November 14, 1988
The first episode of Murphy Brown aired.
Murphy Brown aired on CBS from November 14, 1988, to May 18, 1998, for a total of 247 episodes. The program starred Candice Bergen as the eponymous Murphy Brown, a famous investigative journalist and news anchor for FYI, a fictional CBS television newsmagazine.
November 15, 1933
Jack Burns is born.
Burns began his comedy career in 1959, when he partnered with George Carlin; both were working for radio station KXOL in Fort Worth, Texas. After successful performances at a Fort Worth beat coffeehouse, The Cellar, Burns and Carlin headed for California in February 1960 continued to worked together for two more years. An album containing some of their material was released in 1963, titled Burns and Carlin at the Playboy Club Tonight.Longer lasting was a later teaming with Avery Schreiber, whom he met when they were both members of The Second City, a live comedy and improv troupe based in Chicago.
Burns and Schreiber were best known for a series of routines in which Burns
played a talkative taxicab passenger, with Schreiber as the driver.
During the first half of the 1965-1966 season of The
Andy Griffith Show, in an attempt
to replace the Don Knotts' Barney Fife character after Knotts left the show, Burns was cast
as Warren
Ferguson, a dedicated but inept
deputy sheriff. His character was not popular, and was dropped after eleven
appearances.
In 1967, he was cast as 'Candy Butcher' in The Night They Raided Minsky's, a movie about burlesque.
Burns voiced Harry Boyle's (Tom Bosley) neighbor Ralph
Kane in the short-lived syndicated primetime cartoon Wait Till Your Father Gets Home. The series was a forerunner of adult animation comedies.
Burns was the head writer for the first season of Hee Haw and for that of The Muppet Show. Schreiber appeared on an episode with The Muppet
Show during that first season. Burns also co-wrote The Muppet Movie (with Jerry Juhl, his successor as head writer of The Muppet Show.)
He hosted a 1977 episode of Saturday
Night Live, the first to carry
this title, after Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell was canceled.
In the early 1980s, Burns became a writer, announcer
and sometimes-performer on the ABC sketch comedy series Fridays. He and comedian Michael Richards were involved in a staged on-air fight with Andy Kaufman, later re-created in the Kaufman biopic Man
on the Moon.
He teamed with Lorenzo Music to provide the voices for a pair of crash test dummies respectively named Vince and Larry in a series of United States Department of Transportation public
service announcements that promoted
the use of seat belts. Distributed by the Ad Council, the advertising
campaign ran from 1985 to 1998. In
1993, Burns starred in the cartoon-series Animaniacs, as the voice of Sid the Squid, giving the character a raspy, Daffy Duck kind of voice. Schreiber also appeared on the show,
as Beanie the Bison.
Burns was a guest voice in the a 1999 episode of The Simpsons, Beyond
Blunderdome.
November
17, 1968
NBC-TV cut away from the final minutes of a New York Jets-Oakland Raiders game to begin a TV special, "Heidi," on schedule.
The Raiders came from behind to beat the Jets 43-32.November 17, 2003
“The Terminator” becomes “The Governator” of California.
On this day in 2003, the actor and former bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger is sworn in as the 38th governor of California at the State Capitol in Sacramento. Schwarzenegger, who became a major Hollywood star in the 1980s with such action movies as Conan the Barbarian and The Terminator, defeated Governor Gray Davis in a special recall election on October 7, 2003. Prior to Schwarzenegger, another famous actor, Ronald Reagan, served as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975 before going on to become the nation’s 40th president in 1980.Schwarzenegger was born July 30, 1947, in Austria. He
trained as a bodybuilder and at the age of 20 became the youngest person to win
the Mr. Universe title. In 1968, Schwarzenegger, dubbed “The Austrian Oak,”
came to the United States, speaking little English, and went on to win a dozen
more world bodybuilding titles. In 1977, he gained notice when he was featured
in the documentary Pumping Iron, about the Mr. Olympia competition.
Schwarzenegger’s acting career took off with the 1982 blockbuster Conan the
Barbarian, in which he played a sword-wielding hero avenging his parents’
deaths, and its 1984 sequel, Conan the Destroyer. He later became an international
star with roles in a long list of action films including The Terminator
(1984), in which he plays a cyborg assassin who utters the now-famous line
“I’ll be back”; the Oscar-nominated sci-fi thriller Total Recall (1990),
co-starring Sharon Stone; Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), which
contains the memorable catchphrase “Hasta la vista, baby”; and True Lies (1994),
co-starring Jamie Lee Curtis and directed by James Cameron, who also helmed the
Terminator films.
In addition to action films, Schwarzenegger also had
box-office success with comedies, including Twins (1988), co-starring
the diminutive Danny DeVito, and Kindergarten Cop (1990), in
which he played a detective who goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher in
order to nab a drug dealer. While continuing to make movies into the
2000s--notably including Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)--
Schwarzenegger also built a reputation as a savvy businessman and an advocate
of physical fitness and after-school programs for children.
In 1986, Schwarzenegger, a committed Republican,
married the broadcast journalist Maria Shriver, a niece of President John F. Kennedy
and a member of one of America’s most famous Democratic families. In August
2003, Schwarzenegger, who became a U.S. citizen in 1983 and had never served in
public office, announced on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno that
he intended to seek the California governorship in the special recall election that
year. After winning the election and serving out the remainder of former
governor Gray Davis’s term, “The Governator,” as he was dubbed, was re-elected
in November 2006 to serve a full term in office.
November 18, 1953
Kevin Nealon is born.
Actor and comedian, best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1986 to 1995, acting in several of the Happy Madison films, for playing Doug Wilson on the Showtime series Weeds, and providing the voice of the title character, Glenn Martin, on Glenn Martin, DDS.
November 18, 1978
Mass suicide at Jonestown
The The Powerpuff Girls officially premiered on, lasting 6 seasons with 78 episodes total.
The Powerpuff Girls is an animated television series created by Craig McCracken for Cartoon Network. The series began as a student film called Whoopass Stew, made by McCracken while he attended the California Institute of the Arts in 1992. Two additional shorts, "Meat Fuzzy Lumkins" and "Crime 101", later aired on Cartoon Network's World Premiere Toons. A Christmas special and a 10th anniversary special were also produced. Episodes of The Powerpuff Girls have seen numerous DVD and VHS releases as well. The show centers on Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, three kindergarten-aged girls with superpowers, as well as their "father", the brainy scientist Professor Utonium, who all live in the fictional city of Townsville, USA. The girls are frequently called upon by the town's childlike and naive mayor to help fight nearby criminals using their powers.
November 19, 1933
Larry King is born Lawrence Leibel Harvey Zeiger in Brooklyn, New York City, New York.
His parents were an Austrian immigrant Edward Jonaton Zeiger, a restaurant owner and defense plant worker, and his wife Jennie (Gitlitz), a garment worker, who emigrated from Belarus. Both parents were Orthodox Jews.
He
began as a local Florida journalist and radio interviewer in the 1950s and
1960s and became prominent as an all-night national radio broadcaster starting
in 1978. From 1985 to 2010, he hosted the nightly interview television program Larry King Live on CNN. He currently hosts Larry King Now on Hulu and RT America Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings. He
also hosts "Politicking with Larry King", a weekly political talk
show Thursday evenings on RT America. His work has been recognized with awards
including two Peabodys and ten Cable ACE Awards.
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