Picks and Pans Review: Texaco Presents the All-Star Birthday Party for Bob Hope...at Sea

UPDATED 06/04/1979 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 06/04/1979 at 01:00 AM EDT

NBC (8 p.m. ET)

Hope's specials appear more frequently than some oft-bumped series. His guests this time include the Village People, whose satiric disco hit In the Navy may not be all that appropriate—but much of Hope's 76th-birthday bash was filmed on the helicopter carrier U.S.S. Iwo Jima.