20 responses to “The CBS 50th Anniversary Photo”

1. Focusing on CBS television through 1978, Linda Lavin starred in Alice. Glen Campbell had a variety show. Bob Barker was the host of Price is Right. Gene Rayburn hosted Match Game. Tim Conway is most noted for the Carol Burnett Show. Dick Van Dyke was on The Dick Van Dyke Show which Mary Tyler Moore also starred in. Rob Reiner best known as Meathead on All in the Family. Andy Griffith was The Andy Griffith show that spun off Mayberry RFD, in which Ken Berry also starred. Journalists were on CBS News and 60 Minutes. Art Linkletter hosted Kids Say the Darndest Things. Alfred Hitchcock hosted Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Bea Arthur was Maude. Betty White was on The Mary Tyler Moore show. The Tonight Show was on NBC but Steve Allen was a regular on What’s My Line. Adrienne Barbeau was Maude’s daughter. Will Geer was Grandpa on The Waltons. Nick Beatty played Szysznyk. Valerie Harper was also the star of Rhoda. Cicely Tyson was in Roots. But I didn’t watch a lot of TV back then 😉

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   • char, great summary above!
     i loved it above where they show the numbers, names, & what show they were on/journalist, etc.

     betty gordon, ames, iowa

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   • Very appreciative of your post and efforts but that’s,quite a “cop out” in your what they were known for section. Certainly you should have tried to list the most noted work each were in and if at all possible for CBS.
     Let a guy over 60 years in the business flush some names and their most famous projects out for you where needed:

     10) Ann Southern: “Private Secretary” Sitcom
     12) Nancy Walker: “Mary Taylor Moore” and “Rhoda” as Ida Morganstern, Rhoda’s Mother, CBS; Mildred on “McMillan and Wife”, NBC Mystery Movies
     13) George Burns: {The Show was called ‘Burns and Allen”}
     14) Arthur Godfrey: “The Arthur Godfrey Show” {started on CBS Radio/transferred to TV as a variety hour.}
     17) Gale Storm: “My Little Margie” followed by “The Gale Storm Show” Sitcoms
     18) Danny Kaye : “The Danny Kaye Show”/Variety
     19) Sandy Duncan: “The Sandy Duncan Show” and replaced Valerie Harper in “Valerie” retitled “The Hogan Family'” Sitcoms
     24) June Lockhart Best known as mother figure/”Lassie”
     33) Tim Conway: best known “The Carol Burnett Show”
     39) Garry Moore … the actor comedian and Game Show Host pictured is GARY Moore Variety: “The Gary Moore Show” where Carol Burnett got her big break. Also host of “I’ve Got a Secret” and “To Tell the Truth”. {You are thinking of another person with slightly different spelling of name. Which is mandated by the Guild performer’s belong to}
     40) Linda Lavin: Starred in Sitcom “Alice” with Polly Holiday, waitresses in Mel’s Diner where the catch phrase “kiss 💋 my grits’ was born.
     44) Ned Beatty: “Deliverance” is a theatrical film. Television credits are “Footsteps” 1972 TV Movie. Guest Appearances on “The Waltons” and “Kojak” and another TV movie “Dying Room Only” all 1973
     48) Adrienne Barbeau — the only reason you get asked to ‘board’ the Love Boat is because you are a major star on another show. In Adrienne’s case, the acerbic daughter to Norman Lear’s “Maude” (Bea Arthur)
     67) Will Geer: also Grandpa, “the Waltons.”
     83) Ken Berry: also “Mayberry RFD”
     84) Art Linkletter also “The Art Linkletter Show” and “Kids Say the Darnest Things” {The original which started as a segment of his other shows and was later refitted for Bill Cosby and on which Linkletter occasionally appeared.
     85) Glen Campbell: Again “True Grit’ is theatrical, television work was ‘The Glen Campbell Show” an hour Musical Variety with country western slant
     86) Buddy Ebsen: also Barnaby Jones; directive drama
     88) John Forsythe; also voice of Charlie “Charlie’s Angels”, and Blake. head of the Carringtons in “Dynasty” (both were ABC however)
     92) Bea Arthur also “Maude”
     95). Andy Griffith starred in “The Andy Griffith Show” It became “Mayberry RFD in preparation for his departure from the series. Also starred as country wise Lawyer “Matlock.”
     100) DICK VAN DYKE “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “Diagnosis Murder” {it is impossible to believe out of all the work Van Dyke has done you best know the borderline BOMB you stated!)
     105) Rob Reiner: mainly “All in the Family”
     106 Lynnie Greene: just a trivia note here; she’s Young Dorothy in flashback episodes

     And that does it! God Bless, Jack A.S VanNote President JAV Communcative Enterprises A Multimedia Firm with interests in Film, Television and Video Productions

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     • Not a cop-out at all; as I said, “The following table lists the personalities with one of the things they are notable for. 𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 “𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑠” 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘, 𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝐶𝐵𝑆, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑑.” What I have written I have written, and I excuse not myself. However, your comment will remain visible for anyone who cares. If you want something better up there, feel free to copy this into your own blog with the changes you see fit.

2. One major star who’s missing in this photo is Alan Alda (MASH).

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   • You’re absolutely right. I could have suggested a couple of others as well, but Alda’s absence was noted when I saw Jamie Farr in the crowd.

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3. Jon Walmsley was Jason on the Waltons.

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4. Gene Rayburn hosted Match Game, not Jeopardy

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   • No disrespect to Art Fleming, just had a brain fart.

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5. The list should show the CBS SHOWS for which they were attending the CBS 50th anniversary show. Not that it matters in the scheme of things, but people should look elsewhere for a true list of the CBS shows.

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   • Like I said, the shows that I mentioned are the ones that were the most familiar to me and not necessarily the ones that they were best known for. Want a different list? Create one on your own blog.

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6. Lynnie Greene was in a CBS show at the time called On Our Own. A number of folks beside her were in low-rated CBS sitcoms at the time: Tony Randall in The Tony Randall Show, Ned Beatty in Szysnyk and Demond Wilson in Baby, I’m Back. Two of those folks I’d never heard of, Hughes Rudd and Richard C. Hottelet, but everyone else, I’m certainly familiar with.

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   • Thanks for the input!

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   • hi mark 😉
     if you have NOT read down through all the replies, there are 1 or 2 showing the name of EVERYONE in that wonderful photo. so go take a peek like i/others did 😉 enjoy as much as we did solving WHO that person was in the photo.

     betty gordon, ames, iowa lifelong fan of all in the photo 😉

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   • Rudd and Hottelet were veterans of CBS News. Rudd also hosted a short-lived version of the CBS Morning News with Sally Quinn for a time. I was surprised to see them but to not see Roger Mudd, who was both the Congressional correspondent and also Cronkite’s substitute on the CBS Evening News during this time, and who along with Rather was considered among the front-runners to replace Cronkite when he retired.

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7. Betty White was probably known for Mary Tyler Moore Show at the time as Golden Girls wasn’t a thing when the photo was taken and also an NBC show. Bea Arthur was on Maude. Linda Lavin was on Alice at the time.

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8. Thanks for the list of names – hard to read that picture. I would also note that missing was Jackie Gleason (The Honeymooners) and Phil Silvers (Sgt. Bilko/Phil Silvers Show).

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   • Good eye.

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9. Tommy Smothers is missing also.

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10. Man, #76 Sure looks like Ron Howard.

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