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18 April 1979 (USA)
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After "That's Incredible" (1980) surfaced with the same format as "Real People", MAD Magazine summed it up well in their parody show: "That's Real Incredible, People". full summary
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Won Primetime Emmy.
Another 5 nominations
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An early version of "The Daily Show"
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(Series Cast Summary - 6 of 17) | Lynne Lerner | ... | Audience Member #1 (1 episode, 1983) |
 | Douglas Maida | ... | Audience Member #1 (1 episode, 1983) |
 | mink | ... | Himself (1 episode, 1983) |
 | Cassandra Peterson | ... | Elvira (1 episode, 1983) |
| Ron Soffer | ... | King Kong (1 episode, 1983) |
| Captain Sticky | ... | Captain Sticky (1 episode, 1983) |
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In 1980, during Canadian amputee runner Terry Fox's cross-country Marathon of Hope, "Real People" hostess Sarah Purcell caught up with Terry in Ontario, and proceeded to film an interview while running alongside him.
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Referenced in Living on Tokyo Time (1987)
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Although I haven't seen an episode of "Real People" in about 20 years, I do remember the format: 60 minutes of various segments (most of them comedic in some way) focusing on the more offbeat facets of American life.
Some of the stories included the Flat Earth Society, a lady who took words and pronounced them backwards, an alien race that lived in volcanic lava tubes, a guy who built his house in a tree, and a guy who fell in love with the Statue of Liberty.
Between segments, they did some "ask the audience" kind of stuff, and also ran newspaper typos (kind of like Jay Leno's "Headlines" segment).
"Real People" ran on NBC, and was followed shortly by ABC's "That's Incredible!", which was a similar format but focused more on the unexplained.