WPIX-TV Action News, March 17, 1980

Here is the complete 7:30 p.m. Action News with Pat Harper, Steve Bosh, Jerry Girard and Roberto Tirado. This aired on WPIX-TV Channel 11 on St. Patrick's Day, 1980.

[@techmaven5900]

I remember a production error during a broadcast that ended up showing Pat Harper chuffing a cigar when it was supposed to be a commercial break. No kidding!!

[@joshfoster6189]

She smoked like 5 packs a day, so seems on brand that she'd be caught with a cigar during a break.

[@SigHawk04]

Doesn't quite top her colleague-to-be Sue Simmons dropping the F-bomb during a live tease.

[@jamesfrangione8448]

Loved this!!! Jerry Girard’s piece had me crying with laughter! So too Pat Harper’s reporting on the Worst Movie Festival! 😂😂😂. Brought back a lot of memories of my youth. Definitely a “period piece”. They’d be canceled today, but that was the way it was back then. And we watched them every night. That whole crew…we loved them!

[@dawnlee866]

😂😂😂

[@x60hz]

I loved that music but it meant bedtime. I hated that!

[@hatednyc]

😆 was born in 1980 so I only knew it as WPIX never as Action News

[@lizogut1892]

My grandma pat 💕

[@x60hz]

Loved her!!!

[@jasonbertalotto2355]

Liz Ogut From your mother’s side?

[@elizabetho5359]

@@jasonbertalotto2355 yes

[@jasonbertalotto2355]

@@elizabetho5359 You work in the journalism field?

[@SeamusMcGillicuddy0]

@@x60hzShe was a looker. 🥰

[@hornet6969]

1980 : the "White Guy Afro"

[@fscap811]

18% inflation....holy shit!!! I forgot how bad it was back then.

[@samuelantonov9939]

my right ear enjoyed this

[@SeamusMcGillicuddy0]

R.I.P. Pat Harper. She was a babe ❤️ !

[@ralphtimothe148]

Pat Harper channel 11 action news.

[@alfonsogreen2722]

Brings back memories as a 2 n a half year old

[@susanharris6888]

I was going on 17, man how I wish...

[@RichardCockerill]

i was 31 bubba

[@maryhlad5277]

I recognized the theme music. WSTM TV 3 used that music for their newscasts in the 1990's here in Syracuse.

[@newstarcadefan]

Move Closer to your World (much like Gari's Hello News theme/Campaign) is very internationally known.

[@facety2]

One of the Philadelphia news programs used it back in the 80s. I think they still might.

[@steveferguson823]

Was class of 1980. The class of 1980 rules rocked. Best 80s class 1980 had best music. Cars. Wanna. Go back to 1980 wanna relive. My senior. Year.

[@georges8200]

Ron Burgandy would be proud

[@michaelthespikel5685]

I forgot how much coverage that Scarsdale diet Dr murder had. I remember watching this it is like time traveling. I must have watched this exact news cast.

[@LannieLord]

Yes, it was like 24/7 ! I lived near NYC tho. This whole time period; Lennon's death and Belushi's death - both so shocking ! And remember when the 1980s did not seem so far away in the 1990s ?

[@michaelthespikel5685]

@@LannieLord I sure loved WPIX I live in Western New York in a Backwater. There was nothing like that New York sophistication that WPIX offered. When our CableSystem canceled it there was one local community that actually tried to petition Congress. WPIX taught me to love The Honeymooners Star Trek The Twilight Zone the Yankees and Jerry Girard.

[@davidrileynyc5702]

Theme should come back

[@RichardCockerill]

this is so cool,no cell phones to take photos and very little videos......life in Merica 1980

[@christopherdunbar394]

Blast from the past

[@Tolya1979]

"Why doesn't he move his upper lip? This must be on UHF."

[@BRuane-pw6xq]

Terrorism comes from many sources. Croatians in this case.

[@fscap811]

B Ruane I believe the early 80s saw the Armenian Secret Army blow up a bomb or two...but the thing that I told my friend of Armenian descent...once you blow up a bomb and take credit for it...no more secret.

[@davidriley1702]

0:03 Before there was Amy Stone, Before there was Leandra Reilly, before there was Donna Hannover, there was Pat Harper 17:05-17:12 dead air

[@luckybestwash]

So much comedy gold here. Jeff Kamen's mustache, the Dow falls below the "psychologically important 800 level" and of course the one & only Jerry Girard.

[@LannieLord]

18:25 WOW ! This was the Golden Turkey Awards film festival held at the Beacon theatre. THIS is when they voted ED WOOD'S Plan 9 from Outer Space "The worst movie ever made". This was a PIVOTAL time for me and my taste in "bad movies as being HILARIOUS" . Game changer for me . I was in my last year of high school - the 1970s were over. I wish I could have done things differently from this point on..... but I guess everyone does.

[@RaveDave871]

Jimmy Carter looks destined to outlive em all !

[@nowitsabadtime]

RON BURGUNDY ALERT @ 0:49!

[@user-er3ri6sc3j]

Pat Harper was at WNBC channel 4. She reported being a homeless person.

[@wiedep]

"technical problem(s)" a normal way of life at 'PIX...

[@RichardCockerill]

i was 31 that year wow :]....OMG LOL

[@garyhunt8067]

I really liked theme tune.

[@1DJSkittles]

I like this opening more

[@sdmackpictures]

I was working at Goldman Sachs during the time of the World Trade bombing. We heard and felt it.

[@RichardCockerill]

well done,got anymore old newscasts???????????????

[@eric-hj8pn]

7:34

[@nowitsabadtime]

Don't y'all think he looks like R0N BURGUNDY...(0:49)

[@RichardCockerill]

are thses reporters still around?asking for a friend :]

[@Tolya1979]

Green. The central band.

[@jeffmclean9411]

Wheres Irv baby ? Lol awesome

[@christopherdunbar394]

Pat went to wnbc news 4

[@henrycampbell9733]

Great local news journalism, the way it should be. But instead we are stuck with celebrity wannabes and opinions, ugh 😩

[@edmsing]

A seventy-two-year-old news broadcaster, Katy Tong is appearing daily on television, good for her, as if a twenty-year-old dressed in hair dye and make-up, with red dripping red lips, for as long as, I am guessing well into her nineties, and as long as the market will allow, and if the market place has anything to do with anything, can be a very long time…just don’t dare to look like a seventy-two-year-old…

[@jjahsepuyeshd]

No brothas or sistas!!!

[@joshuastavos4376]

God bless Serbia!!!

[@joebean3399]

Democrats in charge same old BS 🤣

[@melvinsims5379]

Back in the day when reporters were reporter an not just pundits.

[@melvinsims5379]

Back in the day when reporters were reporter an not just pundits.