September 19: This Day in TV History

[Stanislav]

Just a few random TV related events that happened on September 19 (huge day). Discuss or comment as you please……

1926: Writer, educator and TV host James Lipton (Inside the Actors Studio) is born in Flint, Michigan.

1928: Actor Adam West (Batman, Family Guy) is born (as William West Anderson) in Walla Walla, Washington.

1929: Actor Mel Stewart (All in the Family, Scarecrow and Mrs. King) is born (as Milton Stewart) in Cleveland, Ohio.

1933: Actor David McCallum (The Man from U.N.C.L.E., NCIS) is born in Glasgow, Scotland.

1950: TV host Joan Lunden (Good Morning America) is born in Fair Oaks, California.

1952: The Adventures of Superman premieres in syndication.

1953: WVEC-TV begins operations in Hampton, Virginia on channel 15. Six years later, it would move to its better-known dial position of channel 13 (with channel 15 being reassigned for non-commercial use).

1960: The Jack Parr Show becomes the first regularly scheduled program to broadcast in color from videotape.

1962: The Virginian begins a nine-year run on NBC. It is the first western to air in 90-minute episodes.

1962: ABC comes to Acadiana as KATC (channel 3) signs on in Lafayette, Louisiana.

1962: Actress/comedian Cheri Oteri (Saturday Night Live) is born (as Cheryl Ann O'Teari) in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania.

1964: Flipper premieres on NBC.

1965: The first live TV interview via satellite (with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson) takes place on NBC’s Meet the Press.

1965: The F.B.I. debuts on ABC

1966: CNN journalist Soledad O’Brien is born (as María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien) in St. James, New York.

1970: The Mary Tyler Moore Show premieres on CBS.

1974: CKSH-TV (channel 9) signs on in Sherbrooke, Quebec.

1974: Comedian Jimmy Fallon (Saturday Night Live) is born in Brooklyn, New York.

1976: Actress Alison Sweeney (Days of Our Lives) is born in Los Angeles.

1978: The chairs on which Archie and Edith Bunker sat through 8 seasons of All in the Family are presented to the Smithsonian Institution.

1980: The mini-series Shōgun concludes a 5-night run. It is one of the highest-rated programs in NBC history, and sparks a wave of historical mini-series over the next few years. It is the only U.S.-based TV series ever to be filmed entirely on location (even the studio shots) in Japan. (It also holds the less lofty distinction of being the first network TV show to use the word "piss" in dialogue, and actually show the act to which it refers...)

1982: WVAH-TV (channel 23) begins broadcasting in Charleston, West Virginia, the culmination of a 10-year license battle. It is the first independent station in the state, the first new commercial station in the market since 1955.

1983: The current version of Wheel of Fortune debuts in syndication. It is the longest-running syndicated game show in American television history, closing in on 5000 episodes.

1989: Doogie Howser, M.D. premieres on ABC.

1994: ER debuts on NBC.

2007: The controversial reality series Kid Nation premieres 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…..)

 

[tlyle]

1964: Child actress (now a full grown adult with kids) Kim Richards ("Escape to Witch Mountain") is born. She is going back to Witch Mountain in the new movie "Race to Witch Mountain".

 

[mjlarochelle]

1974: CKSH-TV (channel 9) signs on in Sherbrooke, Quebec.

This station has just become an O&O of the French CBC network. Most recently it was owned by TQS, but CBC had been producing its local news since 2002.

 

[WMC2006]

1964: Child actress (now a full grown adult with kids) Kim Richards ("Escape to Witch Mountain") is born. She is going back to Witch Mountain in the new movie "Race to Witch Mountain".

I've had a major crush on Kim (haven't we all) since Hello, Larry. ;D

 

[Ultimajock]

1964: Child actress (now a full grown adult with kids) Kim Richards ("Escape to Witch Mountain") is born. She is going back to Witch Mountain in the new movie "Race to Witch Mountain".

...and between then and now she became Paris Hilton's aunt...

 

[Tim L]

Just a few random TV related events that happened on September 19 (huge day). Discuss or comment as you please……

1960: The Jack Parr Show becomes the first regularly scheduled program to broadcast in color from videotape.

Cleveland ABC affiliate WEWS-TV 5 carried Paar, and then Johnny Carson from 1957-November 1965. As ABC didnt have color programs, other than some of their prime time anuimated shows, and Channel 5 had no local color until sometime in 1966, Jack Paar/Johnny Carson was the only regular daily color program on channel 5

 

[Ultimajock]

1964: Child actress (now a full grown adult with kids) Kim Richards ("Escape to Witch Mountain") is born. She is going back to Witch Mountain in the new movie "Race to Witch Mountain".

I've had a major crush on Kim (haven't we all) since Hello, Larry. ;D

...in that case, stay away from the original Assault on Precinct 13. It'll be WAY too traumatic...

...BTW, word is that she never got along with either of the actresses, Donna Wilkes and Krista Errickson, playing her sister on Hello, Larry. When Dana Plato died, both Wilkes and Errickson (or people claiming to be them anyway) posted messages to a memorial message board bringing up how Richards was a spoilt brat on the set, occasionally causing delays in taping schedules for both Hello, Larry and Diff'rent Strokes (they both taped at KTLA Studios at the time)...

...and while talking about Hello, Larry, although there's no stylistic connection between the series and the film, the closing credits for the series claimed it was based on a film titled Wednesday. Its IMDb listing is at http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0168251/. That picture is a student short film with Jack Lemmon as the host of a sexually oriented talk show, obviously based on Bill Ballance's "Feminine Forum" show on KIEV Los Angeles in the early '70s. It's a brilliant little suspense story, and if you can possibly track down a copy of it, watch it...

 

[LKellerIII]

Sorry to be nit-picky, but Bill Ballance (one of the original "Seven Swingin' Gentleman" on iconic Top 40 KFWB in the late 50s to mid 60s) - had a major career revival with his Feminine Forum program in the early 70s on KGBS/1020 AM. He was on KABC from 74 to 77, and later KFMB San Diego, but I don't think he ever worked for KIEV.

Ballance also created a minor furor after his retirement in the 1990s when he distributed nude photos he had kept of former girlfriend, Laura Schlessinger.

 

[Smittian]

1962: ABC comes to Acadiana as KATC (channel 3) signs on in Lafayette, Louisiana.

It was KATC that actually was the first to use the term "Acadiana" to represent the Cajun portion (Lafayette-Lake Charles) of Louisiana. Nowdays, all media in the region use the term.

 

[Ultimajock]

Sorry to be nit-picky, but Bill Ballance (one of the original "Seven Swingin' Gentleman" on iconic Top 40 KFWB in the late 50s to mid 60s) - had a major career revival with his Feminine Forum program in the early 70s on KGBS/1020 AM. He was on KABC from 74 to 77, and later KFMB San Diego, but I don't think he ever worked for KIEV.

...ads for "Feminine Forum" being run on KIEV appeared in the Los Angeles Free Press in 1973-74, after the show left KGBS. This may have, in fact, been a run of airchecks of the KGBS version, as I recall one of the ads listing a "Best of Feminine Forum" slot, and I think tapes of the show also appeared on a Las Vegas station around the same time, Ballance perhaps trying to syndicate his show a la Jean Shepherd. I was a regular reader of the Free Press at the time. I was attracted to it at first because it was the only West Coast paper that the Main Street Newsstand in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, ever carried, and the clerks happily accepted my money for the thing, oblivious to the white-hot content of the personal ad section (well, at 12 years of age my access to Playboy and Penthouse was kinda limited, y'know?). I distinctly recall the KIEV ads, since I was already involved in radio then as a voice actor for commercials and a taped disc jockey for the British hobby pirate station World Music Radio in Oxford...

 

[mleach]

1964: Child actress (now a full grown adult with kids) Kim Richards ("Escape to Witch Mountain") is born. She is going back to Witch Mountain in the new movie "Race to Witch Mountain".

I've had a major crush on Kim (haven't we all) since Hello, Larry. ;D

...in that case, stay away from the original Assault on Precinct 13. It'll be WAY too traumatic...

...BTW, word is that she never got along with either of the actresses, Donna Wilkes and Krista Errickson, playing her sister on Hello, Larry. When Dana Plato died, both Wilkes and Errickson (or people claiming to be them anyway) posted messages to a memorial message board bringing up how Richards was a spoilt brat on the set, occasionally causing delays in taping schedules for both Hello, Larry and Diff'rent Strokes (they both taped at KTLA Studios at the time)...

...and while talking about Hello, Larry, although there's no stylistic connection between the series and the film, the closing credits for the series claimed it was based on a film titled Wednesday. Its IMDb listing is at http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0168251/. That picture is a student short film with Jack Lemmon as the host of a sexually oriented talk show, obviously based on Bill Ballance's "Feminine Forum" show on KIEV Los Angeles in the early '70s. It's a brilliant little suspense story, and if you can possibly track down a copy of it, watch it...

Speaking of Hello, Larry I have often wondered had this show been on another network rather than NBC would it have been a hit and not remembered as a bomb as it its today?

Even though it has been YEARS since I have seen Hello, Larry I didn't think it was all that bad. No, it wasn't TV at its best but I don't think it should be put into the same ballpark as "Pink Lady" or "Thicke of the Nite" either.

The funny thing is that today I often see messages online from those who say Hello, Larry sucks and such YET many of these same people weren't even alive when the show was on TV.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Also in 1964: Current New York Giants sportscaster and NFL Network personality Bob Papa is born.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

1949: English actress/model Twiggy (nee Lesley Hornby) is born in London. Her TV credits include a 1976 appearance on "The Muppet Show" and the short-lived 1991 CBS series "Princesses."