Just a few random TV related events that happened on May 27. Discuss or comment as you please……
1916: Actor Willie Best (My Little Margie) is born in Sunflower, Mississippi.
1935: Actress Lee Meriwether (Barnaby Jones, All My Children) is born in Los Angeles.
1943: News anchor Sue Simmons is born in New York City. She has been the lead female news anchor at WNBC-TV in New York City since 1980. Despite a long and illustrious career, she has been best known recently for inadvertently dropping an F-bomb (“The f**k are you doing?”) over a live mike as a news teaser was being run, an incident that quickly became one of the more popular clips on YouTube.
1943: Actor Bruce Weitz (Hill Street Blues) is born in Norwalk, Connecticut.
1949: Cartoonist and entrepreneur Robert Ripley (Ripley’s Believe It or Not!) dies of a heart attack (in his doctor’s office, during a physical -- believe it or not!) shortly after the 13th episode of his TV series airs. Ironically, the final segment of that show concerned the bugle call “Taps,” traditionally played at military funerals.
1955: Actor Richard Schiff (The West Wing) is born in Bethesda, Maryland.
1956: Journalist Cynthia McFadden is born in Lewiston, Maine.
1961: Actress Peri Gilpin (Frasier) is born (as Peri Kay Oldham) in Waco, Texas.
1962: The last of 200 editions of General Electric Theater is broadcast on CBS.
1964: Comedian Adam Carolla (Loveline, The Man Show, Crank Yankers) is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1965: Actor Todd Bridges (Diff’rent Strokes) is born in San Francisco.
1969: Actor Jeffrey Hunter (Temple Houston, Star Trek [pilot]) dies in Los Angeles of a cerebral hemorrhage after a stroke-induced fall, aged 42.
1982: An alien and a couple of crossdressers get their marching orders: Mork and Mindy and Bosom Buddies air their finales tonight.
1988: Punky Brewster ends its run after 2 years on NBC and 2 in syndication.
1994: The 1248th and final Arsenio Hall Show airs in syndication.
2007: The studios of New York’s WABC-TV suffer major damage as the result of a fire that knocks the station off the air shortly before the start of the 11:00 p.m. newscast. As a result of the fire, the station’s Eyewitness News would for a time be broadcast from the newsroom's update desk, while Live with Regis and Kelly, whose set was also affected, would temporarily share a studio with Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
(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…..)
1916: Actor Willie Best (My Little Margie) is born in Sunflower, Mississippi.
1935: Actress Lee Meriwether (Barnaby Jones, All My Children) is born in Los Angeles.
1943: News anchor Sue Simmons is born in New York City. She has been the lead female news anchor at WNBC-TV in New York City since 1980. Despite a long and illustrious career, she has been best known recently for inadvertently dropping an F-bomb (“The f**k are you doing?”) over a live mike as a news teaser was being run, an incident that quickly became one of the more popular clips on YouTube.
1943: Actor Bruce Weitz (Hill Street Blues) is born in Norwalk, Connecticut.
1949: Cartoonist and entrepreneur Robert Ripley (Ripley’s Believe It or Not!) dies of a heart attack (in his doctor’s office, during a physical -- believe it or not!) shortly after the 13th episode of his TV series airs. Ironically, the final segment of that show concerned the bugle call “Taps,” traditionally played at military funerals.
1955: Actor Richard Schiff (The West Wing) is born in Bethesda, Maryland.
1956: Journalist Cynthia McFadden is born in Lewiston, Maine.
1961: Actress Peri Gilpin (Frasier) is born (as Peri Kay Oldham) in Waco, Texas.
1962: The last of 200 editions of General Electric Theater is broadcast on CBS.
1964: Comedian Adam Carolla (Loveline, The Man Show, Crank Yankers) is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1965: Actor Todd Bridges (Diff’rent Strokes) is born in San Francisco.
1969: Actor Jeffrey Hunter (Temple Houston, Star Trek [pilot]) dies in Los Angeles of a cerebral hemorrhage after a stroke-induced fall, aged 42.
1982: An alien and a couple of crossdressers get their marching orders: Mork and Mindy and Bosom Buddies air their finales tonight.
1988: Punky Brewster ends its run after 2 years on NBC and 2 in syndication.
1994: The 1248th and final Arsenio Hall Show airs in syndication.
2007: The studios of New York’s WABC-TV suffer major damage as the result of a fire that knocks the station off the air shortly before the start of the 11:00 p.m. newscast. As a result of the fire, the station’s Eyewitness News would for a time be broadcast from the newsroom's update desk, while Live with Regis and Kelly, whose set was also affected, would temporarily share a studio with Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
(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…..)