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Monday, February 8, 2021

Season 8 Battys by the Numbers

 We hope you all enjoyed the latest installment of The Biggest Night in Vintage TV Podcasting! Here is a look at the eighth Batty Awards...by the numbers:

Awards won by show: Columbo (6), Brady Bunch (4), Greatest American Hero (4), Newhart (2), Night of 100 Stars (2), Duck Tales (1), Wide World of Sports (1), Tucker's Witch (1)

Way more than 100: Number of stars on Night of 100 Stars
Way more than 100: Number of people who, years later, claimed to be Little Rascals

82: Page of the lost manual that would have allowed Bill Maxwell to be a genius 30 years earlier

21: Total number of categories

15: Number of major operations Evel Knievel claimed to have had in his career
13: Number of sharks in the tank over which he jumped in his ill-fated 1977 rehearsal for a live TV special
1: Number of Battys won by Knievel

11: Nominations without a win for 60 Minutes

5: Number of nominees from the same show in one category (tie): 60 Minutes (Outstanding Performance as Oneself) and Night of 100 Stars (Outstanding song)

5) Number of nominees from the same show in one category without any other nominees (Batty record):  Night of 100 Stars (Outstanding song)

3: Season 8 Battys for Mike Lookinland as Bobby Brady
2: Combined career Battys for Betty White, Alan Alda, Ed Asner, and Mary Tyler Moore

2: Number of times Rick referred to Butch from The Little Rascals as Tommy

1: Number of Battys won by animals (not counting Doug Henning's mustache)
0: Number of Battys won by inanimate objects

0: Number of times Ann B. Davis was actually on Columbo
0: Number of times Peter Falk was on The Brady Bunch

0: Number of awards determined by random number generator (a Battys first!)

Too numerous to track: Number of times the hosts criticized the Blue Ribbon Batty Nominating Committee


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