The staff of the show wanted to do a summer episode because there was "so much stuff" about summer vacations that they felt had to be covered in an episode.
Paul Soles himself was the first show host for the initial 1971 summer episodes.
In 1975, a final 30-minute summer episode was created.
Seasons 2 and 3 featured all new summer episodes that aired during July and August before the regular fall episodes started in September.
The late-September season finale drew nearly 13 million viewers and the summer episodes averaged 10.7 million, high numbers for that time of year.
In the final summer episode, however, Leon finds out about the romance, and still finds himself liking Zack.
A source-to-dose assessment of population exposures to fine PM and ozone in Philadelphia, PA, during a summer 1999 episode.
Peter Hansen looked elegant partnering Monique Meunier in the languid summer episode.
Mathews filled in for an absent Todd Grisham on a summer 2006 episode of Raw.
For the summer episode, our mission was to capture a hunt on camera, when pods working as teams chase down much larger whales such as minkes.