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June 14: This Day in TV History

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Stanislav

Just a few random TV related events that happened on June 14. Discuss or comment as you please……

1919: Actor Gene Barry (Bat Masterson, The Name of the Game, Burke’s Law) is born in New York City.

1931: Actress Marla Gibbs (The Jeffersons, 227) is born in Chicago.

1946: Pioneer Scottish television developer John Logie Baird dies, aged 57. Besides being one of the most important of the many “fathers” of television, he is also known for developing the earliest system for recording television signals, some of which recordings have been restored. (See the website tvdawn.com – I highly recommend it!)

1968: Yasmine Bleeth (Baywatch) is born in New York City.

1970: Venerable Sunday afternoon game show The G.E. College Bowl ends an 11-year run on CBS and NBC.

1976: The Gong Show debuts on NBC.

1989: Fran Allison (Kukla, Fran & Ollie, CBS Children’s Film Festival) dies in Los Angeles, aged 81.

(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…..) ;)
 
Also on June 14, 1946: Donald Trump ("The Apprentice") is born in NYC.

Stanislav said:
1970: Venerable Sunday afternoon game show The G.E. College Bowl ends an 11-year run on CBS and NBC.
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Interestingly (but not surprisingly), I could only find one full episode of "GE College Bowl" on YouTube, from March 1966 (Agnes Marsh College vs. Princeton) (in three parts):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ_6WzOnwDk (Part 1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCltVhgBTRU (Part 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCriEBIBihI (Part 3)

I also found a funny parody of College Bowl on YouTube, from the early days of "Late Night with David Letterman": a "Chinese Food College Bowl" skit from 1982.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4yDe52Pz6c
 
1905: Arthur Davis (animator for shows featuring: Bugs, Daffy, Porky Pig, Pink Panther, The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo, Yogi Bear, Pound Puppies, etc) is born in Yonkers, New York.

1909: Burl Ives (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, The Bold Ones:The Lawyers, Roots) is born (as Burle Icle Ivanhoe Ives) in Hunt, Illinois.

1916: Dorothy McGuire (Rich Man Poor Man, Little Women, The Young and the Restless, St. Elsewhere, Highway to Heaven) is born (as Dorothy Hackett McGuire) in Omaha, Nebraska.

1919: Sam Wanamaker (The Defenders, Holocaust, Berrenger's, Baby Boom) is born in Chicago.

1968: Campbell Brown (Weekend Today/NBC News, CNN's Campbell Brown) is born in Ferriday, Louisiana.

1994: Henry Mancini (theme composer for The Pink Panther, What's Happening!!, The Thorn Birds, Remington Steele, Hotel, Newhart, etc) died at age 70, in Los Angeles.

1997: Richard Jaeckel (Gunsmoke, Little House on the Prairie, At Ease, Dallas, Spenser:For Hire, Baywatch) died at age 70, in Los Angeles.
 
1985: one very tear-filled Flag Day for the G-T game show Family Feud, which finished its run on ABC Daytime, after 9 years and 2,311 shows.
 
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