September 15, 1965
Lost in Space premiered on CBS TV.
Lost in Space is an American science fiction television series created and produced by Irwin Allen, filmed by 20th Century Fox Television, and broadcast on CBS. The show ran for three seasons, with 83 episodes airing between
September 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 in the
1990s. In 1998, a Lost in Space movie, based on the television series, was released. In 2003 a
pilot for a new live action reboot of the series was produced and in late 2014
plans for the development of a brand new series was announced.
In the unaired original pilot, the ship, named Gemini 12
in this early version without Smith or the Robot, was going slow enough that
the crew wondered if they were on Mars, while in the first aired episode, just
seconds of hyper-drive caused them to be lost, unknown light-years from Earth. The possible distance and location
varied between episodes and authors. As an example, Penny asks Will if they
could be on Mars in one of the early episodes. The ability of the Jupiter 2 to
quickly cover vast distances allowed the ship to pass through an entire galaxy
overnight in one later episode although this was more likely the writers'
confusion about what solar systems and galaxies actually are. There were two
versions of the pilot, a complete version with the credits at the very
beginning and a 2nd shorter version minus John's and Don's initial encounter
with "One-Eye the Cyclops" and with the credits appearing between
Alpha Control's statement that the Gemini 12 was hopelessly Lost in Space and
the crash landing sequence.
Though the original television series concept centered on
the Robinson family, many later story lines focused primarily on Dr. Zachary
Smith, played by Jonathan
Harris. Smith,
along with the Robot, was absent from the pilot as the addition of their
characters was decided once the series had been commissioned for production.
Originally written as an utterly evil but careless saboteur, Smith gradually
becomes the troublesome, self-centered, incompetent foil who provides the comic
relief for the show and causes most of the episodic conflict and
misadventures. In the unaired pilot, what causes the group to become lost
in space is a chance encounter with a meteor storm, but in the first aired
episode, it is Smith's sabotage and unplanned presence on the ship that sets
the ship off course into the meteor field. Smith is thus the key to the story.
September 15, 1965
Green Acres premiered on CBS TV.
Green Acres is about Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie
Albert), an erudite New York City attorney, acting on his dream to be
a farmer, and Lisa Douglas (Eva Gabor),
his glamorous Hungarian wife, dragged unwillingly from an
upscale New York condo and the city life she adores to a ramshackle farm. The
theme tune, as with those of the show's rural cousins, explains the basic
premise of the show. At the end of the opening sequence, Albert and Gabor
strike a pose in parody of Grant Wood's painting American
Gothic. The debut episode was a mockumentary about
the decision to move to a rural area, anchored by former ABC newscaster (and
then-current host of the CBS game show What's
My Line) John Charles Daly. A few weeks after the show's
debut, Albert and Gabor returned the favor by appearing on What's My
Line as that episode's Mystery Guests, and publicly thanked Daly for
helping to launch their series.After the first episodes the series developed an absurdist world. Though
there were still many episodes that were standard 1960s sitcom fare, the show
became notable for its surrealism andsatire. The
show appealed to children through its slapstick,
silliness, and shtick, but adults were able to appreciate it on a different
level.
September 15, 1965
The Big Valley premiered on ABC TV.
The TV series was based loosely on the Hill Ranch, which was located at
the western edge of Calaveras County, not far fromStockton. One episode placed the Barkley
Ranch a few hours' ride from town, while another has Jarrod riding past a
Calaveras County sign on his way to the TV series' ranch. The Hill Ranch existed from 1855 until
1931, including almost 30,000 acres; and the Mokelumne
River ran through it. The source is from an episode in which
Heath is on trial in a ghost town with another man (played by Leslie
Nielsen) and tells the judge how much land they have. Lawson Hill ran the
ranch until he was murdered in 1861. His wife Euphemia (aka "Auntie
Hill") then became the matriarch. During their marriage they had four
children, one daughter and three sons. Today, the location of the ranch is
covered by the waters of Lake Camanche. A California state historical
marker standing at Camanche South Shore
Park mentions the historic ranch. The set used to film the exterior of
the Barkley Mansion stood on the backlot of
Republic Studios from 1947 until 1975.In the first episode, "Palms of Glory," the grave of Thomas
Barkley (1813–1870) is shown after it is commented that he fought the railroad
six years ago, establishing that the show was initially set no later than 1876.
At the beginning of the same episode, Jarrod Barkley and the other actor on the
train indirectly say that the year is 1876.
In "The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner," Jubal states to Victoria Barkley
that he has been gone 30 years since his wife Margaret Tanner's death, her
grave marker showing that she had died in 1854; this appears to indicate that
the series starts in 1884. However, in another episode, a newly dug grave has a
marker with the year 1878, so the best that can be said is that the events of
the series take place sometime in the late 1870s or early 1880s. The dug grave
appears at the beginning of the episode "The Long Ride," in which a
friend of Audra Barkley was killed, and where the grave clearly shows 1878,
which would make her 23 at the date of death based on the grave showing 1855 as
the year of birth. In the episode "They Called Her Delilah," the
telegram Jarrod received from Julia is dated April 27, 1878.
September 15, 1995
The first episode
of Xena: Warrior Princess
aired.
The series was created in 1995 by
writer-director-producer Robert
Tapert under his production tag, Renaissance Pictures, and writer-producer John
Schulian, with later executive producers being R. J. Stewart (who developed the
series along with Tapert) andSam Raimi. The series narrative follows Xena (played
by Lucy Lawless), as an infamous warrior on a quest to
seek redemption for her past sins against the innocent by using her formidable
fighting skills to now help those who are unable to defend themselves. Xena is
accompanied by Gabrielle (played by Renee
O'Connor), who during the series changes from a simple farm girl into anAmazon warrior and
Xena's comrade-in-arms; her initial naïveté helps to balance Xena and assists
her in recognizing and pursuing the "greater good".The show is a spin-off of the television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys; the
saga began with three episodes inHercules where Xena was a
recurring character originally scheduled to die in her third appearance. Aware
that the character of Xena had been very successful among the public, the
producers of the series decided to create a spin-off series based on her adventures. Xena was
a successful show which has aired in more than 108 countries around the world
since 1998. In 2004 and 2007, it was ranked #9 and #10 on TV Guide's Top
Cult Shows Ever and the title character was ranked #100 on Bravo's 100
Greatest TV Characters. Xena's success has led to hundreds of tie-in
products, including, comics, books,video games and conventions, realized
annually since 1998 in Pasadena, California and London.
The series soared past its predecessor in ratings and in popularity. In
its second season it was the top rated syndicated drama series on American
television. For all six years Xena remained in the top five. The series
came to an end in June 2001, after cancellation. It completed a full sixth
season and ended with a two-part series finale. The show has since acquired a
strong cult following, attention in fandom, parody, and academia, and
has influenced the direction of other television series.
September
16, 1965
The Dean
Martin Show debuted on NBC-TV.
Martin
was initially reluctant to do the show, partially because he did not want to
turn down movie and nightclub performances. His terms were deliberately
outrageous: he demanded a high salary and that he need only show up for the
actual taping of the show. To his surprise the network agreed. As daughter
Deana Martin recalled after meeting the network and making his demands Martin
returned home and announced to his family, "They went for it. So now I
have to do it." (Contrary to his stated concerns, Martin's commitment
to the program ultimately did not prevent him from appearing in a series
of Matt Helm films concurrent with the show's run, as well as
other projects such as a co-starring role in the first Airport film in 1970.)Martin
believed that an important key to his popularity was that he did not put on
airs. His act was that of a drunken, work-shy playboy, although the
ever-present old-fashioned glass in his hand often only had apple juice in
it. The show was heavy on physical comedy rather than just quips (he made his
weekly entrance by sliding down a fireman's pole onto the stage.) Martin read
his dialogue directly from cue cards. If he flubbed a line or forgot a lyric,
Martin would not do a retake, and the mistake — and his recovery from it — went
straight to tape and onto the air.
The
Dean Martin Show was shot on
color videotape beginning in 1965 at Studio 4 inside NBC's massive color
complex at 3000 West Alameda
Avenue in Burbank, California. The same studio was used for Frank Sinatra's
yearly TV specials in the late 1960s, and Elvis Presley's
1968 "Comeback Special".
Studio 4 is currently one of two used in the production of the soap opera Days of Our Lives.
September 17, 1950
Comedians Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis make their first
appearance as hosts of a new TV variety show, The Colgate Comedy Hour. Martin and Lewis first teamed up in 1946. Martin,
born in Steubenville, Ohio, in 1917, had started a nightclub act after working
as a prizefighter and a steelworker in the 1940s. Lewis, the son of performers,
debuted in comedy acts with his parents at age five and was working steadily as
a comic by 1946, when he met Martin. The pair performed an act in which
screwball Lewis constantly interrupted straight man Martin's singing. They made
their first appearance at a club in Atlantic City and were an instant hit, soon
in demand for radio and movie performances. They made their first movie
together, My Friend Irma, in 1949. The following year, they were chosen,
along with Eddie Cantor and Fred Allen, to share the host position for The
Colgate Comedy Hour. The show ran until 1955, a year before Martin and
Lewis split up.After the duo parted
ways, Martin launched his own TV variety show, which ran from 1965 to 1974. In
the late 1950s and early 1960s, Martin teamed up with Frank Sinatra, Sammy
Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop to perform in Las Vegas. The group quickly
became known as the Rat Pack, a suave group of young, fast-living entertainers.
The group made several movies together in the early 1960s, including Ocean's
Eleven (1960), Sergeants Three (1962), and Robin and the Seven
Hoods. Dean Martin died in 1995.
Jerry
Lewis went on to sign one of the most lucrative film contracts of the day, a
$10 million deal for 14 films with Paramount. Lewis' films, including Cinderfella
(1960) and The Nutty Professor (1963), failed to attract much praise
from American critics but made him a star in France, where he has long been
considered a comic genius. After a long absence from film, he gave an acclaimed
performance in the 1986 film The King of Comedy, co-starring Robert De
Niro.
September 17, 1965
Hogan's
Heroes first aired.
The television sitcom set in a German prisoner of war (POW) camp during World War II. It ran for 168 episodes
from September 17, 1965, to April 4, 1971, on the CBS network. Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating an
international crew of Allied prisoners
running a Special
Operations group
from the camp. Werner Klemperer playedColonel Wilhelm Klink, the incompetent commandant
of the camp, and John
Banner was
the inept sergeant-of-the-guard, Hans Schultz.The setting is a fictional version of Stalag Luft 13 (Camp 13 in
early episodes), a prisoner-of-war camp for captured Allied airmen
located north of the town of Hammelburg in the Bad Kissingen woods. It was on the Hammelburg Road (now known as E45),
on the way to Hofburgstraße and eventually Düsseldorf. "Anchors Aweigh, Men
of Stalag 13" (S1E16) reveals the camp is 60 miles from the North Sea. Another episode places the
camp 106 kilometres (66 mi) from Heidelberg in flying miles; it is
199 km (124 mi) by car. The camp has 103 Allied prisoners of war (POWs) during the
first season, but becomes larger by the end of the series.
Though the series spans several seasons, it's always
winter at Stalag 13; there are ever-present patches of snow on the ground and
on buildings, and prisoners regularly gather around a barrel fire or shiver
through roll call.
The farcical premise of the show is that the prisoners of war (POWs) are actually
using the camp as a base of operations for Alliedespionage and sabotage against Nazi Germany as well as to help
Allied POWs from other camps and defectors to escape Germany (including
supplying them with civilian clothes and false identification). The prisoners
work in cooperation with an assortment ofresistance groups (collectively called "the
Underground"), defectors, spies, counterspies, disloyal officers, and
others. The mastermind behind the whole operation is the senior ranking
prisoner American Colonel Robert Hogan. His staff of experts in covert operations comprises two
Americans, one British serviceman, and one Frenchman. They are able to
accomplish farfetched schemes such as having a prisoner visit the camp as a
phony Adolf
Hitler or
rescuing a French Underground agent from Gestapoheadquarters in Paris.
Colonel Hogan and his band are aided by the
incompetence of the camp commandant Colonel Klink
and Sergeant
of the GuardSchultz
who wants to avoid trouble more than anything. Hogan routinely manipulates
Klink and gets Schultz to look the other way while his men conduct these covert
operations. Klink and Schultz are constantly at risk of being transferred to
the cold and bloodyRussian Front, and Hogan helps to keep the duo in place if for no other reason for
fear of their being replaced by more competent soldiers. In general, Germans in
uniform and authority are depicted as inept, dimwitted, and/or easily
manipulated. Many of the German civilians are portrayed as at least indifferent
towards the German war effort or even willing to help the Allies.
Klink has a perfect operational record as camp
commandant in that no prisoners have escaped during his time in the job (two
guards may have deserted). Hogan actually assists in maintaining this record
and ensures any prisoners who need to be spirited away are transferred to
another authority before their escape takes place, or replacements are provided
to maintain the illusion that no one has ever escaped from Stalag 13. Because
of this record, and the fact that the Allies would never bomb a prison camp, the
Germans use the Stalag for high level secret meetings or to hide important
persons or projects the Germans want to protect from bombing raids. Klink also
has many other important visitors and is temporarily put in charge of special
prisoners. This brings the prisoners in contact with many important VIPs,
scientists, high-ranking officers, spies, and some of Germany's most
sophisticated and secret weapons projects (Wunderwaffe), which the prisoners take
advantage of in their efforts to hinder the German war effort.
The main five Allied prisoners (Hogan and his staff)
bunk in "Barracke 2" (a goof here was that whenever the door was
open, another building labeled "Barracke 3" could be seen, even
though the barracks were supposed to be directly in front of the Kommandantur,
which was, unlike actual prison camps, situated inside the prisoner's compound
(kommandantur = headquarters, barracke =
barracks). The prisoners are able to leave and return almost at will via a
secret network of tunnels and have tunnels to
nearly every barracks and building in the camp, so much so that Hogan, in a
third-season episode ("Everybody Loves a Snowman"), has difficulty
finding a spot in the camp without a tunnel under it. The stove in Klink's
private quarters, a tree stump right outside the camp (known as the emergency
tunnel), and a doghouse in the guard dog compound serve astrapdoors. A bunk in their barracks
serves as an elaborate trapdoor and the main entrance to the tunnels. The
tunnels include access to the camp's Cooler, a name used by Allied
prisoners for solitary confinement, where prisoners are routinely sent for punishment and to hold special
prisoners temporarily entrusted to Klink. Just inside the "emergency
tunnel" is a submarine-style periscope, which the prisoners use to
check conditions outside the tree stump trapdoor. There is also a periscope in
their barracks with one end hidden in a water barrel outside the barracks and
the other disguised as a sink faucet inside the barracks that allows them to
see events in the compound.
The prisoners' infiltration of the camp is so
extensive it includes control of the camp telephone switchboard, allowing them
to listen in on all conversations and to make phony phone calls. They have
radio contact with Allied command, based in London, code named "Mama Bear" in some episodes and
"Papa Bear" in others. Hogan's code name is "Goldilocks" sometimes, and Papa Bear other times,
although in later seasons Stalag 13 utilized different code names. Their radio
antenna is hidden in the camp flagpole on top of Klink's headquarters, and the
prisoners are able to make phony radio broadcasts including some by a prisoner
impersonating Adolf
Hitler. A
real microphone, hidden in Klink's office in the picture of Hitler making a
speech exactly where the microphone is in the picture, allows the prisoners to
hear what is being said in the office (the speaker is disguised as the coffee
pot in their barracks). The guard dogs are friendly to the prisoners, thanks to
the town veterinarian Oscar Schnitzer (played by Walter Janowitz), who supports
the prisoners. He routinely replaces the dogs on the premise that they could
become too friendly with the prisoners, but he also uses his truck to smuggle
people and items in and out of the camp, where the German guards are too afraid
of the dogs to open the truck. Prisoners work in the camp's motor pool and "borrow"
vehicles, including Klink's staff car, as needed to carry out
their schemes. Sections of the barbed wire fence are in a frame
which the prisoners can easily lift when they need to get out of the camp. When
required, Allied airplanes land near the camp, or make airdrops. Allied submarines pick up
escapees and defectors Hogan and his men are helping flee Germany.
September 17, 1965The Smothers Brothers Show, the first
TV series featuring comedians Tom and Dick Smothers, debuts.
The sitcom featured elder brother Dick as a
publishing executive pestered by the ghost of his brother, Tom. The show lasted
only one season. However, the brothers were back in 1967 with their comedy
variety show The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, which became the most
popular show on television during its two-year run. CBS abruptly cancelled the
show at the height of its popularity after a series of censorship disputes with
the brothers.In
1975, NBC revived the original show, now called The Smothers Brothers Show,
but the brothers' humor had lost its edge, and audience interest waned after
the first few episodes. The show lasted only one season.
September 17, 1965
Wild
Wild West Priemered.
Developed at a time when
the television western was losing ground to the spy genre, this show was
conceived by its creator,Michael Garrison,
as "James Bond on
horseback." Set during the administration of President Ulysses
Grant (1869–77), the series followed Secret Service agents
James West (Robert Conrad) and Artemus
Gordon (Ross Martin) as they solved crimes,
protected the President, and foiled the plans of megalomaniacal villains to
take over all or part of the United States.The show also featured a
number of fantasy elements, such as the technologically advanced devices used
by the agents and their adversaries. The combination of the Victorian
era time-frame and the use of Verne-esque technology
has inspired some to give the show credit as being one of the more
"visible" origins of the steampunk subculture.
These elements were accentuated even more in the 1999 movie adaptation.
Despite high ratings, the series was cancelled near
the end of its fourth season as a concession to Congress over television
violence.
September
17, 2010 - CBS aired the final episode of "As the World
Turns."
In December 2009, CBS confirmed that it would not
renew As the World Turns, and the last broadcast episode was on
September 17, 2010. The final scene included Kim Hughes (Kathryn
Hays) telling Bob Hughes (Don
Hastings) to take as much time as he needed. Bob said the
final two lines "Good night" and left the Oakdale Memorial Hospital,
and the globe started spinning before the final fade-out.September 18, 1955
Ed Sullivan's popular talk show, originally called Toast
of the Town, changes its name to The Ed Sullivan Show.
Sullivan was so closely identified with the show,
which first aired in 1948, that most Americans already called the program
"Ed Sullivan." Among the many celebrities who made their TV debut on
the show were Bob Hope, Lena Horne, the Beatles, and Walt Disney. Elvis also
made several high-profile appearances, in 1956 and 1957. CBS cancelled the
program in 1971.
September
18, 1965
Get Smart Premiered.
Get Smart was an comedy television series
that satirized the secret agent
genre.Created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry, the show
starred Don
Adams (as
Maxwell Smart, Agent 86), Barbara Feldon (as Agent 99),
and Edward
Platt (as
Chief). Henry said they created the show by request of Daniel Melnick, who was a partner, along
withLeonard Stern and David Susskind, of the show's production
company, Talent Associates, to capitalize on "the two biggest things in the entertainment
world today"—James
Bond and Inspector Clouseau. Brooks said: "It's an insane combination of James Bond and
Mel Brooks comedy."
The success of the show (which ran from September
18, 1965, to September 11, 1970) eventually spawned the follow-up films The Nude Bomb (a theatrical release)
and Get Smart, Again! (a made-for-TV sequel to the series), as well as a 1995 revival series, and a 2008 film remake. In 2010, TV Guide ranked Get
Smart's opening title sequence at No. 2 on its list
of TV's Top 10 Credits Sequences as selected by readers.
During the show's run, it generated a number of
popular catchphrases, including "Would you
believe...", "Missed it by that much!", "Sorry
about that, Chief", "The Old (such-and-such) Trick", "And
... loving it", and "I asked you not to tell me
that".
September
18, 1965
The first episode of I Dream of Jeannie was shown on NBC-TV. The last show was televised
on September 1, 1970.
The
series was created and produced by Sidney Sheldon in
response to the great success of rival network ABC's Bewitched series,
which had debuted in 1964 as the second most watched program in the United
States.
Sheldon, inspired by the movie The
Brass Bottle, which had
starred Tony Randall, Barbara Eden,
and Burl Ives as the genie Fakrash, came up
with the idea for a beautiful female genie. Both I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched were Screen Gems productions.
The show debuted at 8 p.m., Saturday, September 18, 1965, on NBC.When
casting was opened for the role of Jeannie, producer Sidney Sheldon could not
find an actress who could play the role the way that he had written it. He did
have one specific rule: He did not want a blonde genie because there would be
too much similarity with the blonde witch on Bewitched.
However, after many unsuccessful auditions, he called Barbara Eden's agent.
When NBC began telecasting most of its prime time television programs in color
in fall 1965, Jeannie was one of two regular programs on NBC
that remained in black and white, in this case because of the special
photographic effects employed to achieve Jeannie's magic. By the second season,
however, further work had been done on techniques to create the visual effects
in color, necessary because by 1966 all US prime time series were being made in
color.
According
to Dreaming of Jeannie, a book by Stephen Cox and Howard Frank,
Sheldon originally wanted to film season one in color, but NBC did not want to
pay for the extra expenses, as the network (and Screen Gems)
believed the series would not make it to a second season. According to Sheldon
in his autobiography The Other Side of Me, he offered to pay the
extra US$400 an episode needed for color filming at the beginning of the
series, but Screen Gems executive Jerry Hyams advised him: "Sidney, don't
throw your money away."
September 19, 1970
The Mary Tyler Moore
Show
premiered Created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns the show aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977.
The program was a television
breakthrough, with the first never-married, independent career woman as the
central character: "As Mary Richards, a single woman in her thirties, Moore presented a character different
from other single TV women of the time. She was not widowed or divorced or
seeking a man to support her."
It has also been cited as "one
of the most acclaimed television programs ever produced" in US television
history. It received high praise from critics, including Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series
three years in a row (1975–77), and continued to be honored long after the
final episode aired.
Mary Richards (Moore) is a
single woman who, at age 30, moves to Minneapolis after breaking off an engagement with
her boyfriend of two years. She applies for a secretarial job at TV station
WJM, but is offered the position of Associate Producer for the station's
"Six O'Clock News." She befriends her tough but lovable boss Lou
Grant (Edward Asner),
newswriter Murray Slaughter
(Gavin MacLeod), and buffoonish anchorman Ted Baxter (Ted Knight). Mary later becomes Producer of the
show.
Mary rents a third floor studio apartment in a Victorian house from existing
acquaintance and downstairs landlady, Phyllis Lindstrom (Cloris Leachman), and becomes best friends with
upstairs neighbor Rhoda Morgenstern
(Valerie Harper). Characters introduced later in
the series are acerbic, man-hungry TV hostess Sue Ann Nivens (Betty White) and Ted Baxter's girlfriend,
sweet-natured Georgette Franklin (Georgia Engel). At the beginning of season 6,
after both Rhoda and Phyllis have moved away, Mary moves to a one bedroom
high-rise apartment.
In the third season, issues such as equal pay for women, pre-marital sex and
homosexuality are woven into the show's comedic plots. In the fourth season,
such subjects as marital infidelity and divorce are explored with Phyllis and
Lou, respectively. In the fifth season, Mary refuses to reveal a news source
and is jailed for contempt of court. While in prison, she befriends a
prostitute who seeks Mary's help in a subsequent episode. In the final seasons,
the show explores humor in death in the classic Emmy-winning episode "Chuckles Bites the Dust"
and juvenile delinquency; Ted deals with intimate marital problems,
infertility, adoption, and suffers a heart attack; and Mary overcomes an
addiction to sleeping pills. Mary dates several men on and off over the years,
two seriously, but remains single throughout the series.
The show spun off three television series: the sitcoms Rhoda (1974–1978) and Phyllis
(1975–1977), and the one hour drama Lou Grant
(1977–1982). In 2000, Moore and Harper reprised their roles in a two-hour ABC
TV movie, Mary and Rhoda.
September 20, 1955
The Phil Silvers Show, originally titled You'll Never Get Rich primiered.
The sitcom which
ran on CBS from
1955 to 1959 for 142 episodes, plus a 1959 special starred Phil
Silvers as Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko of the United States Army.
The series was created and largely written
by Nat
Hiken, and won three consecutive Emmy Awards for
Best Comedy Series. The show is sometimes titled Sergeant Bilko or
simply Bilko in reruns, and is
very often referred to by these names, both on-screen and by viewers. The
show's success transformed Silvers from a journeyman comedian into a star, and
writer-producer Hiken from a highly regarded
behind-the-scenes comedy writer into a publicly recognized creator.
September 21, 1950
William James
"Bill" Murray is born.
The Academy Award nominated comedian and
actor gained
national exposure on Saturday Night
Live, and went on to star in
films including Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Lost in
Translation, and The
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.September 21, 1970
NFL Monday Night Football made its debut on ABC-TV. The game was between the Cleveland Browns and the New
York Jets. The Browns won 31-21.
September 21, 1985
George Clooney makes his first appearance as a
handyman on the popular TV sitcom The Facts of Life.
Clooney appeared in 17 episodes of the show, which
aired from 1979 to 1988 and chronicled the lives of a group of young women who
meet at a fictional boarding school. Years later, he moved on to Hollywood
superstardom in the hit TV medical drama ER and such films as The
Perfect Storm, Ocean’s Eleven and Michael Clayton. Clooney, who was born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky,
is the son of the journalist and TV host Nick Clooney and the nephew of the
well-known singer Rosemary Clooney. His early acting credits, in addition to The
Facts of Life, included small roles on the popular sitcom Roseanne
and the drama Sisters. Clooney also appeared in single episodes of such
shows as The Golden Girls and Murder, She Wrote. Clooney first
shot to fame as Dr. Doug Ross on the medical drama ER, which debuted in
1994.
While appearing on ER, Clooney headlined such movies as Batman
& Robin (1997), in which he played the caped crusader himself; Out
of Sight (1998), which co-starred Jennifer Lopez and marked the first time
Clooney worked with the director Steven Soderbergh, his future frequent
collaborator; and Three Kings (1999). After leaving the long-running
medical drama, he went on to starring roles in The Perfect Storm (2000),
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) and Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven
(2001) and its two sequels, Ocean’s Twelve (2004) and Ocean’s
Thirteen (2007). Clooney made his directorial debut with 2002’s Confessions
of a Dangerous Mind, about the game show host Chuck Barris, who claimed in
his memoir that he also worked for the C.I.A.
Clooney won an Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor category for his
role in Syriana (2005), a complex thriller about the oil industry. He
also received Best Director and Best Screenplay Oscar nominations for Good
Night, and Good Luck (2005), about the 1950s journalist Edward R. Murrow
and his conflict with the anti-Communist U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy. Clooney
earned his first Best Actor Oscar nomination for his performance in the title
role of 2007’s legal thriller Michael Clayton.
Off-screen, the actor, who was named People
magazine’s “Sexiest Man of the Year” in 1997 and 2006, is known both for his
confirmed bachelor status and his advocacy of various political and social
causes, including the environment and the troubled Darfur region of Sudan.
September 15, 1965
Lost in Space premiered on CBS TV.
Lost in Space is an American science fiction television series created and produced by Irwin Allen, filmed by 20th Century Fox Television, and broadcast on CBS. The show ran for three seasons, with 83 episodes airing between September 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 in the 1990s. In 1998, a Lost in Space movie, based on the television series, was released. In 2003 a pilot for a new live action reboot of the series was produced and in late 2014 plans for the development of a brand new series was announced.
In the unaired original pilot, the ship, named Gemini 12
in this early version without Smith or the Robot, was going slow enough that
the crew wondered if they were on Mars, while in the first aired episode, just
seconds of hyper-drive caused them to be lost, unknown light-years from Earth. The possible distance and location
varied between episodes and authors. As an example, Penny asks Will if they
could be on Mars in one of the early episodes. The ability of the Jupiter 2 to
quickly cover vast distances allowed the ship to pass through an entire galaxy
overnight in one later episode although this was more likely the writers'
confusion about what solar systems and galaxies actually are. There were two
versions of the pilot, a complete version with the credits at the very
beginning and a 2nd shorter version minus John's and Don's initial encounter
with "One-Eye the Cyclops" and with the credits appearing between
Alpha Control's statement that the Gemini 12 was hopelessly Lost in Space and
the crash landing sequence.
Though the original television series concept centered on
the Robinson family, many later story lines focused primarily on Dr. Zachary
Smith, played by Jonathan
Harris. Smith,
along with the Robot, was absent from the pilot as the addition of their
characters was decided once the series had been commissioned for production.
Originally written as an utterly evil but careless saboteur, Smith gradually
becomes the troublesome, self-centered, incompetent foil who provides the comic
relief for the show and causes most of the episodic conflict and
misadventures. In the unaired pilot, what causes the group to become lost
in space is a chance encounter with a meteor storm, but in the first aired
episode, it is Smith's sabotage and unplanned presence on the ship that sets
the ship off course into the meteor field. Smith is thus the key to the story.
Green Acres premiered on CBS TV.
After the first episodes the series developed an absurdist world. Though
there were still many episodes that were standard 1960s sitcom fare, the show
became notable for its surrealism andsatire. The
show appealed to children through its slapstick,
silliness, and shtick, but adults were able to appreciate it on a different
level.
September 15, 1965
The Big Valley premiered on ABC TV.
In the first episode, "Palms of Glory," the grave of Thomas
Barkley (1813–1870) is shown after it is commented that he fought the railroad
six years ago, establishing that the show was initially set no later than 1876.
At the beginning of the same episode, Jarrod Barkley and the other actor on the
train indirectly say that the year is 1876.
In "The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner," Jubal states to Victoria Barkley
that he has been gone 30 years since his wife Margaret Tanner's death, her
grave marker showing that she had died in 1854; this appears to indicate that
the series starts in 1884. However, in another episode, a newly dug grave has a
marker with the year 1878, so the best that can be said is that the events of
the series take place sometime in the late 1870s or early 1880s. The dug grave
appears at the beginning of the episode "The Long Ride," in which a
friend of Audra Barkley was killed, and where the grave clearly shows 1878,
which would make her 23 at the date of death based on the grave showing 1855 as
the year of birth. In the episode "They Called Her Delilah," the
telegram Jarrod received from Julia is dated April 27, 1878.
September 15, 1995
The first episode
of Xena: Warrior Princess
aired.
The show is a spin-off of the television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys; the
saga began with three episodes inHercules where Xena was a
recurring character originally scheduled to die in her third appearance. Aware
that the character of Xena had been very successful among the public, the
producers of the series decided to create a spin-off series based on her adventures. Xena was
a successful show which has aired in more than 108 countries around the world
since 1998. In 2004 and 2007, it was ranked #9 and #10 on TV Guide's Top
Cult Shows Ever and the title character was ranked #100 on Bravo's 100
Greatest TV Characters. Xena's success has led to hundreds of tie-in
products, including, comics, books,video games and conventions, realized
annually since 1998 in Pasadena, California and London.
The series soared past its predecessor in ratings and in popularity. In
its second season it was the top rated syndicated drama series on American
television. For all six years Xena remained in the top five. The series
came to an end in June 2001, after cancellation. It completed a full sixth
season and ended with a two-part series finale. The show has since acquired a
strong cult following, attention in fandom, parody, and academia, and
has influenced the direction of other television series.
September
16, 1965
The Dean
Martin Show debuted on NBC-TV.
Martin
believed that an important key to his popularity was that he did not put on
airs. His act was that of a drunken, work-shy playboy, although the
ever-present old-fashioned glass in his hand often only had apple juice in
it. The show was heavy on physical comedy rather than just quips (he made his
weekly entrance by sliding down a fireman's pole onto the stage.) Martin read
his dialogue directly from cue cards. If he flubbed a line or forgot a lyric,
Martin would not do a retake, and the mistake — and his recovery from it — went
straight to tape and onto the air.
The
Dean Martin Show was shot on
color videotape beginning in 1965 at Studio 4 inside NBC's massive color
complex at 3000 West Alameda
Avenue in Burbank, California. The same studio was used for Frank Sinatra's
yearly TV specials in the late 1960s, and Elvis Presley's
1968 "Comeback Special".
Studio 4 is currently one of two used in the production of the soap opera Days of Our Lives.
September 17, 1950
After the duo parted
ways, Martin launched his own TV variety show, which ran from 1965 to 1974. In
the late 1950s and early 1960s, Martin teamed up with Frank Sinatra, Sammy
Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop to perform in Las Vegas. The group quickly
became known as the Rat Pack, a suave group of young, fast-living entertainers.
The group made several movies together in the early 1960s, including Ocean's
Eleven (1960), Sergeants Three (1962), and Robin and the Seven
Hoods. Dean Martin died in 1995.
Jerry
Lewis went on to sign one of the most lucrative film contracts of the day, a
$10 million deal for 14 films with Paramount. Lewis' films, including Cinderfella
(1960) and The Nutty Professor (1963), failed to attract much praise
from American critics but made him a star in France, where he has long been
considered a comic genius. After a long absence from film, he gave an acclaimed
performance in the 1986 film The King of Comedy, co-starring Robert De
Niro.
September 17, 1965
Hogan's
Heroes first aired.
The setting is a fictional version of Stalag Luft 13 (Camp 13 in
early episodes), a prisoner-of-war camp for captured Allied airmen
located north of the town of Hammelburg in the Bad Kissingen woods. It was on the Hammelburg Road (now known as E45),
on the way to Hofburgstraße and eventually Düsseldorf. "Anchors Aweigh, Men
of Stalag 13" (S1E16) reveals the camp is 60 miles from the North Sea. Another episode places the
camp 106 kilometres (66 mi) from Heidelberg in flying miles; it is
199 km (124 mi) by car. The camp has 103 Allied prisoners of war (POWs) during the
first season, but becomes larger by the end of the series.
Though the series spans several seasons, it's always
winter at Stalag 13; there are ever-present patches of snow on the ground and
on buildings, and prisoners regularly gather around a barrel fire or shiver
through roll call.
The farcical premise of the show is that the prisoners of war (POWs) are actually
using the camp as a base of operations for Alliedespionage and sabotage against Nazi Germany as well as to help
Allied POWs from other camps and defectors to escape Germany (including
supplying them with civilian clothes and false identification). The prisoners
work in cooperation with an assortment ofresistance groups (collectively called "the
Underground"), defectors, spies, counterspies, disloyal officers, and
others. The mastermind behind the whole operation is the senior ranking
prisoner American Colonel Robert Hogan. His staff of experts in covert operations comprises two
Americans, one British serviceman, and one Frenchman. They are able to
accomplish farfetched schemes such as having a prisoner visit the camp as a
phony Adolf
Hitler or
rescuing a French Underground agent from Gestapoheadquarters in Paris.
Colonel Hogan and his band are aided by the
incompetence of the camp commandant Colonel Klink
and Sergeant
of the GuardSchultz
who wants to avoid trouble more than anything. Hogan routinely manipulates
Klink and gets Schultz to look the other way while his men conduct these covert
operations. Klink and Schultz are constantly at risk of being transferred to
the cold and bloodyRussian Front, and Hogan helps to keep the duo in place if for no other reason for
fear of their being replaced by more competent soldiers. In general, Germans in
uniform and authority are depicted as inept, dimwitted, and/or easily
manipulated. Many of the German civilians are portrayed as at least indifferent
towards the German war effort or even willing to help the Allies.
Klink has a perfect operational record as camp
commandant in that no prisoners have escaped during his time in the job (two
guards may have deserted). Hogan actually assists in maintaining this record
and ensures any prisoners who need to be spirited away are transferred to
another authority before their escape takes place, or replacements are provided
to maintain the illusion that no one has ever escaped from Stalag 13. Because
of this record, and the fact that the Allies would never bomb a prison camp, the
Germans use the Stalag for high level secret meetings or to hide important
persons or projects the Germans want to protect from bombing raids. Klink also
has many other important visitors and is temporarily put in charge of special
prisoners. This brings the prisoners in contact with many important VIPs,
scientists, high-ranking officers, spies, and some of Germany's most
sophisticated and secret weapons projects (Wunderwaffe), which the prisoners take
advantage of in their efforts to hinder the German war effort.
The main five Allied prisoners (Hogan and his staff)
bunk in "Barracke 2" (a goof here was that whenever the door was
open, another building labeled "Barracke 3" could be seen, even
though the barracks were supposed to be directly in front of the Kommandantur,
which was, unlike actual prison camps, situated inside the prisoner's compound
(kommandantur = headquarters, barracke =
barracks). The prisoners are able to leave and return almost at will via a
secret network of tunnels and have tunnels to
nearly every barracks and building in the camp, so much so that Hogan, in a
third-season episode ("Everybody Loves a Snowman"), has difficulty
finding a spot in the camp without a tunnel under it. The stove in Klink's
private quarters, a tree stump right outside the camp (known as the emergency
tunnel), and a doghouse in the guard dog compound serve astrapdoors. A bunk in their barracks
serves as an elaborate trapdoor and the main entrance to the tunnels. The
tunnels include access to the camp's Cooler, a name used by Allied
prisoners for solitary confinement, where prisoners are routinely sent for punishment and to hold special
prisoners temporarily entrusted to Klink. Just inside the "emergency
tunnel" is a submarine-style periscope, which the prisoners use to
check conditions outside the tree stump trapdoor. There is also a periscope in
their barracks with one end hidden in a water barrel outside the barracks and
the other disguised as a sink faucet inside the barracks that allows them to
see events in the compound.
The prisoners' infiltration of the camp is so
extensive it includes control of the camp telephone switchboard, allowing them
to listen in on all conversations and to make phony phone calls. They have
radio contact with Allied command, based in London, code named "Mama Bear" in some episodes and
"Papa Bear" in others. Hogan's code name is "Goldilocks" sometimes, and Papa Bear other times,
although in later seasons Stalag 13 utilized different code names. Their radio
antenna is hidden in the camp flagpole on top of Klink's headquarters, and the
prisoners are able to make phony radio broadcasts including some by a prisoner
impersonating Adolf
Hitler. A
real microphone, hidden in Klink's office in the picture of Hitler making a
speech exactly where the microphone is in the picture, allows the prisoners to
hear what is being said in the office (the speaker is disguised as the coffee
pot in their barracks). The guard dogs are friendly to the prisoners, thanks to
the town veterinarian Oscar Schnitzer (played by Walter Janowitz), who supports
the prisoners. He routinely replaces the dogs on the premise that they could
become too friendly with the prisoners, but he also uses his truck to smuggle
people and items in and out of the camp, where the German guards are too afraid
of the dogs to open the truck. Prisoners work in the camp's motor pool and "borrow"
vehicles, including Klink's staff car, as needed to carry out
their schemes. Sections of the barbed wire fence are in a frame
which the prisoners can easily lift when they need to get out of the camp. When
required, Allied airplanes land near the camp, or make airdrops. Allied submarines pick up
escapees and defectors Hogan and his men are helping flee Germany.
The Smothers Brothers Show, the first TV series featuring comedians Tom and Dick Smothers, debuts.
The sitcom featured elder brother Dick as a publishing executive pestered by the ghost of his brother, Tom. The show lasted only one season. However, the brothers were back in 1967 with their comedy variety show The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, which became the most popular show on television during its two-year run. CBS abruptly cancelled the show at the height of its popularity after a series of censorship disputes with the brothers.In
1975, NBC revived the original show, now called The Smothers Brothers Show,
but the brothers' humor had lost its edge, and audience interest waned after
the first few episodes. The show lasted only one season.
September 17, 1965
Wild
Wild West Priemered.
The show also featured a
number of fantasy elements, such as the technologically advanced devices used
by the agents and their adversaries. The combination of the Victorian
era time-frame and the use of Verne-esque technology
has inspired some to give the show credit as being one of the more
"visible" origins of the steampunk subculture.
These elements were accentuated even more in the 1999 movie adaptation.
Despite high ratings, the series was cancelled near
the end of its fourth season as a concession to Congress over television
violence.
September
17, 2010 - CBS aired the final episode of "As the World
Turns."
September 18, 1955
Ed Sullivan's popular talk show, originally called Toast of the Town, changes its name to The Ed Sullivan Show.
Sullivan was so closely identified with the show, which first aired in 1948, that most Americans already called the program "Ed Sullivan." Among the many celebrities who made their TV debut on the show were Bob Hope, Lena Horne, the Beatles, and Walt Disney. Elvis also made several high-profile appearances, in 1956 and 1957. CBS cancelled the program in 1971.September
18, 1965
Get Smart Premiered.
Created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry, the show
starred Don
Adams (as
Maxwell Smart, Agent 86), Barbara Feldon (as Agent 99),
and Edward
Platt (as
Chief). Henry said they created the show by request of Daniel Melnick, who was a partner, along
withLeonard Stern and David Susskind, of the show's production
company, Talent Associates, to capitalize on "the two biggest things in the entertainment
world today"—James
Bond and Inspector Clouseau. Brooks said: "It's an insane combination of James Bond and
Mel Brooks comedy."
The success of the show (which ran from September
18, 1965, to September 11, 1970) eventually spawned the follow-up films The Nude Bomb (a theatrical release)
and Get Smart, Again! (a made-for-TV sequel to the series), as well as a 1995 revival series, and a 2008 film remake. In 2010, TV Guide ranked Get
Smart's opening title sequence at No. 2 on its list
of TV's Top 10 Credits Sequences as selected by readers.
During the show's run, it generated a number of
popular catchphrases, including "Would you
believe...", "Missed it by that much!", "Sorry
about that, Chief", "The Old (such-and-such) Trick", "And
... loving it", and "I asked you not to tell me
that".
September
18, 1965
The first episode of I Dream of Jeannie was shown on NBC-TV. The last show was televised on September 1, 1970.
The series was created and produced by Sidney Sheldon in response to the great success of rival network ABC's Bewitched series, which had debuted in 1964 as the second most watched program in the United States.
Sheldon, inspired by the movie The Brass Bottle, which had starred Tony Randall, Barbara Eden, and Burl Ives as the genie Fakrash, came up with the idea for a beautiful female genie. Both I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched were Screen Gems productions. The show debuted at 8 p.m., Saturday, September 18, 1965, on NBC.When
casting was opened for the role of Jeannie, producer Sidney Sheldon could not
find an actress who could play the role the way that he had written it. He did
have one specific rule: He did not want a blonde genie because there would be
too much similarity with the blonde witch on Bewitched.
However, after many unsuccessful auditions, he called Barbara Eden's agent.
When NBC began telecasting most of its prime time television programs in color
in fall 1965, Jeannie was one of two regular programs on NBC
that remained in black and white, in this case because of the special
photographic effects employed to achieve Jeannie's magic. By the second season,
however, further work had been done on techniques to create the visual effects
in color, necessary because by 1966 all US prime time series were being made in
color.
According
to Dreaming of Jeannie, a book by Stephen Cox and Howard Frank,
Sheldon originally wanted to film season one in color, but NBC did not want to
pay for the extra expenses, as the network (and Screen Gems)
believed the series would not make it to a second season. According to Sheldon
in his autobiography The Other Side of Me, he offered to pay the
extra US$400 an episode needed for color filming at the beginning of the
series, but Screen Gems executive Jerry Hyams advised him: "Sidney, don't
throw your money away."
September 19, 1970
The Mary Tyler Moore Show premiered Created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns the show aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977.
The program was a television breakthrough, with the first never-married, independent career woman as the central character: "As Mary Richards, a single woman in her thirties, Moore presented a character different from other single TV women of the time. She was not widowed or divorced or seeking a man to support her." It has also been cited as "one
of the most acclaimed television programs ever produced" in US television
history. It received high praise from critics, including Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series
three years in a row (1975–77), and continued to be honored long after the
final episode aired.
Mary Richards (Moore) is a
single woman who, at age 30, moves to Minneapolis after breaking off an engagement with
her boyfriend of two years. She applies for a secretarial job at TV station
WJM, but is offered the position of Associate Producer for the station's
"Six O'Clock News." She befriends her tough but lovable boss Lou
Grant (Edward Asner),
newswriter Murray Slaughter
(Gavin MacLeod), and buffoonish anchorman Ted Baxter (Ted Knight). Mary later becomes Producer of the
show.
Mary rents a third floor studio apartment in a Victorian house from existing
acquaintance and downstairs landlady, Phyllis Lindstrom (Cloris Leachman), and becomes best friends with
upstairs neighbor Rhoda Morgenstern
(Valerie Harper). Characters introduced later in
the series are acerbic, man-hungry TV hostess Sue Ann Nivens (Betty White) and Ted Baxter's girlfriend,
sweet-natured Georgette Franklin (Georgia Engel). At the beginning of season 6,
after both Rhoda and Phyllis have moved away, Mary moves to a one bedroom
high-rise apartment.
In the third season, issues such as equal pay for women, pre-marital sex and
homosexuality are woven into the show's comedic plots. In the fourth season,
such subjects as marital infidelity and divorce are explored with Phyllis and
Lou, respectively. In the fifth season, Mary refuses to reveal a news source
and is jailed for contempt of court. While in prison, she befriends a
prostitute who seeks Mary's help in a subsequent episode. In the final seasons,
the show explores humor in death in the classic Emmy-winning episode "Chuckles Bites the Dust"
and juvenile delinquency; Ted deals with intimate marital problems,
infertility, adoption, and suffers a heart attack; and Mary overcomes an
addiction to sleeping pills. Mary dates several men on and off over the years,
two seriously, but remains single throughout the series.
The show spun off three television series: the sitcoms Rhoda (1974–1978) and Phyllis
(1975–1977), and the one hour drama Lou Grant
(1977–1982). In 2000, Moore and Harper reprised their roles in a two-hour ABC
TV movie, Mary and Rhoda.
September 20, 1955
The Phil Silvers Show, originally titled You'll Never Get Rich primiered.
The series was created and largely written
by Nat
Hiken, and won three consecutive Emmy Awards for
Best Comedy Series. The show is sometimes titled Sergeant Bilko or
simply Bilko in reruns, and is
very often referred to by these names, both on-screen and by viewers. The
show's success transformed Silvers from a journeyman comedian into a star, and
writer-producer Hiken from a highly regarded
behind-the-scenes comedy writer into a publicly recognized creator.
September 21, 1950
William James "Bill" Murray is born.
The Academy Award nominated comedian and actor gained national exposure on Saturday Night Live, and went on to star in films including Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Lost in Translation, and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.September 21, 1970
September 21, 1985
George Clooney makes his first appearance as a handyman on the popular TV sitcom The Facts of Life.
Clooney appeared in 17 episodes of the show, which aired from 1979 to 1988 and chronicled the lives of a group of young women who meet at a fictional boarding school. Years later, he moved on to Hollywood superstardom in the hit TV medical drama ER and such films as The Perfect Storm, Ocean’s Eleven and Michael Clayton. Clooney, who was born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky,
is the son of the journalist and TV host Nick Clooney and the nephew of the
well-known singer Rosemary Clooney. His early acting credits, in addition to The
Facts of Life, included small roles on the popular sitcom Roseanne
and the drama Sisters. Clooney also appeared in single episodes of such
shows as The Golden Girls and Murder, She Wrote. Clooney first
shot to fame as Dr. Doug Ross on the medical drama ER, which debuted in
1994.
While appearing on ER, Clooney headlined such movies as Batman
& Robin (1997), in which he played the caped crusader himself; Out
of Sight (1998), which co-starred Jennifer Lopez and marked the first time
Clooney worked with the director Steven Soderbergh, his future frequent
collaborator; and Three Kings (1999). After leaving the long-running
medical drama, he went on to starring roles in The Perfect Storm (2000),
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) and Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven
(2001) and its two sequels, Ocean’s Twelve (2004) and Ocean’s
Thirteen (2007). Clooney made his directorial debut with 2002’s Confessions
of a Dangerous Mind, about the game show host Chuck Barris, who claimed in
his memoir that he also worked for the C.I.A.
Clooney won an Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor category for his
role in Syriana (2005), a complex thriller about the oil industry. He
also received Best Director and Best Screenplay Oscar nominations for Good
Night, and Good Luck (2005), about the 1950s journalist Edward R. Murrow
and his conflict with the anti-Communist U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy. Clooney
earned his first Best Actor Oscar nomination for his performance in the title
role of 2007’s legal thriller Michael Clayton.
Off-screen, the actor, who was named People
magazine’s “Sexiest Man of the Year” in 1997 and 2006, is known both for his
confirmed bachelor status and his advocacy of various political and social
causes, including the environment and the troubled Darfur region of Sudan.
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