TV’s Top 10 Moments
The first moon landing on July 20, 1969, was cited on NBC’s Emmy Awards telecast Sunday as the most significant broadcast in television’s first 50 years.
The four-hour Emmy ceremony was peppered with clips of TV’s Top 10 moments, as voted fby about 200 journalists.
The other milestones: the 1977 miniseries “Roots”; the premiere of “Hill Street Blues” in 1981; the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963; the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986; the “Who Shot J.R.?” episode of “Dallas” in 1980; the final episode of “MASH” in 1983; Lucy having a baby on “I Love Lucy” in 1953; Johnny Carson’s 1992 departure after nearly 30 years of hosting “The Tonight Show”; and the Beatles’ performance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1964.
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