Just a few random TV related events that happened on October 25. Discuss or comment as you please……
1925: Actress Marion Ross (Happy Days) is born in Albert Lea, Minnesota.
1953: KIEM-TV (channel 3) hits the air in Eureka, California.
1953: WLBR-TV (channel 15, now WLYH-TV) begins broadcasting in Lancaster-Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
1954: CFRN-TV (channel 3) signs on in Edmonton as Alberta’s second TV station.
1957: Voice actress Nancy Cartwright (The Simpsons) is born in Dayton, Ohio.
1963: Actress Tracy Nelson (Square Pegs, Father Dowling Mysteries) is born in Santa Monica, California.
1971: HEEYYYY, YOU GUUUUUYS!!! The Electric Company debuts on PBS.
1975: The classic Mary Tyler Moore Show episode “Chuckles Bites the Dust” is first broadcast on CBS.
1979: The final original episode ("Basil the Rat") of Fawlty Towers is broadcast by the BBC. Taping had been delayed for several months because of a technician's strike, and the episode finally airs only after the season's other 5 episodes had already been repeated.
1982: Newhart premieres on CBS.
1986: Actor Forrest Tucker (F Troop) dies in Los Angeles, aged 67.
1986: Saturday Night (Not Quite) Live: The scheduled live broadcast of NBC’s SNL (with guest host Rosanna Arquette) is delayed, then cancelled due to a World Series game running into extra innings. (For baseball fans, this was the classic game in which the Mets’ Mookie Wilson’s routine grounder went through the Red Sox’ Bill Buckner’s legs, giving the Mets the victory in the bottom of the 10th.) The show is performed anyway starting at 1:30 am, and the taped show would air two weeks later, prefaced with an “apology” by Mets’ pitcher Ron Darling.
(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…..)
1925: Actress Marion Ross (Happy Days) is born in Albert Lea, Minnesota.
1953: KIEM-TV (channel 3) hits the air in Eureka, California.
1953: WLBR-TV (channel 15, now WLYH-TV) begins broadcasting in Lancaster-Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
1954: CFRN-TV (channel 3) signs on in Edmonton as Alberta’s second TV station.
1957: Voice actress Nancy Cartwright (The Simpsons) is born in Dayton, Ohio.
1963: Actress Tracy Nelson (Square Pegs, Father Dowling Mysteries) is born in Santa Monica, California.
1971: HEEYYYY, YOU GUUUUUYS!!! The Electric Company debuts on PBS.
1975: The classic Mary Tyler Moore Show episode “Chuckles Bites the Dust” is first broadcast on CBS.
1979: The final original episode ("Basil the Rat") of Fawlty Towers is broadcast by the BBC. Taping had been delayed for several months because of a technician's strike, and the episode finally airs only after the season's other 5 episodes had already been repeated.
1982: Newhart premieres on CBS.
1986: Actor Forrest Tucker (F Troop) dies in Los Angeles, aged 67.
1986: Saturday Night (Not Quite) Live: The scheduled live broadcast of NBC’s SNL (with guest host Rosanna Arquette) is delayed, then cancelled due to a World Series game running into extra innings. (For baseball fans, this was the classic game in which the Mets’ Mookie Wilson’s routine grounder went through the Red Sox’ Bill Buckner’s legs, giving the Mets the victory in the bottom of the 10th.) The show is performed anyway starting at 1:30 am, and the taped show would air two weeks later, prefaced with an “apology” by Mets’ pitcher Ron Darling.
(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…..)
