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At the end of the 2006 season of "Ally McBeal," when this show was the only one that took a chance on painfully-recovering Robert Downey, Jr., he performed a short but all-too-sweet version of Joni Mitchell's "River."

Joni Mitchell sings "Night Ride Home" on the banks of the Amstel River in 1991.

In fitting tribute to Joni Mitchell, the TNT network presented an all-star celebration at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, April 6, 2000. Many legendary performers sang Mitchell's songs, including James Taylor, Elton John, Wynonna Judd, Bryan Adams, Cyndi Lauper, Diana Krall, and Richard Thompson of Fairport Convention fame. Emcee was Ashley Judd. Mitchell herself ended the evening wi...

On August 10, 2005, ABC aired a two-hour special, "Peter Jennings: Reporter," with archival clips of his reports and interviews with colleagues and friends. The special drew over 9 million viewers, and was the most watched television program of the night. (from Wikipedia) I was one them.

1997 marijuana documentary produced & narrated by Peter Jennings. In some ways, we've come so far (I live in Colorado, where "recreational use" is now legal), and CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta has come out in broad support, claiming we've been "lied to" by anti-marijuana forces. In other ways, not so much - there is still mandatory federal sentencing of up to one year in prison, and hundreds of thousa...

Joni discusses her early songwriting, the music industry and takes audience questions on this morning show special. She plays "Just Like This Train" and "Facelift". (I see that some folks are complaining that the audio is out-of-sync with the video. I don't know why that happened - I just checked the original 1 gig file I uploaded to youtube and there is no sync problem in the original. If anyo...

U2's 1992 broadcast television special promoting their upcoming ZOO TV tour, with appearance by William Burroughs (at 39.5 mins), Timothy Leary, and opener by George Bush. Excellent analysis at Wikipedia, under ZOO TV.

U2's 1997 television special promoting their upcoming "Pop Mart" tour - narrated by Dennis Hopper.

Joni Mitchell receives the 1996 Canadian Governor's General Award. Sarah McLachlan performs "Blue," k.d. lang says that Joni is a "work of art," and Joni discusses her musical and artistic history. (Sorry about VCR video noise)