Television Kids afternoon series “The Pinky Lee Show” concluded in 1956…In 1969, the British comedy troupe Monty Python, made up of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin formed…In 1980, no-longer-nasty Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim) married Percival Dalton (Steve Tracy) on the NBC family drama “Little House on the Prairie”…The ABC sitcom “The Wonder Years” ended its five-and-one-half season run in 1993…Alexis […]
Television ABC sitcom “Laverne & Shirley” concluded in 1983 after seven-and-one-half seasons. Since Cindy Williams exited just two episodes into the final season, the title should have been changed to “Laverne & No Shirley”…Made-for television movie “Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle,” starring Raymond Burr, aired on NBC in 1994…Several short-lived series concluded: 1) NBC drama “Crime Story” in 1988; 2) CBS medical drama “L.A. Doctors” in 1999; 3) The […]
Television NBC’s “Hour Glass,” the first hour-long entertainment program of any kind, debuted in 1946…The pricing game “Hole in One” premiered on the CBS daytime game show “The Price Is Right” in 1977. Contestants vied to putt a golf ball into a hole on a miniature putting green for a huge prize (usually, a car). Nine years later, […]
Television NBC’s “Hour Glass,” the first hour-long entertainment program of any kind, debuted in 1946…The first Little Caesar’s pizzeria opened in Garden City, Michigan in 1959…The New York Knicks won their first NBA championship in 1970. The game featured the return of Willis Reed… Two long-running series aired their intended series finales: ABC’s “Happy Days” in 1984 (after 11 seasons) and […]
Television Early dramatic antholgy “Kraft Television Theater” premiered on NBC in 1947…Bruno Sammartino became the WWF champion in 1963…NBC action/adventure “Daniel Boone” ended its six season run in 1970. It starred Fess Parker…Short-lived comedy “Quark“, created by Buck Henry (“Get Smart”) and starring Richard Benjamin, debuted on NBC in 1977. It would next run the following February before being canceled in April 1978. Only 8 […]
Television Bob Hope performed his first USO in 1941 at California’s March Field…An estimated 20 million American viewers (and 300 million worldwide) tuned in to the first televised royal wedding in 1960 when Princess Margaret wed Antony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey…Ron Howard and Donny Most exited ABC’s “Happy Days” in 1980 after seven seasons…A raging inferno engulfed Southfork on the sixth season finale of CBS […]
Television and Radio: In 1979, ABC announced six new series to debut in the 1979-80 TV season: Sitcoms “The Associates,” “Nobody’s Perfect” (originally titled “Hart in San Francisco“) and “Benson;” and dramas “240-Robert,” “The Lazarus Syndrome,“ and “Hart to Hart,” the latter from Aaron Spelling and starring Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers. Only “Benson” and “Hart to Hart” were successful…“The Harlem Globetrotters Meet Gilligan’s Island,“ the third — and final — television movie in […]
