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This Week in Television History: August 2025 PART II

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2025/08/11

July 12, 1990Northern Exposure airs its first episode.The offbeat show, about a Manhattan doctor contractually forced to work in the fictional of town Cicely, Alaska for four years to repay a student loan from the state. Rob Morrow stared as Dr. Joel Fleischman. Most of Northern Exposure's story arcs are character-driven, with the plots revolving around the eccentricities of the Cicely citizens. The show consistently ranked in the Top 20 most-watched TV shows until it was canceled in 1995.July 13,

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This Week in Television History: August 2025 PART I

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2025/08/04

July 5, 1970PBS began airing concerts by the Boston Pops Orchestra.Evening at Popsis an American concerttelevision seriesproduced byWGBH-TV. It is one of the longest-running programs onPBS, airing from 1970 to 2005.[1]The program was a public television version of avariety show, featuring performances by theBoston Pops Orchestra. It was taped atSymphony HallinBoston, Massachusetts.Most shows featured a guest star, usually a well known singer or musician, most commonly within popular music or

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Loni Anderson

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2025/08/04

As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress.Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.-Loni AndersonLoni Anderson(August 5, 1945 – August 3, 2025)Loni Anderson'sacting debut came with a bit part in the filmNevada Smith(1966), starringSteve McQueen. After that, she was mostly unemployed as an actress for nearly a decade, then she received guest roles on television series in the mid-1970s.She appeared in two episodes ofS.W.A.T., then on the sitcomPhyllis,

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This Week in Television History: July 2025 PART IV

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2025/07/28

July 28, 2000 Kathie Lee Gifford made her final appearance as co-host of the ABC talk show Live with Regis and Kathie Lee.August 3, 1940Actor Martin Sheen is born Ramon Estevez in Dayton, Ohio.The son of a Spanish immigrant, Sheen was the seventh of 10 children. He moved to New York after high school and began pursuing an acting career while working as a janitor, car washer, and messenger. After several successful Broadway roles, he appeared in his first film, The Incident, in 1967. His film

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Hulk Hogan Gets Emotional When Asked About Final Legacy

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2025/07/25

Terry Gene BolleaHulk HoganAugust 11, 1953 – July 24, 2025

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Ozzy Osbourne sits down with his son Jack

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2025/07/25

John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne3 December 1948 – 22 July 2025

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Chuck Mangione on King of the Hill

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2025/07/24

Charles Frank MangioneNovember 29, 1940 – July 22, 2025

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Malcolm-Jamal Warner

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2025/07/22

Theater is my favorite platform. Television is my favorite paycheck. The more television I can do, the more theater I can do.Malcolm-Jamal WarnerMalcolm-Jamal WarnerAugust 18, 1970 – July 20, 2025Malcolm-Jamal Warnerwas born inJersey City, New Jersey, on August 18, 1970.He was named afterMalcolm Xand jazz pianistAhmad Jamal. He was raised in Los Angeles from age five.At the age of nine, he demonstrated an interest in show business that led to enrollment in acting schools. His career as a child

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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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