Just a few random TV related events that happened on February 13. Discuss or comment as you please……
1908: Producer William Dozier (Batman) is born in Omaha, Nebraska.
1919: Singer/actor “Tennessee” Ernie Ford is born (as Ernest Jennings Ford) in Bristol, Tennessee.
1931: Game and magazine show host Geoff Edwards (Jackpot, The New Treasure Hunt, Mid-Morning L.A.) is born in Westfield, New Jersey.
1932: Actress Susan Oliver is born (as Charlotte Gercke) in New York City. (This is the generally accepted birth year: various sources over the years reported 1935 or 1936, while her New York Times obituary in 1990 gave her age as 61, which would yield a birth year of 1929. Oy...) Among her many TV and movie roles, she will likely always be best-remembered as the green-skinned Orion slave girl in the original Star Trek pilot episode “The Cage.”
1935: The first official television broadcast in France (featuring the actress Béatrice Bretty) takes place from the studio of Radio-PTT Vision in Paris. The 60-line images could be seen out to a range of 100 km (62 mi.).
1942: Musician Peter Tork (The Monkees) is born (as Peter Halsten Thorkelson) in Washington, D.C.
1944: Talk show host and former mayor Jerry Springer is born in London, England. The birth takes place as his parents (German refugees who fled Nazism) are taking shelter in the East Finchley tube station.
1950: Actress/journalist (and former First Lady of New York City) is born in Oakland, California.
1954: WPBN-TV (channel 7) signs on in Traverse City, Michigan.
1955: KRCG (channel 13) begins broadcasting in Jefferson City, Missouri.
1980: Actor David Janssen (The Fugitive, O'Hara U.S. Treasury, Harry O) dies of a sudden heart attack in Malibu, California, aged 48.
1985: CKVU-TV (Vancouver, British Columbia) moves from channel 21 to channel 10. The change, motivated in part by the sign-on of Seattle’s KTZZ (channel 22, now KMYQ). The VHF allocation was fortuitously vacant thanks to a proposed CBC affiliate in Victoria that ran out of money and never took to the airwaves.
1996: Actor Martin Balsam (Archie Bunker’s Place) dies of a heart attack in Rome, Italy, aged 76.
(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…..)
1908: Producer William Dozier (Batman) is born in Omaha, Nebraska.
1919: Singer/actor “Tennessee” Ernie Ford is born (as Ernest Jennings Ford) in Bristol, Tennessee.
1931: Game and magazine show host Geoff Edwards (Jackpot, The New Treasure Hunt, Mid-Morning L.A.) is born in Westfield, New Jersey.
1932: Actress Susan Oliver is born (as Charlotte Gercke) in New York City. (This is the generally accepted birth year: various sources over the years reported 1935 or 1936, while her New York Times obituary in 1990 gave her age as 61, which would yield a birth year of 1929. Oy...) Among her many TV and movie roles, she will likely always be best-remembered as the green-skinned Orion slave girl in the original Star Trek pilot episode “The Cage.”
1935: The first official television broadcast in France (featuring the actress Béatrice Bretty) takes place from the studio of Radio-PTT Vision in Paris. The 60-line images could be seen out to a range of 100 km (62 mi.).
1942: Musician Peter Tork (The Monkees) is born (as Peter Halsten Thorkelson) in Washington, D.C.
1944: Talk show host and former mayor Jerry Springer is born in London, England. The birth takes place as his parents (German refugees who fled Nazism) are taking shelter in the East Finchley tube station.
1950: Actress/journalist (and former First Lady of New York City) is born in Oakland, California.
1954: WPBN-TV (channel 7) signs on in Traverse City, Michigan.
1955: KRCG (channel 13) begins broadcasting in Jefferson City, Missouri.
1980: Actor David Janssen (The Fugitive, O'Hara U.S. Treasury, Harry O) dies of a sudden heart attack in Malibu, California, aged 48.
1985: CKVU-TV (Vancouver, British Columbia) moves from channel 21 to channel 10. The change, motivated in part by the sign-on of Seattle’s KTZZ (channel 22, now KMYQ). The VHF allocation was fortuitously vacant thanks to a proposed CBC affiliate in Victoria that ran out of money and never took to the airwaves.
1996: Actor Martin Balsam (Archie Bunker’s Place) dies of a heart attack in Rome, Italy, aged 76.
(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…..)