Whipped Cream Difficulties

Julian Goodman, former NBC executive.

I haven’t been able to determine for sure if he was responsible for canceling “Star Trek” (which would be enough to make him one of nature’s noblemen in my book), but:

...he was compelled to apologize to viewers in 1968 after NBC cut away from a nationally broadcast New York Jets-Oakland Raiders game so that a movie version of “Heidi” could go on as scheduled.

More on the “Heidi Bowl” here.

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