Just a few random TV related events that happened on April 22. Discuss or comment as you please……
1923: Producer Aaron Spelling (Charlie's Angels, Dynasty, Starsky and Hutch, Family, Hotel, The Rookies, Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Vega$, Hart to Hart, The Colbys, T.J. Hooker, 7th Heaven, Charmed, Burke's Law, Honey West, The Mod Squad, S.W.A.T. – whew!!) is born in Dallas, Texas.
1925: Sportscaster Ken Coleman is born in Quincy, Massachusetts.
1942: The War Production Board halts the manufacture of television and radio equipment for civilian use. The ban would be lifted on August 20, 1945.
1946: CBS experimentally transmits a Technicolor movie short and color slides over a coaxial cable from Manhattan to Washington (225 miles) and back.
1948: WTVR-TV (channel 6) takes to the air in Richmond, Virginia -- the first television station south of Washington, D.C.
1961: Comedian and TV host Byron Allen (Real People) is born in Detroit, Michigan.
1962: The final first-run episode of Maverick is broadcast on ABC.
1967: Actress Sheryl Lee (Twin Peaks) is born is Augsburg, Germany.
1967: The last original network episode of Please Don't Eat the Daisies airs on NBC.
1978: The Blues Brothers make their first appearance on Saturday Night Live, performing "Hey, Bartender."
1978: Actor Will Geer (The Waltons) dies in Los Angeles of respiratory failure, aged 76.
1979: Carol Burnett essays a rare dramatic role, as a woman from rural Iowa who fights to uncover the truth about her son’s death in the Vietnam War, in the made-for-TV movie Friendly Fire.
2003: On All My Children, Bianca Montgomery (Eden Riegel) kisses Lena Kundera (Olga Sosnovska) -- the first lesbian kiss on U.S. daytime television.
(Just a little featurette I hope to do as time permits. It’s an entirely random selection based on a quick Net search, and is not meant to be comprehensive. So, don’t post nasty messages about “you forgot THIS” or “how could you not mention THAT?” Do so, and I’ll just take my keyboard and go home…..)
1923: Producer Aaron Spelling (Charlie's Angels, Dynasty, Starsky and Hutch, Family, Hotel, The Rookies, Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Vega$, Hart to Hart, The Colbys, T.J. Hooker, 7th Heaven, Charmed, Burke's Law, Honey West, The Mod Squad, S.W.A.T. – whew!!) is born in Dallas, Texas.
1925: Sportscaster Ken Coleman is born in Quincy, Massachusetts.
1942: The War Production Board halts the manufacture of television and radio equipment for civilian use. The ban would be lifted on August 20, 1945.
1946: CBS experimentally transmits a Technicolor movie short and color slides over a coaxial cable from Manhattan to Washington (225 miles) and back.
1948: WTVR-TV (channel 6) takes to the air in Richmond, Virginia -- the first television station south of Washington, D.C.
1961: Comedian and TV host Byron Allen (Real People) is born in Detroit, Michigan.
1962: The final first-run episode of Maverick is broadcast on ABC.
1967: Actress Sheryl Lee (Twin Peaks) is born is Augsburg, Germany.
1967: The last original network episode of Please Don't Eat the Daisies airs on NBC.
1978: The Blues Brothers make their first appearance on Saturday Night Live, performing "Hey, Bartender."
1978: Actor Will Geer (The Waltons) dies in Los Angeles of respiratory failure, aged 76.
1979: Carol Burnett essays a rare dramatic role, as a woman from rural Iowa who fights to uncover the truth about her son’s death in the Vietnam War, in the made-for-TV movie Friendly Fire.
2003: On All My Children, Bianca Montgomery (Eden Riegel) kisses Lena Kundera (Olga Sosnovska) -- the first lesbian kiss on U.S. daytime television.
(Just a little featurette I hope to do as time permits. It’s an entirely random selection based on a quick Net search, and is not meant to be comprehensive. So, don’t post nasty messages about “you forgot THIS” or “how could you not mention THAT?” Do so, and I’ll just take my keyboard and go home…..)
