John Amos

as Self / Gordy Howard (archive footage)

Morey Amsterdam

as Buddy Sorrell (archive footage)

Julie Andrews

as Self / Millie Dillmount (archive footage)

Ed Asner

as Self / Lou Grant (archive footage)

Lucille Ball

as Lucy Ricardo / I Love Lucy (archive footage)

Jack Benny

as Self / Shower of Stars (archive footage)

Jerry Berman

as Narrator (voice)

Barbara Britton

as Laura Petrie / Pilot-Head of the Family (archive footage)

Pat Carroll

as Self / Loretta Kuhne (archive footage)

Georgia Engel

as Georgette Baxter / MTM Show (archive footage)

Nanette Fabray

as Self / Dottie Richards (archive footage)

Tina Fey

as Self

Ann Morgan Guilbert

as Millie Helper (archive footage)

Morty Gunty

as Buddy Sorrell / Pilot-Head of the Family (archive footage)

John Harkins

as Reverend Burns / MTM Show (archive footage)

Valerie Harper

as Self / Rhoda Morganstern (archive footage)

Timothy Hutton

as Conrad Jarrett / Ordinary People (archive footage)

Danny Kaye

as Self (archive footage)

Michael Keaton

as Self - Audition Tape (archive footage)

Ted Knight

as Ted Baxter (archive footage)

Cloris Leachman

as Self / Phyllis Lindstrom (archive footage)

David Letterman

as Self / Audition Tape (archive footage)

William Lundigan

as Self / Shower of Stars (archive footage)

Gavin MacLeod

as Self / Murray Slaughter (archive footage)

Rose Marie

as Sally Rogers (archive footage)

Sylvia Miles

as Sally Rogers / Pilot-Head of the Family (archive footage)

Mary Tyler Moore

as Self / Various (archive footage)

Gary Morgan

as Ritchie Petrie / Pilot-Head of the Family (archive footage)

Elvis Presley

as Dr. John Carpenter / Change of Habit (archive footage)