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March 21: This Day in TV History

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Stanislav

Just a few random TV related events that happened on March 21. Discuss or comment as you please……

1948: Actress Nancy Addison a/k/a Nancy Addison-Altman (Guiding Light, Ryan’s Hope, All My Children, Loving) dies in New York City, aged 54, from cancer of her adrenal gland and bronchial tubes.

1949: Florida’s first TV station, WTVJ (channel 4, now channel 6) begins broadcasting in Miami. Owned by Miami-based national movie theater chain Wometco Enterprises, the original studios are located in the former Capitol Theater in downtown Miami, which was Wometco's first theater when the company was founded in 1926.

1954: KFBB-TV (channel 5) begins broadcasting in Great Falls, Montana.

1962: Comedienne/actress/talk show host Rosie O’Donnell is born in Bayside, Queens, New York.

1972: Are You Being Served? debuts as a regular series on BBC (the pilot episode aired September 8, 1972).

1975: The 90-minute pilot for the CBS series Switch airs as a TV-movie. (The show would debut as a weekly series in September.)

1980: Who shot J.R? Well, after tonight’s episode (“A House Divided”) of Dallas on CBS in which the famously evil oil magnate J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) gets plugged, viewers will have to wait 8 months to get the answer to that question in the November 21 episode “Who Done It?”

1981: After 7 years starring in BBC’s Doctor Who, Tom Baker makes his final appearance as the Fourth Doctor.

1983: Little House on the Prairie ends its network run on NBC.

1987: Singer/actor Dean Paul Martin (Misfits of Science) dies, aged 35, when his National Guard F-4 Phantom fighter jet crashes in California's San Bernardino Mountains during a snowstorm.

1994: Actor Dack Rambo (Guns of Will Sonnett, Dallas, Another World, All My Children) dies in Delano, California, aged 52, of complications from AIDS.

1995: NewsRadio debuts on NBC.

2004: Deadwood premieres on HBO.

(Just a little featurette I hope to do as time permits. 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…..) ;)
 
Mike said:
An obvious typo on the Nancy Addison entry. Her birth was 1948 and her death was 2002.
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If I didn't make at least one goof per day, people here would think something was wrong with me....
 
Stanislav said:
Just a few random TV related events that happened on March 21. Discuss or comment as you please……

1987: Singer/actor Dean Paul Martin (Misfits of Science) dies, aged 35, when his National Guard F-4 Phantom fighter jet crashes in California's San Bernardino Mountains during a snowstorm.
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Dean Martin never really got over the death of his son Dino Jr. Until last year I used to belong to another site ( about celebrities ) and I can remember reading some of the messages from those who had seen Dino Sr. in his latter years. Some rather sad stories I might add such as this one poster who claimed he was at a Hollywood bar one night in 1994 and in comes Dean Martin. Buying drinks for everyone in the bar and then out of the blue he started to cry and left. Within a little more than a year Dean Martin would pass away.

Desi Arnaz Jr. also was deeply affected by Dean Paul's death. Back in 2003 maybe 2004, Lucie Arnaz did her best to arrange a Deno, Desi and Billy reunion. A concert that was supposed to be a part of the Jamestown, New York "Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Days" festival. The concert did take place though however I have forgot who tooke the place of "Deno". After doing a few DD&B songs I remember reading elsewhere where Desi Arnaz Jr. broke down and cried on stage and that was the end of the concert. I don't believe Desi Jr. ever ever attended another "Lucy-Desi Days" again.
 
1948: "Stop The Music," hosted by Bert Parks,
debuts on ABC radio. With prizes going as high
as $30,000, it knocks off both Edgar Bergen (who
revives his show on CBS in 1949 and stays on until 1956)
and Fred Allen (who never recovers, even on television).
"Stop The Music" is one of ABC's two biggest television
hits in the pre-Goldenson era; along with "The Lone Ranger"
(the other hit), it debuts in 1949. However, questions about whether it
meets the definition of a lottery (prize, chance, consideration)
wound it; it lasts on television until 1952, and is revived from
1954-56. A last version, on CBS radio, is hosted by Bill Cullen.
However, the show's creator, Harry Salter, has an even bigger
musical game-show hit on CBS by 1956: "Name That Tune,"
with host George DeWitt.

A reasonably funny satire of "Stop The Music" is "The Jackpot,"
starring Jimmy Stewart and Barbara Hale from 1950. It's about
the troubles that befall a winner of a radio musical giveaway.
Watch for it.
 
mleach said:
Stanislav said:
Just a few random TV related events that happened on March 21. Discuss or comment as you please……

1987: Singer/actor Dean Paul Martin (Misfits of Science) dies, aged 35, when his National Guard F-4 Phantom fighter jet crashes in California's San Bernardino Mountains during a snowstorm.
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Dean Martin never really got over the death of his son Dino Jr. Until last year I used to belong to another site ( about celebrities ) and I can remember reading some of the messages from those who had seen Dino Sr. in his latter years. Some rather sad stories I might add such as this one poster who claimed he was at a Hollywood bar one night in 1994 and in comes Dean Martin. Buying drinks for everyone in the bar and then out of the blue he started to cry and left. Within a little more than a year Dean Martin would pass away.

Desi Arnaz Jr. also was deeply affected by Dean Paul's death. Back in 2003 maybe 2004, Lucie Arnaz did her best to arrange a Deno, Desi and Billy reunion. A concert that was supposed to be a part of the Jamestown, New York "Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Days" festival. The concert did take place though however I have forgot who tooke the place of "Deno". After doing a few DD&B songs I remember reading elsewhere where Desi Arnaz Jr. broke down and cried on stage and that was the end of the concert. I don't believe Desi Jr. ever ever attended another "Lucy-Desi Days" again.
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The counties of San Bernardino and Riverside weren't very kind to the Rat Pack over the years.

In addition to Dean Paul's tragic plane crash, Frank Sinatra's mother Dolly perished in a plane crash in that same mountain range in 1977.

In 1954, Sammy Davis Jr. lost his left eye in a car crash just north of San Bernardino.
 
1973: Jerry Supiran, best known for his role on Small Wonder as Jamie Lawson, Vicki the Robot's human "brother," is born.
 
Stanislav said:
1983: Little House on the Prairie ends its network run on NBC.
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It would actually end under the title Little House: A New Beginning, but it would come back with three movie specials in the 1983-84 season: Little House: Look Back to Yesterday, Little House: Bless All the Dear Children, and Little House: The Last Farewell.
 
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