Television In 1965, the airwaves were flooded with news coverage of President John F. Kennedy’s funeral, which took place in Washington, D.C. with over 800,000 mourners lining the streets. Sci-fi drama “Babylon 5” concluded its five season run in 1998. Spin-off series “Crusade” aired on TNT for one season in 1999. Si-Fi attempted to pick […]
Television and Radio In 1958, “The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse” aired the episode entitled “The Time Element,” which was written by Rod Serling. It starred William Bendix as a man is sent back in time to December 6, 1941 who tries to warn people about the upcoming Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It served as the original pilot for the classic anthology […]
Television The BBC introduced the first incarnation of “Doctor Who” in 1963, which follows the exploits of a time-traveling alien known as the Doctor. The “Day of the Doctor” 50th anniversary episode of “Doctor Who” screened on BBC One in 2013, which was the first episode to feature the 12th Doctor (played by Peter Capaldi)…The Dynamic Duo (Adam West and Burt Ward) and […]
Television Film “Dr. Zhivago” appeared on TV for the first time.NBC paid $4 million for the broadcast rights…The 100th episode of Tony Danza sitcom “Who’s The Boss?” aired on ABC in 1988. The sitcom concluded on April 25, 1992 after eight seasons…TNT presented musical special “The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True” in 1995, […]
Television One of the most controversial episodes of any sitcom historically was Maude Findlay’s (Bea Arthur) decision to have an abortion on Norman Lear’s “Maude,” which aired in 1972. Approximately 30 stations across the country refused to air the episode…After months of speculation, Kristin (Mary Crosby) was revealed as the person who shot J.R. (Larry […]
Television “Time Enough at Last,” the classic episode of “The Twilight Zone” with Burgess Meredith as a bookish little man named Henry Bemis who survives a nuclear war, arrived in 1959. The episode was adapted from a short story in the January 1953 edition of the magazine “If: Worlds of Science Fiction.“ Drew Barrymore hosted NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” at age 7 in 1982…ABC miniseries “The Day After,” which showed the aftermath […]
Television Animated “Rocky & His Friends” debuted in 1959. If aired initially on ABC and then on NBC on Saturday morning through 1964, and was also known under the following titles: “The Bullwinkle Show” from 1961 to 1964, and “The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show” and “The Adventures of Bullwinkle and Rocky” in syndication. There have been numerous feature film adaptations of the […]
