September 1, 1970
The last episode of
"I Dream of Jeannie" aired on NBC-TV.
Jeannie and Tony's cousin
want to make Tony the chili king even though NASA forbids its astronauts to
make commercial endorsements.The show premiered was on September 18,
1965. September 7, 1950
Radio game
show Truth or Consequences comes to television.
The show required erring quiz show contestants to
perform outrageous stunts as the consequence for wrong answers. As we mentioned
in an earlier episode (This week in Television History: The
Start of Something Big) the radio
version of the show ran from 1940 to 1956. The TV version of the series
launched on CBS in 1950, but the network dropped the show after only one
season. In 1954, NBC revived the game show, running it in prime time until
1958. Meanwhile, the network also created a daytime version of the show, hosted
by Bob Barker, which ran from 1956 to 1965. NBC dropped the show altogether in
1965, but it continued as a syndicated series until 1974, with Barker staying
on as host.September 7, 1950
Julie Kavner, voice of Marge Simpson, is born.
Best known as the voice of Marge Simpson on The
Simpsons, the longest-running animated show in TV history, is born in Los
Angeles. Before taking on the role of the famously blue-haired housewife,
Kavner played Brenda Morgenstern on Rhoda, a spin-off of The Mary
Tyler Moore Show that originally aired from 1974 to 1978. In 1978,
Kavner won an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her
portrayal of Brenda, the younger sister of the show’s lead character, played by
Valerie Harper. She won another Emmy in 1992, for Outstanding Voice-over
Performance, for an episode of The Simpsons. On the big screen, Kavner
has been a frequent performer in the films of the writer-director Woody Allen,
including Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Radio Days (1987) and Shadows
and Fog (1992). Among her other film credits are Awakenings (1990)
and Judy Berlin (1999).The Simpsons began as a series of animated shorts created by
cartoonist Matt Groening (who reportedly based some of the main characters on
members of his family) that aired on The Tracey Ullman Show starting in
1987. On December 17, 1989, The Simpsons debuted as primetime program on
Fox with a Christmas special titled “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire.”
Set in the fictional town of Springfield, The Simpsons skewers
American culture and society with its chronicles of a middle-class family
comprised of the buffoonish husband and father Homer Simpson, a safety
inspector at a nuclear power plant; his well-meaning, sometimes gullible wife
Marge; and their troublemaker son Bart, precocious daughter Lisa and baby
Maggie. The Simpsons is known for its sharp writing (Conan O’Brien used
to write for the show before he became a late-night TV host) and features a
large cast of supporting characters, including Homer’s boss and nemesis, Mr.
Burns; the Simpsons’ neighbor Ned Flanders, a devout Christian; and Krusty the
Clown. In addition to providing the voice of Marge Simpson, Julie Kavner also
voices the characters Patty and Selma, Marge’s chain-smoking twin sisters. A
long list of celebrities, including Kelsey Grammer, Larry King, Sting, Hugh
Hefner, Ringo Starr, J.K. Rowling, Tony Blair, Stephen Hawking, 50 Cent and Mel
Gibson have made guest appearances on the show as themselves or fictional
characters.
The Simpsons has been an enormous commercial and critical hit--in
1999, Time dubbed it the greatest TV show of the 20th century--and
images of the yellow-skinned Simpson characters have appeared on everything
from T-shirts to video games. As a pop phenomenon, the show paved the way for
other popular animated comedies, including Beavis and Butt-head and South
Park, and has been a source of popular catchphrases,
including Homer’s “D’oh!” which was added to the Oxford English
Dictionary in 2001. A big-screen version of the show, The Simpsons
Movie, debuted July 27, 2007, and was a box-office hit.
September 1, 1970
The last episode of "I Dream of Jeannie" aired on NBC-TV.
Jeannie and Tony's cousin want to make Tony the chili king even though NASA forbids its astronauts to make commercial endorsements.The show premiered was on September 18, 1965.September 7, 1950
Radio game show Truth or Consequences comes to television.
The show required erring quiz show contestants to perform outrageous stunts as the consequence for wrong answers. As we mentioned in an earlier episode (This week in Television History: The Start of Something Big) the radio version of the show ran from 1940 to 1956. The TV version of the series launched on CBS in 1950, but the network dropped the show after only one season. In 1954, NBC revived the game show, running it in prime time until 1958. Meanwhile, the network also created a daytime version of the show, hosted by Bob Barker, which ran from 1956 to 1965. NBC dropped the show altogether in 1965, but it continued as a syndicated series until 1974, with Barker staying on as host.September 7, 1950
Julie Kavner, voice of Marge Simpson, is born.
Best known as the voice of Marge Simpson on The Simpsons, the longest-running animated show in TV history, is born in Los Angeles. Before taking on the role of the famously blue-haired housewife, Kavner played Brenda Morgenstern on Rhoda, a spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show that originally aired from 1974 to 1978. In 1978, Kavner won an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her portrayal of Brenda, the younger sister of the show’s lead character, played by Valerie Harper. She won another Emmy in 1992, for Outstanding Voice-over Performance, for an episode of The Simpsons. On the big screen, Kavner has been a frequent performer in the films of the writer-director Woody Allen, including Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Radio Days (1987) and Shadows and Fog (1992). Among her other film credits are Awakenings (1990) and Judy Berlin (1999).The Simpsons began as a series of animated shorts created by
cartoonist Matt Groening (who reportedly based some of the main characters on
members of his family) that aired on The Tracey Ullman Show starting in
1987. On December 17, 1989, The Simpsons debuted as primetime program on
Fox with a Christmas special titled “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire.”
Set in the fictional town of Springfield, The Simpsons skewers
American culture and society with its chronicles of a middle-class family
comprised of the buffoonish husband and father Homer Simpson, a safety
inspector at a nuclear power plant; his well-meaning, sometimes gullible wife
Marge; and their troublemaker son Bart, precocious daughter Lisa and baby
Maggie. The Simpsons is known for its sharp writing (Conan O’Brien used
to write for the show before he became a late-night TV host) and features a
large cast of supporting characters, including Homer’s boss and nemesis, Mr.
Burns; the Simpsons’ neighbor Ned Flanders, a devout Christian; and Krusty the
Clown. In addition to providing the voice of Marge Simpson, Julie Kavner also
voices the characters Patty and Selma, Marge’s chain-smoking twin sisters. A
long list of celebrities, including Kelsey Grammer, Larry King, Sting, Hugh
Hefner, Ringo Starr, J.K. Rowling, Tony Blair, Stephen Hawking, 50 Cent and Mel
Gibson have made guest appearances on the show as themselves or fictional
characters.
The Simpsons has been an enormous commercial and critical hit--in
1999, Time dubbed it the greatest TV show of the 20th century--and
images of the yellow-skinned Simpson characters have appeared on everything
from T-shirts to video games. As a pop phenomenon, the show paved the way for
other popular animated comedies, including Beavis and Butt-head and South
Park, and has been a source of popular catchphrases,
including Homer’s “D’oh!” which was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2001. A big-screen version of the show, The Simpsons Movie, debuted July 27, 2007, and was a box-office hit.
