Picks and Pans Review: Olympathon '79

UPDATED 04/23/1979 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 04/23/1979 at 01:00 AM EST

NBC (8 p.m. ET)

To snag the rights to the '80 Olympics, NBC agreed to a telethon to raise funds for the U.S. team. Here it is, six and a half hours long, live from Las Vegas. Angie Dickinson, Ben Vereen, Dick Clark, Gary Coleman, Debby Boone and Olympic medalists of yore beg for your bucks.