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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, June 30, 2025

This Week in Television History: June 2025 PART IV

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        July 2, 1955 The long-running musical-variety program The Lawrence Welk Show debuts on ABC.   Welk, a bandleader from North Dakota ...
Monday, June 23, 2025

This Week in Television History: June 2025 PART III

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       June 26, 1975 Sonny and Cher's divorce becomes final.   With a string of pop hits in the mid- 1960s  that began with the career...
Monday, June 16, 2025

This Week in Television History: June 2025 PART II

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      June 16, 2002 The first episode of The Dead Zone aired.  The Dead Zone , a.k.a.  Stephen King's Dead Zone  (in USA) is an  Americ...
Monday, June 09, 2025

This Week in Television History: June 2025 PART I

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     June 9, 1961 Michael J. Fox was born, in Canada.   He first became known for his role as Alex P. Keaton on the popular sitcom Family Ti...
Monday, June 02, 2025

This Week in Television History: May 2025 PART IV

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    June 7, 1955 $64,000 Question premieres. T V game show The $64,000 Question debuts on this day in 1955. The show was a spin-off of radi...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Loretta Swit

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M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assum...
Monday, May 26, 2025

This Week in Television History: May 2025 PART III

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   May 31, 1930 Clint Eastwood born.   Best known to his many fans for one of his most memorable screen incarnations--San Francisco Police...
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