Picks and Pans Review: Tv Guide—the First 25 Years

UPDATED 10/22/1979 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 10/22/1979 at 01:00 AM EDT

NBC (8-10 p.m. ET)

The top-selling U.S. magazine (circulation 19.5 million) is celebrated with the usual barrage of historic TV moments plus a discussion of broadcasting's past, present and future. Guests include Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Diahann Carroll, Michael Landon and Tom Smothers. Phil Donahue presides.