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Bill hosted this brief
Saturday afternoon sports anthology series which covered exotic events
from around the world. Much like NBC Sports
In Action, which Bill co-hosted a few years later, this one-hour
show was clearly patterned after the successful model of ABC's Wide
World of Sports.
Since Bill was still hosting a daily morning radio show at the time (not to mention his work on The Price Is Right and I've Got A Secret), it would seem likely that he was merely a studio host for this series, and that he didn't go traipsing around the world on his bum leg to cover the events in person. The only listing for this series that we have is a set of Michigan Edition TV Guides which show the series airing on WWJ-TV, the NBC affiliate in Detroit, at 4pm Saturday afternoons. Other NBC affiliates in Michigan appear not to have carried the show, leading us to believe it was probably syndicated. However, given Bill's close ties with the NBC network at the time, there may have been some connection to the network as well. We're searching for more information. Thanks to Jimmy Owen for finding the listing in the first place! EPISODE GUIDE
VIDEO In long-forgotten notes, we found a reference to a website that offered old 16mm racing films, and one of the films offered was an episode of Sports Cavalcade covering a European Grand Prix event. The website is no longer active, but presumably at least that one 16mm film still exists. |
