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Bird, a guy that worked carrying trash, one plays for the los angeles lakers and the other for the boston celtics . it's a great story. >> off the mark. and several chances and here is larry bird, going down the court. >> magic johnson, leading the attack. >> look at the pass. oh, what a show. >> oh! >> when had the championship games are in prime time, and people are paying attention to that, television feeds in to those rivalries, and makes them bigger than they have been before. i dare to challenge somebody with primitive skills, they are just as good as dead. >> every fight was like a ax...

>> "30 something" is a very important show as you are going into this era of television being more introspective and more emotional. and some people weren't buying it. but for other people when they were talking about things like having kids and who is going to go back to work and some of these issues that hadn't been talked about a whole lot, it was important to people. >> i was so looking forward -- i was so looking forward to doing this. to be a grown-up for just an hour. >> in the beginning, there was talk of this being the yuppie show. and you mentioned it tonight. you said if there were ...

Wild. >> the '80s brought a lot of belligerence to television. whether it was morton downey jr. being the offensive caricaturish person that he was, or geraldo. he did his own outlandish things. >> stay with us, ladies and gentlemen. we're going to get into the mind of another all-american boy who came under the influence of satanism and took part in a crime without passion or motive -- >> geraldo rivera takes the power of the talk show to a whole different level to put people on stage who hate each other and who will fight -- >> in the case of the temple and the church of satan, we have not h...

Devil worship. but today he's in a real free-for-all. >> i get sick and tired of seeing an uncle tom here trying to be a -- >> go ahead. >> sit down. >> hey, hold it. hold it. >> rivera suffered a broken nose but said the show will be broadcast later this month in its entirety. >> well, that's not something i would have done. but there was a lot of hypocrisy. one of the major magazines put the picture of geraldo getting hit with a chair on the cover, and the article said, isn't this awful, look what's happened to television. yet they couldn't wait to use it to sell their own magazine. >> let's...

Change in the entire you history of tv. >> we had all scene a documentary about cops, and had a handheld in the moment quality that we were enamored of. >> the minute you looked at it, it looked different. it had a mood to it. you could almost smell the stale coffee. >> we didn't want to do a standard cop show, where you know, you had a crime, you got your two cops, you go out and you catch the bad guy and you sweat them and he confesses and that is it. cops had personal lives that impact their behavior in pro found ways. >> well, what about it? is he here or elsewhere? >> don't get excited, c...