July 7: This Day in TV History

[Stanislav]

Just a few random TV related events that happened on July 7. Discuss or comment as you please……

1959: CHAB-TV (later CBKMT, then CBKT-1) signs on as the original CBC affiliate in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. The station would switch affiliations to CTV in 1962, then revert to CBC in 1969 as an O&O.

1963: Dennis the Menace ends its network run on CBS.

1975: The soap opera Ryan’s Hope premieres on ABC. The show would tally over 3500 episodes before ending its run in 1989.

1990: Game show host and panelist Bill Cullen (his credits too numerous to even summarize) dies in Bel Air, California, aged 70.

2001: Angry NASCAR fans flood the website of KPRC-TV (channel 2 analog/35 DTV) with over 4000 e-mails as the station pre-empts network coverage of the Pepsi 400 in favor of a live broadcast of the Miss Texas Pageant. The station had entered into a contract for the pageant prior to the scheduling of the race, and was forced to honor that contract. [Of course, if you ask ME, any guy who would rather watch cars driving in circles than pretty girls in swimsuits is screwy….] ;D

2004: Several TV-DXers in the U.K. receive lo-band VHF signals from Puerto Rico on channels 2, 3, 4, and 5, via multiple-hop Sporadic E-skip, at a distance of about 4000 miles.

(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…..)

 

[David67]

It's interesting to see what TV history happened on My Birthday,I was born July 7th 1967.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

It's interesting to see what TV history happened on My Birthday,I was born July 7th 1967.

This one was a stretch to include in tomorrow's TDITVH, but ask and you shall receive:

1967: Actress Vivien Leigh ("Gone with the Wind," "A Streetcar Named Desire") (born Nov. 5, 1913 in India) dies in London. Per the Internet Movie Database she did appear on "The Ed Sullivan Show" on May 12, 1963.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000046/

Speaking of "GWTW" its November 7-8, 1976 broadcast debut on NBC attracted over a 47 share and 33 million viewers:

http://ourgeorgiahistory.com/ogh/Gone_With_The_Wind

 

[David67]

It's interesting to see what TV history happened on My Birthday,I was born July 7th 1967.

This one was a stretch to include in tomorrow's TDITVH, but ask and you shall receive:

1967: Actress Vivien Leigh ("Gone with the Wind," "A Streetcar Named Desire") (born Nov. 5, 1913 in India) dies in London. Per the Internet Movie Database she did appear on "The Ed Sullivan Show" on May 12, 1963.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000046/

Speaking of "GWTW" its November 7-8, 1976 broadcast debut on NBC attracted over a 47 share and 33 million viewers:

http://ourgeorgiahistory.com/ogh/Gone_With_The_Wind

Strangely enough She died of TB, Vivien Leigh also struggled mightily with mental illness(Her Husband Lawrence Olivier had Her committed for a while).

 

[mleach]

It's interesting to see what TV history happened on My Birthday,I was born July 7th 1967.

This one was a stretch to include in tomorrow's TDITVH, but ask and you shall receive:

1967: Actress Vivien Leigh ("Gone with the Wind," "A Streetcar Named Desire") (born Nov. 5, 1913 in India) dies in London. Per the Internet Movie Database she did appear on "The Ed Sullivan Show" on May 12, 1963.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000046/

Speaking of "GWTW" its November 7-8, 1976 broadcast debut on NBC attracted over a 47 share and 33 million viewers:

http://ourgeorgiahistory.com/ogh/Gone_With_The_Wind

Strangely enough She died of TB, Vivien Leigh also struggled mightily with mental illness(Her Husband Lawrence Olivier had Her committed for a while).

About 15 years ago we had a local video store who was going out of business so as a result they were forced to sell all of their movies on the cheap. One tape I had bought was called "The Shocking Price of Fame" about celebrities and their downfalls. Talk about being a low budget production.

The first story they did was about Vivian Leigh. Nothing special, things one can find out elsewhere but they did say that during one weekend after taking a walk to a liquor store, Vivian Leigh arrived home just in time to see her husband Lawrence Olivier in bed having sex with...BENNY HILL and VIVIAN VANCE..and that was how Leigh went "crazy". Ah..yeah like that really happened. The tape did show Leigh making an appearance on The Hollywood Palace so she did something else on TV besides Ed Sullivan. But those "stories" they told on that tape ( example: Elvis Presley dressing up in drag at Graceland back in 1973, going out into the garden picking flowers while singing Helen Reddy's " I AM WOMAN" )..ah at TWO DOLLARS..I still think I got ripped off.

 

[radioman148]

>>Vivian Leigh arrived home just in time to see her husband Lawrence Olivier in bed having sex with...BENNY HILL and VIVIAN VANCE..>>

I'm still laughing ;D

 

[firepoint525]

I guess we can add the circus that was the Michael Jackson memorial service to this day in TV history. After all, nearly every major network carried it! :

 

[radioman148]

A circus it was--indeed.

 

[LKellerIII]

>>Vivian Leigh arrived home just in time to see her husband Lawrence Olivier in bed having sex with...BENNY HILL and VIVIAN VANCE..>>

I'm still laughing ;D

Sounds like a Benny Hill skit! While I'm perfectly willing to believe that Laurence Olivier was...uh...sexually flexible - I don't believe he would have chosen Benny or Vivian...c'mon...

 

[mleach]

>>Vivian Leigh arrived home just in time to see her husband Lawrence Olivier in bed having sex with...BENNY HILL and VIVIAN VANCE..>>

I'm still laughing ;D

Sounds like a Benny Hill skit! While I'm perfectly willing to believe that Laurence Olivier was...uh...sexually flexible - I don't believe he would have chosen Benny or Vivian...c'mon...

Even though both men were married and had wives, for years I have read in many of movie books where Olivier and Danny Kaye had an on/off sexual relationship and considering some of those books were published while both actors were still alive, there could be some truth to that.

The tape I had looked like it was done at some high school/college by using their equipment and the guy hosting it had looked like he had a few too many joints.

 

[Corky Marlowe]

And didn't Benny Hill supposedly die a virgin? Seriously, I WANT THAT VIDEO!!!

 

[David67]

It's interesting to see what TV history happened on My Birthday,I was born July 7th 1967.

This one was a stretch to include in tomorrow's TDITVH, but ask and you shall receive:

1967: Actress Vivien Leigh ("Gone with the Wind," "A Streetcar Named Desire") (born Nov. 5, 1913 in India) dies in London. Per the Internet Movie Database she did appear on "The Ed Sullivan Show" on May 12, 1963.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000046/

Speaking of "GWTW" its November 7-8, 1976 broadcast debut on NBC attracted over a 47 share and 33 million viewers:

http://ourgeorgiahistory.com/ogh/Gone_With_The_Wind

Strangely enough She died of TB, Vivien Leigh also struggled mightily with mental illness(Her Husband Lawrence Olivier had Her committed for a while).

About 15 years ago we had a local video store who was going out of business so as a result they were forced to sell all of their movies on the cheap. One tape I had bought was called "The Shocking Price of Fame" about celebrities and their downfalls. Talk about being a low budget production.

The first story they did was about Vivian Leigh. Nothing special, things one can find out elsewhere but they did say that during one weekend after taking a walk to a liquor store, Vivian Leigh arrived home just in time to see her husband Lawrence Olivier in bed having sex with...BENNY HILL and VIVIAN VANCE..and that was how Leigh went "crazy". Ah..yeah like that really happened. The tape did show Leigh making an appearance on The Hollywood Palace so she did something else on TV besides Ed Sullivan. But those "stories" they told on that tape ( example: Elvis Presley dressing up in drag at Graceland back in 1973, going out into the garden picking flowers while singing Helen Reddy's " I AM WOMAN" )..ah at TWO DOLLARS..I still think I got ripped off.

Did that tape talk about the Parties in Washington DC that J Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson during the 50's and 60's where they wore dresses?

 

[mleach]

It's interesting to see what TV history happened on My Birthday,I was born July 7th 1967.

This one was a stretch to include in tomorrow's TDITVH, but ask and you shall receive:

1967: Actress Vivien Leigh ("Gone with the Wind," "A Streetcar Named Desire") (born Nov. 5, 1913 in India) dies in London. Per the Internet Movie Database she did appear on "The Ed Sullivan Show" on May 12, 1963.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000046/

Speaking of "GWTW" its November 7-8, 1976 broadcast debut on NBC attracted over a 47 share and 33 million viewers:

http://ourgeorgiahistory.com/ogh/Gone_With_The_Wind

Strangely enough She died of TB, Vivien Leigh also struggled mightily with mental illness(Her Husband Lawrence Olivier had Her committed for a while).

About 15 years ago we had a local video store who was going out of business so as a result they were forced to sell all of their movies on the cheap. One tape I had bought was called "The Shocking Price of Fame" about celebrities and their downfalls. Talk about being a low budget production.

The first story they did was about Vivian Leigh. Nothing special, things one can find out elsewhere but they did say that during one weekend after taking a walk to a liquor store, Vivian Leigh arrived home just in time to see her husband Lawrence Olivier in bed having sex with...BENNY HILL and VIVIAN VANCE..and that was how Leigh went "crazy". Ah..yeah like that really happened. The tape did show Leigh making an appearance on The Hollywood Palace so she did something else on TV besides Ed Sullivan. But those "stories" they told on that tape ( example: Elvis Presley dressing up in drag at Graceland back in 1973, going out into the garden picking flowers while singing Helen Reddy's " I AM WOMAN" )..ah at TWO DOLLARS..I still think I got ripped off.

Did that tape talk about the Parties in Washington DC that J Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson during the 50's and 60's where they wore dresses?

Actually they didn't ;D. Kinda surprised they didn't bring that up though LOL though they did bring up that Lupe Velez and the toilet bowl drowning thing which has been discredited for years and years. However with that being said one interesting thing was brought up on "the Shocking Price of Fame". I assume they meant it as a joke but the tape said that "soon" many porn movies would be done in Denver and Columbus, Ohio, more-so than California. I have no idea about about Columbus but according to some of my friends who live in Denver, they were telling me that recently according to an article that had appeared in the Denver based Westword Magazine, there has been a huge increase in porn movies being shot in Denver and all around Colorado within the last few years. Go figure !!!

I guess this is a case of be careful of what you wish for

 

[FreddyE1977]

Bill Cullen, another original Pittsburgh guy from the South Side (just a short drive down Carson
Street from where Billy Mays grew up)

 

[radioman148]

>>Vivian Leigh arrived home just in time to see her husband Lawrence Olivier in bed having sex with...BENNY HILL and VIVIAN VANCE..>>

I'm still laughing ;D

Sounds like a Benny Hill skit! While I'm perfectly willing to believe that Laurence Olivier was...uh...sexually flexible - I don't believe he would have chosen Benny or Vivian...c'mon...

Even though both men were married and had wives, for years I have read in many of movie books where Olivier and Danny Kaye had an on/off sexual relationship and considering some of those books were published while both actors were still alive, there could be some truth to that.

The tape I had looked like it was done at some high school/college by using their equipment and the guy hosting it had looked like he had a few too many joints.

I've heard the Olivier/Kaye stuff too, but Bennie Hill & Vivian Vance?
That's just too funny!

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

I guess we can add the circus that was the Michael Jackson memorial service to this day in TV history. After all, nearly every major network carried it! :

And again, it's amazing it's already been a year since then . . .

 

[AH3RD]

1975: HEAD (prod. #8888), the 1968 Columbia Picture starring that popular TV rockband The Monkees, was rerun on CBS @ 11:30 Eastern/10:30 Central as part of its CBS Late Movie, opposite Johnny Carson on NBC and Wide World Mystery on ABC. Its initial Late Movie broadcast on CBS took place on December 30, 1974 (coinciding with Michael Nesmith's 32nd birthday and David Jones' 29th). This airing turned out to be The Monkees' last hurrah on network television until 1997.

Interesting Note: this occurred on the 35th birthday of ex-Beatle Ringo Starr, who's mentioned in the movie! ;D

 

[Ultimajock]

1975: HEAD (prod. #8888), the 1968 Columbia Picture starring that popular TV rockband The Monkees, was rerun on CBS @ 11:30 Eastern/10:30 Central as part of its CBS Late Movie, opposite Johnny Carson on NBC and Wide World Mystery on ABC. Its initial Late Movie broadcast on CBS took place on December 30, 1974 (coinciding with Michael Nesmith's 32nd birthday and David Jones' 29th). This airing turned out to be The Monkees' last hurrah on network television until 1997.

Interesting Note: this occurred on the 35th birthday of ex-Beatle Ringo Starr, who's mentioned in the movie! ;D

...erm...HEAD was later rerun on The CBS Late Movie at least once, in January 1981 (it was one of the first times I was able to recieve WLRE/26 Green Bay, which had picked it up after CBS affiliate WBAY-TV/2 rejected it)...

 

[AH3RD]

[...erm...HEAD was later rerun on The CBS Late Movie at least once, in January 1981 (it was one of the first times I was able to recieve WLRE/26 Green Bay, which had picked it up after CBS affiliate WBAY-TV/2 rejected it)...

Huh. :-X :-[

Thanx for the tip, UJ.

 

[AH3RD]

[...erm...HEAD was later rerun on The CBS Late Movie at least once, in January 1981 (it was one of the first times I was able to recieve WLRE/26 Green Bay, which had picked it up after CBS affiliate WBAY-TV/2 rejected it)...

Anyone know exactly when in January 1981 CBS reran HEAD (or, in this case, re-reran) on The CBS Late Movie? 'Cause I checked a microfilm for my local area's TV Guide and couldn't find a trace of it...