In the Gameshow Category, Watching Through the Static chooses Battle of the Network Stars
I think Bill Simmons describes it best.
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A quick explanation: Building on the success of its Superstars franchise, ABC mustered an athletic competition that pitted on-air talent from the three networks against each other. Howard Cosell was the emcee/announcer for what is best described as a trashy coed team decathlon.
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http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/st...ine&id=3712343
I remember these shows well. I'd always root for the team that had people from my favourite show on it. Usually that would be NBC, since the only American network I could see on TV was the NBC affiliate from accross Lake Erie (WICU, channel 12, Erie Penn.) But is was neat to see these people out of character. I'm not sure you could do anything similar today, but back when there were only 3 major networks anything could happen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_..._Network_Stars
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0321394/
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