November 3: This Day in TV History

[Stanislav]

Just a few random TV related events that happened on November 3. Discuss or comment as you please……

1933: Actor/dancer Ken Berry (F Troop, Mayberry R.F.D., Mama’s Family) is born in Moline, Illinois.

1944: TV critic Tom Shales is born in Elgin, Illinois.

1952: Actress/comedienne Roseanne Barr (Roseanne) is born in Salt Lake City, Utah.

1953: Actress Kathy Kinney (The Drew Carey Show) is born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

1954: The Disney classic “Alice in Wonderland” airs on TV (on ABC) for the first time.

1956: The classic 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz” is broadcast on television for the first time, as part of the CBS anthology series Ford Star Jubilee. The network paid MGM $225,000 for the rights to televise the movie.

1969: President Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity with the Vietnam War effort, and to support his policies. (Shortly after this address, Vice President Agnew would famously denounce the President's critics as “an effete corps of impudent snobs” and “nattering nabobs of negativism.”)

1975: CBS’ The Price is Right expands to an hour in length. The format, with six pricing games, two Showcase Showdowns and the Showcase, is still used to this day.

1975: Good Morning America premieres on ABC with co-anchors David Hartman and Nancy Dussault.

1978: Diff'rent Strokes premieres on NBC.

1988: Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken during a taping of his talk show, when a fight erupts on the set between white supremacist Tom Metzger and civil rights activist Roy Innis.

1993: The Nanny debuts on CBS.

1997: TV host Wally Bruner (What’s My Line?, Wally’s Workshop) dies in Indianapolis, Indiana, aged 66.

2002: Actor Jonathan Harris (The Third Man, Lost in Space) dies in Encino, California, aged 87 (3 days shy of his 88th birthday). Among his eulogists was former castmate and decades-long friend Bill Mumy.

(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…..)

 

[landtuna]

Hate to seem to be kicking a deceased actor, and definitely wasn't a fan of Lost in Space, but IMHO Jonathan Harris was just probably the most irritating actor on TV. Hopefully, he was completely different in person.

 

[Newname]

Hate to seem to be kicking a deceased actor, and definitely wasn't a fan of Lost in Space, but IMHO Jonathan Harris was just probably the most irritating actor on TV. Hopefully, he was completely different in person.

I once heard him interviewed on the syndicated 'Don and Mike' radio show, around the time the 'Lost in Space' movie game out. He sounded much the same, just onsiderably older, and perhaps even fiestier in his old age.
He was asked if he would do a cameo for the movie, and told a rather entertaining story in which he gleefully repeated the profanity he used to end the conversation, after they made what he considered an insultingly low offer....'So I said BLANK YOUUUU!' ;D
Co-host Mike O'Meara delighted in imitating him for months afterward!

 

[RicoGregg]

1969: President Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity with the Vietnam War effort, and to support his policies. (Shortly after this address, Vice President Agnew would famously denounce the President's critics as “an effete corps of impudent snobs” and “nattering nabobs of negativism.”)

After he resigns the presidency, Nixon calls Agnew and says "Here's another fine mess you've gotten me into."

 

[Ultimajock]

2002: Actor Jonathan Harris (The Third Man, Lost in Space) dies in Encino, California, aged 87 (3 days shy of his 88th birthday).

...although he was one of the most annoying performers I ever saw (cast him in the same show with Adam West, William Shatner and Roger Moore, and you could open your own Pluswood lumberyard franchise with the results), one of my guilty pleasures of my adolescence was seeing Harris and Kurt Kasznar in the same 1970 episode of Land of the Giants. Kasznar's Fitzhugh character was essentially an analogue for Harris' Dr. Smith, so seeing the two actors in the same item was particularly intriguing...

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

1921: Actor Charles Bronson (d. 2003) is born Charles Dennis Buchinsky in Ehrenfield, PA. In addition to many movie roles, his television appearances during the 1950s and 1960s included appearances on "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "Gunsmoke," "Empire" (NBC, 1962-63), "The Twilight Zone," "The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters" (ABC, 1963-64), and "The Legend of Jesse James."

 

[bpatrick]

And one series, "Man With A Camera" (ABC, 1958-60).

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

1983: Actress Julie Marie Berman ("7th Heaven," "Once and Again") is born in LA.

 

[Ultimajock]

1921: Actor Charles Bronson (d. 2003) is born Charles Dennis Buchinsky in Ehrenfield, PA. In addition to many movie roles, his television appearances during the 1950s and 1960s included appearances on "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "Gunsmoke," "Empire" (NBC, 1962-63), "The Twilight Zone," "The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters" (ABC, 1963-64), and "The Legend of Jesse James."

...and one of the more memorable episodes of Alcoa Presents/One Step Beyond as a boxer in WW2 London...