October 12, 1950
The George Burns and Gracie
Allen Show, aka The Burns and Allen Show, began on
CBS Television.
The show was originally staged live before a studio audience
(during its first three months, it originated from the Mansfield Theatre in New York, then
relocated to CBS' Columbia Square facilities in Los Angeles). Ever
the businessman, Burns realized it would be more efficient to do the series on
film (beginning in the fall of 1952); the half-hour episodes could then be
syndicated. From that point on, the show was shot without a live audience
present, however, each installment would be screened before an audience to
provide live responses prior to the episodes being broadcast. With 291
episodes, the show had a long network run through 1958 and continued in
syndicated reruns for years.
October 12, 1970
Kirk Thomas Cameron is born. Best-known for his role as Mike Seaver on
the television situation comedy
Growing Pains, as well as several other
television and film appearances as a child actor. Recently, he portrayed the
lead roles in the Left Behind film series and in the 2008 drama film, Fireproof.
Cameron is also an active Christian evangelist, currently partnering with Ray Comfort in the evangelical ministry The Way of the
Master, and has co-founded The Firefly Foundation with
his wife, actress Chelsea Noble.
He stated that his main priorities in life are: "God, family,
career — in that order," and he says that this decision has had
negative consequences on his career.
October 15th, 1955
Grand Ole Opry
premiered on ABC-TV.
To quote the Bicentennial Minute, "And that's the way it was".
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