September 3: This Day in TV History

[Stanislav]

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

1910: Singer/actress/panelist Kitty Carlisle (To Tell the Truth) is born (as Catherine Conn) in New Orleans, Louisiana.

1941: WPTZ-TV (channel 3, now KYW-TV) begins broadcasting as a commercial station. The former experimental station W3XE had been granted the third commercial television license (and the first outside New York) back on July 1. In 1946, the station would become one of three (along with WNBT in New York City and WRGB in Schenectady) that premiered NBC's regular network television service.

1951: Search for Tomorrow premieres on CBS, broadcasting the first of 9,130 episodes over 35 years.

1955: KCRA-TV (channel 3) begins operations in Sacramento, California.

1955: KTBS-TV (channel 3) signs on in Shreveport, Lousiana.

1964: CBVT (channel 11) debuts in Quebec City, Quebec.

1965: Actor Charlie Sheen (Spin City, Two and a Half Men) is born (as Carlos Irwin Estévez) in New York City.

1966: The final network broadcast of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet takes place on ABC. The sitcom was the longest-running live-action (i.e., non-animated) sitcom in US TV history. (435 episodes over 14 seasons, all but the final season in black-and-white.)

1967: What’s My Line?, the longest-running network prime-time game show (18 seasons), airs its 876th and final episode on CBS. Revived in syndication the next year, the new version of the show would rack up over 1300 shows in just 7 seasons (the revival being a 5-day per week strip, the original just a weekly).

(Just a little featurette I hope to do as time permits…..don’t expect it every single day. 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…..)

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

1976: Actress Ashley Aubra Jones ("Young and the Restless," "Bold and the Beautiful") is born in Memphis, TN.

 

[mleach]

1965: Actor Charlie Sheen (Spin City, Two and a Half Men) is born (as Carlos Irwin Estévez) in New York City.

I wish I could remember the show he was on but I can remember back in the mid 90's when Charlie Sheen was being interviewed on TV not long after he did the film "Hot Shots" when during the interview for some very strange reason he took out a cigar only to actually eat it. I would like to say this had took place on E! but I am not sure.

Of course during the late 90's so-called "cigar craze" when it seemed so many celebrities were into "gar smoking", everyone from Will Smith to the band N'Sync to Madonna, I believe one of the more bigger cigar smokers ( as in those who smoked a LOT of them ) well there was a three way toss up between singer George Thorogood ( who was reported to spend thousands a week just on cigars ), Christian Slater and Charlie Sheen.

Maybe back in those days, Charlie enjoyed having a smoke and eating it too.

 

[therealjm12]

Of course during the late 90's so-called "cigar craze" when it seemed so many celebrities were into "gar smoking", everyone from Will Smith to the band N'Sync to Madonna


George Carlin did a great bit on cigars and cigar smoking. Of course, it can't be quoted here on this "family" site. I have to say, now days, I agree with Carlin.

 

[Corky Marlowe]

1967: What’s My Line?, the longest-running network prime-time game show (18 seasons), airs its 876th and final episode on CBS.

That was the one where John Charles Daly himself was the mystery guest. He had always been kept on standby in that capacity in case a particular mystery guest didn't show, and as he explained on that final broadcast, there were a couple instances where they were only a minute away from needing him.

 

[FreddyE1977]

Bringing this whole thread full-circle....there is a wonderful clip from the syndicated version of What's My Line from the early 70's. Jimmy Carter was the guest when he was Gov. of Georgia (and very much an unknown to the rest of the country). Kitty Carlisle was on the panel and said to him "You have a very spiritual look about you, Mr. Carter. Do you recruit nuns?" It was priceless!

 

[radioman148]

1967: What’s My Line?, the longest-running network prime-time game show (18 seasons), airs its 876th and final episode on CBS.

That was the one where John Charles Daly himself was the mystery guest. He had always been kept on standby in that capacity in case a particular mystery guest didn't show, and as he explained on that final broadcast, there were a couple instances where they were only a minute away from needing him.

I remember that episode as if it was yesterday.

 

[Stanislav]

1967: What’s My Line?, the longest-running network prime-time game show (18 seasons), airs its 876th and final episode on CBS.

That was the one where John Charles Daly himself was the mystery guest. He had always been kept on standby in that capacity in case a particular mystery guest didn't show, and as he explained on that final broadcast, there were a couple instances where they were only a minute away from needing him.

I remember that episode as if it was yesterday.

I didn't see that one, but I still remember lots of things from 1967 as if it were yesterday. However, I'm getting to the age where I can't remember things that actually did happen yesterday.....

 

[radioman148]

1967: What’s My Line?, the longest-running network prime-time game show (18 seasons), airs its 876th and final episode on CBS.

That was the one where John Charles Daly himself was the mystery guest. He had always been kept on standby in that capacity in case a particular mystery guest didn't show, and as he explained on that final broadcast, there were a couple instances where they were only a minute away from needing him.

I remember that episode as if it was yesterday.

I didn't see that one, but I still remember lots of things from 1967 as if it were yesterday. However, I'm getting to the age where I can't remember things that actually did happen yesterday.....

I understand the problem

 

[Corky Marlowe]

Bringing this whole thread full-circle....there is a wonderful clip from the syndicated version of What's My Line from the early 70's. Jimmy Carter was the guest when he was Gov. of Georgia (and very much an unknown to the rest of the country). Kitty Carlisle was on the panel and said to him "You have a very spiritual look about you, Mr. Carter. Do you recruit nuns?" It was priceless!

Another future President was a mystery guest on the syndie WML...Gerald Ford, when he was House Minority Leader.

 

[radioman148]

Bringing this whole thread full-circle....there is a wonderful clip from the syndicated version of What's My Line from the early 70's. Jimmy Carter was the guest when he was Gov. of Georgia (and very much an unknown to the rest of the country). Kitty Carlisle was on the panel and said to him "You have a very spiritual look about you, Mr. Carter. Do you recruit nuns?" It was priceless!

Another future President was a mystery guest on the syndie WML...Gerald Ford, when he was House Minority Leader.

Do you remember what year that was?

 

[Corky Marlowe]

Another future President was a mystery guest on the syndie WML...Gerald Ford, when he was House Minority Leader.


Do you remember what year that was?

Not quite...Had to be before he became VP in the fall of '73, though. And now that I think about it, he was a regular contestant like Carter was.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

1971: Actor Trevor St. John ("One Life to Live") is born in Spokane, WA.

 

[bpatrick]

Another future President was a mystery guest on the syndie WML...Gerald Ford, when he was House Minority Leader.


Do you remember what year that was?

Not quite...Had to be before he became VP in the fall of '73, though. And now that I think about it, he was a regular contestant like Carter was.

1969; Carter appeared in 1973.

 

[Ultimajock]

Another future President was a mystery guest on the syndie WML...Gerald Ford, when he was House Minority Leader.
Do you remember what year that was?

Not quite...Had to be before he became VP in the fall of '73, though. And now that I think about it, he was a regular contestant like Carter was.

1969; Carter appeared in 1973.

...and, of course, since Ronald Reagan had appeared on the CBS run of What's My Line? (as a mystery contestant), that makes three consecutive Presidents of the United States of America that appeared on the show ;D ...