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This Week in Television History: October 2025 PART III

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2025/10/20

October 20, 1985-The movie "I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later" aired.I Dream of Jeannie... Fifteen Years Lateris a 1985made-for-television filmproduced byColumbia Pictures Televisionwhich premiered onNBCon October 20, 1985. It is the first of two reunion films based on the 1965–70sitcomI Dream of Jeannie.Barbara Edenreprises her world-famous role as the magical Jeannie; also reprising their roles from the original series wereBill Dailyas Tony's fellow astronaut and best friend Roger Healy,

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This Week in Television History: October 2025 PART II

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2025/10/13

October 15th, 1955 Grand Ole Opry premiered on ABC-TV.Stay TunedTony Figueroa

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This Week in Television History: October 2025 PART I

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2025/10/06

October 6,2000The first episode of CBS'sCSI: Crime SceneInvestigationaired.CSI: Crime Scene Investigation(also referred to as bothCSIandCSI: Las Vegas) is an Americancrime dramatelevision seriescreated byAnthony E. Zuikerand executive produced byJerry Bruckheimer. It premiered on October 6, 2000 onCBS, and was filmed primarily atUniversal StudiosinUniversal City, California.CSIspawned three spin-off series:CSI: Miami,CSI: NY, andCSI: Cyber; a book series; several video games; and an exhibit

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This Week in Television History: September 2025 PART V

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2025/09/29

September 29th, 1960My Three Sonsfirst aired.The series ran from 1960 to 1965 onABC, and moved toCBSuntil its end on August 24, 1972.My Three Sons chronicles the life of a widower andaeronautical engineernamed Steven Douglas (Fred MacMurray), raising his three sons. The series also starredWilliam Frawleyas the boy’s live-in maternal grandfather, Bub. Frawley, was replaced in 1965 byWilliam Demarestdue to Frawley’s health issues.September 29,1985The pilot episode of "MacGyver" aired on

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This Week in Television History: September 2025 PART IV

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2025/09/22

September 22, 1985NBC began airing the series Amazing Stories.Amazing Storiesis afantasy,horror, andscience fictiontelevisionanthology seriescreated bySteven Spielberg. It originally ran onNBCin the United States from 1985 to 1987.The series was nominated for 12Emmy Awardsand won five. The first season episode "The Amazing Falsworth" earned writerMick GarrisanEdgar Awardfor Best Episode in a TV Series. It was not a ratings hit (ranking 40th in Season 1 and 46th in Season 2), however, and the

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This Week in Television History: September 2025 PART...

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2025/09/15

September 15, 1965Lost in Space premiered on CBS TV.Lost in Spaceis an Americanscience fiction televisionseries created and produced byIrwin Allen, filmed by20th Century Fox Television, and broadcast onCBS. The show ran for three seasons, with 83 episodes airing betweenSeptember 15, 1965, and March 6, 1968. The first television season was filmed in black and white, with the second and third seasons filmed in color. In 1972 a pilot for a cartoon version was made. Two documentaries were released

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Polly Holliday

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2025/09/09

Polly Dean HollidayJuly 2, 1937 – September 9, 2025In 1976,Polly Hollidaywas cast—in what would be her major break—as sassy, man-hungry waitress Florence Jean "Flo" Castleberry on the U.S.CBSsitcomAlice.Her character coined the popularcatchphrase"Kiss my grits!" The phrase became part of the Americanvernacular. Holliday starred inAlicefrom 1976 to 1980, and then moved to her own short-livedspin-offshow, titledFlo, in which Flo leftArizonaand moved back home toTexas.The show was successful during its

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This Week in Television History: September 2025 PART II

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2025/09/08

September 9, 1975The first episode of "Welcome Back, Kotter"aired on ABC.The show starred stand-up comic/actor Gabriel 'Gabe' W. Kaplan as the title character, Gabe Kotter, a wisecracking teacher who returns to his alma mater high school, the fictionalJames BuchananHigh inBrooklyn, New York, to teach an often unruly group of remedial loafers self-labeled as the "Sweathogs." (The nickname reflected the fact that the remedial classes were held on the very top floor of the high school.) The school

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This Week in Television History: September 2025 PART I

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2025/09/01

September 1, 1970 The last episode of "I Dream of Jeannie" aired on NBC-TV.Jeannie and Tony's cousin want to make Tony the chili king even though NASA forbids its astronauts to make commercial endorsements.The show premiered was on September 18, 1965.September 7, 1950Radio game show Truth or Consequences comes to television.The show required erring quiz show contestants to perform outrageous stunts as the consequence for wrong answers. As we mentioned in an earlier episode (This week in

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This Week in Television History: August 2025 PART IV

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2025/08/25

August 31, 1957Children's show Kukla, Fran and Ollie airs its last episode on prime-time network TV.The show featured beloved puppets Kukla, Ollie (a dragon), and others, with live actress Fran Allison as host. The show began as a local Chicago program and moved to NBC in 1948. It was one of the two most important series made in Chicago, along with Garroway at Large, during the city's brief period as an important production center for network programs in the late 1940s. After its network

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This Week in Television History: August 2025 PART III

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2025/08/18

August 23, 2000First Survivorfinale airs.On this day in 2000, Richard Hatch, a 39-year-old corporate trainer from Rhode Island, wins the season-one finale of the reality television show Survivor and takes home the promised $1 million prize. In a four-to-three vote by his fellow contestants, Hatch, who was known for walking around naked on the island in Borneo where the show was shot, was named Sole Survivor over the river raft guide Kelly Wiglesworth. Survivor, whose slogan is “Outwit,

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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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