Just a few random TV related events that happened on July 21. Discuss or comment as you please……
1922: Actress Mollie Sugden (Are You Being Served?) is born (as Mary Isobel Sugden) in Keighley, Yorkshire, England.
1924: Actor Don Knotts (The Steve Allen Show, The Andy Griffith Show, Three’s Company) is born (as Jesse Donald Knotts) in Morgantown, West Virginia.
1926: Actor Paul Burke (Naked City, Twelve O’Clock High) is born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1931: Experimental TV station W2XAB, New York (later WCBW, then WCBS-TV) begins transmissions using equipment furnished by RCA. The camera is a 60 line flying spot scanner, and the station operates in the 2-3 mHz band.
1948: WSPD-TV (channel 13) begins operations in Toldeo, Ohio. Always an NBC primary affiliate, the station would maintain various secondary affiliations until becoming exclusively NBC in 1970. The calls would change in 1979 to the present WTVG.
1972: Victoria Wyndham makes her first appearance as vixen (and later, good girl) Rachel Davis on the soap opera Another World, a role she would portray for 27 years.
1978: The network run of NBC’s Chico and the Man comes to an end. The show had unsuccessfully tried to persevere after the 1977 suicide of star Freddie Prinze, but fans abandoned the show in droves after the tragedy.
1988: Game show announcer and occasional host Jack Clark (Cross-Wits, Tattletales, Wheel of Fortune, Password, Split Second) dies in Los Angeles, aged 62.
1996: Actor Herb Edelman (The Good Guys, Big John Little John, The Golden Girls) dies in Woodland Hills, California, aged 62.
1998: Actor Robert Young (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby MD) dies in Westlake Village, California, aged 91.
1998: TV host Bob McAllister (Wonderama, Kids Are People Too) dies, aged 63.
2004: Rescue Me premieres on Fx.
(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…..)
1922: Actress Mollie Sugden (Are You Being Served?) is born (as Mary Isobel Sugden) in Keighley, Yorkshire, England.
1924: Actor Don Knotts (The Steve Allen Show, The Andy Griffith Show, Three’s Company) is born (as Jesse Donald Knotts) in Morgantown, West Virginia.
1926: Actor Paul Burke (Naked City, Twelve O’Clock High) is born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1931: Experimental TV station W2XAB, New York (later WCBW, then WCBS-TV) begins transmissions using equipment furnished by RCA. The camera is a 60 line flying spot scanner, and the station operates in the 2-3 mHz band.
1948: WSPD-TV (channel 13) begins operations in Toldeo, Ohio. Always an NBC primary affiliate, the station would maintain various secondary affiliations until becoming exclusively NBC in 1970. The calls would change in 1979 to the present WTVG.
1972: Victoria Wyndham makes her first appearance as vixen (and later, good girl) Rachel Davis on the soap opera Another World, a role she would portray for 27 years.
1978: The network run of NBC’s Chico and the Man comes to an end. The show had unsuccessfully tried to persevere after the 1977 suicide of star Freddie Prinze, but fans abandoned the show in droves after the tragedy.
1988: Game show announcer and occasional host Jack Clark (Cross-Wits, Tattletales, Wheel of Fortune, Password, Split Second) dies in Los Angeles, aged 62.
1996: Actor Herb Edelman (The Good Guys, Big John Little John, The Golden Girls) dies in Woodland Hills, California, aged 62.
1998: Actor Robert Young (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby MD) dies in Westlake Village, California, aged 91.
1998: TV host Bob McAllister (Wonderama, Kids Are People Too) dies, aged 63.
2004: Rescue Me premieres on Fx.
(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…..)