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This Week in Television History: May 2024 PART III

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2024/05/20

May 20, 1989Gilda Radner died. In the fall of 1988, after biopsies and a saline wash of her abdomen showed no signs of cancer, Radner went on a maintenance chemotherapy treatment to prolong her remission, but later that same year, she learned that her cancer returned after a routine blood test showed that levels of the tumor marker CA-125 had increased. She was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on May 17, 1989 for a CAT scan. Despite expressing her fear that she would

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Dabney Coleman

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2024/05/17

I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.Dabney ColemanDabney Wharton ColemanJanuary 3, 1932 – May 16, 2024DabneyColeman's television roles include the title characters ofBuffalo Bill(1983–1984) andThe Slap Maxwell Story(1987–1988), as well as Burton Fallin onThe Guardian(2001–2004), the voice of Principal Peter Prickly onRecess(1997–2001), and Louis "The Commodore" Kaestner onBoardwalk Empire(2010–2011). He had won onePrimetime Emmy Awardfrom six nominations and

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This Week in Television History: May 2024 PART II

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2024/05/13

May 17, 1974 LAPD raid leaves six SLA members deadIn Los Angeles,California, police surround a home in Compton where the leaders of the terrorist group known as the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) are hiding out. The SLA had kidnapped Patricia Hearst, of the fabulously wealthy Hearst family publishing empire, months earlier, earning headlines across the country. Police found the house in Compton when a local mother reported that her kids had seen a bunch of people playing with an arsenal of

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This Week in Television History: May 2024 PART I

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2024/05/06

May 6, 1959 Raymond Burr wins the Best Actor in a Dramatic Series Emmy for Perry Mason, in which he plays a crime-solving attorney.The popular show, which debuted in 1957, ran for nine years. Derived from mystery novels by Earl Stanley Gardner, the character of Perry Mason had made his radio debut in 1943 and the show continued until 1955. The sleuthing Perry Mason character was revived in a series of TV movies from 1985 to 1993.May 6, 1984Spinal Tap stages a "comeback" at CBGB's in New York

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This Week in Television History: April 2024 PART V

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2024/04/29

April 29, 1944Last "Our Gang" film released. Dancing Romeo, the last "Our Gang" film, is released on this day in 1944.The first film, featuring a band of mischievous youngsters, was produced in 1922 by Hal Roach. Roach produced the short films until 1938, when he sold the rights to MGM. In all, more than 100 Our Gang films were made. Later, they were shown as TV comedies under the name "The Little Rascals."April 30, 1939NBC began regular U.S. television broadcasts, with a telecast of President

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This Week in Television History: April 2024 PART IV

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2024/04/22

April 23, 1939Lee MajorsisbornHarvey Lee Yeary.Film and voice actor, best known for his roles as Heath Barkley in the TV seriesThe Big Valley(1965–69), as ColonelSteve AustininThe Six Million Dollar Man(1973–78) and as Colt Seavers inThe Fall Guy(1981–86). In the late 1980s and 1990s, he reprised the role of Steve Austin in a number of TV movies, and appeared in a number of supporting, recurring and cameo roles in feature films and TV series, and lent his voice to a number of animated TV series

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This Week in Television History: April 2024 PART III

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2024/04/15

April 16, 1949Garroway at Large debuts.Radio personality Dave Garroway moves to TV, as the host of one of television's earliest musical-variety shows. Garroway at Large was one of the two most important series to be made in Chicago, along with Kukla, Fran & Ollie, during the city's brief period in the late 1940s as an important production center for network programs. Garroway at Large ran until 1951. Dave Garroway started out as a page at NBC and worked his way up to the position of radio

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This Week in Television History: April 2024 PART II

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2024/04/08

April 8, 1979The last episode of All In The Family aired.Stay TunedTony Figueroa

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Joe Flaherty

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2024/04/03

If you don't hop aboard the change train, you're gonna get derailed.-Joe FlahertyJoseph FlahertyJune 21, 1941 – April 1, 2024Joseph O'Flahertywas born inPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the eldest of seven children. His father was a production clerk at Westinghouse Electric and of Irish heritage and his mother was of Italian descent.Flaherty served in theUnited States Air Forcefor four years. He then got involved in dramatic theatre.Flaherty moved toChicago, where he started his comedy career in 1969 with

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This Week in Television History: April 2024 PART I

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2024/04/01

April 2, 1974The 46th Academy Awards Streaker.While David Niven was introducing Elizabeth Taylor to present the award for Best Picture, a streaker named Robert Opel ran out from backstage, causing spontaneous laughter. David Niven tookcontrol of the situation by saying, “Isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?”April 3, 1924Doris Dayis bornDoris Mary Ann Kappelhoff.Day began her career as a

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Louis Gossett Jr.

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2024/03/29

I believe the gift of acting is a gift from God, my oath to God, and I want to make sure on a daily basis that it is honed and deeply spiritual... I want to believe that the audience believes that my acting comes from this special place.-Louis Gossett, Jr.Louis Cameron Gossett Jr.May 27, 1936 – March 29, 2024Good Night Mr. GossettStay TunedTony Figueroa

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This Week in Television History: March 2024 PART IV

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2024/03/25

March 27, 1974The Rockford Files premier episode.The Rockford Files is an American television drama series which aired on the NBC network between September 13, 1974 and January 10, 1980. It has remained in regular syndication to the present day. The show stars James Garner as Los Angeles-based private investigator Jim Rockford and features Noah Beery, Jr. as his father, a retired truck driver. The show was created by Roy Huggins and Stephen J. Cannell. Huggins had created the television show

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This Week in Television History: March 2024 PART III

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2024/03/18

March 21, 1983The last episode of the long-running TV series Little House on the Prairie aired. The series, based on the children's book by Laura Ingalls Wilder, premiered in 1974.The show was one of television's 25 most highly rated shows for seven of its nine seasons. When series star and executive producer Michael Landon decided to leave the show in 1982, the show's title changed to Little House: A New Beginning and focused on character Laura Ingalls Wilder (Melissa Gilbert) and her family

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This Week in Television History: March 2024 PART II

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2024/03/11

March 11, 1989COPS debuts on Fox.The hit reality-based television show COPS premieres on the Fox television network, and audiences hear the reggae beat of its distinctive theme song, Inner Circle's "Bad Boys," for the very first time. Created by the producing team of John Langley and Malcolm Barbour, COPS placed cameras and production crews in the car with real patrol officers around the country as they went on raids and did whatever was necessary to catch the perpetrators of various

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Steve Lawrence

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2024/03/08

You will never see a portrait of my love, for miracles are never seen.—Steve LawrenceSteve LawrencebornSidney LiebowitzJuly 8, 1935 – March 7, 2024When he was 18 years old, Steve Lawrence was hired bySteve Allento be one of the singers on Allen's local New York City late night show onWNBC-TVin 1953, along with Eydie Gormé andAndy Williams. When the show got picked up byNBCto be seen on the national network, becomingThe Tonight Show, Lawrence, Gormé and Williams stayed on until the program's end in

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This Week in Television History: March 2024 PART I

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2024/03/04

March 4, 1994John Candy dies.The larger-than-life comedic star John Candy dies suddenly of a heart attack on this day in 1994, at the age of 43. At the time of his death, he was living near Durango, Mexico, while filming Wagons East, a Western comedy co-starring the comedian Richard Lewis. Born in 1950, Candy's first professional acting work was in children's theater in his native Canada. In 1972, he was accepted into the prestigious Second City comedy troupe in Toronto, where he would become a

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Richard Lewis

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2024/02/29

I was way more comfortable in front of strangers than I was in front of relatives. So when they would laugh at my dysfunctions or my anxiety, I felt less alone, and I still do it for the same reason.-Richard LewisRichard Philip LewisJune 29, 1947 – February 27, 2024Richard Lewis first tried stand-up at an open-mic inGreenwich Villagein 1971.He began writing and regularly performing stand-up comedy in 1972, while working as acopywriterfor an advertising agency by day. He was discovered by

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This Week in Television History: February 2024 PART IV

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2024/02/26

March 1,1954 Ronald William "Ron" Howard is born.Film director, producer and actor. He came to prominence playing Opie Taylor in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show for eight years, and later the teenaged Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days for six years.[1] He appeared in the films The Music Man in 1962, American Graffiti in 1973, and The Shootist in 1976, the latter during his run on Happy Days. Howard made his directorial debut with the 1977 comedy Grand Theft Auto, and left Happy Days

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This Week in Television History: February 2024 PART III

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2024/02/19

February 25, 1928 The Federal Radio Commission issues the first television license.The license went to the Charles Francis Jenkins Laboratories for a television broadcast station on Connecticut Avenue in Washington, D.C. The station later moved to Maryland and operated until 1932. Government regulation of broadcasting has been in existence almost as long as the broadcast industry itself. The Wireless Act of 1910 required American ships to carry a broadcasting transmitter and qualified radio

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This Week in Television History: February 2024 PART II

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2024/02/12

February 18, 1954 John Joseph Travolta is born.Actor, dancer, and singer. Travolta first became known in the 1970s, after appearing on the television series Welcome Back, Kotter and starring in the box office successes Saturday Night Fever and Grease. Travolta's acting career declined through the 1980s. His career enjoyed a resurgence in the 1990s with his role in Pulp Fiction, and he has since continued starring in more recent films such as Face/Off, Ladder 49, and Wild Hogs. Travolta was

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