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October 6: This Day in TV History

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Stanislav

Just a few random TV related events that happened on October 6. Discuss or comment as you please……

1953: WSVA-TV (channel 3, now WHSV) begins operating in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The original call letters stood for “We Serve Virginia Agriculture.”

1953: WDAK-TV (channel 28, now WTVM on channel 9) begins broadcasting in Columbus, Georgia.

1970: Actress Amy Jo Johnson (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Felicity) is born in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

1974: KLAA-TV (channel 14, now KARD-TV) hits the air in West Monroe, Louisiana.

1979: KTBA-TV (channel 32) goes on the air in Abilene, Texas.

1985: KMSS-TV (channel 33) signs on in Shreveport, Louisiana. It is the first independent station in the market (though they would affiliate with Fox the following year) and the first new TV station in the market in 30 years.

1985: Truly outrageous.....Jem premieres in first-run syndication, one of the many egregious examples of the era of half-hour commercials (in this case, for Hasbro) masquerading as cartoon shows.

1986: Double Dare premieres on Nickelodeon.

1996: Actor/director Ted Bessell (That Girl, Me and the Chimp, Hail to the Chief) dies, aged 61, due to an aortic aneurysm.

2000: The original CSI: Crime Scene Investigation debuts on CBS.

(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…..) ;)
 
Stanislav said:
1970: Actress Amy Jo Johnson (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Felicity) is born in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
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I'll be picky too. Cape Cod isn't a town or city. You can't be born IN Cape Cod. You can be born ON the Cape. She was born in Dennis, Massachusetts which is part of Cape Cod. ;D
 
Stanislav said:
1996: Actor/director Ted Bessell (That Girl, Me and the Chimp, Hail to the Chief) dies, aged 61, due to an aortic aneurysm.
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...Bessell also had a recurring role on Gomer Pyle, USMC and became a respected episodic television director. Among his directorial chores were many sketches on The Tracey Ullman Show; during production, Ullman would frequently tease Bessell by exclaiming "Oh, Donald!" in a spot-on impersonation of Marlo Thomas...

...as for Me and the Chimp, it lives on in a backhanded manner, thanks to the Harlan Ellison book The Other Glass Teat (like I said the other day, available at better public libraries everywhere). In his column for the 5/25/72 issue of the Los Angeles Free Press, reprinted in the book, Ellison enthusiastically praised a busted Carl Reiner series pilot that CBS ran a month before titled This Week in Nemtin. The program was presented as a newscast, with Alex Dreier, whose broadcast news pedigree extended back to a regular Saturday commentary on NBC radio during WW2, narrating solemnly as if he was John Facenda doing an NFL Films weekly recap. The Nemtin of the title is a fictional nation (140 miles long, all border, surrounded by "countries") where President Ed Asner delivers the annual Independence Day Address in a bowling shirt as his wife, in her wedding gown and white sweat socks, looks admiringly on. "Like you," said Prez Asner, "we will be celebrating this special day at home, enjoying the traditional meatloaf and cherry soda...Gimme an N! Gimme an E! Gimme an M!..." Ellison wrote of This Week in Nemtin, "Remember the funniest thing you ever saw? Nemtin beats it by three points on the sphincter scale." As it turned out, there were two pilots vying for a summer replacement slot that year on CBS. This Week in Nemtin was one. It got beat out by the other -- Me and the Chimp, which Ellison used the remainder of the column to thoroughly douse in his own unique brand of verbal napalm...
 
Stanislav said:
1996: Actor/director Ted Bessell (That Girl, Me and the Chimp, Hail to the Chief) dies, aged 61, due to an aortic aneurysm.
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I believe then that he and John Ritter died of the same thing?
 
FreddyE1977 said:
Stanislav said:
1996: Actor/director Ted Bessell (That Girl, Me and the Chimp, Hail to the Chief) dies, aged 61, due to an aortic aneurysm.
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I believe then that he and John Ritter died of the same thing?
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...not exactly. They're close in terminology and effect, but an aortic dissection (what Ritter died of) is a tearing of the wall of the aorta that leads to bleeding between and separation of the walls of the aorta, while an aortic aneurism (what Bessell died of) is simply any swelling of the aorta, indicating a weakness in the wall of the aorta in general...
 
1945: Another baseball-related event with later tie-ins to TV. Oct. 6, 1945 was the day Chicago's Billy Goat Tavern owner Billy Sianus was asked to leave Wrigley Field during a Cubs World Series game with the Detroit Tigers because of his pet goat in the stands. The Tigers went on to win the '45 Series--which was also the Cubs' last appearance in the Fall Classic. The Billy Goat Tavern was used as the inspiration for the Olympia Cafe "Cheezborger, Cheezborger" sketches on Saturday Night Live featuring John Belushi.
 
1940: Actress Ellen Travolta, the eldest sibling of John, is born in Englewood, NJ. Her TV roles include appearances on "Happy Days," "Joanie Loves Chachi," "Welcome Back, Kotter," and "General Hospital."
 
Tim from Springfield said:
1940: Actress Ellen Travolta, the eldest sibling of John, is born in Englewood, NJ. Her TV roles include appearances on "Happy Days," "Joanie Loves Chachi," "Welcome Back, Kotter," and "General Hospital."
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Ellen Travolta just couldn't stay away from Scott Baio. She played his mom on Scott's other television masterpiece, Charles in Charge, which was better known as the show that brought Nicole Eggert to everyone's attention. ;D
 
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