August 19, 1981
Charlie's
Angels aired its final
episode.
The detective series featured
crime-solving beauties instructed by a mysterious voice on a speaker phone
known only as Charlie. Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, and Farrah Fawcett played
the original Angels. Fawcett's blown-dry, feathered hair launched a national
fad, and the actress left the show after a year to pursue a career in movies.
Subsequent Angels included Cheryl Ladd, Shelley Hack, and Tanya Roberts. In
2000, Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Liu played the Angels in a movie
version of the show.
August 19, 1921
TV producer Gene Roddenberry, best known
as the creator of Star Trek, is born in El Paso, Texas.
His family moved to Los Angeles when Roddenberry was
a toddler, and his father became a police officer. Roddenberry also studied
criminal justice at Los Angeles City College but became a pilot instead through
the Civilian Pilot Training Program. During World War II, Roddenberry flew
bombing missions in the South Pacific with the U.S. Army Air Corps. Shot down
during a raid, he survived and won a medal. A second crash, when he was working
as a Pan Am pilot after the war, killed 14 people and convinced Roddenberry to
give up flying. Instead,
Roddenberry became a police officer like his father. But before long, he
discovered that living the police life paid less than writing about it for TV,
so he began writing scripts for Dragnet and other police TV dramas. In
1963, he produced a short-lived NBC show, The Lieutenant, about life in
the U.S. Marines.A
lifelong science-fiction fan, Roddenberry wanted to try his hand making a
sci-fi TV program. He convinced superstar Lucille Ball to fund a pilot.
Although the first pilot was rejected, a second take was picked up, and Star
Trek premiered in 1966.
Although
the show ran for only three years and never placed better than No. 52 in the
ratings, Roddenberry's sci-fi series became a cult classic and spawned four
television series and nine movies.
Roddenberry
died on October 24, 1991, and was one of the first people to be
"buried" in space.
August 19, 1981
Charlie's Angels aired its final episode.
The detective series featured crime-solving beauties instructed by a mysterious voice on a speaker phone known only as Charlie. Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, and Farrah Fawcett played the original Angels. Fawcett's blown-dry, feathered hair launched a national fad, and the actress left the show after a year to pursue a career in movies. Subsequent Angels included Cheryl Ladd, Shelley Hack, and Tanya Roberts. In 2000, Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Liu played the Angels in a movie version of the show.
August 19, 1921
TV producer Gene Roddenberry, best known as the creator of Star Trek, is born in El Paso, Texas.
His family moved to Los Angeles when Roddenberry was a toddler, and his father became a police officer. Roddenberry also studied criminal justice at Los Angeles City College but became a pilot instead through the Civilian Pilot Training Program. During World War II, Roddenberry flew bombing missions in the South Pacific with the U.S. Army Air Corps. Shot down during a raid, he survived and won a medal. A second crash, when he was working as a Pan Am pilot after the war, killed 14 people and convinced Roddenberry to give up flying. Instead, Roddenberry became a police officer like his father. But before long, he discovered that living the police life paid less than writing about it for TV, so he began writing scripts for Dragnet and other police TV dramas. In 1963, he produced a short-lived NBC show, The Lieutenant, about life in the U.S. Marines.
A
lifelong science-fiction fan, Roddenberry wanted to try his hand making a
sci-fi TV program. He convinced superstar Lucille Ball to fund a pilot.
Although the first pilot was rejected, a second take was picked up, and Star
Trek premiered in 1966.
Although
the show ran for only three years and never placed better than No. 52 in the
ratings, Roddenberry's sci-fi series became a cult classic and spawned four
television series and nine movies.
Roddenberry died on October 24, 1991, and was one of the first people to be "buried" in space.
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