We're doing our part to honor Black History Month here at The Land of Whatever. Tonight, with help from the folks at Clown Jewels, we present a 1990 special that marked Sammy Davis, Jr.'s 60th anniversary in show business, airing just a few months before his passing in May of that year.
This was a show where Hollywood really stepped out, with guests including Clint Eastwood, Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Stevie Wonder, Ed McMahon, and, via satellite, Frank Sinatra, who was on tour. Eddie Murphy is your host. Charlie O'Donnell, at the time the announcer on Wheel of Fortune, has that assignment here.
In all honesty, I originally intended to post Sammy's guest appearance on Ben Casey, but the copies that are on YouTube have some glitches. We're not done with Sammy just yet, though. Coming up soon will be a TV-movie he made with Ernest Borgnine, "The Trackers".
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