THAT'S INCREDIBLE!: REUNION (TV)
Summary
This special program features incredible stunts and talents, heroic tales, and updates on stories from the series, "That's Incredible!" First, series' hosts John Davidson, Fran Tarkenton, and Cathy Lee Crosby are reunited as Crosby descends from a large swing. The first story features clips from 1983 of Ernestine Hutchins, who was the youngest premature baby to survive to date; Crosby interviews five-year-old Ernestine and her mother, Gloria. Following a series of clips of the hosts fiercely admonishing viewers "not to try this at home," Eric Dexpotter is hoisted eighty feet in the air from pins that pierce his back muscles. Other segments include: clips of brick-breaking martial arts feats; studio demonstrations by Soo Yun Ho, who becomes a human chimney fueled by gas and sawdust, and by snake handler Hal Newsome, who kisses the back of a venomous cobra; an outdoor stunt by L.W. Steinbach, who drives through four blazing automobiles; and a demonstration by Dan Reeves, who shoots a barrage of clay pigeons aimed directly at his head. Segments about children include a brief piano recital by Alicia Witt at age twelve, and a clip of Alicia, at age four, reciting lines from "Romeo and Juliet"; three-year-old Hank Martin demonstrating his dribbling skills; and the heroic rescues from freezing waters of Jimmy Todlowicz, Darvin Miller, Alvaro Garza, Jr., and Michelle Funk. Other highlights include: a montage of automobile and bicycle stunts; a six-foot-tall man who spends an hour inside a cube measuring two feet on each side; the removal of a second head from the face of a Chinese farmer named Chang, featuring footage of the surgery and Chang's condition before and afterwards; a Venezuelan woman named Niagra, who lives upside down to allievate headaches; the Canadian human fly, who rides atop a DC-8 jet liner; and bungee plunges from a suspension bridge and a crane. Incredible animal feats include rat basketball, a hog race, a chimpanzee bartender, a jogging turkey, a rope-twirling horse, and Hazel the surfing rabbit. In studio demonstrations, Link Cavalo introduces his parrot's rendition of "Oh What a Beautiful Morning," and bubble magician Tom Noddy creates bubbles resembling a carousel, a star, and Mount St. Helens. The hosts then conclude the program.
(The series "That's Incredible!" was telecast on ABC from 1980 to 1984.)
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: May 22, 1988 Sunday 8:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:58:52
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:12808
- GENRE: Variety; Specials
- SUBJECT HEADING: Animals; Martial arts; Stunt driving; Stunt flying; Surgery
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV, 1988
- COMMERCIALS:
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- TV - Commercials - Baby Magic baby oil
- TV - Commercials - Breyers ice cream
- TV - Commercials - Budweiser beer
- TV - Commercials - Coors Extra Gold beer
- TV - Commercials - Kentucky Fried Chicken fast food
- TV - Commercials - Lady Speed Stick anti-perspirant
- TV - Commercials - Listerine Antiseptic mouthwash
- TV - Commercials - McDonald's fast food
- TV - Commercials - Plax Anti-plaque dental rinse
- TV - Commercials - Primatene tablets
- TV - Commercials - Shedd's Spread Country Crock Squeezable butter
- TV - Commercials - Snickers candy bars
- TV - Commercials - Suzuki automobiles
- TV - Commercials - Volkswagen automobiles
- TV - PSA - America Responds to AIDS
- TV - Promos - "ABC Presents A Royal Gala"
- TV - Promos - "Baby M"
- TV - Promos - "Hooperman"
- TV - Promos - "MacGyver"
- TV - Promos - "Moonlighting"
- TV - Promos - "thirtysomething"
CREDITS
- Merrill Grant … Executive Producer
- Woody Fraser … Executive Producer, Director
- Earl Durham … Supervising Producer
- Bill Paolantonio … Supervising Producer
- Bonnie Karrin … Producer
- James E. Witte … Associate Producer
- Debbie Bock … Segment Producer
- Brian Fitzgerald … Segment Producer
- Wayne Gray … Segment Producer
- Gina Michel … Researcher
- Merelyn Davis … Music (Misc. Credits), Music Supervisor
- John Davidson … Host
- Fran Tarkenton … Host
- Cathy Lee Crosby … Host
- Link Cavalo
- Eric Dexpotter
- Michelle Funk
- Alvaro Garza
- Hank Martin
- Darvin Miller
- Hal Newsome
- Tom Noddy
- Dan Reeves
- Soo Yun Ho
- L.W. Steinbach
- Jimmy Todlowicz
- Alicia Witt