ABC World News Tonight
1978–ABCDocumentary
The bulletin that briefly ran three anchors in three cities, and has run one ever since.
One opening sequence is catalogued for ABC World News Tonight, covering season 1.
It arrived on ABC in 1978, when One Life to Live, All My Children and The Bugs Bunny Show were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
No usable clip kept. The one result documents a night when the wrong graphics went to air, which is not the sequence as it normally runs.
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