Watching Sunday Best is a bittersweet experience.

Mostly because so many of the people featured in this brilliant Netflix documentary are no longer with us, including director Sacha Jenkins, who passed away in May of this year. The finished product is a beautiful special that pays homage to the wonderful legacy of Ed Sullivan and the legendary artists he showcased.

Whether it’s Nat King Cole, Elvis, James Brown, The Beatles or The Jackson 5, The Ed Sullivan Show was one of the defining places for an artist to perform throughout the late 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s. Simply put, if you were on The Ed Sullivan Show, you knew you had officially made it, and many of our musical legends delivered some of their most noteworthy televised performances on the show.

Sunday Best delves into some of those moments, while also giving you some background on Sullivan’s early years and career as a sports journalist, how he developed his show into becoming the platform it did and the many trials and tribulations he faced along the way, including dealing with the criticism he received from showcasing Black artists during a tense time of segregation and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

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