Burns and Allen
George Burns and Gracie Allen began in Vaudeville in the 1920s. They first met in 1922, but didn’t marry until 1927. At first it was George Burns who was the comic, but after having Gracie’s straight lines get more laughs, he became the straight man to her. From Vaudeville they did radio. After a few [...]
Farrah Fawcett
On June 25, 2009 Farrah Fawcett lost her long battle with cancer. If it wasn’t for the death of Michael Jackson, a few hours later, her death would have been the big news for the day. But timing has caused her death in 2009 to be hardly remembered. Ferrah Leni Fawcett was born in Corpus [...]
TV Shows That Switched Networks
With their season debut on CBS a few weeks ago, the television show Medium became the second show in two years to leave NBC for another of the Major Networks. Last year it was the long running series Scrubs that moved to ABC for its final season. beginning. These are just two of many TV [...]
CBS News
Katie Couric had been one of the anchors of the morning NBC Today Show before she moved to CBS to become the Evening News Anchor on September 5, 2006. Between the time of Rather’s retirement and Couric’s first newscast, Capitol Hill correspondent and host of CBS’s Sunday Morning Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer had served [...]
The Man with the Frizzy Hair
The name Friz Freleng may not mean much to many people but the characters that he worked with throughout the 40s and 50s are known by all. Who doesn’t know Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the cat, Yosemite Sam? Friz Freleng was involved with their creation or growth. Isadore Freleng was born August [...]
A Bewitching Aunt
For those of us who grew up in the 1960s one of our favorite television comedies was the ABC series Bewitched starring the beautiful Elizabeth Montgomery. One of the recurring characters of the show was Sam’s Aunt Clara as played by Marion Lorne. Marion Lorne was born on August 12, 1885 in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, [...]
The Duck Almost as Famous as a Mouse
When he first appeared in the Disney Silly Symphonies cartoon short The Wise Little Hen on June 9, 1934 he may not have been the character as we know him today. But it was the first appearance of Donald Duck. The 1934 Donald had not become the Donald as we know him today, but even [...]
The Music of Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Hilliard
Depending upon one’s age will depend on how you remember the entertainment couple Ozzie and Harriet Nelson. Most will know of them from the TV series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet one of the shows popular in early television. Others will know them as the father to Ricky Nelson, who also appeared on their [...]
What Will You Be Watching on June 12th
This is not a trick question advertising a special TV show, but the simple fact that June 12, 2009 is the date that over the air television will stop broadcasting the analog TV signals, that have been in use since the beginning of television, and start broadcasting completely in digital. There has been many rumors [...]
Flat Screen TVs and Our Kids
Reports are showing that as more families are replacing their old tube TVs with flat screens, and with it more children are being injured by having them fall on them. Flat screen TVs are lighter than tube TVs of the same size. Most of their weight falls in a couple of inch wide area with [...]
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