“As a pubescent teen in the 3 channel universe there were a couple of things I’d wait all year to see.
1) The swimsuit competition for Miss America and Miss Universe (which was about as much titillation as you could hope for in a house where Dad did not subscribe to Playboy).
2) Battle of the Network Stars (which was your only opportunity to see women like Lynda Carter, Farrah Fawcett and Erin Gray in similar attire).”
What a great memory. Thanks for the post.
I attended Pepperdine Malibu when they filmed those so students we were up close and personal.
The actresses were hot and it got better when they wore those skin tight swimsuits to the Jacuzzi.
PS: Howard Cosell’s ‘complete off-camera vocabulary consisted of 90% curse words. And Robert Conrad is MUCH shorter than you would believe. But he was buff back then.