Jerry, Ed, and MDA: The excitement of the first million (Labor Day Telethon)

[@trackdogcrowesnest769]

Growing up as kid this is one thing I'll always remember labor day weekend watching Jerry Lewis telethon and going to the mall to get school clothes and putting money in the fish bowl for Jerry's kids priceless memories !thanks for posting these 🙂

[@thejerseyj1636]

A world without Jerry Lewis... Somehow I thought he would live, and stay young, forever. Really hard watching how in the last few years he really did age. Well, someday he'll be with us again. If you believe in God you know what I mean. Oh how I want to meet him then ! Jerry you will always be a treasure.

[@RETROGEMS]

That's a beautiful message :)

[@scottmiller6495]

You'll Never Ever See Anything like this ever again Period!!!!!

[@facebook51ify]

Thank you WRBL Channel 3 for making the MDA Telethon our memories forever.

[@mkfjtiger]

Columbus

[@patshafer4126]

Jerry ,you will always be a part of us all mda fans &family's in our hearts!we love &miss you jerry

[@Darkeklaw]

It's a sad world now that MDA doesn't even have the Telethon anymore.

[@ericpurkey7502]

Where I live the mda telethon aired on 9&10 from the 1970's till 1996 then switched to 7&4 from 1997 to 2010.

[@patshafer4126]

Jerry,we all miss you &love you from all if us mda fans

[@atphoenix2020]

Watched him every Labor Day weekend

[@tpirfan2004]

A beautiful montage. Thanks.

[@faststop4]

very nice video from the telethon past at the first millon bucks through the years

[@jorgefigueroa4437]

The 2008 and 2009 telethon on the totes use a variant of a olympic fanfare and movie fanfare substitute the original telethon fanfare

[@patshafer4126]

We love you&miss you Jerry with all my heart

[@gosharks94]

our MDA Telethon Channel was KTVU Channel 2 in Oakland, CA

[@vinniemystery563]

I miss Ed Mcmahon i enjoyed him on Star Search too

[@emmarose4234]

Ed from The Lion King is named after him!

[@patshafer4126]

Jerry I am so very thank full to have met you in person twice in my life time in person

[@jorgefigueroa4437]

2008 the olympic fanfare variant makes debut

[@shawnmarengo494]

At 5:41 - I was surprised to see the typo “Somoma”. Should be Sonoma County.

[@faststop4]

Kmbc 1969-1999 kctv 2000-2012

[@patshafer4126]

I am also thank full to have talked to you on the phone alot to

[@ericpurkey7502]

Miss the old telethon 1966-2010 Miss Ed 192-2009.

[@patshafer4126]

Old telethins are on you tube telethon yrs to 2010!;tune into you tube

[@faststop4]

1970-1983 wtog tv 1984-1994 wtsp tv 1995-2012 tampa stations who covered the telethon

[@richzito]

Turn it!!! Dooo it! Yeaaaaah!

[@gnirolnamlerf593]

It's interesting to watch the development of the tote board. I really hated the tote being presented painfully slowly, digit by digit from the end of the number. It's not like there was suspense. You knew that another million was coming up, so get to the point, I always thought. You can also follow the condition of the US economy and the size of the network that commenced coverage of the telethon at 9pm EDT versus later, as it changed from year to year. Sometimes it took them little over an hour and a half to reach a million; sometimes two and a half hours.

[@faststop4]

Did you miss a year of the first millon 1980

[@patshafer4126]

All telethon yrs are on you tube

[@NoahRonaldo22]

i can't find the 2002 finale

[@faststop4]

What I meant was the first million from 1980

[@stevensuarez4843]

WTVJ in Miami, Later WBFS.

[@TheKingMAC]

GRATEFUL FOR GOD... ANCESTORS PROTECT FUTURE...

[@vinniemystery563]

That Cystic Fibrosis changed Jerry Lewis made him get old 😢

[@sherryhannah498]

@vinniemystery563 he didn't have cystic fibrosis

[@francesgardner3046]

M

[@donaldsewell4451]

telethon 2007 got 1,078,854

[@maes5722]

Increíblemente el supuesto país mas rico ,tienen para armas, pero para salud dependen de la caridad vergonzoso.