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This Week in Television History: July 2025 PART III

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2025/07/21

July 22, 1965TillDeath Us Do Part debuted on England’s BBC-TV.Till Death Us Do Partis a British televisionsitcomthat aired onBBC1from 1965 to 1975. First airing as aComedy Playhousepilot, the show aired in seven series until 1975. Six years later,ITVcontinued the sitcom, calling itTill Death.... From 1985 to 1992, the BBC produced a sequelIn Sickness and in Health.Created byJohnny Speight,Till Death Us Do Partcentred on theEast EndGarnett family, led bypatriarchAlf Garnett(Warren Mitchell),

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This Week in Television History: July 2025 PART II

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2025/07/14

July 19, 1989 Rebecca Shaeffer (age 21) is murdered at her Los Angeles home by Robert John Bardo, a mentally unstable man who had been stalking her. Schaeffer’s death helped lead to the passage in California of legislation aimed at preventing stalking.Schaeffer was born November 6, 1967, in Eugene, Oregon. She worked as a teenage model and had a short stint on the daytime soap opera One Life to Live, but was best known for co-starring with Pam Dawber in the television sitcom My Sister Sam

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This Week in Television History: July 2025 PART I

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2025/07/07

July 10, 1995Hugh Grant appears on Tonight Show after Hollywoodarrest.On this day in 1995, Hugh Grant appears on late-night television’s The Tonight Show less than two weeks after being arrested with a Hollywood prostitute. The show’s host, Jay Leno, famously asked the English actor, “What the hell were you thinking?”Grant, who shot to stardom with the 1994 hit British film Four Weddings and a Funeral, was arrested on June 27, 1995, in a parked car near Sunset Boulevard with a prostitute named

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This Week in Television History: June 2025 PART IV

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2025/06/30

July 2, 1955Thelong-running musical-variety program The Lawrence Welk Show debuts on ABC.Welk, a bandleader from North Dakota known for light dance music, had launched his own show in 1951 on KTLA in Los Angeles. The show remained a network hit for some 16 years, then became a syndicated series. Welk retired in 1982 and died in 1992.July 3, 1950 TV game show Pantomime Quiz Show debuts as a network series on CBS. The program, a variation of charades, ran for 13 years, although it changed

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This Week in Television History: June 2025 PART III

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2025/06/23

June 26, 1975Sonny and Cher's divorce becomes final.With a string of pop hits in the mid-1960sthat began with the career-defining "I Got You Babe" (1965), Sonny and Cher Bono established themselves as the most prominent and appealing married couple in the world of popular music. Hipper than Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé, and far more fun than John and Yoko, Sonny and Cher projected an image of marital harmony that a lot of people could relate to—an image not so much of perfect bliss, but of a

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This Week in Television History: June 2025 PART II

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2025/06/16

June 16, 2002The first episode of The Dead Zone aired.The Dead Zone, a.k.a.Stephen King's Dead Zone(in USA) is anAmerican/Canadian science fictiondramatelevision series starringAnthony Michael HallasJohnny Smith, who discovers he has developedpsychicabilities after acoma. The show, credited as "based on characters" fromStephen King's1979novelof the same name, first aired in 2002, and was produced byLionsgate TelevisionandCBS Paramount Network Television(Paramount Network Television2002-06)

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This Week in Television History: June 2025 PART I

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2025/06/09

June 9, 1961 Michael J. Fox was born, in Canada.He first became known for his role as Alex P. Keatonon the popular sitcom Family Ties, and went on to star in such films as Back to the Future and Teen Wolf as well as the TV series Spin City. In 1999, he announced that he was battling Parkinson's Disease. He left Spin City in 2000 but later guest starred on such shows as Scrubs and Boston Legal.QuotesMy happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my

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This Week in Television History: May 2025 PART IV

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2025/06/02

June 7, 1955$64,000Question premieres.TV game show The $64,000 Question debuts on this day in 1955. The show was a spin-off of radio game show The $64 Question and spun off The $64,000 Challenge. The show started with contestants answering a question worth $64, with each subsequent question worth double the amount of the previous one. The show was an instant hit, knocking I Love Lucy out of first place in the ratings. Rumors of rigging plagued this and other big-money game shows in the mid-1950s

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Loretta Swit

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2025/06/01

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul.The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.-Loretta SwitLoretta Jane SwitbornLoretta Jane SzwedNovember 4, 1937 – May 30, 2025Loretta Switperformed guest roles in various television series, includingHawaii Five-O(her first TV credit),Gunsmoke,Mission: Impossible, andMannix.Starting in 1972, Swit played the extremely capable head nurse Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan in the

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This Week in Television History: May 2025 PART III

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2025/05/26

May 31, 1930Clint Eastwood born.Best known to his many fans for one of his most memorable screen incarnations--San Francisco Police Inspector “Dirty” Harry Callahan--the actor and Oscar-winning filmmaker Clint Eastwood is born on this day in 1930, in San Francisco, California.With his father, Eastwood wandered the West Coast as a boy during the Depression. Then, after four years in the Army Special Services, Eastwood went to Hollywood, where he got his start in a string of B-movies. For eight

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George Wendt

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2025/05/21

I dream about 'Cheers.' Like when you go on a diet and you dream of pizza.I always think of those wonderful years.I loved working on it.-George WendtGeorge Robert Wendt Jr.October 17, 1948 – May 20, 2025George Wendtis a 1975 alumnus ofThe Second City, which he discovered shortly after college.A viewing had inspired him to join and on his first day of employment, he showed up promptly at 11:30a.m. as he was instructed.The woman working there handed him a broom and said "Welcome to the theater, kid";

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This Week in Television History: May 2025 PART III

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2025/05/19

May 21, 1990The final episodeof Newhart aired on CBS.Theseries finaleofNewhart, entitled "The Last Newhart", has been described as one of the most memorable in television history.The entire town is purchased by a visiting Japanese tycoon, who turns the hamlet into a huge golf course and recreation resort. Dick and Joanna are the only townspeople who refuse to leave. The others accept huge payoffs and leave in a farewell scene which parodiesFiddler on the Roof.Five years later, Dick and Joanna

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This Week in Television History: May 2025 PART II

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2025/05/12

May 15, 1970Get Smart's last episode airs.A one-season revival of Get Smart, the 1960s comedy about bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart, is cancelled after only seven episodes. The original series, developed by Mel Brooks and starring Don Adams, aired from 1965 to 1970.May 17, 2000 Final episode of Beverly Hills 90210 airs. Donna Martin (Tori Spelling) and David Silver (Brian Austin Green) finally say their vows, and on-and-off couple Kelly Taylor (Jennie Garth) and Dylan McKay (Luke Perry)

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This Week in Television History: May 2025 PART I

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2025/05/05

May 5, 2000 The final episode of Boy Meets World aired on ABC.Thetelevisionsitcom chronicles thecoming of ageevents and everyday life-lessons ofCornelius "Cory" Matthews(played byBen Savage). The show follows Cory and his friends and family through seven seasons, from his middle school days as a pre-pubescent child to his life in college as a married man. The show aired from 1993 to 2000 onABC, part of the network'sTGIFlineup. The entire series has since been released on DVD, as well as oniTunes. A

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Ruth Buzzi

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2025/05/02

I created the characters from what I read in the script. I decided how I should talk, accent, no accent, my own voice, or a created voice. Then, I visualize what I should look like.-Ruth BuzziRuth Ann BuzziJuly 24, 1936– May 1, 2025Ruth Buzzi'sfirst job in show business was at 19, traveling with singerRudy Valleein a live musical and comedy act during her summer break from college; it allowed her to graduate with anActors' Equity Associationunion card. She moved to New York City after graduation and

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This Week in Television History: April 2025 PART IV

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2025/04/28

April 28, 1965My Name is Barbra is Barbra Streisand'sdebut television special.Barbra Streisand's breakout year as a singer came in 1963, when she released her first two albums, won her first two Grammys and began appearing live in some of the most prominent nightclubs in the country. By the following year, she was a showbiz phenomenon, earning further nominations from the Grammys and Tonys after wowing Broadway critics and audiences in her first leading role, as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl. Yet even

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This Week in Television History: April 2025 PART III

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2025/04/21

April 27, 1986Video pirate disrupts HBO signals. A video pirate manages to override the satellite transmission of an HBO movie on this day in 1986.He interrupted the show with a message stating he did not intend to pay for his HBO service.Stay TunedTony Figueroa

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Wink Martindale

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2025/04/17

I have loved hosting over the years, simply because I love working with people.It's the perfect job.-Wink MartindaleWinston Conrad"Wink"MartindaleDecember 4, 1933 – April 15, 2025WinkMartindale's first break into television was atWHBQ-TVin Memphis, as the host ofMars Patrol, a science-fiction themedchildren's television series. At his tenure with WHBQ, Martindale became the host of the TV showTeenage Dance Party, where his friendElvis Presleymade an appearance on June 16, 1956.Following Presley's

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This Week in Television History: April 2025 PART II

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2025/04/14

April 19, 1995TheOklahoma City bombingwas adomestic terroristbomb attack on theAlfred P. Murrah Federal Buildingindowntown Oklahoma City.Carried out byTimothy McVeighandTerry Nichols, the bombing killed 168 peopleand injured more than 680 others.The blast destroyed or damaged 324buildings within a 16-block radius, destroyed or burned 86cars, and shattered glass in 258nearby buildings,causing at least an estimated $652million worth of damage.Extensive rescue efforts were undertaken by local,

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This Week in Television History: April 2025 PART I

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2025/04/07

April 8, 1990Twin Peaks debuts.Director David Lynch's surreal series, Twin Peaks, premieres on ABC. The show, with its bizarre characters and baffling story line, became an instant cult hit. Kyle MacLachlan starred as Dale Cooper, an FBI agent assigned to visit a small town in the Pacific Northwest to try to unravel the mystery of the murder of resident Laura Palmer. The series ran until June 1991.April 13, 1945Tony Dow is born in Hollywood, California.He was born to John Stevens, a designer and

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