Just a few random TV related events that happened on May 28. Discuss or comment as you please……
[NOTE: Some of these May dates are full of series finales and last episodes. Rather than devote separate lines to each, I will just mention that some of the better-known series that had a May 28 swan song include One Day at a Time, Thirtysomething, Matlock, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, T.J. Hooker, and Dawson’s Creek.]
1941: Actress Beth Howland (Alice) is born in Boston, Massachusetts.
1951: The US Supreme Court upholds the FCC's approval of the CBS color television system.
1957: WPSD-TV (channel 6) begins broadcasting in Paducah, Kentucky.
1977: TV personality Elisabeth Hasselbeck (Survivor, The View) is born in Cranston, Rhode Island.
1998: Actor/comedian/voice artist Phil Hartman (Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, NewsRadio), aged 49, is shot to death by his wife in a murder/suicide.
2008: Producer/director/production manager Robert H. Justman (Lassie, The Life of Riley, Adventures of Superman, The Outer Limits, Then Came Bronson and Mission: Impossible, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation) dies in Los Angeles, California from complications of Parkinson's disease, aged 81.
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AND THAT’S A WRAP. One year (if not quite 365 days) of TDITVH. I missed perhaps fewer than a dozen dates, some because I simply didn’t find very much interesting that happened; a few times because I stupidly deleted a prepared file, couldn’t recover it, and flat just didn’t feel like re-creating it.
No, I will not be updating or reposting any of these things. They’re in the archives, if anyone wants to pull up a particular date. If anyone decides to thus “resurrect” any of them on the appropriate day by bumping them or adding to them, feel free, but my involvement with TDITVH ends as of now. It’s been more (unpaid) work than I should have expended in the first place, but I’m a little OCD about these things – once I had several weeks under my belt, I became bound and determined to do the entire calendar. :
[NOTE: Some of these May dates are full of series finales and last episodes. Rather than devote separate lines to each, I will just mention that some of the better-known series that had a May 28 swan song include One Day at a Time, Thirtysomething, Matlock, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, T.J. Hooker, and Dawson’s Creek.]
1941: Actress Beth Howland (Alice) is born in Boston, Massachusetts.
1951: The US Supreme Court upholds the FCC's approval of the CBS color television system.
1957: WPSD-TV (channel 6) begins broadcasting in Paducah, Kentucky.
1977: TV personality Elisabeth Hasselbeck (Survivor, The View) is born in Cranston, Rhode Island.
1998: Actor/comedian/voice artist Phil Hartman (Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, NewsRadio), aged 49, is shot to death by his wife in a murder/suicide.
2008: Producer/director/production manager Robert H. Justman (Lassie, The Life of Riley, Adventures of Superman, The Outer Limits, Then Came Bronson and Mission: Impossible, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation) dies in Los Angeles, California from complications of Parkinson's disease, aged 81.
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AND THAT’S A WRAP. One year (if not quite 365 days) of TDITVH. I missed perhaps fewer than a dozen dates, some because I simply didn’t find very much interesting that happened; a few times because I stupidly deleted a prepared file, couldn’t recover it, and flat just didn’t feel like re-creating it.
No, I will not be updating or reposting any of these things. They’re in the archives, if anyone wants to pull up a particular date. If anyone decides to thus “resurrect” any of them on the appropriate day by bumping them or adding to them, feel free, but my involvement with TDITVH ends as of now. It’s been more (unpaid) work than I should have expended in the first place, but I’m a little OCD about these things – once I had several weeks under my belt, I became bound and determined to do the entire calendar. :
