Just a few random TV related events that happened on May 13. Discuss or comment as you please……
1922: Actress Bea Arthur (Maude, The Golden Girls) is born (as Bernice Frankel) in New York City.
1948: WBEN-TV (channel 4, now WIVB-TV) signs on in Buffalo, New York.
1964: Satirist Stephen Colbert (The Colbert Report) is born in Washington, D.C.
1972: Actor Dan Blocker (Bonanza) dies of a pulmonary embolism following routine gall bladder surgery in Los Angeles, aged 43,
1978: The last first-run Columbo (of the original run) airs on NBC. The character and series would be revived by ABC in 1989 on an occasional basis.
1978: The Bionic Woman ends a three-year network run (2 on ABC< the last on NBC).
1985: Actress/writer Selma Diamond (Night Court) dies of cancer in Los Angeles, aged 64.
1993: After 14 seasons and 344 episodes, the CBS prime-time soap Knots Landing airs its final episode.
2004: The series finale of Frasier airs on NBC.
2004: Journalist Floyd Kalber dies, aged 79.
2005: The final episode of Star Trek: Enterprise airs its final episode on UPN. The cancellation of the show marks the end of an 18-year run of at least one Trek franchise series or another being on the network TV schedules.
(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…..)
1922: Actress Bea Arthur (Maude, The Golden Girls) is born (as Bernice Frankel) in New York City.
1948: WBEN-TV (channel 4, now WIVB-TV) signs on in Buffalo, New York.
1964: Satirist Stephen Colbert (The Colbert Report) is born in Washington, D.C.
1972: Actor Dan Blocker (Bonanza) dies of a pulmonary embolism following routine gall bladder surgery in Los Angeles, aged 43,
1978: The last first-run Columbo (of the original run) airs on NBC. The character and series would be revived by ABC in 1989 on an occasional basis.
1978: The Bionic Woman ends a three-year network run (2 on ABC< the last on NBC).
1985: Actress/writer Selma Diamond (Night Court) dies of cancer in Los Angeles, aged 64.
1993: After 14 seasons and 344 episodes, the CBS prime-time soap Knots Landing airs its final episode.
2004: The series finale of Frasier airs on NBC.
2004: Journalist Floyd Kalber dies, aged 79.
2005: The final episode of Star Trek: Enterprise airs its final episode on UPN. The cancellation of the show marks the end of an 18-year run of at least one Trek franchise series or another being on the network TV schedules.
(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…..)