What Might've Been: What Really Happened to The Class of '65 (1977)

 One of NBC's more ambitious freshman series of the 1977-8 season was What Really Happened to The Class of '65, a midseason replacement series that premiered after Rosetti & Ryan tanked.

Tony Bill pitched the adaptation of a best selling book by David Wallechinsky (son of author Irving Wallace) and future film critic Michael Medved first to Universal, then to NBC. Bill starred as graduate Sam Ashley, who had returned to Bret Harte High as a teacher. Each episode focuses on a specific classmate of Ashley's, and what their lives had become in the 12 years since graduation.

Unfortunately, Class of '65 was slotted opposite Barnaby Jones on CBS. Ballgame over.

Venice recorded the kickin' theme song which is included in this video, along with a sample of the episode, "The Girl Nobody Knew", with Larry Hagman (a few months before Dallas), Michael Anderson, Jr. (ex-The Monroes), Jessica Walter, and Kim Cattrall.

Rights issues, either regarding the book or the music used on the show, coupled with so few episodes, precludes a DVD release.

No rating. I think my folks would've been watching Barnaby Jones.