S1E5's Current Events - What was going on at the time?

Episode 5E Notes: Other TV shows this night, #1 movie this weekend, in the news this day & TIME cover this week

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0:00 TV CONTEXT: when it aired, ratings, counterprogramming: Falcon Crest, Cheers, Wings + other shows this night, ABC bookends: Father Dowling Mysteries, Prime Time Live

3:20 HISTORICAL CONTEXT including #1 MOVIE: Pretty Woman / WORLD EVENTS: Russian Orthodox Patriarch Pimen I dies / TIME COVER: Vietnam

6:15 OUTRO clip from the Cheers episode

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Cheers - "Sammy gets the Bar Back" (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4p8iLJ5jRI

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