Countdown To History: The Pete Rose Story. 21 minutes and 18 seconds long. Hosted by Johnny Bench. Includes brief interviews with high school coach Paul Nohr, Ron Oester, Tommy Helms, Jim Kaat, Sparky Anderson, Joe Nuxhall, Vada Pinson, and Tony Perez.

Major League Baseball produced this 30-minute TV program and syndicated it to 116 stations in 1985. If a station wanted to show Pete's record-breaking 4,192nd hit live, then it had to buy this program. Otherwise, the station would have to show the hit on tape.