Just a few random TV related events that happened on March 23. Discuss or comment as you please……
1905: Actress Joan Crawford is born (as Lucille Fay LeSueur) in San Antonio, Texas.
1945: Writer/producer David Milch (NYPD Blue, Deadwood, John from Cincinnati) is born in Buffalo, New York.
1950: Beat the Clock premieres on CBS.
1953: KGUL-TV (channel 11) launches in Galveston, Texas. In June 1959, they would change calls to KHOU, and move the city of license to Houston. DYK: One of the original investors in the station was actor James Stewart.
1970: Talk show host Joe Pyne dies in Los Angeles from lung cancer, aged 45.
1971: Julia ends a 3-season run on NBC.
1973: CBS soaps Love Is a Many Splendored Thing and Where the Heart Is air their final episodes. Meanwhile, over on the Peacock, Concentration airs its 3,796th and final show on NBC, after a run of over 14 ½ years. (That game show record would be broken in 1987 by The Price is Right.)
1973: CBLFT (channel 25) signs on in Toronto, giving Franco-Ontarians a full-time French language channel.
1974: The Partridge Family gets the bird, this night airing the series’ 96th and final original episode.
1975: NBC airs the made-for-TV movie Ellery Queen, which also serves as a pilot for the one-season series that would begin in September.
1976: Actress Keri Russell (Felicity) is born in Fountain Valley, California.
1987: The Bold and the Beautiful premieres on CBS.
1990: Actor René Enríquez (Hill Street Blues) dies in Tarzana, California of pancreatic cancer, aged 56.
(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…..)
1905: Actress Joan Crawford is born (as Lucille Fay LeSueur) in San Antonio, Texas.
1945: Writer/producer David Milch (NYPD Blue, Deadwood, John from Cincinnati) is born in Buffalo, New York.
1950: Beat the Clock premieres on CBS.
1953: KGUL-TV (channel 11) launches in Galveston, Texas. In June 1959, they would change calls to KHOU, and move the city of license to Houston. DYK: One of the original investors in the station was actor James Stewart.
1970: Talk show host Joe Pyne dies in Los Angeles from lung cancer, aged 45.
1971: Julia ends a 3-season run on NBC.
1973: CBS soaps Love Is a Many Splendored Thing and Where the Heart Is air their final episodes. Meanwhile, over on the Peacock, Concentration airs its 3,796th and final show on NBC, after a run of over 14 ½ years. (That game show record would be broken in 1987 by The Price is Right.)
1973: CBLFT (channel 25) signs on in Toronto, giving Franco-Ontarians a full-time French language channel.
1974: The Partridge Family gets the bird, this night airing the series’ 96th and final original episode.
1975: NBC airs the made-for-TV movie Ellery Queen, which also serves as a pilot for the one-season series that would begin in September.
1976: Actress Keri Russell (Felicity) is born in Fountain Valley, California.
1987: The Bold and the Beautiful premieres on CBS.
1990: Actor René Enríquez (Hill Street Blues) dies in Tarzana, California of pancreatic cancer, aged 56.
(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…..)