The opening scene was staged in the corridors of corporate headquarters at
30 Rockefeller Plaza, where many NBC stars like
Bob Hope,
Milton Berle,
Barbara Eden,
Doris Roberts and four of the Huxtable kids from
The Cosby Show arrive on the eighth floor via an elevator. They enter just in time to witness a perky musical number featuring dancers dressed as peacocks and NBC tour guides singing an opening theme titled
Hey, Did You Know? within the lobbies of the building. The program quickly gets to a parade of NBC stars, introduced by longtime staff announcer
Mel Brandt. The roster proceeds alphabetically from
Steve Allen and
Harry Anderson to
Jane Wyatt and
Robert Young. Conspicuously absent was
Bill Cosby himself, whose sitcom was the main reason NBC was the top-
rated network at the time. The rest, for the most part, consists of clips from shows down through the years, loosely arranged around categories and themes. The main plot of the special features two of the child stars from
The Cosby Show,
Malcolm-Jamal Warner and
Keshia Knight Pulliam, being given a tour of NBC's facilities in New York and in
Burbank, California. Much hinges on the question of whether little Keshia will ever get to see
Johnny Carson in person. The entire special itself pays tribute to every one of NBC's genres from late-night to daytime programming,
radio days, earlier entertainment, comedy, drama, sitcoms, specials, movies,
sports, and
news, just to name a few. In the end, Malcolm and Keshia meet up with Johnny Carson himself on a stage full of NBC's guest stars singing a closing version of the opening theme,
Hey, Did You Know? As the camera pans outward to reveal all the stars on screen, a new, modified version of the NBC peacock logo is unveiled, this time with six feathers. This marks the first national appearance of the
"current" NBC logo (as well as the
NBC Productions logo with the current logo), although some local stations began using the new logo before its official debut. ==Cast==