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Saturday, September 29, 2018
Monday, September 24, 2018
This Week in Television History: September 2018 PART IV
The further we go back in Hollywood history,
the more that fact and legend become intertwined.
It's hard to say where the truth really lies.
Donna Allen-Figueroa
 |
September 24, 1958
The Donna Reed Show
first aired.
A sitcom starring Donna Reed as
the middle-class housewife Donna Stone. Carl Betz co-stars
as her pediatrician husband Dr. Alex Stone, and Shelley
Fabares and Paul Petersen as their teenage children, Mary
and Jeff. The show originally aired on ABC from September 24, 1958 to
March 19, 1966. When Fabares left the show in 1963, Petersen's younger
sister, Patty Petersen, joined the cast as adopted daughter
Trisha. Patty Petersen had first appeared in the episode "A Way of Her
Own", on January 31, 1963. Janet
Landgard was a series regular from 1963-1965 as Karen Holmby.
September 24, 1963
Petticoat Junction first
aired.
Set just outside the rural town of Hooterville,
the show followed the goings-on at The Shady Rest Hotel, of which Kate Bradley
(Benaderet) was the proprietor. Her lazy Uncle Joe Carson
(Edgar Buchanan), who was the great
uncle to Kate's three daughters, helped her in the day-to-day running of the
business while she served as a mediator in the various minor crises that befell
her daughters Betty Jo (redhead), Bobbie Jo (brunette), and Billie Jo
(blonde). The actresses
portraying Billie Jo and Bobbie Jo changed over the years, whereas Betty Jo was
portrayed by Linda Kaye, the daughter of Paul
Henning, for the entire run.
September 24, 1968
60 Minutes premiered on
CBS-TV.
An American newsmagazine television program broadcast on
the CBS television network. Debuting in 1968, the program
was created by Don Hewitt,
who chose to set it apart from other news programs by using a unique style of
reporter-centered investigation. In 2002, 60 Minutes was
ranked #6 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV
Shows of All Time and in 2013, it was ranked #24 on TV Guide's
60 Best Series of All Time. The New York Times has called it
"one of the most esteemed news magazines on American television"
September 24th, 1968
The
Mod Squad first aired.
It starred Michael Cole as Pete Cochren, Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes, Clarence Williams III as Linc Hayes, and Tige Andrews as Captain Adam Greer. Theexecutive producers of the series were Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas.
The
iconic counter-culture police series earned six Emmy nominations, four Golden
Globe nominations plus one win for Peggy Lipton, one Directors Guild of America
award, and four Logies. In
1997 the episode “Mother of Sorrow” was ranked #95 on TV Guide’s 100 Greatest
Episodes of All Time.
September 24, 1993
ABC debuted the series
"Boy Meets World."
An American television sitcom created
and produced by Michael Jacobs and April
Kelly. The show aired on the ABC network from September 24,
1993, to May 5, 2000, lasting seven seasons.
The show chronicles the everyday events and life-lessons of Cory
Matthews (Ben Savage). It also stars Cory's teacher George Feeny (William
Daniels), best friend Shawn Hunter (Rider
Strong), brother Eric (Will Friedle), and love interest Topanga (Danielle
Fishel). The show also features Cory's father Alan (William
Russ), mother Amy (Betsy Randle), and sister Morgan (Lily
Nicksay), while introducing the characters Angela Moore (Trina
McGee-Davis), Rachel McGuire (Maitland
Ward), and Jonathan Turner (Anthony Tyler Quinn) in its later seasons.
September 29, 1948
Bryant Charles Gumbel is
born.
The television journalist, sportscaster, newscaster, television personality and sports anchor is best known for his 15 years as co-host of NBC's The Today Show. He is the younger brother of sportscaster Greg Gumbel. He began his television career in October 1972, when he was made a sportscaster for KNBC-TV Los Angeles.
September 29, 1953
"Make Room for Daddy"
premiered on ABC-TV.
The Danny Thomas Show (titled Make
Room for Daddy for its first three seasons) is an American sitcom that
ran from 1953 to 1957 on ABC and from 1957 to 1964 on CBS. Episodes regularly
featured music by Danny Thomas, guest stars and occasionally other cast members
as part of the plot.
In March 1953, Danny Thomas first signed the contract for the
show with ABC and chose Desilu Studios to film it using its three-camera method. Two
proposed titles during preproduction were The Children's Hour and Here
Comes Daddy.
September 29, 1963
"The Judy Garland
Show" premiered on CBS-TV.
The
Judy Garland Show is an American musical
variety television series that aired on CBS on Sunday
nights during the 1963–1964 television season. Despite a sometimes stormy
relationship with Judy Garland, CBS had found success with several
television specials featuring the star. Garland, who for years had been
reluctant to commit to a weekly series, saw the show as her best chance to pull
herself out of severe financial difficulties.
Production
difficulties beset the series almost from the beginning. The series had three
different producers in the course of its 26 episodes and went through a number
of other key personnel changes. With the change in producers also came changes
to the show's format, which started as comedy and variety but
switched to an almost purely concert format.
While
Garland herself was popular with critics, the initial variety format and her
co-star, Jerry Van Dyke, were not. The show competed
with NBC's Bonanza,
then the fourth most popular program on television, and consistently
performed poorly in the ratings.
Although fans rallied in an attempt to save the show, CBS cancelled it after a
single season.
TV Guide included the series in
their 2013 list of 60 shows that were "Cancelled Too Soon".
September 29, 1963
My Favorite Martian first aired.
The show starred Ray Walston as
Uncle Martin (the Martian) and Bill Bixby as
Tim O’Hara. A human-looking extraterrestrial in
a one-man spaceship crash-lands near Los Angeles. The ship’s pilot is, in
fact, an anthropologist from Mars and
is now stranded on Earth. Tim
O’Hara, a young newspaper reporter for The
Los Angeles Sun, is on his way home from Edwards Air Force Base (where he
had gone to report on the flight of the X-15) back to
Los Angeles when he spots the spaceship coming down. The X-15 nearly hit the
martian’s spaceship and caused it to crash.
September 30, 1958
Naked City first aired
Naked City is a police
drama series from Screen Gems which was broadcast from 1958 to 1959 and from 1960 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was
inspired by the 1948 motion picture The
Naked City and mimics its dramatic "semi-documentary"
format. As in the film, each episode concluded with a narrator intoning the
iconic line: "There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has
been one of them."
September 30, 1958
The first episode of The Rifleman
aired on ABC-TV.
The Rifleman is
an American Western television program starring Chuck
Connors as rancher Lucas
McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son Mark
McCain. It was set in the 1870s and 1880s in the fictional town of North
Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in
black and white, in half-hour episodes. The Rifleman aired
on ABCfrom September 30, 1958, to April
8, 1963, as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series
on US television to show a single parent raising a child.The program was titled to reflect McCain's use of a Winchester Model 1892 rifle, customized to allow repeated firing by cycling its lever action. He demonstrated this technique in the opening credits of every episode, as well as a second modification that allowed him to cycle the action with one hand.
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Friday, September 21, 2018
Your Mental Sorbet: 70th Emmy Awards: Reparation Emmys
Here is another "Mental Sorbet"
that we could use to momentarily forget about those
things that leave a bad taste in our mouths
Michael Che visits Emmys history to right some wrongs.
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Monday, September 17, 2018
This Week in Television History: September 2018 PART III
The further we go back in Hollywood history,
the more that fact and legend become intertwined.
It's hard to say where the truth really lies.
Donna Allen-Figueroa
|
September 17, 1948
Jonathan Southworth “John”
Ritter is born.
Best known for
playing Jack
Tripper in the ABC sitcom Three's
Company. Ritter was born and raised in Burbank, California, the son of Dorothy Fay
(née Southworth), an actress,
and singing-cowboy/matinee-star Tex Ritter. He attended Hollywood High School, where he
was Student Body President. He went on to the University of Southern California,
where he was a member of the Phi
Gamma Delta (FIJI) fraternity, majored in psychology
and minored in architecture.
On September
11, 2003,
Ritter felt ill while rehearsing scenes for a season 2 episode of 8 Simple
Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter. He was taken across
the street to Providence Saint Joseph Medical
Center, where he died later that day. The cause of his death
was an aortic
dissection caused by a previously undiagnosed congenital heart defect. His father
had died of a heart attack almost thirty
years earlier. Years later Ritter's wife testified in court that he had
concerns for his own health because of the cause of his father's death. He was
buried at Forest Lawn, Hollywood
Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.
September 17, 1963 - The Fugitive premiered on
ABC-TV. The show starred David Janssen.
The Fugitive is an American drama series created by Roy
Huggins. It was produced by QM
Productions and United Artists
Television. It aired on ABC from September 1963 to
August 1967. David Janssen starred as Dr. Richard Kimble, a
physician who is wrongfully convicted of his wife's murder and sentenced to
receive the death penalty. En route to death row, Dr. Richard
Kimble's train derails over a switch, allowing him to escape and begin a
cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man" (played
by Bill
Raisch). At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most
notably by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard (Barry
Morse).
The
Fugitive aired for four seasons, and a total of 120
51-minute episodes were produced. The first three seasons were filmed in black
and white, while the final season was filmed in color.
The
Fugitive was nominated for five Emmy
Awards and won the Emmy for Outstanding
Dramatic Series in 1966. In 2002, it was ranked No. 36 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV
Shows of All Time. TV Guide named the one-armed man No. 5 in their
2013 list of The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time.
September 17, 1968
Julia first aired.
Julia is
an American sitcom.
It is notable for being one of the first weekly series to depict
an African Americanwoman in a non-stereotypical role.
Previous television series featured African American lead characters, but the
characters were usually servants. The show starred actress and singer Diahann
Carroll, and ran for 86 episodes on NBC from September
17, 1968, to March 23, 1971. The series was produced by Savannah Productions,
Inc., Hanncarr Productions, Inc., and 20th Century-Fox Television.
During pre-production,
the proposed series title was Mama's Man. The series was among
the few situation comedies in the late 1960s that did not use a laugh
track; however, 20th Century-Fox Television added
one when the series was reissued for syndication and cable rebroadcasts in the
late 1980s.
September
17, 1978
The
series Battlestar Galactica began airing on ABC.
Battlestar
Galactica is an American science
fiction media franchise created by Glen
A. Larson. The franchise began with the original television series in
1978 and was followed by a short-run sequel series (Galactica
1980), a line of book adaptations, original novels, comic books, a
board game, and video games. A re-imagined version of Battlestar
Galactica aired as a two-part, three-hour miniseries developed
by Ronald D. Moore and David Eick in
2003. That miniseries led to a weekly television series,
which aired until 2009. A prequel series, Caprica, aired in 2010.
All Battlestar Galactica productions
share the premise that in a distant part of the universe, a human civilization
has extended to a group of planets known as the Twelve
Colonies, to which they have migrated from their ancestral homeworld
of Kobol.
The Twelve Colonies have been engaged in a lengthy war with a cybernetic race
known as the Cylons, whose goal is the extermination of the human
race. The Cylons offer peace to the humans, which proves to be a ruse. With the
aid of a human named Baltar, the Cylons carry out a
massive attack on the Twelve Colonies and on the Colonial Fleet of starships
that protect them. These attacks devastate the Colonial Fleet, lay waste to the
Colonies, and virtually destroy their populations. Scattered survivors flee
into outer space aboard a ragtag array of available spaceships. Of the entire
Colonial battle fleet, only the Battlestar Galactica, a
gigantic battleship and spacecraft carrier, appears to have survived the Cylon
attack. Under the leadership of Commander Adama, the Galactica and
the pilots of "Viper fighters" lead a fugitive fleet of
survivors in search of the fabled thirteenth colony known as Earth.
September 17, 1983
20-year-old Vanessa Williams becomes the first African
American to win the Miss America crown.
Vanessa Lynn Williams was born on March 18, 1963, and raised by
music-teacher parents in suburban New York City. She attended Syracuse
University, where she majored in musical theater. After winning the Miss New
York title, Williams went to Atlantic City, New Jersey, to participate in the
Miss America pageant. On September 17, 1983, Williams made history by becoming
the first African-American woman in the pageant’s 63-year history to capture
the Miss America title. (For the competition’s first 30 years, blacks weren’t
even allowed to become contestants.) Scandal later erupted, however, when nude
photos surfaced of Williams that had reportedly been shot when she worked for a
photographer before her pageant days. She was forced to resign her Miss America
title in July 1984. The photos later appeared (without Williams’ consent) in Penthouse
magazine.Less than a year later, on July 23, 1984, Williams gave up her crown after nude photos of her surfaced. Despite the scandal, Williams later launched a successful singing and acting career, including a featured role on the hit television sitcom Ugly Betty. After some time away from the public eye, Williams re-emerged and embarked on a successful music career. In 1988, she released her debut album, The Right Stuff, a dance/pop/R&B collection that went gold and garnered her three Grammy nominations, including Best New Artist. Her second album, 1991’s The Comfort Zone, sold over two million copies and contained the chart-topping single “Save the Best for Last.” Williams’ third album, 1994’s The Sweetest Days, also went platinum. In 1995, she recorded “Colors of the Wind,” the theme song on the soundtrack for the animated feature Pocahontas; the song later earned an Academy Award. As Williams continued to record and perform music into the coming decade, her acting career heated up. She made her big-screen debut with a small role in 1987’s The Pick-Up Artist, featuring Molly Ringwald and Robert Downey Jr., and also appeared in the 1991 Richard Pryor-Gene Wilder vehicle Another You. She then moved on to co-starring roles in 1996’s Eraser, with Arnold Schwarzenegger; 1997’s Soul Food, whose ensemble cast included Nia Long, Vivica A. Fox and Mekhi Pfifer; the 2000 remake of Shaft, directed by John Singleton and featuring Samuel L. Jackson; and 2004’s Johnson Family Vacation, with Cedric the Entertainer. Williams also racked up credits on the small-screen, including roles on the short-lived series Boomtown and South Beach. Since 2006, she has co-starred on the hit ABC sitcom Ugly Betty. Williams has received two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as the scheming former supermodel Wilhelmina Slater. Williams has also appeared on Broadway, where she made her debut in 1994 with a starring role in The Kiss of the Spider Woman. She earned a Tony Award nomination for her appearance in the 2002 revival of Into the Woods.
September
18, 1963
The Patty Duke Show premiered
on ABC-TV.
The Patty Duke Show is an American
sitcom that ran on ABC from
September 18, 1963 to April 27, 1966, with reruns airing through August 31. The
show was created as a vehicle for rising star Patty Duke. 105 episodes were produced, 104
of them airing over three seasons. Most episodes were written by either Sidney Sheldon or William Asher, the show's creators.
September
18, 1978
The first episode of WKRP in Cincinnati aired on CBS.
WKRP in Cincinnati is an American sitcom that featured the misadventures of the staff of a
struggling fictional radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio. The show was
created by Hugh Wilson and was based upon his
experiences working in advertising sales at Top 40 radio
station WQXI in
Atlanta. Many of the characters and even some of the stories (including season
1 episode 7, "Turkeys Away") are based on people and events at WQXI.
The ensemble
cast consists of Gary Sandy (as
Andy Travis), Howard Hesseman (Johnny Fever), Gordon
Jump(Arthur Carlson), Loni
Anderson (Jennifer Marlowe), Tim Reid (Venus
Flytrap), Jan Smithers (Bailey Quarters), Richard Sanders (Les Nessman) and Frank
Bonner (Herb Tarlek).
Like
many other MTM productions, the humor came more
from running gags based on the known predilections and
quirks of each character, rather than from outlandish plots or racy situations,
since the show has a realistic setting. The characters also developed somewhat
over the course of the series.
The
series won a Humanitas Prize and received 10 Emmy Award nominations,
including three for Outstanding Comedy Series. Andy
Ackerman won an Emmy Award for Videotape Editing in season 3.
WKRP premiered September 18, 1978, on the CBS television
network, and aired for four seasons and 90 episodes through April 21, 1982.
Starting in the middle of the second season, CBS repeatedly moved the show
around its schedule, contributing to lower ratings and its eventual
cancellation.
When WKRP went
into syndication, it became an unexpected success. For
the next decade, it was one of the most popular sitcoms in syndication,
outperforming many programs which had been more successful in prime time,
including all the other MTM
Enterprises sitcoms.
Jump,
Sanders, and Bonner reprised their roles, appearing as regular characters in a
spin-off/sequel series, The New WKRP in Cincinnati, which
ran from 1991 to 1993 in syndication. Hesseman, Reid and Anderson also reprised
their roles on this show as guest stars.
September
18, 1983
ABC began airing Hardcastle
and McCormick.
Hardcastle and McCormick is an American action/drama
television series that aired on ABC from September 18, 1983
through May 5, 1986. The series stars Brian
Keith as Judge Milton C. Hardcastle and Daniel
Hugh Kelly as ex-con and race car driver
Mark "Skid" McCormick. In an interview in the 80's Stephen J. Cannell talks about the show
calling it Rolling Thunder, probably the show production title before airing.
September 19, 1928
William
West Anderson, better known by his stage name
Adam West is born.
Best known for his lead role in the Batman TV series on the ABC TV network and the 1966 Batman feature film. He is currently known for portraying eccentric or psychotically delusional characters, as well as his voice work on animated series such as The Fairly OddParents and Family Guy, in both of which he voices fictional versions of himself.
September 20, 1968
Hawaii Five-O First
aired.
Hawaii Five-O is an American police
procedural drama series
produced by CBS Productions and Leonard
Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to
1980, and continues in reruns. At the airing of its last episode it was the
longest-running police drama in American television history.
Jack Lord portrayed
Detective Captain Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task
force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the
1940s. The theme
music composed by Morton
Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with
McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as
"murder one".
September 21, 1948
Milton Berle debuted as the host of The Texaco Star Theater on NBC-TV.
The show later became The Milton Berle Show. Berle was the regular host until 1967.
September 21, 1953
CBS
aired Orwell's 1984 as a TV
movie.
September 21, 1968
The television show Adam-12 debuted on NBC.
Adam-12 is a television police procedural drama
that follows Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD)
officers Pete Malloy and Jim Reed as they ride the streets of Los Angeles in
their patrol unit 1-Adam-12.
The series was created by Robert
A. Cinader and Jack Webb, the latter of whom also created Dragnet.
It starred Martin Milner and Kent
McCord and purported to realistically capture a typical day in the
life of police officers. The show ran from September 21, 1968 through May 20,
1975 and helped to introduce police procedures and jargon to the general public
in the United States.
September 21, 1993
The first episode of NYPD Blue aired on ABC.
NYPD Blue is an American police
procedural drama television
series set in New York City, exploring the struggles of the fictional
15th Precinct detective squad in Manhattan. Each
episode typically intertwines several plots involving an ensemble
cast.
The show was created by Steven
Bochco and David Milch, and was inspired by Milch's relationship
with Bill
Clark, a former member of the New York City Police Department who
eventually became one of the show's producers. The series was originally
broadcast on the ABC network, debuted on
September 21, 1993‚ and aired its final episode on March 1, 2005. It was
ABC's longest-running primetime
one-hour drama series until Grey's
Anatomysurpassed it in 2016.
NYPD Blue was
met with critical acclaim, praised for its grittiness and realistic portrayal
of the cast's personal and professional lives, though the show garnered
controversy for its depiction of nudity and alcoholism. In 1997,
"True Confessions" (Season 1, Episode 4), written by Art Monterastelli
and directed by Charles Haid, was ranked #36 on "TV Guide's 100
Greatest Episodes of All Time." In 2009, "Hearts
and Souls" (Season 6, Episode 5), Jimmy
Smits' final episode as a main cast member, #30 on "TV Guide's
100 Greatest Episodes of All Time."
September 21, 1998
Will & Grace first aired.
The sitcom created
by Max
Mutchnick and David Kohan.
Set in New York City, the show
focuses on the relationship between best friends Will
Truman (Eric
McCormack), a gay lawyer,
and Grace
Adler (Debra
Messing), a straight interior
designer. The show was broadcast on NBC from
September 21, 1998 to May 18, 2006, for a total of eight seasons, and restarted
its reunon N the most successful television series with gay
principal characters.
Despite initial criticism for its particular portrayal of homosexual characters, it went on to become a staple of NBC's Must See TV Thursday night lineup and was met with continued critical acclaim. It was ensconced in the Nielsen top 20 for half of its network run. The show was the highest-rated sitcom among adults 18–49, from 2001 and 2005. Throughout its eight-year run, Will & Grace earned 16 Emmy Awards and 83 nominations. Each main actor, with the exception of Morrison, received an Emmy Award throughout the series. In 2014 the Writers Guild of America placed the sitcom at number 94 in their list of the 101 Best Written TV series of all time. Since the final episode aired, the sitcom has been credited with helping and improving public opinion of the LGBT community, with former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden commenting that the show "probably did more to educate the American public" on LGBT issues "than almost anything anybody has ever done so far". In 2014, the Smithsonian Institution added an LGBT history collection to their museum which included items from Will and Grace. The curator Dwight Blocker Bowers stated that the sitcom used "comedy to familiarize a mainstream audience with gay culture" that was "daring and broke ground" in American media.
September 22, 1958
Peter Gunn first aired
Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series, starring Craig Stevens as Peter Gunn with Lola Albrightas his girlfriend Edie Hart, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1958, to 1960 and on ABC in 1960-1961. The series was created by Blake Edwards, who, on occasion, was also writer and director.
The series is notable for being the
first televised detective program whose character was created for television,
whereas other early TV detectives had earlier appeared in other media.
The series is probably best
remembered today for its music, including the iconic "Peter
Gunn Theme", which was nominated for an Emmy Award and
two Grammys for Henry
Mancini and subsequently has been performed and recorded by many jazz,
rock, and blues musicians. The series was No. 17 in the Nielsen
ratings for the 1958–1959 TV season.
September 22, 2003
The pilot episode of Two and a Half Men aired.
Two and a Half Men is an American television sitcom that
originally aired on CBS for
twelve seasons from September 22, 2003, to February 19, 2015. Originally
starring Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer,
and Angus T. Jones, the series was about a hedonistic jingle writer, Charlie Harper, his uptight
brother, Alan, and Alan's troublesome
son, Jake. After Alan divorces, he
and Jake move into Charlie's beachfront Malibu house and complicate Charlie's
freewheeling life.
In 2010, CBS and Warner Bros. Television reached a
multiyear broadcasting agreement for the series, renewing it through at least
the 2011–12 season. In February 2011, however, CBS and Warner Bros.
decided to end production for the rest of the eighth season after Sheen
entered drug rehabilitation and made
"disparaging comments" about the series' creator and executive
producer Chuck Lorre. Sheen's contract was terminated the
following month and he was confirmed not to be returning to the series. Ashton
Kutcher was hired to replace him the following season as Walden
Schmidt, a billionaire who buys Charlie's house after his death.
In April 2013, CBS renewed the series for an eleventh
season after closing one-year deals with Kutcher and Cryer. Jones, who was
attending college, was relegated to recurring status for season 11 but did
not make an appearance until the series finale. He was replaced by Jenny (Amber
Tamblyn), Charlie's previously unknown daughter. In March 2014, CBS
renewed the series for a twelfth season, which was later announced to be the
series' last. The season began airing in October 2014 and concluded in
February 2015 with the 40-minute series finale "Of Course He's Dead". The success of
the series led to it being the fourth-highest revenue-generating program for
2012, earning $3.24 million an episode.
September 23, 1963
The Jetsons first
aired.
Produced by Hanna-Barbera, originally airing in primetime from 1962-1963, then later as part of the weekday/weekend morning programming block called The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera, until 1987. New episodes were produced from 1984-1987 as well. It was Hanna-Barbera’sSpace Age counterpart to The Flintstones. Reruns can be seen frequently on Boomerang.
While the Flintstones live in
a world with machines powered by birds and dinosaurs, the Jetsons live in the
year 2062 in a futuristic utopia (100 years in the future at the
time of the show’s debut) of elaborate robotic contraptions, aliens, holograms, and whimsical inventions.
September 23, 1968
Here's Lucy aired for the first time.
Here's Lucy is an American sitcom starring Lucille
Ball. The series co-starred her long-time partner Gale
Gordonand her real-life children Lucie
Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr.. It was broadcast on CBS from 1968 to
1974. It was Ball's third network sitcom following I Love
Lucy (1951–57) and The
Lucy Show (1962–68).
September 23, 2003
The series NCIS premiered on CBS.
NCIS is an American action police
procedural television series, revolving around a fictional team
of special agentsfrom the Naval Criminal Investigative Service,
which investigates crimes involving the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. The concept and characters
were initially introduced in two episodes of the CBS series JAG (season
eightepisodes 20 and 21: "Ice
Queen" and "Meltdown"). The show, a spin-off from JAG,
premiered on September 23, 2003, on CBS. To date it has aired fifteen full
seasons and has gone into broadcast syndication on the USA
Network. Donald P. Bellisario and Don McGill are
co-creators and executive producers of the premiere member of the NCIS franchise.
It is the second-longest-running
scripted, non-animated U.S. primetime TV series currently airing,
surpassed only by Law & Order: Special Victims
Unit (1999–present), and is the 7th-longest-running scripted U.S.
primetime TV series overall.
To quote the Bicentennial Minute, "And that's the way it was".
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