October 25, 1971
The Electric Company first aired
The Electric Company is an American educational children's television series created by Paul Dooley and produced by the Children's Television Workshop (CTW) for PBS in the United States. PBS broadcast 780 episodes over the course of its six seasons from October 25, 1971, to April 15, 1977. After it ceased production in 1977, the program continued in reruns until October 4, 1985, as the result of a decision made in 1975 to produce two final seasons for perpetual use. The Workshop produced the show at Second Stage, located within the Reeves Teletape Studios (Teletape), in Manhattan, which had been the first home of Sesame Street. The series reran on Noggin, a channel co-founded by the CTW, from 1999 to 2002.The Electric Company employed sketch comedy and various other devices to provide an entertaining program to help elementary school children develop their grammar and reading skills.[1] Since it was intended for children who had graduated from CTW's flagship program, Sesame Street, the humor was more mature than what was seen there.
October 26, 1946
October 25, 1971
The Electric Company first aired
The Electric Company is an American educational children's television series created by Paul Dooley and produced by the Children's Television Workshop (CTW) for PBS in the United States. PBS broadcast 780 episodes over the course of its six seasons from October 25, 1971, to April 15, 1977. After it ceased production in 1977, the program continued in reruns until October 4, 1985, as the result of a decision made in 1975 to produce two final seasons for perpetual use. The Workshop produced the show at Second Stage, located within the Reeves Teletape Studios (Teletape), in Manhattan, which had been the first home of Sesame Street. The series reran on Noggin, a channel co-founded by the CTW, from 1999 to 2002.
The Electric Company employed sketch comedy and various other devices to provide an entertaining program to help elementary school children develop their grammar and reading skills.[1] Since it was intended for children who had graduated from CTW's flagship program, Sesame Street, the humor was more mature than what was seen there.
October 26, 1946
Pat Sajak born Patrick Leonard Sajdak.
Known to
millions of game-show fans as the Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak, is
born in Chicago. Wheel of Fortune, which debuted in 1975, became the
longest-running syndicated game show on American television, turning Sajak and
his co-host, Vanna White, into pop-culture icons.After attending Chicago’s Columbia College, Sajak joined the Army in 1968
and went to Vietnam, where he was a disc jockey for Armed Forces Radio in Saigon.
After his discharge from the military, he worked in radio and TV and in 1977
became a weatherman for a Los Angeles TV station. In 1981, Wheel of Fortune’s
creator, Merv Griffin (who also developed the long-running game show Jeopardy!,
which debuted in 1964) tapped Sajak to take over hosting duties from Chuck
Woolery for a network daytime version of Wheel. In 1983, Wheel of
Fortune became a syndicated evening program. It has remained on the air
continuously since that time, with Sajak and White as co-hosts.
During each episode of Wheel of Fortune, contestants compete to solve
word puzzles. Players spin the big wheel to determine prize money and each
player can buy vowels to help solve the puzzle. White stands next to the
puzzleboard and reveals the individual letters when players have guessed them
correctly. Born Vanna Marie Rosich on February 18, 1957, White was raised in
North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. She attended the Atlanta School of Fashion
Design and worked as a model before heading to Los Angeles to pursue acting. In
1982, the blonde beauty was selected to join Sajak on Wheel of Fortune.
The first letter she ever turned on the puzzleboard was a “T.” In 1992, the
Guinness Book of World Records named White “Television’s Most Frequent
Clapper,” crediting her with an average of 720 claps per show.
Each year, more than 3,000 people audition to become contestants on Wheel
of Fortune, while fewer than 500 make the final cut. During its 25 years of
syndication, Wheel of Fortune has given over $180 million in cash and
prizes to its contestants.
As for longevity, while Jeopardy! debuted in 1964, it has not aired
continuously since then. Jeopardy! first aired from 1964 to 1975, then
went off the air. It returned briefly, from 1978 to 1979, and was revived again
in 1984, when Alex Trebek became host of a syndicated edition of the show. The
longest-running game show in network or syndication is The Price is Right. The
show originally aired on network TV from 1956 to 1965. A syndicated version of The
Price is Right premiered in 1972, with Bob Barker as host. Barker remained
with the show until his retirement at the age of 83 in 2007. Comedian Drew Carrey
took over hosting duties beginning in October 2007.
October 27, 1966
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown first aired.
A Halloween
special, it was the third Peanuts special (and second holiday-themed
special, following A Charlie Brown
Christmas) to be produced and animated by Bill Melendez. Its initial broadcast took place
on October 27, 1966, on CBS, preempting My Three Sons. CBS re-aired the special
annually through 2000, with ABC
picking up the rights beginning in 2001, where it now airs annually at
Halloween. ABC once broadcast You're
Not Elected, Charlie Brown immediately following It's the
Great Pumpkin, as if to emphasize the proximity of Halloween to Election
Day. Also, the Great Pumpkin is mentioned in You're Not Elected.The program was nominated for an Emmy Award. It has been issued on home video several times, including a Remastered Deluxe
Edition of the special released by Warner Home Video on September 2, 2008, with the bonus feature It's
Magic, Charlie Brown which was
released in 1981. To celebrate its 40th anniversary, a retrospective book was
published in 2006. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: The Making of a
Television Classic includes the entire script, never-before-seen photographs,
storyboard excerpts, and interviews with the original child actors who provided the voices of the Peanuts gang.
Charlie Brown's repeated line of "I got a rock"
caused some stir among many viewers of the show, according to Charles M. Schulz in the book and retrospective
TV special "Happy Birthday,
Charlie Brown." Schulz said that after the program first aired,
bags and boxes of candy came in from all over the world "just for Charlie
Brown."
October 29, 1956
The Huntley-Brinkley
Report first aired.
The
Huntley-Brinkley Report (sometimes known as The Texaco Huntley-Brinkley Report,
for one of its early sponsors) was the NBC television network’s flagship
evening news program from October 29, 1956, until July 31, 1970. It was
anchored by Chet Huntley in New York City, and David Brinkley in Washington,
D.C. It succeeded theCamel News Caravan, anchored by John Cameron Swayze. The
program ran for 15 minutes at its inception but expanded to 30 minutes on
September 9, 1963, exactly a week after CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
did so. It was developed and produced initially by Reuven Frank. Frank left the
program in 1962 to produce documentaries (Eliot Frankel replaced him) but
returned to the program the following year when it expanded to 30 minutes.[1]
He was succeeded as executive producer in 1965 by Robert “Shad” Northshield and
in 1969 by Wallace Westfeldt.
October 30, 1931
Dick
Gautier is born.
Actor, comedian, composer, singer and author. Among his most well-known
television roles are for Hymie the Robot in the television series Get Smart, and Robin Hood in the short-lived TV comedy series When
Things Were Rotten, a Mel Brooks send-up of the classic legend. Gautier died January 13, 2017, at an assisted living facility in Arcadia, California, following a long illness.
Pat Sajak born Patrick Leonard Sajdak.
Known to millions of game-show fans as the Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak, is born in Chicago. Wheel of Fortune, which debuted in 1975, became the longest-running syndicated game show on American television, turning Sajak and his co-host, Vanna White, into pop-culture icons.
After attending Chicago’s Columbia College, Sajak joined the Army in 1968
and went to Vietnam, where he was a disc jockey for Armed Forces Radio in Saigon.
After his discharge from the military, he worked in radio and TV and in 1977
became a weatherman for a Los Angeles TV station. In 1981, Wheel of Fortune’s
creator, Merv Griffin (who also developed the long-running game show Jeopardy!,
which debuted in 1964) tapped Sajak to take over hosting duties from Chuck
Woolery for a network daytime version of Wheel. In 1983, Wheel of
Fortune became a syndicated evening program. It has remained on the air
continuously since that time, with Sajak and White as co-hosts.
During each episode of Wheel of Fortune, contestants compete to solve
word puzzles. Players spin the big wheel to determine prize money and each
player can buy vowels to help solve the puzzle. White stands next to the
puzzleboard and reveals the individual letters when players have guessed them
correctly. Born Vanna Marie Rosich on February 18, 1957, White was raised in
North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. She attended the Atlanta School of Fashion
Design and worked as a model before heading to Los Angeles to pursue acting. In
1982, the blonde beauty was selected to join Sajak on Wheel of Fortune.
The first letter she ever turned on the puzzleboard was a “T.” In 1992, the
Guinness Book of World Records named White “Television’s Most Frequent
Clapper,” crediting her with an average of 720 claps per show.
Each year, more than 3,000 people audition to become contestants on Wheel
of Fortune, while fewer than 500 make the final cut. During its 25 years of
syndication, Wheel of Fortune has given over $180 million in cash and
prizes to its contestants.
As for longevity, while Jeopardy! debuted in 1964, it has not aired
continuously since then. Jeopardy! first aired from 1964 to 1975, then
went off the air. It returned briefly, from 1978 to 1979, and was revived again
in 1984, when Alex Trebek became host of a syndicated edition of the show. The
longest-running game show in network or syndication is The Price is Right. The
show originally aired on network TV from 1956 to 1965. A syndicated version of The
Price is Right premiered in 1972, with Bob Barker as host. Barker remained
with the show until his retirement at the age of 83 in 2007. Comedian Drew Carrey
took over hosting duties beginning in October 2007.
October 27, 1966
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown first aired.
A Halloween special, it was the third Peanuts special (and second holiday-themed special, following A Charlie Brown Christmas) to be produced and animated by Bill Melendez. Its initial broadcast took place on October 27, 1966, on CBS, preempting My Three Sons. CBS re-aired the special annually through 2000, with ABC picking up the rights beginning in 2001, where it now airs annually at Halloween. ABC once broadcast You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown immediately following It's the Great Pumpkin, as if to emphasize the proximity of Halloween to Election Day. Also, the Great Pumpkin is mentioned in You're Not Elected.
The program was nominated for an Emmy Award. It has been issued on home video several times, including a Remastered Deluxe
Edition of the special released by Warner Home Video on September 2, 2008, with the bonus feature It's
Magic, Charlie Brown which was
released in 1981. To celebrate its 40th anniversary, a retrospective book was
published in 2006. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: The Making of a
Television Classic includes the entire script, never-before-seen photographs,
storyboard excerpts, and interviews with the original child actors who provided the voices of the Peanuts gang.
Charlie Brown's repeated line of "I got a rock"
caused some stir among many viewers of the show, according to Charles M. Schulz in the book and retrospective
TV special "Happy Birthday,
Charlie Brown." Schulz said that after the program first aired,
bags and boxes of candy came in from all over the world "just for Charlie
Brown."
October 29, 1956
The Huntley-Brinkley
Report first aired.
The Huntley-Brinkley Report (sometimes known as The Texaco Huntley-Brinkley Report, for one of its early sponsors) was the NBC television network’s flagship evening news program from October 29, 1956, until July 31, 1970. It was anchored by Chet Huntley in New York City, and David Brinkley in Washington, D.C. It succeeded theCamel News Caravan, anchored by John Cameron Swayze. The program ran for 15 minutes at its inception but expanded to 30 minutes on September 9, 1963, exactly a week after CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite did so. It was developed and produced initially by Reuven Frank. Frank left the program in 1962 to produce documentaries (Eliot Frankel replaced him) but returned to the program the following year when it expanded to 30 minutes.[1] He was succeeded as executive producer in 1965 by Robert “Shad” Northshield and in 1969 by Wallace Westfeldt.
October 30, 1931
Dick Gautier is born.
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