Hosted by three-time Grammy Award winner Debby Boone, this is a dazzling musical comedy salute to the history-making women of 1960s and ’70s TV Variety.
Showstoppers! Great Women of TV Variety airs Saturday, October 17 at 3 p.m. on WXXI-TV and streaming live on the WXXI and PBS apps.
The program features classic performances from Carol Burnett, Lily Tomlin, Diahann Carroll, Cher, Mitzi Gaynor, Toni Tennille, Ella Fitzgerald, Ann-Margret, Vikki Carr, Leslie Uggams, and many more. Collectively these trailblazing icons reinvented a TV genre, both in front of and behind the camera, with razzle-dazzle showmanship and a dynamic creative vision that entertained tens of millions.
Repeats Sunday, October 18 at 2:30 p.m. on WXXI-TV.