This is Showtime, and here's what's coming next.
The story of troubled youth searching for dignity from Francis Ford Coppola, Matt Dillon,
Diane Lane, Tom Cruise, and Leif Garrett are The Outsiders.
It began like any other day for Alex Selke.
It became like no other.
Boy walked down Henry Street at 9 a.m. on a very busy day.
He vanished into thin air.
My son is alive and I do this.
And there's a chance.
I just hope we don't have some wacko kid killer here.
A story every parent fears.
Kate Nelligan and Judd Hirsch without a clue.
Somebody must have seen something.
Without a reason.
I want my son back.
Without a trace.
On Showtime.
Next week on Showtime's Fairytale Theater.
Meet Rapunzel.
Even though she's locked in a tower, her mother still manages to get in her hair.
It's just that I want someone new and exciting to come into my life.
One day a handsome prince plans her escape but a little bird.
Rapunzel, will you marry me?
Becomes a stool pigeon.
Jeff Bridges, Shelley DeVal, and Gina Rowland star in the hair-raising tale of Rapunzel.
Next week on Fairytale Theater on Showtime.
Taped live on Broadway.
I get too hungry.
I'll do my act.
I hate.
I mean I'm not here.
The incomparable Lena Horne.
I never bought the whole place.
Well I hate.
That's why the lady is a tramp.
All the excitement, all the magic of a living legend.
Lena Horne, the lady and her music, a Showtime original.
I want to talk like lovers do.
I want to dive into your ocean.
Is it raining with you?
Baby.
Walk with me.
Like lovers do.
Walk with me.
Like lovers do.
Talk to me.
Like lovers do.
Like lovers do.
Here comes the rain again.
Raining in my head like a tragedy.
Tearing me apart like a new emotion.
Ooh.
I want to breathe in the open wind.
I want to kiss like lovers do.
I want to dive into your ocean.
Is it raining with you?
Baby.
Walk with me.
Like lovers do.
Walk with me.
Like lovers do.
Talk to me.
Like lovers do.
Talk to me.
Like lovers do.
Here it comes again.
Ooh.
Here comes the rain again.
Falling on my head like a memory.
Falling on my head like a new emotion.
Here it comes again.
I want to walk in the open wind.
I want to talk like lovers do.
I want to dive into your ocean.
Is it raining with you?
Ooh.
Here it comes again.
Here comes the rain again.
Falling on my head like a memory.
Falling on my head like a new emotion.
Ooh.
Ooh.
Yeah.
I want to walk in the open wind.
I want to talk like lovers do.
I want to dive into your ocean.
Is it raining with you?
Ooh.
Here comes the rain again.
Falling on my head like a memory.
Phil Harris in Hollywood, I have news for you straight from San Francisco from last month's
1984 edition of NAPI.
That's the National Association of Television Programming Executives.
February saw them converging from all over the country looking at the shows available
for syndication to independent stations in almost every market in America.
Now all these shows won't make it and some of them shouldn't.
But here's a quick look at some TV friends, old and new.
Tom Selleck and Magnum P.I. probably head the list.
While his prime time series goes on, stations will now be able to buy earlier shows for
other time slots.
Selleck is selling.
Speaking of old friends, Jackie Cooper first went on the air as Lieutenant Chick Hennessey
back in 1959.
Hennessey is now being offered for syndication 25 years later.
TV and its stars go on forever.
No one knows that better than Monty Hall and don't throw away the cucumber costume.
They're doing it again.
It's my job to introduce you to the all new Let's Make a Deal.
What more can I say?
Americans will continue to dress up as a rutabaga for a chance at door number one, two, or three.
Speaking of games, Alex Trebek will lead the recycling of Jeopardy!
This time with new computer graphics, but without our good pals Art Fleming or Don Pardo.
One good turn deserves another, so Tom Kennedy will host the new High Rollers because Alex
Trebek is obviously busy.
Old Friends?
Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny forever, turns his talents and his tonsils to another
animated animal favorite.
He'll star as the voice of Heathcliff the Cat in a brand new $12 million cartoon series.
And Mr. Rogers may be in your neighborhood.
He has a new show called Old Friends, New Friends.
His new role is as interviewer to stars from John Carradine to Milton Berle.
Dick Clark and Chris Beard are producing a new and strange one, Puttin' on the Hits,
in which contestants will come on masquerading as top singers, lip syncing their hits, and
be judged by a panel of celebrities.
Give me a break.
Good news, our good friend John Beiner makes TV history when Showtime is Bizarre becomes
the first cable show syndicated to TV.
It's actually cable's longest running show and proud to note another landmark.
Three more shows quickly.
We have a half hour series called A Case in Point, combining a game show with courtroom drama.
You'll have reenactments of actual cases with contestant jurors competing for $10,000 in prize money.
Guilty as charged.
Saturday Night Live with all the stars you remember now comes back at you with a new half hour format.
They'll be recycling that one for years.
And speaking of recycling and years, one called Classic Cliffhangers gives you Saturday afternoon
matinee movie serials, the good old fashioned cliffhangers in a whole new format.
Like it or not, and the feelings are decidedly mixed about some of them, it's all available
the question now is to see who buys.
We'll have the answers soon enough right there on your local screen.
For now, Bill Harris in Hollywood, we'll talk again.
Music playing.
I get up and nothing gets me down You got it tough, I seem the toughest around
And I know, baby, just how you feel You got to roll with the punches and get to what's real
I can't just sit here standing here I got my back against the record machine I eat the worst that you see I can't just see what I'm being
Might as well jump, jump Might as well jump Go ahead and jump, jump Go ahead and jump
Oh, hey you, who said that? Baby, how you been? You say you don't know You won't know until you begin
I can't just sit here standing here I got my back against the record machine I eat the worst that you see I can't just see what I'm being
Might as well jump, jump Go ahead and jump Might as well jump, jump Go ahead and jump
Might as well jump