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As always, the further we go back in Hollywood history,
the more that fact and legend become intertwined. It's hard to say where the truth really lies.
April 17, 1937
Daffy Duck debuts.
Daffy Duck makes his debut in the Warner Bros. short Porky's
Duck Hunt. In the 1920s, movie houses had started showing a short cartoon
before feature presentations, but the form became more innovative and popular
after sound was introduced in 1928.
April 17,
2002
General Hospital airs 10,000th episode.
ABC airs the 10,000th episode of the daytime drama General
Hospital, the network’s longest-running soap opera and the longest-running
program ever produced in Hollywood.
April 18, 2012
Dick
Clark, host of "American Bandstand" and "New Year's Rockin'
Eve," dies
On this day in 2012, Dick
Clark, the TV personality and producer best known for hosting "American
Bandstand," an influential music-and-dance show that aired nationally from
1957 to 1989 and helped bring rock `n' roll into the mainstream in the late 1950s, dies of a heart
attack at age 82 in Santa Monica, California. The
clean-cut, youthful-looking Clark, dubbed "America’s Oldest
Teenager," also was the longtime host of the annual telecast "New Year's Rockin'
Eve" and headed an entertainment empire that developed game shows, awards
shows, talk shows, made-for-TV movies and other programs.
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I represent the first generation who, when we were born, the television was now a permanent fixture in our homes. When I was born people had breakfast with Barbara Walters, dinner with Walter Cronkite, and slept with Johnny Carson. Read the full "Pre-ramble"
Monday, April 17, 2017
This Week in Television History: April 2017 PART III
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