Olivia ABC TV special
Two musical presentations featuring some of today’s most popular recording artists will air back-to-back Wednesday. May 17. on ABC-TV. Karen and Richard Carpenter host The Carpenters… Space Encounters” from 8 to 9 P.M., and Olivia Newton-John takes viewers on a musical flight into fantasy in “OLIVIA” (9 to 10 P.M.), a special visit to the land of innocence and dreams.
Olivia Newton-John’s special guests are young singing sensation Andy Gibb. The James Cleveland Choir, and ABBA, the internationally famed rock group from Sweden.
The lure of the old schoolyard takes Olivia and her guests back to the delights of childhood, where “everything in the world seemed possible as long as it was less than four feet off the ground.”
There, through the magic of the cameras and a child’s imagination, life becomes a giant board game as their songs and comedy lead them from birth through high school (with a film scene of Olivia and John Travolta in “Grease”) and on to the quest for success, the mating game and children of their own.
More from Olivia Newton-John's ABC Olivia TV special from 1978.