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People running for office. sometimes the same people. it was a magic carpet ride. >> you really do paint a very, very grim picture of the sitting president of the united states. >> let me just say this, i think hes probably the laziest president ive ever seen. >> the audience for phil donahue built and built and built and built, and led the way to oprah. ♪ >> hello, everybody. >> oprah has a particularly magical combination of her own background, her own experience, her own incisive mind, and ...

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Thank goods. >> with cable television suddenly offering an array of different channel choices, thats enough. >> i want my own mtv. >> i want my mtv. >> i want my mtv! >> a new concept is born. the best of tv combined with the best of radio. this is it. welcome to mtv, music television, the worlds first stereo music tele. >> music television, what a concept. mtv was pow in your face. you are not going to turn us off. >> mtv did nothing but play current music videos all day long. let me get you st...

Sometimes ambition in a woman is considered to be a dirty word, unfortunately. >> yes hear a lot of female voices reverberating in the halls of power in this business. >> im surprised there arent more shows about women talking about who they are. >> directing seems to be an area that is almost impossible to break through. >> i think the 80s were the era when women were being looked at with a little skepticism, but definitely with more acceptability. you could see the door opening. but it wasnt w...

Tell you. >> you dont tell me what you did. just tell me whats theyre going to do to you. >> unlike every other show on tv, its showing an upper middle class black family. this wasnt "all in the family." they werent tackling deep issues. but that was okay. the mere fact that they existed was a deep issue. >> the decade was waiting for something real. in other words, unless its real, it doesnt seem like it moves anybody. if someones feeling something, you get to the heart, you get to the mind. if...

>> that was cool. >> certainly, "beavis and butthead" established what mtv could be. because the show is about making fun of music videos just like people in the audience were doing. >> there is, like, all these bones and vestiges moving around. >> my manager would call me like, hey, you got this big bump because you were on "beavis and butthead" last night. >> i sit there just like a doughnut watching these guys. and -- and -- and i find them endlessly entertaining because i know, and you know,...

Have done it. >> shows that had been watched through the 70s and into tagts like "m.a.s.h." had their final episode. >> ill be seeing you. >> ill see you, a lot. >> always crowded around the tv set to watch the final episode and give them a farewell. >> 123 million people watched one television program at the same time. >> i really should be allowed to go home. theres nothing wrong with me. >> when we ended the show, we got to grams of congratulations from henry kissinger and ronald reagan. the ...

Crew starting and another one ending. add in two cosmonauts and a nasa astronaut, who arrived on a russian sawyer spacecraft in april. and it was officially a full house, in the floating-space lab. for over a week, the 11 stellar roommates bunked together in a place nasa says is the size of a six-room house. the record number of people aboard the iss is 13. set, back in the space-shuttle era. still, french astronaut from crew two says it was a tight squeeze. >> translator: six living spots for 1...

>> even the theme song to "cheers" puts you in a good mood. >> evening, everybody. >> norm! >> norman! >> whats shaking, norm? >> all four cheeks and a couple of chins, coach. >> by the end of the "cheers" pilot, not only did you know who everybody was, but you wanted to come back and see what was going to happen. its like all you have to do is watch it once. youre going to love these people. these are universal characters, and the humor worked on so many levels. >> i was up until 2:00 in the mo...

I was -- i belong with everybody else. and thats what i finally did. >> we used to say ellen opened the door, and we knocked it down. [ singing ] >> im gay. >> "will and grace" was a great show, in sort of helping a mainstream, straight community, connect to the gay community. >> i think i can fix this thing with your landlord. but, might get a little ugly. >> play hardball, baby. >> low and inside. he is crowding the plate and we got to go for -- >> sports. youre losing me. >> i figured 25% of ...