TODAY SHOW 1979 - SUPERTRAIN on NBC

Excerpted from an NBC Today Show, originally broadcast February 17, 1979 hyping up the new NBC show “Supertrain“, one of the more infamous failures on network television. See Jane Pauley, young Tom Brokaw, and Gene Shalit introduce a filmed package (remember those?) by Jack Perkins at the MGM lot where Supertrain was filmed. Looks like the designing of a 1980’s Walt Disney World Epcot ride. Check out those lights! Supertrain was produced by Dan Curtis Productions, and was euphemistically referred to as