Club reached out to a number of participants from the original installments of the program, including both the actors-turned-athletes as well as the supervising producer on every Battle between 19. With the return of Battle Of The Network Stars to ABC after a nearly 30-year absence, The A.V. That’s how the majority of the participants in the first year of Battle approached their participation in the competition, but it didn’t take long for them to start taking it seriously. As you can probably tell from the tone of the introductory narration-which was intoned by William Conrad, no less-the idea of actors turning athletes was being treated as something so completely absurd that it could only be introduced to viewers with a wink and a smirk.
The program, which made its debut on November 13, 1976, offered an athletic competition between the prime-time stars of the three existing networks at the time: ABC, CBS, and NBC.
The preceding paragraph was taken word for word from the opening minutes of the very first installment of Battle Of The Network Stars.
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