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Your Holiday Sor-Bay: Thanksgiving 2024

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2024/11/28

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!-Arthur CarlsonHere is a Thanksgiving"HOLIDAY SOR-BAY"tradition.This is a little brain candy to snack on while dinner is cooking.May we all be thankful for what we are about to view...Station manager Arthur Carlson comes up with a big idea for a unique holiday promotion involving live turkeys and a helicopter. First airedon 40 years ago on October 30th 1978 (Season 1, Episode 7)In 1997 TV Guide ranked this episode number 40 on its '100 Greatest

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Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: Hallmark Channel Christmas...

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2024/11/27

Here is a"HOLIDAY SOR-BAY"alittle spark of madnessthat we could use to artificially maintain our Christmas spirit.Stay TunedTony Figueroa

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Earl Holliman

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2024/11/27

Henry Earl HollimanSeptember 11, 1928 – November 25, 2024Earl Holliman became known to television audiences through his portrayal as Sundance inCBS'sHotel de Paree, with costarJeanette Nolan, from 1959 to 1960, and in the title role of Mitch Guthrie withAndrew PrineinNBC'sWide Country, a drama about modernrodeoperformers that aired for 28 episodes between 1962 and 1963.He also had the distinction of appearing in the debut episode of CBS'sThe Twilight Zone, titled "Where Is Everybody?", which aired

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This Week in Television History: November 2024 PART IV

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2024/11/25

November26, 1989The television series MTV Unplugged, featuring stripped-down acoustical performances by a wide range of artists not usually known for such performances, makes its broadcast premiere on this day in 1989.The premiere episode of MTV Unplugged was only lightly promoted by the network, in part because it featured a lineup whose biggest name was the English pop group Squeeze—a band whose greatest popular success was already several years behind it. The episode also featured performances

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Chuck Woolery

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2024/11/24

Charles Herbert WooleryMarch 16, 1941 – November 23, 2024Good Night Mr. WooleryStay TunedTony Figueroa

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Your HOLIDAY SOR-BAY: The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Not...

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2024/11/24

Here isyour"HOLIDAY SOR-BAY"alittle spark of madnessthat we could use to momentarily forget about thosethings that leave a bad taste in our mouths.The Mary Tyler Moore Show S05E09 Not a Christmas StoryEveryone is getting on each others nerves when they are trapped in the newsroom by a snowstorm. Stay TunedTony Figueroa

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This Week in Television History: November 2024 PART III

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2024/11/18

November 19, 1919 Alan Youngis bornAngus Young.TheBritish-bornCanadianactor and voice actor best known for his role as Wilbur Post in the television seriesMister Edand as the voice ofScrooge McDuckin Disney films, TV series and video games. During the 1940s and 1950s, he starred in his own shows on radio and television.November 19, 1959The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show Premieres Jet Fuel Formula. The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show is the collective name for two separate animated series: Rocky and His

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This Week in Television History: November 2024 PART II

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2024/11/11

November 13, 1949Caryn Johnson, later known as Whoopi Goldberg, is born in New York City.Goldberg began acting at age eight in children's theater productions. She dropped out of high school during her freshman year, later citing a learning disability that teachers mistook for retardation. She began using drugs but later cleaned up and resumed her interest in acting. She married her substance abuse counselor and had a daughter. She started winning small roles in Broadway shows including Jesus Christ

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This Week in Television History: November 2024 PART I

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2024/11/04

November 8, 1914 Norman Nathan Lloydis born.Actor, producer, and director with a career in entertainment spanning roughly eight decades. Lloyd has appeared in over sixty films and television shows. In the 1980s, he gained a new generation of fans for playing Dr. Daniel Auschlander, one of the starring roles on the groundbreakingmedical dramaSt. Elsewhere.November 8, 1979The program, "The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage", premiered on ABC-TV.The show was planned to be temporary, but it evolved

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Teri Garr

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2024/10/29

Speed bumps, I was thinking, you know, you're driving along, everything's OK, and then there's a speed bump to go, 'Slow down.' Go over it real slowly, and you hit the pedal, and you keep going, and I just thought it was kind of a nice metaphor for life.-Teri GarrTerry Ann GarrDecember 11, 1944 – October 29, 2024Teri Garr died from complications of multiple sclerosis at her home in Los Angeles, on October 29, 2024, at the age of 79.Good Night Ms. GarrStay TunedTony Figueroa

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This Week in Television History: October 2024 PART V

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2024/10/28

November2, 1959 Charles Van Doren, a game show contestant on the NBC-TV program Twenty-One admitted that he had been given questions and answers in advance.One month after the hearings began, Van Doren emerged from hiding and confessed before the committee that he had been complicit in the fraud. On November 2, 1959, he admitted to theHouse Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight, aUnited States Congresssubcommittee, chaired byArkansasDemocratOren Harris, that he had been given questions and answers

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This Week in Television History: October 2024 PART IV

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2024/10/21

October 23, 1984 NBC Nightly News aired footage of the severe drought in Ethiopia.October 25, 1924 Billy Barty was born William John Bertanzetti.Barty was one of the most famous 20th century people with dwarfism. Barty, an Italian American, was born in Millsboro, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the gang in the Mickey McGuire serial of silent shorts (a children's comedy series of the 1920s, similar in tone to the "Our Gang"/"Little Rascals" comedies, starring a very young Mickey Rooney in the title

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This Week in Television History: October 2024 PART III

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2024/10/14

September 29, 1969 Love American Style debutsLove, American Styleis ananthologycomedy television series that aired onABCfrom September 29, 1969 to January 11, 1974. The series was produced byParamount Television. During the 1971–72 and 1972–73 seasons, it was a part of ABC's Friday primetime lineup that includedThe Brady Bunch,The Partridge Family,Room 222, andThe Odd Couple. It featured some of the earliest work of future starsDiane Keaton("Love and the Pen Pals"),Sally Struthers("Love and the

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This Week in Television History: October 2024 PART II

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2024/10/07

October 7, 1964 The made-for-television movieSee How They Runpremiered.Three orphans head for the US, unknowingly carrying important evidence pointing to the existence of a corrupt international cartel, which has just murdered their father. The cartel is desperate to retrieve the evidence.October 9, 1954 Scott Stewart Bakula is born.His most prominent roles have been as Sam Beckett in the science fiction television series Quantum Leap, and as Captain Jonathan Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise

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John Amos

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2024/10/02

It was an ongoing struggle to say no,I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.John AmosJohn Allen Amos Jr.December 27, 1939 – August 21, 2024Amos became well known in his first major TV role, playingGordy Howard, the weatherman onThe Mary Tyler Moore Show,from 1970 until 1973. Upon the death ofBetty White, Amos andJoyce Bulifant(who played Marie Slaughter) became the last surviving semi-regular cast members of that show (not counting child actors). In 1971, he appeared

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This Week in Television History: October 2024 PART I

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2024/09/30

September 30, 1954 Barry Williams is born Barry William Blenkhorn.Best known for his role asGreg Bradyon theABCtelevision series,The Brady Bunch. Williams continued to be cast in guest roles on other TV series includingAdam-12,The Invaders,That Girl,Mission: Impossible,The Mod Squad,Here Come the BridesandBartleby, the Scrivenerbefore being cast in1969as Greg Brady onThe Brady Bunch. Following the cancellation ofThe Brady Bunchin1974, Williams continued to appear in guest roles on television,

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Drake Hogestyn

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2024/09/30

Donald Drake HogestynSeptember 29, 1953 – September 28, 2024Drake Hogestynwas drafted by two professional baseball organizations: theSt. Louis Cardinalsand theNew York Yankees. Hogestyn signed with the Yankees and played third base for one of their farm teams until he was injured in 1977.He began his acting career by entering aColumbia Picturestalent search that included 75,000 people.Hogestyn was among the 30 selected, and his first starring role was on the prime time seriesSeven Brides for Seven

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This Week in Television History: September 2024 PART IV

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2024/09/23

September 24, 1964The Munsters first aired.The show featured the home life of a family of benign monsters. It stars Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster and Yvonne De Carlo as his wife, Lily Munster. The series was a satire of both traditional monster movies and the wholesome family fare of the era, and was produced by the creators of Leave It to Beaver. It ran concurrently with The Addams Family. It was canceled after ratings dropped to a low due to the premiere of ABC's Batman, which was in color

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This Week in Television History: September 2024 PART III

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2024/09/16

September 16, 1949Edward James Begley, Jr. was born.The actor and environmentalist. Begley is perhaps best known for his role as Dr. Mark Craig's intern, Dr. Victor Ehrlich on the television series St. Elsewhere, for which he received six consecutive Emmy Award nominations. He also had a reality show about green living calledLiving With Edonwith his wife, actressRachelle Carson.Commenting in 2006 on the appeal of the show, Begley said:"In the format of the show, everyone who watches—even people

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James Earl Jones on Sesame Street

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2024/09/10

James Earl Jones(1931-2024)This is fromMuppet WikiSesame Street Guest StarsEarly in his acting training, when studying at the American Theater Wing, one of Jones' teachers wasWill Lee, who in 1969 would playMr. HooperonSesame Street.Jones is considered bySesame Workshopto be the first celebrity guest onSesame Street,since inserts of the actor reciting thealphabetand counting numbers appeared inthe unbroadcast test pilotsand heavily influenced the show's pedagogical models. These inserts were later

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