Just a few random TV related events that happened on February 12. Discuss or comment as you please……
1904: Musician/TV host Ted Mack (The Original Amateur Hour) is born (as William Edward Maguiness) in Greeley, Colorado.
1905: Actor Harry Bellaver (Naked City) is born in Hillsboro, Illinois.
1907: Actor Joseph Kearns (Our Miss Brooks, Dennis the Menace) is born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He would pass away 5 days after his 55th birthday of a cerebral hemorrhage during the 3rd season of Dennis, and be replaced by Gale Gordon (playing George Wilson’s brother, John. (Old-time radio fans also remember Kearns for his recurring role as the security guard for Jack Benny’s underground vault.)
1915: Actor Lorne Greene (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica) is born (as Lyon Chaim Green) in Ottawa, Ontario.
1919: Actor Forrest Tucker (F Troop) is born in Plainfield, Indiana.
1926: Infamous quiz show cheater Charles Van Doren (Twenty One) is born in New York City.
1955: WTVY (channel 9) begins broadcasting in Dothan, Alabama. The move to channel 4 came about five years later.
1955: Comedian/talk show host Arsenio Hall is born in Cleveland, Ohio.
1968: Actor Josh Brolin (The Young Riders) is born in Los Angeles.
1969: The scheduled second episode of ABC’s disastrous Turn-On (see TDITVH for February 5) is instead replaced by an earlier (8:30 pm ET) start to the ABC Wednesday Night Movie. According to TV Guide listings (which had gone to press before ABC’s hasty cancellation of the series), the scheduled hosts of the second show were Robert Culp and then-wife France Nuyen.
1973: CBS announces that the soap opera Love is a Many Splendored Thing will end its run on March 23.
1977: Blansky’s Beauties, a Happy Days spin-off, premieres on ABC. Destined to last only 13 episodes, it was also the “Concept That Would Not Die,” with the premise and many of the cast recycled in NBC’s 1978 pilot Legs, and the subsequent retooled half-season bomb Who’s Watching the Kids the same year.
1978: The 3-part miniseries King debuts on NBC, with Paul Winfield as Martin Luther King, Jr.
1985: WVJV-TV (channel 66) signs on in Marlborough, Massachusetts (part of the Boston market). Initially a music video channel (remember way back when music videos were still “cool?”), the station has gone through several format and call sign changes – it is currently WUTF-TV, the Telefutura affiliate for the market.
1985: Actor Nicholas Colasanto (Cheers) dies of a heart ailment in Studio City, California, aged 61.
2000: Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz (“Peanuts”) dies in Santa Rosa, California, aged 77. His death comes on the eve of his final original strip being published.
2005: Actor Brian Kelly (Flipper) dies in Voorhees, New Jersey, two days before his 74th birthday. DYK: Kelly’s abrupt disappearance from acting was caused by a 1970 motorcycle accident that left his right arm and leg paralyzed.
2008: Actor David Groh (Rhoda) dies of kidney cancer in Los Angeles, aged 68.
(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…..)
1904: Musician/TV host Ted Mack (The Original Amateur Hour) is born (as William Edward Maguiness) in Greeley, Colorado.
1905: Actor Harry Bellaver (Naked City) is born in Hillsboro, Illinois.
1907: Actor Joseph Kearns (Our Miss Brooks, Dennis the Menace) is born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He would pass away 5 days after his 55th birthday of a cerebral hemorrhage during the 3rd season of Dennis, and be replaced by Gale Gordon (playing George Wilson’s brother, John. (Old-time radio fans also remember Kearns for his recurring role as the security guard for Jack Benny’s underground vault.)
1915: Actor Lorne Greene (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica) is born (as Lyon Chaim Green) in Ottawa, Ontario.
1919: Actor Forrest Tucker (F Troop) is born in Plainfield, Indiana.
1926: Infamous quiz show cheater Charles Van Doren (Twenty One) is born in New York City.
1955: WTVY (channel 9) begins broadcasting in Dothan, Alabama. The move to channel 4 came about five years later.
1955: Comedian/talk show host Arsenio Hall is born in Cleveland, Ohio.
1968: Actor Josh Brolin (The Young Riders) is born in Los Angeles.
1969: The scheduled second episode of ABC’s disastrous Turn-On (see TDITVH for February 5) is instead replaced by an earlier (8:30 pm ET) start to the ABC Wednesday Night Movie. According to TV Guide listings (which had gone to press before ABC’s hasty cancellation of the series), the scheduled hosts of the second show were Robert Culp and then-wife France Nuyen.
1973: CBS announces that the soap opera Love is a Many Splendored Thing will end its run on March 23.
1977: Blansky’s Beauties, a Happy Days spin-off, premieres on ABC. Destined to last only 13 episodes, it was also the “Concept That Would Not Die,” with the premise and many of the cast recycled in NBC’s 1978 pilot Legs, and the subsequent retooled half-season bomb Who’s Watching the Kids the same year.
1978: The 3-part miniseries King debuts on NBC, with Paul Winfield as Martin Luther King, Jr.
1985: WVJV-TV (channel 66) signs on in Marlborough, Massachusetts (part of the Boston market). Initially a music video channel (remember way back when music videos were still “cool?”), the station has gone through several format and call sign changes – it is currently WUTF-TV, the Telefutura affiliate for the market.
1985: Actor Nicholas Colasanto (Cheers) dies of a heart ailment in Studio City, California, aged 61.
2000: Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz (“Peanuts”) dies in Santa Rosa, California, aged 77. His death comes on the eve of his final original strip being published.
2005: Actor Brian Kelly (Flipper) dies in Voorhees, New Jersey, two days before his 74th birthday. DYK: Kelly’s abrupt disappearance from acting was caused by a 1970 motorcycle accident that left his right arm and leg paralyzed.
2008: Actor David Groh (Rhoda) dies of kidney cancer in Los Angeles, aged 68.
(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…..)
