I made sure I spent a few minutes remembering Dick."Īs TV has changed since the 1970s, so has the structure of Battle. … The first thing I thought of was (late Eight star) Dick Van Patten, (who) was always our team captain. Twenty performers who participated in the specials that ran from 1976 to 1988 are among the 100 competitors from 14 past and current TV series in the new weekly edition of the celebrity athletic competition (Thursday, 9 ET/PT).įor Willie Aames, 56, who competed in 1979 while starring in Eight Is Enough, returning to Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., site of the original edition, was “nostalgic and bittersweet. ABC’s new version of Battle of the Network Stars has one thing the original didn’t: nostalgia value.
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