June 8: This Day in TV History

[easttxtv]

1918: Robert Preston (The Chisholms) is born (as Robert Preston Meservey) in Newton, Massachusetts.

1921: Alexis Smith (Dallas, Cheers) is born (as Gladys Smith) in Penticton, British Columbia.

1927: Jerry Stiller (Ed Sullivan Show, Seinfeld, The King of Queens) is born (as Gerald Isaac Stiller) in Brooklyn, New York.

1936: James Darren (The Time Tunnel, Match Game, T.J. Hooker, Star Trekeep Space Nine, Melrose Place (1992 version)) is born (as James William Ercolani) in Philadelphia.

1939: Bernie Casey (Brian's Song, Harris and Company, Streets of San Francisco, Star Trekeep Space Nine) is born (as Bernard Terry Casey) in Wyco, West Virginia.

1950: Sonia Braga (The Cosby Show, Sex and the City, American Family, Alias) is born (as Sônia Maria Campos Braga) in Maringá, Paraná, Brazil.

1955: Griffin Dunne (Frasier, Saturday Night Live, Law & Order:Criminal Intent) is born (as Thomas Griffin Dunne) in New York City.

1971: Mark Feuerstein (Loving, Guiding Light, Ally McBeal, Good Morning,Miami, Royal Pains) is born in New York City.

 

[FreddyE1977]

1964: ABC announces the cancellation of the short-lived folk music show Hootenanny. (The show would continue to be aired until September of that year.) The blame for the show’s rapid decline is attributed both to a lack of variety of performers (many singers and groups making multiple appearances on the series) and the overshadowing of the nascent folk music craze by the rock and roll “British Invasion.”

I remember my parents talking about watching Hootenanny each week. I would've been far too little to remember it.
I was probably 12 or so before I even had the slightest idea what it was. Sounded like a kids cartoon about an
overly-protective mother owl or something.

 

[Stanislav]

1964: ABC announces the cancellation of the short-lived folk music show Hootenanny. (The show would continue to be aired until September of that year.) The blame for the show’s rapid decline is attributed both to a lack of variety of performers (many singers and groups making multiple appearances on the series) and the overshadowing of the nascent folk music craze by the rock and roll “British Invasion.”

I remember my parents talking about watching Hootenanny each week. I would've been far too little to remember it.
I was probably 12 or so before I even had the slightest idea what it was. Sounded like a kids cartoon about an
overly-protective mother owl or something.

Or, as the moldy old punny joke goes, a cross between an owl and a goat. :

 

[johnnyu]

I remember one night's Uncle Miltie. He was doing a bit with another actor and they kept talking about Harry. After repeating Harry's name a number of times, President Truman walked accross the stage.

 

[AH3RD]

1970: Click-Click-Click-Click! That's what New Orleanian viewers tuned in and turned on to WVUE-TV Channel 12 @ 8:00 PM CDT (sic!) would have had to do in order to finish watching the movie The Naked Jungle...on newly-ordained WVUE-TV Channel 8! (Thus enabling WYES-TV Channel 8 to defect to Channel 12.) The main reason for The Switch was increased power output and greater reach with WVUE-TV's new antenna. 8)