Just a few random TV related events that happened on June 5. Discuss or comment as you please……
1934: Journalist and commentator Bill Moyers is born in Hugo, Oklahoma.
1949: Silent screen comedian Harold Lloyd makes the first of a small handful of TV appearances on Toast of the Town. In addition to another appearance 9 years later on Sullivan’s show, he was also a mystery guest on What’s My Line? and appeared twice on This is Your Life, once in support of former boss Mack Sennett, and once for his own tribute.
1954: After helping to launch the careers of actors such as Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, and Carl Reiner, and writers like Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, and Woody Allen, Your Show of Shows airs its final episode.
1956: Elvis Presley makes his second appearance on The Milton Berle Show (neé Texaco Star Theater, and later The Buick-Berle Show), performing “Hound Dog.” His “gyrations” around the microphone (including vigorous leg shakes and hip thrusts) create a storm of controversy, with the press condemning his performance as “vulgar” and “obscene.”
1966: In a taped apperance on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Beatles debut their music videos (among the earliest examples of the genre) for “Rain” and “Paperback Writer.”
1967: The one and only program of the failed United Network/Overmeyer Network, The Las Vegas Show, broadcasts its final show.
1968: Just after Midnight PDT, Senator Robert Kennedy is shot after delivering a triumphant campaign speech at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Networks cover the story uninterrupted and live until early evening, thereafter breaking into programming with bulletins as warranted. The Senator would ultimately die in the early morning hours of June 6.
1996: Character actor Vito Scotti dies in Woodland Hills, California, aged 78. The versatile Scotti turned up on many 60’s era sitcoms in a variety of ethnic roles (Italians, Mexicans, Greeks, Germans, and even Russian and Japanese, the latter two on Gilligan’s Island).
1999: Singer Mel Tormé (“The Velvet Fog”) dies, aged 1999. He was the idol of Harry Anderson’s character Judge Harry Stone on Night Court, and made 9 guest appearances on that series.
(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…..)
1934: Journalist and commentator Bill Moyers is born in Hugo, Oklahoma.
1949: Silent screen comedian Harold Lloyd makes the first of a small handful of TV appearances on Toast of the Town. In addition to another appearance 9 years later on Sullivan’s show, he was also a mystery guest on What’s My Line? and appeared twice on This is Your Life, once in support of former boss Mack Sennett, and once for his own tribute.
1954: After helping to launch the careers of actors such as Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, and Carl Reiner, and writers like Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, and Woody Allen, Your Show of Shows airs its final episode.
1956: Elvis Presley makes his second appearance on The Milton Berle Show (neé Texaco Star Theater, and later The Buick-Berle Show), performing “Hound Dog.” His “gyrations” around the microphone (including vigorous leg shakes and hip thrusts) create a storm of controversy, with the press condemning his performance as “vulgar” and “obscene.”
1966: In a taped apperance on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Beatles debut their music videos (among the earliest examples of the genre) for “Rain” and “Paperback Writer.”
1967: The one and only program of the failed United Network/Overmeyer Network, The Las Vegas Show, broadcasts its final show.
1968: Just after Midnight PDT, Senator Robert Kennedy is shot after delivering a triumphant campaign speech at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Networks cover the story uninterrupted and live until early evening, thereafter breaking into programming with bulletins as warranted. The Senator would ultimately die in the early morning hours of June 6.
1996: Character actor Vito Scotti dies in Woodland Hills, California, aged 78. The versatile Scotti turned up on many 60’s era sitcoms in a variety of ethnic roles (Italians, Mexicans, Greeks, Germans, and even Russian and Japanese, the latter two on Gilligan’s Island).
1999: Singer Mel Tormé (“The Velvet Fog”) dies, aged 1999. He was the idol of Harry Anderson’s character Judge Harry Stone on Night Court, and made 9 guest appearances on that series.
(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…..)
