Just a few random TV related events that happened on February 9. Discuss or comment as you please……
1928: Journalist Roger Mudd is born in Washington, D.C.
1931: Televangelist Jack Van Impe is born in Troy, Michigan.
1945: Actress Mia Farrow (Peyton Place) is born (as Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow) in Los Angeles.
1948: After two years as experimental station W8XCT, WLWT (channel 4) signs on as a fully licensed commercial station in Cincinnati, Ohio. The station would move to channel 5 in 1952.
1949: Actress Judith Light (One Life to Live, Who’s the Boss?, Ugly Betty) is born in Trenton, New Jersey.
1964: Beatlemania reaches critical mass in the U.S. as the moptops make their first live appearance on CBS’ The Ed Sullivan Show. This live broadcast was NOT, however, The Beatles’ first appearance on the stage of Studio 50: earlier in the day, they pre-taped several numbers (with a different audience) that were subsequently used in the February 23 broadcast. This led to the time warp-ish oddity of Ed’s actual first introduction of the boys (chronologically) consisting of saying how sorry he was that they were about to return to England. (The group also appeared live in the February 16 show.)
1969: CBS presents the Royal Shakespeare Company's version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," starring Diana Rigg, David Warner, and Helen Mirren.
1979: The Simpsons surpasses The Flintstones as the longest-running prime-time animated series (in terms of number of episodes aired).
1990: Gawd, we just can’t get rid of these people!! The Bradys (following in the footsteps of The Brady Bunch, The Brady Bunch Hour, and The Brady Brides) debuts on CBS.
1991: Tim Meadows and Adam Sandler join the cast of Saturday Night Live.
1991: WUHQ-TV (Battle Creek, Michigan) news anchor Diane Newton King is found murdered in her home. Her husband would later be found guilty of her murder, and sentenced to life in prison.
1993: Actress Kate Wilkinson (Guiding Light, Another World) dies in New York City, aged 76.
2002: Singer/actress/announcer Peggy Taylor dies in Cambria, California. aged 74. She followed two decades of singing and acting by becoming a pioneering woman in an almost all-male profession, joining NBC Burbank as a staff announcer in 1973. The only full-time female announcer hired by any network on either coast, she handled the bulk of local KNBC IDs, promos, bumpers, teasers, PSAs and sign-offs, as well as introducing the network’s NBC Saturday Night at the Movies and NBC Monday/Tuesday Night at the Movies, as well as the NBC News Updates for the Pacific Time Zone. Her colleagues on the announcing staff in Burbank included Don Stanley, Donald Rickles, and Victor Bozeman
2003: In the U.K., ITV screens the first half of the controversial two-part drama The Second Coming. It depicts a Manchester shop worker who has a revelation that he is in fact the Son of God, and has just a few days to find the human race's Third Testament and thus avert the Apocalypse. Critics would praise the production; religious groups...ah, not so much.
(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…..)
1928: Journalist Roger Mudd is born in Washington, D.C.
1931: Televangelist Jack Van Impe is born in Troy, Michigan.
1945: Actress Mia Farrow (Peyton Place) is born (as Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow) in Los Angeles.
1948: After two years as experimental station W8XCT, WLWT (channel 4) signs on as a fully licensed commercial station in Cincinnati, Ohio. The station would move to channel 5 in 1952.
1949: Actress Judith Light (One Life to Live, Who’s the Boss?, Ugly Betty) is born in Trenton, New Jersey.
1964: Beatlemania reaches critical mass in the U.S. as the moptops make their first live appearance on CBS’ The Ed Sullivan Show. This live broadcast was NOT, however, The Beatles’ first appearance on the stage of Studio 50: earlier in the day, they pre-taped several numbers (with a different audience) that were subsequently used in the February 23 broadcast. This led to the time warp-ish oddity of Ed’s actual first introduction of the boys (chronologically) consisting of saying how sorry he was that they were about to return to England. (The group also appeared live in the February 16 show.)
1969: CBS presents the Royal Shakespeare Company's version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," starring Diana Rigg, David Warner, and Helen Mirren.
1979: The Simpsons surpasses The Flintstones as the longest-running prime-time animated series (in terms of number of episodes aired).
1990: Gawd, we just can’t get rid of these people!! The Bradys (following in the footsteps of The Brady Bunch, The Brady Bunch Hour, and The Brady Brides) debuts on CBS.
1991: Tim Meadows and Adam Sandler join the cast of Saturday Night Live.
1991: WUHQ-TV (Battle Creek, Michigan) news anchor Diane Newton King is found murdered in her home. Her husband would later be found guilty of her murder, and sentenced to life in prison.
1993: Actress Kate Wilkinson (Guiding Light, Another World) dies in New York City, aged 76.
2002: Singer/actress/announcer Peggy Taylor dies in Cambria, California. aged 74. She followed two decades of singing and acting by becoming a pioneering woman in an almost all-male profession, joining NBC Burbank as a staff announcer in 1973. The only full-time female announcer hired by any network on either coast, she handled the bulk of local KNBC IDs, promos, bumpers, teasers, PSAs and sign-offs, as well as introducing the network’s NBC Saturday Night at the Movies and NBC Monday/Tuesday Night at the Movies, as well as the NBC News Updates for the Pacific Time Zone. Her colleagues on the announcing staff in Burbank included Don Stanley, Donald Rickles, and Victor Bozeman
2003: In the U.K., ITV screens the first half of the controversial two-part drama The Second Coming. It depicts a Manchester shop worker who has a revelation that he is in fact the Son of God, and has just a few days to find the human race's Third Testament and thus avert the Apocalypse. Critics would praise the production; religious groups...ah, not so much.
(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…..)