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 […]
Television and Radio: NBC daytime drama “Another World” began its 35 season run on NBC in 1964…Bernard Fox debuted in his recurring role as Dr. Bombay on ABC sitcom “Bewitched” in 1967…In 1973, PBS’ airing of play “Steambath,“ starring Valerie Perrine, featured the first glimpse of female nudity on network television…In 1977 was the first of four interviews between President Richard Nixon and journalist David […]
Television CBS detective drama “Crazy Like a Fox”, starring Jack Warden and John Rubenstein, prematurely ended after two seasons in 1986. The pair returned in television movie “Still Crazy Like a Fox” on April 5, 1987…“Hotel“, the Aaron Spelling-produced prime time soap opera based on Arthur Hailey’s novel of the same name, aired its series finale on ABC in 1988. The San Francisco-set series, starring Connie […]
Television and Radio Jack Benny’s radio show premiered in 1932… cable network The Weather Channel launched in 1982…Diahann Carroll joined the cast of ABC prime time serial “Dynasty” in 1984. She was introduced as a mysterious woman who claimed to know everything about Alexis Carrington’s (Joan Collins) past. In subsequent episodes, it was revealed she’s […]
Television Larry King had his first radio broadcast in 1957…Elvis Presley wed Priscilla Beaulieu in Las Vegas, Nev. in 1967…NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” started broadcasting from its then-new home in Burbank, California in 1972…The short-lived offbeat “Future Cop,” starring Ernest Borgnine, premiered as a TV movie on ABC in 1976. The famous toy Rubik’s Cube was first released in the […]
