# The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon

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**Created:** [September 4, 2017, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jerry-lewis-mda-labor-day-telethon/795479 "2017-09-04T15:26:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jerry-lewis-mda-labor-day-telethon/795479/21 "2017-09-07T14:31:41Z")

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> [@Icarus](#):
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> Yes, as a youngster I watched it.
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> Back then there were only a handful of channels. Things like the telethon, the Olympics, the annual Wizard of Oz showing - these were all Event TV. You planned your life around them.

YES! Well put. Wizard of Oz and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer especially. They were annual events. We never missed them and always excited to see them again. Now with cable, DVDs, DVRs you can watch anything at anytime. Two of my grandkids were on a Wizard of Oz kick and sometimes watched it twice a day! I had to wait a whole year!

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