Product Details

• Actors: Jim McKay
• Directors: Multi
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Espn
• DVD Release Date: April 3, 2007
• Run Time: 69 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000MM0LDM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,909 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 04/03/2007 Run time: 69 minutes

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars skip this DVD---very few famous moments in sports shown, August 8, 2008

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Cougar's Dad (Menlo Park) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: ABC Wide World Of Sports: 40 Years Of Glory (DVD)

The title should have been: "Evel Knievel and Auto Racing". I was hoping for the great moments in TV sports history, with many different sports shown. Instead, all I saw was about 5 or more minutes of Evel Knievel and 5 or more minutes of auto racing, but zero minutes of swimming, skiing, boxing, baseball, basketball, hockey, football etc. etc. It feels like they put very little time into making a exciting sports product that showed the best of sports over the last 40 years. I was very disappointed.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good idea, but too short, June 14, 2007

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Patrick Peterson (Versailles, KY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ABC Wide World Of Sports: 40 Years Of Glory (DVD)

I love the idea of a DVD (or several) showing old footage of sports events. Wide World of Sports was one of those defining television sports shows of the 1960s and 70s. Why not a 4-hour retrospective, with the opportunity to really show some in-depth highlights? This DVD was fascinating, but with only 1 hour of material it barely had a chance to give us a flavor of the original show.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible - Do NOT Buy, February 19, 2009

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This review is from: ABC Wide World Of Sports: 40 Years Of Glory (DVD)

This is a really poorly done DVD, apparently the good clips cost too much so the producers assembled a hodge podge of irrelevant ABC moments and haphazardly edited them into this piece. Example, the classic opening theme and montage, you know.. "The Thrill of Victory, and the Agony of Defeat" is entirely missing! How can you do a ABC Sports DVD and NOT include that???

Also, it looks like a cheaply done transfer, almost like a remaster of a VHS to DVD.