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December 11: This Day in TV History

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Stanislav

Just a few random TV related events that happened on December 11. Discuss or comment as you please……

1931: Singer/dancer/actress Rita Moreno (The Electric Company) is born (as Rosita Dolores Alverío) in Humacao, Puerto Rico.

1935: Actor Ron Carey (Barney Miller) is born (as Ronald Joseph Cicenia) in Newark, New Jersey.

1940: Actress Donna Mills (Knots Landing) is born in Chicago. (This is the date given by IMDB – some sources list 1942 or 1943 as her birth year.)

1941: RCAF Aviator John Gillespie Magee, Jr. is killed in a mid-air collision over Roxholm, England. His posthumous fame came from his popular poem “High Flight,” known to TV viewers from those inspirational sign-off films, as well as from President Reagan’s quoting of part of the poem in his televised speech shortly after the Challenger disaster.

1944: Actress Lynda Day George (Mission: Impossible) is born in San Marcos, Texas.

1948: WMCT (later WMC-TV) signs on to channel 4 (later channel 5) and becomes Tennessee’s first TV station.

1949: In Texas, San Antonio’s first TV station, WOAI-TV, begins operating on channel 4.

1952: WSLS-TV (channel 10) signs on in Roanoke, Virginia.

1953: Television comes to the territory of Alaska as KTVA (channel 11) signs on in Anchorage.

1957: CHCA-TV (channel 6) begins broadcasting in Red Deer, Alberta.

1961: The Mike Douglas Show debuts in Cleveland as a local show on Westinghouse's KYW-TV (now WKYC-TV).

1962: Actor Ben Browder (Farscape, Stargate SG-1) is born (as Robert Benedic Browder) on Memphis, Tennessee.

1980: Magnum, P.I. premieres on CBS.

1994: In Detroit, CBS moves its affiliation from WJBK-TV (channel 2) way up the dial to WGPR (channel 62, now WWJ-TV) and Fox moves from WKBD (channel 50) to WJBK-TV. Meanwhile, up in Milwaukee, WITI (channel 6) switches to Fox, leaving CBS again making a long trip up the dial to WDJT-TV (channel 58).

2007: Longtime Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek is admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after suffering a minor heart attack in his home. He would be released just 4 days later, and quickly recover, resuming his hosting duties, as scheduled, on January 14, 2008.

(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…..) ;)
 
Stanislav said:
1994: In Detroit, CBS moves its affiliation from WJBK-TV (channel 2) way up the dial to WGPR (channel 62, now WWJ-TV) and Fox moves from WKBD (channel 50) to WJBK-TV. Meanwhile, up in Milwaukee, WITI (channel 6) switches to Fox, leaving CBS again making a long trip up the dial to WDJT-TV (channel 58).
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...as I recall, WJBK-TV and WITI were both owned by New World Communications in their last days as CBS affiliates...
 
1944: Actress Teri Garr is born in Lakewood, OH. Her many roles have included TV appearances on "Batman," "Shindig!," "The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour," and "M*A*S*H" among others, plus recurring guest appearances on "Late Night with David Letterman."
 
I read an interview with Teri Garr some years ago where she claimed that Jackie Gleason stole some of his characters (The Poor Soul, Reginald Van Gleason) from her father, a comedian named Eddie Garr. Anyone else ever hear this?
 
Corky Marlowe said:
I read an interview with Teri Garr some years ago where she claimed that Jackie Gleason stole some of his characters (The Poor Soul, Reginald Van Gleason) from her father, a comedian named Eddie Garr. Anyone else ever hear this?
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...dunno about the alleged Gleason pilferage (The Poor Soul could have just as easily been lifted from old Fatty Arbuckle or Harry Langdon silent comedies), but one of Teri Garr's problems is that she has to continually gripe about something. The last time I saw her on the Letterman show she was whining about having to earn her SAG card by being in The Monkees' theatrical film, Head. She even was supposed to have been a pain in the neck towards her fellow panelists and host Stephanie Miller on that version of I've Got a Secret that ran on Oxygen a few years back (maybe the producers thought she would serve as a latter-day Dorothy Kilgallen?). She's undoubtedly a talented performer and her health problems are some I wouldn't wish on anybody (well, maybe Osama bin Laden!), but she also has wore down my capacity to like what she presents of herself off-stage...
 
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