October 7, 1949
The program featured a different one-hour dramatic
play each week in its early seasons, later shortened to a half-hour. Plays
ranged from comedy to serious drama and featured many stars of the era,
including Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy Davis. The show ran until 1957.
October 7, 1964
October 9, 1954
His most prominent roles have
been as Sam Beckett in the science fiction television series Quantum Leap,
and as Captain Jonathan
Archer in Star Trek:
Enterprise. He also co-starred with Maria Bello in the short-lived CBS
television series Mr.
& Mrs. Smith and had a recurring role
in the sitcom Murphy Brown.
October
10, 1964
It was the first live color TV program to be transmitted to the U.S. by
satellite.
October 13, 1959
Actress, singer, doll designer, and a
member of the show business family, The Osmonds. Although she was never part of
her family's singing group, she gained success as a solo country music artist in the 1970s and
1980s. Her best known song is a cover of the country pop ballad "Paper Roses." In 1976, she and her
singer brother Donny Osmond
began hosting the TV variety show Donny
& Marie. Marie Osmond had a recurring role on Ripley's
Believe It or Not for two seasons (1985-86), replacing Holly Palance. Where she introduced
segments based on the travels and discoveries of oddity-hunter Robert Leroy Ripley.
The singer played her mother, Olive, in the TV movie Side By Side: The True Story Of
The Osmond Family. She also starred in the TV movie I Married Wyatt Earp.
She returned to television first in the short-lived 1995 ABC
sitcom Maybe This Time
and then with brother Donny in 1998 to co-host Donny And Marie, a
talk/entertainment show that lasted two seasons.
She appeared as herself in the 2001 TV movie Inside The Osmonds,
which showed how the brothers' egos, their father's fiscal mismanagement, and
the family's quest to build a multimedia empire led to their downfall. The film
was produced by her younger brother, Jimmy Osmond.
October 13, 1974
Born in New York, Sullivan became a newspaper
reporter and later a gossip columnist. He hosted his own radio show starting in
1942 and gained national fame as host of Toast of the Town, later named
simply The Ed Sullivan Show, which ran for more than two decades.
To quote the Bicentennial Minute, "And that's the way it was".
October 7, 1949
Anthology series Ford Theatre debuts.
October 7, 1964
The made-for-television
movie See How They Run premiered.
Three orphans head for the
US, unknowingly carrying important evidence pointing to the existence of a
corrupt international cartel, which has just murdered their father. The cartel
is desperate to retrieve the evidence.
October 9, 1954
Scott Stewart Bakula is born.
His most prominent roles have been as Sam Beckett in the science fiction television series Quantum Leap, and as Captain Jonathan Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise. He also co-starred with Maria Bello in the short-lived CBS television series Mr. & Mrs. Smith and had a recurring role in the sitcom Murphy Brown.
His most prominent roles have been as Sam Beckett in the science fiction television series Quantum Leap, and as Captain Jonathan Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise. He also co-starred with Maria Bello in the short-lived CBS television series Mr. & Mrs. Smith and had a recurring role in the sitcom Murphy Brown.
October
10, 1964
NBC-TV aired the opening ceremonies of the 1964
Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
It was the first live color TV program to be transmitted to the U.S. by
satellite.
October 13, 1959
Olive Marie Osmond is born.
Actress, singer, doll designer, and a
member of the show business family, The Osmonds. Although she was never part of
her family's singing group, she gained success as a solo country music artist in the 1970s and
1980s. Her best known song is a cover of the country pop ballad "Paper Roses." In 1976, she and her
singer brother Donny Osmond
began hosting the TV variety show Donny
& Marie. Marie Osmond had a recurring role on Ripley's
Believe It or Not for two seasons (1985-86), replacing Holly Palance. Where she introduced
segments based on the travels and discoveries of oddity-hunter Robert Leroy Ripley.
In 1978, Marie and Donny released their film Goin' Coconuts,, which
was not a financial success. The following year, Marie starred in a sitcom
pilot titled "Marie." which did not make the new season schedule and
in 1980 she had her own variety show on NBC, also titled Marie, which
only ran for half a season.The singer played her mother, Olive, in the TV movie Side By Side: The True Story Of The Osmond Family. She also starred in the TV movie I Married Wyatt Earp.
She returned to television first in the short-lived 1995 ABC sitcom Maybe This Time and then with brother Donny in 1998 to co-host Donny And Marie, a talk/entertainment show that lasted two seasons.
She appeared as herself in the 2001 TV movie Inside The Osmonds, which showed how the brothers' egos, their father's fiscal mismanagement, and the family's quest to build a multimedia empire led to their downfall. The film was produced by her younger brother, Jimmy Osmond.
October 13, 1974
Television talk show legend Ed Sullivan dies.
Born in New York, Sullivan became a newspaper
reporter and later a gossip columnist. He hosted his own radio show starting in
1942 and gained national fame as host of Toast of the Town, later named
simply The Ed Sullivan Show, which ran for more than two decades.
To quote the Bicentennial Minute, "And that's the way it was".
Stay Tuned
Tony Figueroa
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