I tweeted this earlier today, but it's worth a mention here as well: Ken Levine found video of one of the most extraordinary moments in TV history, in which Jackie Gleason followed up on the disastrous first episode of his game show "You're in the Picture" with a live, on-air apology.
You will never see anything like this on TV today. Too many people making too much money under too much scrutiny for anyone to so publicly fall on their sword like this. But you watch Gleason apologize with such charm, eloquence and comic timing, and you understand exactly why his nickname was "The Great One."
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