The Voice from the Robot
For many the first thing that comes to mind when recalling the 1960′s TV series Lost in Space are the words, “Danger Will Robinson” called out many times by the ever present Robot. Last week on January 22, 2012, Dick Tulfield, the man who voiced those words died at the age of 85. Richard Norton [...]
Gathering of the Tribes
On January 14, 1967 20 to 30 thousand people came together at Golden State Park in San Francisco for the Human Be-In. It has unofficially become known as the prelude to the Summer of Love. It was first announced on the cover of the San Francisco Oracle first Issue as “A Gathering of the Tribes [...]
Meet The Press
The first airing on television for the News show Meet The Press was on November 6, 1947. The first moderator as well as the show’s creator was journalist Martha Rountree. Ms Rountree would be the moderator until 1953. The first guest was James A. Farley, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and Franklin [...]
The Great Stone Face
During the 1920′s Buster Keaton was one of the greatest, if not the greatest, comic actor-directors of the end of the Silent Film Era. Roger Ebert has even called him the “greatest actor-director in the history of the movies”. Keaton’s films during this decade, such as The General or The Navigator, Steamboat Bill, Jr. or [...]
Died Before Their Time
Rudolph Valentino was one of the most popular stars of Silent Films in the 1920′s. When he died at the age of 31 in 1926, it is estimated that 100,000 people attended his funeral in New York. His image as the Latin Lover has lasted for decades. When Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific Ocean [...]
Gunsmoke – From Radio to Television
It was on September 10, 1955 that the radio show Gunsmoke began its television run. The Radio series voiced by William Conrad as Marshall Matt Dillion began on April 26, 1952 and would remain on CBS radio until June 18, 1961. From the TV premier until the last radio broadcast the program would be on [...]
Happy Birthday Gracie
Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen, of the comic team Burns and Allen was born on July 26 in San Francisco. Her death record shows 1902 as does her grave marker as the year of her birth. This date was given by her husband George Burns, who had said he was never sure in what year [...]
The Six Three Stooges
Moe Howard Moe was the leader of the Three Stooges. He was born Moses Harry Horwitz on June 19, 1897 and died May 4, 1975. Shemp Howard Moe’s older brother, Samuel Horwitz born March 4, 1895, was one of the original stooges of Ted Healy. Shortly after they arrived in Hollywood he left the stooges, [...]
Everyone’s Mom – Barbara Billingsley
Barbara Billingsley, who is best remembered as the Mom to Wally and ‘Beaver’ Cleaver in the TV series Leave it to Beaver, was born on December 22, 1915. She passed away on October 16, 2010 at the age of 94. She was born Barbara Lillian Combes in Los Angeles, California and married her first husband [...]
Abbott and Costello – Comedy Team from Vaudeville to Television
William (Bud) Abbott was born in Asbury Park, NJ, October 2, 1895 and died April 24, 1974 in Woodland Hills, California. Lou Costello (Louis Francis Cristillo) was born in Paterson, NJ, March 6, 1906 and died March 3, 1959 in East Los Angeles, California. They first began to work together in 1935 at the Eltinge [...]
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