Television Classic ABC miniseries “Roots” launched in 1977 and aired for eight consecutive evenings. It won nine Emmy Awards (with 36 nominations), with an estimated reach of between 130 and 140 million viewers… There were three regularly scheduled primetime series premieres of note: Variety-driven “The King Family Show” on ABC in 1965; sitcom “Barney Miller” on ABC in 1975, and NBC action […]
Television and Radio U.S. President Calvin Coolidge became the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House in 1924…Sock it to me! Comedy variety hour “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” debuted on NBC in 1968, and soared to the top of the rating charts…”You’re under arrest, Sugah! “Get Christie Love!“, the action crime drama starring Teresa Graves, premiered on the “ABC Movie of the Week” in […]
Television and Radio The western “Alias Smith and Jones,“ headlined by Peter Duel and Ben Murphy, debuted on ABC in 1971. Midway through season two, Peter Duel, 31, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and his role of Joshua Smith was recast with Roger Davis (who had provided narration for the series). It lasted one additional season after the casting change…Made-for-TV thriller […]
Television and Radio The first live U.S. coast-to-coast inauguration was in 1953 with President Dwight D. Eisenhower…The Rolling Stones made their first appearance on ABC-TV’s “Shindig!” in 1965…Several short-lived series premiered: game show “You’re in the Picture” hosted by Jackie Gleason on CBS in 1961 (Gleason would publicly apologize for the show in the following week); comedy “Here We Go Again” […]
Television and Radio A then-record 68 percent of all television sets in the United States — more than the inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower the following day — tuned in for the birth of Little Ricky on CBS sitcom “I Love Lucy” in 1953…CBS anthology drama “The Millionaire” began its six season run in 1955. The series told […]
“Deal or No Deal” was a compelling game show hit for NBC from 2005 till 2009 and briefly returned to our screens with Howie Mandel at the helm again in 2018. It’s a structure of game show that has been imported to a number of other countries but now has been adopted by online casinos […]
Television and Radio George (Sherman Hemlsey) and Louis (aka “Weezie” – Isabel Sanford) were “movin on’ up to the deluxe apartment in the sky” on “All in the Family” spin-off “The Jeffersons”, which launched on CBS in 1975. It ran for ten-and-one-half seasons…Thirteen other series also debuted: 1) “The Six Million Dollar Man” with Lee Majors on […]
