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August 19: This Day in TV History

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Stanislav

Just a few random TV related events that happened on August 19. Discuss or comment as you please……

1921: Producer/screenwriter Gene Roddenberry (Star Trek) is born in El Paso, Texas.

1942: Actor and former Senator Fred Thompson (Law & Order) is born in Sheffield, Alabama.

1947: Actor Gerald McRaney (Simon and Simon, Major Dad, Jericho) is born in Collins, Mississippi.

1952: Actor/director Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek: The Next Generation) is born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.

1963: Actor John Stamos (Full House, ER) is born in Cypress, California.

1969: Actor Matthew Perry (Friends) is born in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

1969: WVNY (channel 22) begins broadcasting in Burlington, Vermont. The new station brings a full-time local ABC signal to the market for the first time.

1985: David Letterman interrupts The Today Show with a megaphone while the show is on the air, by leaning out the window of his building and announcing, "My name is Larry Grossman and I'm not wearing any pants!" (Grossman was the then-president of NBC News.) Bryant Gumbel is not amused.

1986: The legendary Groucho Marx dies in Los Angeles, aged 86.

1987: Actor Hayden Rourke (I Dream of Jeannie) dies in Toluca Lake, California, aged 76.

1987: ABC News Chief Middle East Correspondent Charles Glass escapes his Hezbollah kidnappers in Beirut, Lebanon, after 62 days in captivity.

(Just a little featurette I hope to do as time permits…..don’t expect it every single day. 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…..) ;)
 
Stanislav said:
Just a few random TV related events that happened on August 19. Discuss or comment as you please……

1942: Actor and former Senator Fred Thompson (Law & Order) is born in Sheffield, Alabama.
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Isn't that Fred Dalton Thompson?? :)

Andrea
 
no, no, no, my love :-* i think i was just surprised that even you of all people (i read your posts every day, they're VERY informative....) would leave out something like that - besides which, i was a HUGE "Roseanne" fan in the 90's, and if you remember, Fred Dalton Thompson played Roseanne Conner's boss for one episode...and didn't some dude named Clooney play her boss at one point also - whatever happened to him?? ;) ;)

Andrea
 
Tim from Springfield said:
Groucho Marx actually died on Aug. 19, 1977 (3 days after the death of Elvis).
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And as mentioned, Groucho was upstaged by the coverage of the mourning for Elvis' death, even without the constant 24-hour news cycle we see today.
 
Groucho died on a Friday. I was watching ABC's
Saturday news (then anchored by Ted Koppel)
the following night and noticed that Groucho's
death was the last story aired. It consisted of
a few brief clips from his movies and some comments
from George Fenneman.

What's even more amazing is that interest in Groucho
had been almost continuous since the early '70s; a
number of stations were still showing "Best Of Groucho."

I suppose the problem is that Elvis' death was an absolute
shock; he was only 42. Groucho had been in declining health
for some time, and his death wasn't totally unexpected.
But one of the true legends of show business didn't get a
proper sendoff--not from the networks, anyway.
 
wbhist said:
Tim from Springfield said:
Groucho Marx actually died on Aug. 19, 1977 (3 days after the death of Elvis).
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And as mentioned, Groucho was upstaged by the coverage of the mourning for Elvis' death, even without the constant 24-hour news cycle we see today.
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This reminds me of how the networks made a bigger deal out of Mother Teresa's death than they otherwise would have, except that she died a week after Princess Diana's car crash, so the networks were caught sort of flat-footed, and HAD to make a bigger deal about Mother Teresa's death than they might have wanted to. It was also well-known at the time that Mother Teresa, too, had been in failing health, for possibly as long as 18 years! So her death, too, was not exactly unexpected. I also recall the networks covering her funeral! That would not have happened had she died before Diana's crash, or several years after!
 
Stanislav said:
Tim from Springfield said:
Groucho Marx actually died on Aug. 19, 1977 (3 days after the death of Elvis).
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Mea culpa. Editing error. So sue me. ;D
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...the IMDb reports that one notable player, Hermione Baddeley (Mrs. Naugatuck on Maude), did die on August 19, 1986, at age 79. Does that help you out of the doghouse a little, Stan? ;-) ...
 
Tomorrow is also the 63rd birthday of former President William Jefferson Clinton (whom outside of the presidency experienced memorable television moments himself, including his appearance on "Arsenio Hall" during the '92 campaign saxophone and all).
 
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