January 24, 1917
Ernest Borgnine was
born Ermes Effron Borgnino.
The American film and television actor whose career spanned
more than six decades. He was an unconventional lead in many films of the
1950s, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1955 for Marty. On television, he played
Quinton McHale in the 1962–1966 series McHale's Navy and co-starred in the
mid-1980s action seriesAirwolf, in addition to a wide
variety of other roles. Borgnine earned an Emmy Award nomination at age 92
for his work on the series ER. He was also known for
being the original voice of Mermaid Man on SpongeBob SquarePants from 1999 to 2012.Borgnine
died of kidney
failure on
July 8, 2012 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California with his family at his
side. He was 95 years old.
January 25, 1937
NBC radio presented the
first broadcast of The Guiding Light.
The show
remained on radio until 1956 and began on CBS-TV in 1952. January 28, 1957
Jack Lescoulie takes over
the short lived Tonight! America After Dark.
Rather
than continuing with the same format after Allen and Kovacs' departure from Tonight,
NBC changed the show's format to a news and features show, similar to that of
the network's popular morning program Today. The new show, renamed Tonight! America After Dark,
was hosted first by Jack Lescoulie and then by Al "Jazzbo" Collins, with
interviews conducted by Hy Gardner, and music provided by the Lou Stein Trio. This new version of the show was not popular,
resulting in a significant number of NBC affiliates dropping the show.January 29, 1977
Freddie
Prinze’s family removed him from life support, and he died at 1:00 pm on
January 29th at the age of 22.
Prinze suffered from depression, and on January 28, 1977, shot himself
with a small automatic pistol after talking on the telephone with his estranged
wife. His business manager, Marvin "Dusty" Snyder, tried to
intervene, but Prinze shot himself in the head, and was rushed to the UCLA
Medical Center to be placed on life support following emergency surgery.
The death, initially ruled a suicide, was years later re-ruled
accidental. Prinze had a history of playing with guns, faking suicide attempts
to frighten his friends for his amusement. He had left a note stating that the
decision to take his life was his alone, but because he pulled the trigger in
the presence of a witness —it gave enough weight to the argument that he really
was not planning to take his own life that night.
January 30, 1977
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries debuted on ABC.
ABC turned teenage detectives Frank and Joe Hardy,
lead characters of The Hardy Boys book series, into TV stars with The
Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries. The series starred teen heartthrobs Parker
Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy as the Hardy brothers; actress Pamela Sue Martin
portrayed amateur sleuth Nancy Drew.
At first, the Hardy Boys Mysteries and Nancy
Drew Mysteries — which were based on the young adult novels written
under the pseudonyms Franklin W. Dixon and Carolyn Keene, respectively —
alternated on ABC’s Sunday night schedule. By the second season, Martin’s Nancy
Drew was incorporated into the Hardy Boys’ mysteries, a move that prompted the
actress to leave the show before the season’s end. She was replaced by Janet
Louise Johnson.
The show’s title was shortened to The Hardy Boys Mysteries for
its third and final season.
January 24, 1917
Ernest Borgnine was born Ermes Effron Borgnino.
The American film and television actor whose career spanned more than six decades. He was an unconventional lead in many films of the 1950s, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1955 for Marty. On television, he played Quinton McHale in the 1962–1966 series McHale's Navy and co-starred in the mid-1980s action seriesAirwolf, in addition to a wide variety of other roles. Borgnine earned an Emmy Award nomination at age 92 for his work on the series ER. He was also known for being the original voice of Mermaid Man on SpongeBob SquarePants from 1999 to 2012.
Borgnine
died of kidney
failure on
July 8, 2012 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California with his family at his
side. He was 95 years old.
January 25, 1937
NBC radio presented the first broadcast of The Guiding Light.
January 28, 1957
Jack Lescoulie takes over the short lived Tonight! America After Dark.
January 29, 1977
Freddie Prinze’s family removed him from life support, and he died at 1:00 pm on January 29th at the age of 22.
Prinze suffered from depression, and on January 28, 1977, shot himself with a small automatic pistol after talking on the telephone with his estranged wife. His business manager, Marvin "Dusty" Snyder, tried to intervene, but Prinze shot himself in the head, and was rushed to the UCLA Medical Center to be placed on life support following emergency surgery.
The death, initially ruled a suicide, was years later re-ruled accidental. Prinze had a history of playing with guns, faking suicide attempts to frighten his friends for his amusement. He had left a note stating that the decision to take his life was his alone, but because he pulled the trigger in the presence of a witness —it gave enough weight to the argument that he really was not planning to take his own life that night.
January 30, 1977
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries debuted on ABC.
ABC turned teenage detectives Frank and Joe Hardy, lead characters of The Hardy Boys book series, into TV stars with The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries. The series starred teen heartthrobs Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy as the Hardy brothers; actress Pamela Sue Martin portrayed amateur sleuth Nancy Drew.
At first, the Hardy Boys Mysteries and Nancy
Drew Mysteries — which were based on the young adult novels written
under the pseudonyms Franklin W. Dixon and Carolyn Keene, respectively —
alternated on ABC’s Sunday night schedule. By the second season, Martin’s Nancy
Drew was incorporated into the Hardy Boys’ mysteries, a move that prompted the
actress to leave the show before the season’s end. She was replaced by Janet
Louise Johnson.
The show’s title was shortened to The Hardy Boys Mysteries for
its third and final season.
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