

[@normadesmond6017]

ha! me too! I even bought the book on ebay!

[@sarawashington5485]

SAME HERE 👍👍👍👍👍👍Every 6 months I'll check to see if this has been uploaded. Thank you for making my Covid 19 Xmas a little brighter💖🎄🎁

[@sarawashington5485]

@The Christianault I'd like to recommend the Mini Series 'Chiefs', starring Charlton Heston. It's absolutely AWESOME. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@triciamoritzperry1868]

Unbelievable ! I’ve thought about this movie forever and all of a sudden I remembered the name and here it is!!! THANK YOU! I remember taping it when I was 17.

[@kimberlymcgee7954]

I was 13 years old when it first aired and I loved it but I haven't seen it since. Until now on KZbin. Thanks😊

[@tonyfelder1206]

Thank you for this 😊. Another positive reason of why KZbin is popular. Just like some of these other commenters, I too haven't seen this miniseries since I was a teenager. For some reason, out of the blue, this program pop into my head.

[@helenewesterlund254]

Thank you so musch for this mini-serie. Saw it when I was young an always wanted too see it again but I couldn’t find it - until now..!! ❤

[@normadesmond6017]

This is what i love about youtube. I saw this when I was in my teens, and I found the books but never this. Wonderful!

[@glensobchyshyn7483]

Excellent Acting & Direction....Never get Tired of this Masterpiece

[@sunflowerhopefully7395]

Thank you so much for posting this. I don’t know how I missed it…then I looked when it ran on TV….and I just had a baby….that was many many many moons ago!

[@joancrawford5781]

Thanks, Glenn. I have been looking for this forever! Really needed this lol!

[@christinejames322]

Absolutely loved these 80’s mini series. Not seen this before, so looking forward to it. How I would love to see Lace, Scruples and rich man poor man. Such great and easy going viewing.

[@dgvercher]

I loved Scruples. Rich man poor man and I'll take manhattan!!!!

[@kenken6550]

They're all on here now.

[@lizziebkennedy7505]

It’s a movie.

[@sequoyawilliams7134]

I’ve literally been looking for this for years and no one seems to remember this but me ! I watched this with my grandma when it aired and I’m so happy to see it now !

[@louannelawson4916]

Celebrity 1984 is viewing at the moment parts 1. 2. 3 I found it on you tube, it maybe available on your devices to watch depending on where you are in the world. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie right from the beginning to the very end, can not remember seeing it before which surprises me, as I have watched thousands of movies. 🇦🇺 Australia

[@DeltheaSimmons]

Me too! I thought I was the only one who saw it. Well, my folks and I.

[@ellieelizabeth5627]

I'm adding to the many well deserved thank you for this. I can't get this thing anywhere.

[@a_leaf]

Thank you for this upload 🙂 One can learn alot from these slice of life movies/series...life is good, just need to slow down and enjoy it

[@glensobchyshyn7483]

It's Still A Classic Mini Series!! One Of The Best That Never Got Any Recognition!!

[@juliegiles7699]

I remember watching this when it came on TV in 1984. I was only 11 years old then. I also remember my best friend's mother had this book, and Fatal Vision, on her nightstand. Thanks for posting it!

[@BulkBeard]

I remember the TV adaptation of Fatal Vision too :-)

[@trulovegirl]

I SAW FATAL VISION WHEN IT RAN ON CHANNEL 2 FOR BOTH OF THOSE NIGHTS, IT SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME

[@jasonbertalotto2355]

@@BulkBeard Saw the promo and plan to see the miniseries next after this one

[@gmaher17]

Wow! I was also 11-12 when I watched this, and it blew my mind at the time. It felt like a dream years later, because NO ONE remembered it when I brought it up. I remember this and Favorite Son with Harry Hamlin, Robert Loggia, and Linda Koslowski.

[@laminage]

Do you think Jeffrey McDonald did it? I don't think so. I think a bunch of Hippies killed his Family. He is now serving his 44th Year in a Texas Prison if memory serves me.

[@akak6936]

Celebrity is going very well from. ..now and on.. It's really a good series to watch.. Thanks

[@denisesimon3950]

I have been looking for this also i decided to look again Thank you. Maybe I'll read the book again too

[@Abearcomedian]

OMG - i have waited for years for this to be posted / released. Saw this as a 6th grader and was scandelized! can't wait to watch!

[@laminage]

@jett woodward Boy wasn't the 1980's amazing for Miniseries, this one, Lace (ABC) and The Thorn Birds (ABC). The only one I didn't really get into was Shogun. Yet in reality it was Kleber who was the victim, because when you go back to the beginning you see the Main character. Kind of like in Lace with Judy ran up the Hill for morning Breakfast at her Private Boarding School in Switzerland.

[@gmaher17]

Same! I was 12 when I saw this movie. I couldn't remember the name of it for years! I only remembered the ending was crazy. Watching it again for the first time in 36 years.

[@Sapphire586]

I am so glad that finally posted the entire miniseries, I saw it back in 1986( it originally aired in 1984 for the first time, I was home from college for summer vacation. Afterward, I checked the book out @ the library. Sadly, Thomas Thompson, the author did not live to see the miniseries.

[@ck515]

The actors in this movie were all excellent Michael Beck OMG that ending

[@berylbattrick1246]

WHAT A LONG MOVIE, AND WHAT AN ENDING, THANK YOU,

[@CA4merica37]

Thank you so much for this. I been looking for this forever

[@elizabethhair723]

I'm 51 now and loved this series when it came out, being a Michael Beck fan. Thanks so much for uploading, haven't seen it since.

[@rafaellewis4528]

Thank you so much for sharing!

[@marccorra1]

I'm so happy after years of searching for a DVD, I finally came across this. Saw it originally on TV, and am currently re-reading the novel. RIP Ben Masters who just passed away from COVID January 2023. I'm sure Kleber Cantrell would right a great obituary!

[@Deputy-Seraph]

Now if I could watch "The Last Covertable" again, that would be nice. 🙃

[@CA4merica37]

I been looking for this forever. Thank you

[@AstralPixie]

Terrific cast, One of so many good mini-series in the 80's and 90s. Many of them are still favorites. This came after "Chiefs", which was very powerful. That said, Michael Beck was just * so good * as a creep! Thanks for posting.

[@jsckiemarie1424]

Don't forget about "Lace" with Phoebe Cates and "Return to Eden," both of which were excellent as well. I just found this gem, Celebrity, tonight after searching for it for years. It would be great if someone uploaded Chiefs.

[@b1chvj39]

He is a great actor and he was so sexy! He played an amazing role and I'm getting the book!

[@Sapphire586]

@@jsckiemarie1424 LACE!!!!YESSSS!!!

[@lisabradford8180]

@@jsckiemarie1424 chiefs is on here, i've watched it several times. it's still here as far as i know.

[@jsckiemarie1424]

@@lisabradford8180 Thanks a whole bunch. Will be a great Christmas present to me if I can find it. About to search for it right now. Thanks again.

[@BulkBeard]

Thank you thank you thank you soooo much for posting this!!! Haven't seen it since it originally aired.....couldn't found it anywhere

[@briangilbert8733]

thank GOD!!! FINALLY!!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!

[@denisenoles3159]

I saw this miniseries when it aired. I always wanted to see it as an adult to see if it was as good as I remembered. Thank you!

[@tocadocentauro]

Watching today, thinking it's better than i remember.

[@denisenoles3159]

@@tocadocentauro I had a different response. I was a teen when it first aired so it was shocking then but watching 35 years later, it was MEH.

[@warhol1968]

Thanks so much for this. I’ve been trying to find this forever

[@kenyamarley]

Finally. Been looking for this for my mom for a couple of years. I FOUND the book.so grateful.

[@daingermouz2077]

I don't know what made me look this up. I watched it at age 17 or 18. What made this movie memorable to me was the twist, the ending. In no way did I ever see that coming. I get the chills as I'm typing this.

[@denisemeans7858]

THANK YOU!! one of my favorite books and one of my favorite movies!!

[@tocadocentauro]

Thank you, thanh you very much to you who posted this. I was a 12 yrs boy in 1987 when I watched that on TV, it was marking. Spent years looking for this all over internet sites dedicated to old series. God bless you

[@riggstwenty2]

Yay ! Been wanting to see this since forever ago !

[@sunshineb1405]

Glenn for so many years I could not remember the name of this mini series or any of the actors names until I saw a Houston Knights photo and I kept going until it led me to your channel. Thank you sooo much for posting this series, it is one of the best!!

[@TheWomanCondemned]

I read this book years ago and never knew there was a movie

[@ricewithaspoon9607]

whatthe... really seriously? online? this? on youtube? and not a one part-teaser...? okay... mind-boggled. and happy-excited! this is gonna be a supergreat lonely quiet evening...i feel like a child looking forward to it thank you mister! genuinely t h a n k y o u.

[@bluevictory1010]

When this movie broadcasted the first time I was 17 and absolutely glued to the tv, it was that riveting a story! The movie haunted me for years because of what transpired in the movie itself not to mention the slamming great job the actors and actresses did! Couldn't find this movie for decades, then a few years ago I finally found it on DVD!

[@marymayer2282]

So glad to find this I had several years ago on VHS but lost a lot of My VHS in one of my last moves looking for DVD ever since just took a Chance it would be on u tube now if I could find some episodes of 77 sunset strip. Life goes on. And Hawaiian eye would he happy

[@trulovegirl]

CELEBRITY IS FINALLY ON KZbin, I REMEBER WATCHING THIS WHEN IT AIRED, ME AND MY SISTER REALLY LIKED THIS MOVIE, WE USED TO HAVE THE NOVEL, CHANNEL 2. THREE PART MINI SERIES, GOSH, I MISS THAT TIME, ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER WORLD, REAL TELEVISION

[@glensobchyshyn7483]

How True... Beats So Called Reality Shows Now!!!

[@sarawashington5485]

Thanks for the uploads. God bless you 💖👍😆

[@richmondsmith3399]

Great miniseries saw it when it was on network TV

[@yvankrzeslo6366]

o m g thank you ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@judybus1]

Depressing movie from start to finish.

[@marymayer2282]

Who's beautiful voice was it that sang the hymns??

[@laminage]

I thought it was Mac Crawford. When he named Movie Stars and The President I thought it was him. Yet when I discovered who it "really" was I was stunned but it was so obvious.

[@FormatorBlack]

Remember reading this as a young teenager....read it over and over, then picked it up again as an adult....somehow I never got that it was a miniseries....loved Bottom's work in The Black Hole....so many familiar faces from the eighties in this! Good times!

[@luvbearbut]

Looked for this mini-series for years to no avail. Thank u so much!! What is the deal with these old good made for TV miniseries. Why are they not available anywhere? Celebrity, Lace, Master of the Game, Bare Essence, are all next to impossible to find streaming.

[@BindySilver480]

Master of the Game is on youtube , let me know if you can't find it, I watched it about 2 weeks ago.

[@Fan.do.Richard]

Thank you so much!!!👏👏It would be great if you could post "Blood & Orchids" too !!!☺

[@glensobchyshyn7483]

Agree-- Another Great Movie With A Lot Of Twist!!

[@marymayer2282]

Rich man poor man would be another good muni series to show along with testimony of two Men And captains And the Kings all favorites of mine along with celebrity I already have roots And Holocaust on DVD also favorites of mine

[@laminage]

Jim Davis would have been perfect to have played Calvin Sledge. Remember in the early episodes of Dallas he would go on about The Sherrif.

[@brianlogan4243]

I vividly remember the weekly tv guide had these 3 characters on the cover and my parents were hooked on the miniseries.

[@akak6936]

Glenn Eiric... You're wonderful

[@analuciacostadasilva5549]

Pena que não tem dublado em português . Nem as legendas.

[@teresak1177]

At first, I thought Michael Beck was Randy Travis…he sounds just like him!!

[@minx2528]

Anyone binge watching random mini series in 2021??

[@corrinetomlyanovich305]

I am!! Nice to find them!!! I also love Jackie Collins.

[@laminage]

@@corrinetomlyanovich305 I do too! I still remmeber reading Chances at 14 and My Friend had to tear it away from me. What Carrie & Gino went through to get to the top stunned me. They both had one thing in common, they had terrible Family Members. Gino with Paolo his Father then Carrie with her Maternal Grandmother & her Uncle Leroy but while Carrie was strict and no nonsense with her Son Steven, Gino was emotionally distant which resulted in both of his Children rebelling as a way to get his attention.,

[@corrinetomlyanovich305]

@@laminage I love it!

[@minx2528]

@@corrinetomlyanovich305 I love Jackie Collins!! Just finished watching "Hollywood Wives"!! 🍿

[@laminage]

@@minx2528 It celebrates 40 Years this year. Boy the woman was so on the point dealing with Sexual Abuse with Young People,. Alot of Child Stars like Alison Arngrim later admitted they were abused.

[@softshallow7435]

Remember watching this aged 12, that scene about one of the celebrities having a gay experience really stuck with me for weeks on end. Obviously they never showed the scene the camera panned off. I’ve scanned through all 3 parts and can not find the scene?

[@laminage]

You won't see it. You may have seen the Scene where Jeffrey looks in his Father's Bedroom with his Assistant. Also in the 1980's they weren't as open about Sexuality then as they are now. In Lace Pagan (Played by Brooke Adams) discvors that their "Home" is now a Farm for folks who want to lose weight or detox from Alcohol/Drugs. She also discovers that her Mother's Business Partner Selma is also her "Lover" who calls the shots to make the enterprise successful. In Princess Daisy (The Book Version), there was a Lesbian Scene where Vanessa Valarian who along with her Husband Robin a Married Closeted Fashion Design Team, seduces Topsy Short the beautiful Young Trophy Wife of Ham Short a successful Businessman. I have to admit I was kind of peeved when Mac & TJ crashed the Interview. It was like when Jermaine and Randy's Children crashed the nterview Oprah did with Prince, Paris and Blanket.

[@bluephi89]

Wow.....thanks for the download....

[@districtline]

thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!

[@carmelaluceno2114]

That used have beautiful series every week what happen to these great series please put them back thank you

[@laminage]

Hal Holbrook was "Gangsta!" he didn't play and he didn't being played for a fool. He knew that the "Man" could hear him, he's terrified, he knows that the truth is going to be revealed that will shock the entire world.

[@jasanders5877]

😂 say it's American 😮. I took the risk 😱

[@joetengler9251]

I actually bought it on dvd off ebay a few years ago

[@marymayer2282]

That terrible 😞 incident of the rape And seeming death of that poor girl left indelible marks on all three it seems like it affected Mack The most like he was deliberately trying to hurt himself with those big bruiser football players And his impotence in not being able to perform during marriage And then adopting a different lifestyle kleber became detached tj the one who did The actual rape it was just another notch in his belt And evil ways and her seeming death an inconvenience well you reap what you sew and tj got his convenience and I'm sure a relief for kleber The girl was still alive

[@westyraviz]

All 3 were unsympathetic characters based on what they did to that girl. They remind me of Ted Kennedy.

[@sharolddelilahkelly8005]

It Last Aired On Encore Mystery Channel In 2004...I Recorded All 3 Parts Back To Back, On November 2002...That's When I First Found Out About This...And I Was Hooked!❤

[@laminage]

The Dinner Scene with Kleber's Parents remind me of Stand By Me where The Parents were a Pain In The @ss. The Father was more interested in their Eldest Son Dennis aka "Denny" playing A Game that would gain him possibly A Football Scholarship and the Mother was more interested into who he was going to take to The Homecoming Dance.

[@laminage]

Oh here's another fun fact "More's The Pity" was also used in the 1960's on Britian's Longest Running Soap Opera Coronation Street. It was when Elsie Tanner played by The Late Pat Phoenix got into a Argument with her Landlady Ena Sharples, played by The Late Violet Carson. What does it mean exactly?

[@realskybluepink9124]

"More is the pity, or "more's the pity," the phrase meaning: It is so very pitiful. It is too sad. That's to say, one feels more pity, sadness, for whatever the 'it' is. Hope that helps, ten months later. Creepy film for me, so far!

[@laminage]

​@@realskybluepink9124 No worries ☺️. Thanks so much

[@zachariasirenehilda3205]

some parents can be soooooooooooooooo toxic

[@lisagreece7]

Omg don't be lost in rain and go to bachelor's pad. How did she die?😮

[@akak6936]

The video is disturbed the few minutes at the beginning

[@akak6936]

Thanks for Cristiano for encouraging me to keep watching❤

[@davidfischer6923]

Cool

[@Aidanshaves]

Thanks

[@marymayer2282]

I hate to sound naive but I was never into The drug scene not even marijuana but I was wondering what drug did Missy give tj The night they made love?

[@jsavak99]

There are subliminal messages laced throughout this copy of this film . You can hear clearly distorted voices at the one hour 14 minute and 40 second mark

[@martinkurtz9269]

Too bad the TJs character didn't make it to Las Vegas and eventually bought himself into casinos. But then he probably would have been bumped off by the mob since he didn't know how to keep his nose clean.

[@HouseofNostalgia22]

Wow, you were allowed to smoke cigarettes in the hospital in 1984.

[@sharolddelilahkelly8005]

You Could In 1975...Which In The Beginning Of Part One, It Took Place.

[@glensobchyshyn7483]

Too Funny!!

[@normadesmond6017]

yep. well, driving up there causes more damage anyway then smoking in a hospital.

[@sharolddelilahkelly8005]

@Veronica A. The Part That Led To The 1950s When They Showed Kleber Faking A Coma In The Bed, Was: 1975...Then When The Lawyer And Doctor Left Kleber Alone And Depicts Him Remembering Back That Was About The 1950s...And The Majority Of The Story With The Exception Of Uncle Bun In The Nursing Home Scene &: The First Few Minutes Of Part One: All Scenes Revolved Around The 1950s.

[@monilaninetynine3811]

I can't stand these parents

[@markskillz8004]

I watched it in 1984 it was the talk of my school it came on one time and it never came on again

[@laminage]

The conversation that Aunt Mabel has with Mackenzie kind of parallels John Lennon's Conversation with Aunt Mimi who raised him. She said "A Guitar's Okay John But You'll Never Make A Living Off Of One!" Boy was she wrong.

[@pattimccraw6168]

mrs grey played on little house on the prairie she worked in the post office and married mr edwards.ive seen her on several movies

[@laminage]

She also was on St Elsewhere as Mrs Mark Craig. They were married in real Life. Her name is Bonnie Bartlett.

[@williamtourville456]

They left out the part when he was in a gang

[@laminage]

Aunt Mabel could have said "This Gift You Were Given Is A Gift From God, but no matter how good you may be as an Athlete, your Career will not last forever, it's great to be able to play a Sport, but remember Education can get you further than any Sport can." Also in Garden Of Shadows (The Prequel To Flowers In The Attic). Olivia Winfield Foxworth (Aka The Grandmother), turned to God after her personal tragedies but it didn't stop her from doing what she did.

[@lilianaprina5991]

I am not sure what happened to the football player aunt. She commited suicide or becomes a drug addict? I take bathroom brakes.

[@lulobe2008]

Active the subttles please!

[@anita8024]

I’m a BIG Michael Beck fan!!!!!!! I met him a few years ago. This is one character I don’t like.

[@stacydetwiler1475]

Good movie but I liked Michael Beck better in The Warriors.

[@benjibird7221]

He was good in that too. He and Joseph Bottoms were also in the miniseries Holocaust from 1978, I think. He played a Nazi in that.

[@netizenrealness]

that same year he also played a jewish soldier looking for revenge on his torturers in the movie Madman. Sigourney Weaver co-stars in it.

[@tammymorris5475]

I watched this movie when I was 13 years old

[@2up3rm4n1]

Utterly silly movie, but I'd love to just kick back and be in 1983 or '84 again sometime and remember watching this thing, if I think I could stand it. It was awful back then, and the only reasons any 'critics' tried to praise it was in case it became a ratings hit, so then they would be right. I saw the book and read some of it and there was some drivel about the guy's aunt when she had him wasting away downstairs, like she'd molested him or something, that her perfume was all in the room. Then she was supposed to have eventually cracked up and staggered outside naked with a blanket wrapped around her head and croaked. So glad all of that was left out of the movie.

[@MsLane61]

You obviously consider yourself too sophisticated to be here, yet...here you are, having fully read the book and panning it, now hungry to watch the movie.

[@maxipazz8214]

Yes remember the gay scenes

[@kvk1960]

1970s for Music and 1980s for fun movies without a woke agenda! Let's go back please!

[@benjibird7221]

Woke agenda! So you don't believe in empathy and compassion, equality and fairness?