June 16, 1976
The TV show The
Jacksons began airing for four weeks on CBS.
The Jacksons was
a variety
show featuring the Jackson
siblings (except for Jermaine,
who was signed to Motown while the Jackson group was signed to the Epic/CBS
record label). It was the first variety show where the entire cast were
siblings. As with the Jackson 5 regular performances, Michael
Jackson was the lead performer in musical and dance performances.
The thirty-minute Wednesday evening show began airing
on CBS as a
summer 1976 show and it continued into the 1976–1977 season,
finishing on March 9, 1977 after running for 12 episodes.
June 21, 2001
Carroll O'Connor died in Culver City, California from
a heart attack brought on by complications
from diabetes.
His
funeral Mass was celebrated at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic
Church in Westwood,
Los Angeles, California and was
attended by All in the Family cast members Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers and Danielle Brisebois, as well as producer Norman Lear.
Actress Jean Stapleton, who played O'Connor's onscreen wife and who had been
a close friend of O'Connor's since the early 1960s, did not attend the service
due to a stage production performance commitment.
In honor of O'Connor's career, TV Land moved
an entire weekend of programming to the next week and showed a continuous
marathon of All in the Family. During the commercial breaks TV Land
also showed interview footage of O'Connor and various All in the Family actors,
producers with whom he had worked, and other associates. O'Connor's best
friend Larry Hagman and his family were also there, alongside the
surviving cast of In
the Heat of the Night,
including Alan Autry and Denise Nicholas,
who also attended the memorial. Actor Martin Sheen,
then starring on The West Wing, delivered the eulogy. O'Connor is buried at Westwood
Village Memorial Park Cemetery with
his son Hugh's cenotaph placed on his grave stone.
June 16, 1976
The TV show The Jacksons began airing for four weeks on CBS.
The thirty-minute Wednesday evening show began airing
on CBS as a
summer 1976 show and it continued into the 1976–1977 season,
finishing on March 9, 1977 after running for 12 episodes.
June 21, 2001
Carroll O'Connor died in Culver City, California from a heart attack brought on by complications from diabetes.
His funeral Mass was celebrated at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Westwood, Los Angeles, California and was attended by All in the Family cast members Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers and Danielle Brisebois, as well as producer Norman Lear. Actress Jean Stapleton, who played O'Connor's onscreen wife and who had been a close friend of O'Connor's since the early 1960s, did not attend the service due to a stage production performance commitment.
In honor of O'Connor's career, TV Land moved
an entire weekend of programming to the next week and showed a continuous
marathon of All in the Family. During the commercial breaks TV Land
also showed interview footage of O'Connor and various All in the Family actors,
producers with whom he had worked, and other associates. O'Connor's best
friend Larry Hagman and his family were also there, alongside the
surviving cast of In
the Heat of the Night,
including Alan Autry and Denise Nicholas,
who also attended the memorial. Actor Martin Sheen,
then starring on The West Wing, delivered the eulogy. O'Connor is buried at Westwood
Village Memorial Park Cemetery with
his son Hugh's cenotaph placed on his grave stone.
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