Watch Entertainment Tonight's First Episode EVER!

[@material___]

CLASSIC Televison. When entertainment was about shows, achievements, music, celebrities, movies, historical actors. Not about gossip or the downfall or divorce of a celebrity.

[@chimaamanambu6067]

I miss the golden age of television, but just give me a big break. I'm not gonna trash everything new and I will not be forced into this crap by those lifeless, grown-a** nostalgically-blind hypocrites!

[@chimaamanambu6067]

Thanks for ruining television as a whole for me, you pushy, manipulative, toxic, violent, deadly, aggressive, hypocritical, racist, sexist, homophobic, political, bigoted extremist!

[@chimaamanambu6067]

I'd like to see you pushy, manipulative, toxic, violent, deadly, aggressive, hypocritical, racist, sexist, homophobic, political, bigoted extremists commit violent and terrorist threats at every major corporation even though they have done nothing wrong!

[@MrBoyYankee]

14,000 episodes, Mann time flies when you are with the stars. *ET* been an Hollywood Icon since September 14th,1981 Five days before I was born.

[@ryanjohnson3234]

Dam it been that long I thought it started in 1990s

[@presley007]

A month before I was born

[@MrBoyYankee]

@@presley007 for me 5 days till "my world debut."

[@seanm6215]

​@@presley007 a month and 3 days before me

[@cameronfoster5838]

10,000 episodes!!! Congratulations, you’ve come so far! Still got the ET tune

[@ruffinboijrp]

Damn This Came Out The Year I Was Born! 😅 I Use To Watch This Show As A Kid. 3-18-81 Damn I’m Feeling Ole 😂 Hearing This Opening Theme Music Gave Me Chills 🥶 Good Ole Days Of The 80’s When TV Shows & Movies Was Great What A Good Time Great Memories😢 R.I.P. To My Father ❤😊

[@tuningin88]

I was never born, when this show came out. I was born in 1988, and I grew up and used to watching “ET” in the 90s, and it goes on from there, etc.

[@icecol22]

I remember this show's beginning.the graphics, the music and everything. I was 11 years old. It was one of my favorite newsmagazine programs.

[@christianvillareal1]

This is one of my fave entertainment newscasts that I watch every weeknight. I remember watching this when I was a kid. BTW, congrats to the 10,000 episodes, ET!

[@jefferyrobertson7520]

Entertainment Tonight from 1981 through 1993 era it was totally amazing from baby boomers born in the 50s to Generation X born in the 70s from Hollywood actor Burt Reynolds interview to Hollywood actress Charlene Tilton interview every Monday through Friday on Channel 2 WSB-TV ABC affiliate every Sunday entertainment this week keep up the good work love y'all

[@codym8897]

"Entertainment Tonight" premiered on September 14, 1981. The first show featured a five-part interview with Burt Reynolds, who promoted the movie "Paternity", a conversation with Richard Chamberlain, the 33rd annual Emmy Awards, the 1981 fall TV preview, and a profile of Blondie's Debbie Harry.

[@chuckers40]

Next week, Entertainment Tonight will start its 40th anniversary season. You're doing something right if last into 40 years.

[@NaderMuhhidene]

Man I Wish There As More Episodes From This Era.

[@TheVampirePredator]

Fun Fact: For the first year, the show was always referred to as “Entertainment Tonight”. Following the success of ET: The Extra-Terrestrial the following year is when they started to use the initials of the show and branding on the microphones.

[@scottleonard8949]

I noticed that when I was a kid. It seemed very deliberate to me, and my family thought I was silly for suggesting it.

[@kennethhuang371]

ET:42 years and going strong September 12 with Nichelle and Kevin plus 8 Emmy Awards. WHAT??? That’s Incredible!!! Kenneth A Huang v7/12/2022

[@TheMichelex20]

Wow. This brings back memories.

[@Timothy3010]

So glad you uploaded this episode. Thank you.

[@batheandrelaxinmyshit6344]

Lots of memories here!!

[@TheNameisPlissken1981]

I grew up watching this show through out the 1980s & 90s. It was the only show of its kind. Sadly, the show has become like everything else and I haven't watched it in many years.

[@danclemente485]

Me and my mom still watch this show. Kevin Frazier is the man

[@tconnection7935]

Planting seeds for ET 40th anniversary

[@JosephPratt1986]

This is really neat! ET's 40th season will begin exactly 39 years to the day that ET aired its very first show!

[@superben790]

Happy 42nd Anniversary, Entertainment Tonight!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@shanebrandy6074]

0:35 hearing that theme Goosebumps on top of Goosebumps

[@7wolfman78]

I wish there was a story on Michael Jackson every episode of Entertainment tonight but this was very much enjoyed ❤

[@kennethhuang371]

One highlight that ET will not forget: NAMED TOP ENTERTAINMENT NEWS SHOW 2022 AT THE DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS. 2023 WILL HAVE AT LEAST 260 NEW EPISODES FOR ET TO PRODUCE. GOOD LUCK, NICHELLE & KEVIN. Kenneth Huang 12/28/22.

[@TheLAGopher]

I remember this broadcast. My mother liked to watch it and I was a movie geek at 13. Raiders of The Lost Ark was almost as groundbreaking a movie event as Star Wars had been 4 years earlier,and it was the putting of Indiana Jones in the opening montage,invited me into a lifelong love of popular culture as shown on ET.

[@jcampton1]

I remember watching ET when I was young, I had no clue what Mary was talking about but I remember watching the Birthdays slot and guessing who was celebrating on that day

[@MrRemark21]

"Entertainment Tonight" was seen on Los Angeles TV Station KNBC-TV Channel 4 from September 14, 1981-March 12, 1982, August 5, 1985-September 2, 1994; KTLA-TV Channel 5 from March 15, 1982-September 9, 1983, KTTV Channel 11 from September 12, 1983-August 2, 1985 & KCBS-TV Channel 2 since September 5, 1994.

[@eph_loves_80s74]

What about 1983 and 1984?

[@willmont8258]

My mother and sister loved following what was going on in Hollywood, so we had ET on at home every night from its beginning episode, 7:30 PM, right after PM Magazine, but I remember the original hosts didn't last long and within a few months of this first episode, Tom and Marjorie were gone.

[@mohammeda8298]

Congrats for your 10000th episodes!

[@KennethHuang-ig8hy]

IN 1981… SHOGUN WON AN EMMY FOR BEST MINISERIES ( NBC ), AND ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT WAS ON ITS VERY FIRST SHOW. NOW IT’S 2024… ET HAS 11 EMMY AWARDS AND SHOGUN 2024 HAS 25 NOMINATIONS FOR AN EMMY HERE. HOW WILL THE SCRIPT BE WRITTEN COME SEPTEMBER 15TH ON ABC? Kenneth Huang. 7/17/24.

[@SagittariusQueen1980]

My mom was like 6 months pregnant with me at this time, maybe she went to screening of that Burt Reynolds movie too.

[@mekasa6721]

OMG so classic ♥️

[@DonTrump-sv1si]

I was a month away from my 3rd birthday when this aired and my mom was 31 years old!!! Wow

[@SaturdayMorno86]

Happy anniversary entertainment Tonight

[@kennethhuang371]

PS: ET WAS NOMINATED FOR 10 EMMYS IN PRIMETIME COMPETITION, BUT IT NEVER WON THAT AWARD. IT EVENTUALLY MOVED TO THE DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS. IT HAS DONE MUCH BETTER SINCE THEN. 8 EMMYS SO FAR. THE TV ACADEMY HAD FINALLY WELCOMED ET AS THE WINNINGEST ENTERTAINMENT NEWS PROGRAM IN AMERICA. Kenneth A Huang 7/28/2022.

[@KS-oh9no]

Wow!!! I'm loving this Keep posting more of it ❤

[@davidfischer6923]

thank you for adding the first episode of entertainment tonihjt can you please have more retro et thanks

[@mannyoramas-p5o]

this will be an obscure question, but can you find and or upload the episode talking about the Nickelodeon series "Weinerville?" it might have been a 1994 episode, John Tesh was covering it!

[@willssta]

More please!!

[@kennethhuang371]

ET: THE RECORD BREAKING 43RD SEASON BEGINS ON MONDAY SEPTEMBER 11TH. LET’S SEE IF THE WRITERS AND ACTORS FROM BOTH GUILDS CAN PUT TOGETHER A NEW DEAL SO THAT THE FALL TV SEASON CAN BE SAVED. Kenneth Huang 8/26/23.

[@joydunn2109]

Mmm Damn that Bert Reynolds is FINE Here. I Remember this Premiere, I was pregnant with my son, who was born in March, 1982. It seems so Dated now 41 years later, Love Blondie too!

[@chimaamanambu6067]

This is where it all started.

[@aaronbruceladner1983]

September 14, 1981 was Also the Premiere Date of THE PEOPLE'S COURT

[@morgan8757]

they made a mistake getting rid of marjorie wallace

[@aussiejubes]

Oooh back when ET was about actual entertainment news, not feeding the vile machine of trash gossip & opinion giving. When stories came from hard work not trawling Twitter & KZbin.

[@milesmorris9333]

I was born when ET was still pretty decent, 1994. I'm too young to remember that particular era but I've watched episodes from that year and the years before then. It definitely was a hell of a lot better back then than it is now. At least at that time, it gave viewers a hard look at the ins and outs of the business and helped them to understand it to the best of their ability. Wish the current caretakers would try something like that now, if only gossip wasn't so prevalent.

[@darthanddedeu2580]

@@milesmorris9333 sure it was press junkets and the such, but it was good being for being able to see what was coming up. Lenard Maltin's reviews were awesome

[@jasonbertalotto2355]

Very true

[@LuannOsbourne]

hurrah for the Original version of the intro

[@sillygoose635]

oooh, it still is about entertainment, back with idiots didn't complain about everything

[@KennethHuang-ig8hy]

SHOGUN 2024 HAS NOW BECOME PRIMETIME TELEVISION’S TOP CHAMPION AT THIS YEAR’S EMMY AWARDS WITH A TOTAL OF 18 TROPHIES. A COMPLETE WRAP UP ON THE SEASON PREMIERE OF ET. TONIGHT AT 7 PM ON WFXT 25 BOSTON. Kenneth Huang 9/26/24.

[@johnrauner2515]

The opening link is awkward and forced. Ron Hendren seems by far the most comfortable. Haha, man this really was recorded live to tape, either that or their sound op was bargain basement with all the missed cues and time taken to close mics - which in some cases are so long you can actually hear the VT sound on the floor God box.

[@codym8897]

Do you have the first episode of The People's Court from September 14, 1981, featuring judge Joseph A. Wapner, reporter Doug Llewellyn, bailiff Rusty Burrell, and announcer Jack Harrell, includes the first court case, and the closing credits with the camera panning around the empty courtroom, and at the end, we see the Telepictures Corporation logo?

[@Hey-uj5yg]

Absolutely not.

[@ransom182]

Awesome to see the Enterprise fly by!

[@GeorgeMaster-xg7lg]

Marjorie was on a week of the syndicated Match Game in 1981 to promote ET.

[@300zxbear2]

I would like see the October 30, 1990 Episode & The One they did a Report on Nickelodeon GUTS.

[@justinnoble8585]

Hi Tom Hallick & Marjorie Wallace!

[@Star-hk6gc]

Cool!!! 😊😊😊

[@DanteTube]

Classic!

[@MrBowtie1982]

you can tell on this 1st episode they read too much off the teleprompter. too robotic. the blonde on the left looks like she has no clue what she is doing.

[@chrisamon80]

I was in 1981 as a baby. I was 9 months.

[@justinnoble8585]

Hi Ron Hendren!

[@closetedhippie]

2:24 Ron Hendren looks like former NBC Sports announcer Tom Hammond...

[@williamgullod8063]

0:33 Intro

[@irish89055]

Three hosts? what a bo nehead idea that was though it didn't last but a few weeks

[@thxlopez]

Wow so weird my girl is still Mary hart and my dude John the man Tesh 1987-1992 my time 8-13yrs old good times

[@caresmisback]

who is he? 0:57

[@h4yl3y]

Neat!

[@marksaidso]

Found it!

[@nextbarker2702]

@0:50, Ron Henderson looks like Regis Philbin

[@mr2del]

Ron Hendren is his name, but you're right about him looking like Regis Philbin.

[@nostalgiajim]

3:50 Livia Soprano

[@boisegameshowguy]

I think it’s time to get back to basics like this. Hollywood, please drain the swamp of the rapists, angry liberals and entitled people.

[@J78618]

Entertainment Tonight has become trash

[@GailGurman]

Wow, this did not age well. So many cringy moments!

[@jasonluong3862]

I can't believe I wasted so much time watching this fluff in the 80s. 10 years from now, I will say the same about KZbin.

[@opticscolossalandepicvideo4879]

Dixie Wheatley was stunning. Absolutely gorgeous

[@opticscolossalandepicvideo4879]

Groundbreaking. Ahead of it’s time

[@KennethHuang-ig8hy]

END RESULT: SHOGUN 2024 WINDS UP WITH A RECORD 18 EMMY AWARDS…INCLUDING: OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES. Kenneth Huang 9//28/24.

[@DNSKansas]

After Marjorie's lover, Formula 1 driver Peter Revson, died in the 1974 South African Grand Prix, her life bottomed out when she attempted suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. She later lived with Jimmy Connors, but Jimmy dumped her in favor of 1977 Playmate of the Year Patti McGuire. Jimmy and Patti are still married, so that was a good choice. Wallace later married the son of then-Chargers owner Eugene Klein and a had son with him.