ABC, CBS, NBC…Tuesday Night Lineup, 1960
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What you would’ve watched on a typical Tuesday night in the fall of 1960: Bugs Bunny, Rifleman, Wyatt Earp, Stagecoach West, Alcoa Premiere (One Step Beyond)…
Sid Caesar: A True Icon Of Television This photo is from Caesar’s Hour, taken in 1956 at the Century Theater in New York. Sid Caesar began his television career when he made an appearance on Milton Berle’s Texaco Star Theater in 1948. In early 1949, Sid and Max Lieberman met with Pat Weaver, president of […]
Would YOU Like To BE, David Letterman? Good! Click The Video! This is one of the reasons we all love Letterman. In this great piece, we get to “be” Dave for a few minutes at the opening of his show. With a hand held cameraman “as Dave”, and Letterman walking behind him to talk, we […]
Rare! ‘Lucky Partners’…NBC Studio 8H, 1958 If you blinked, you missed this short lived daytime game show. It debuted June 30, 1958 and by August 22, it was gone and these few photos are all that remain. The host was Carl Cardell. I want to ask a question…does anyone know if the cameraman standing on […]
August 19, 1906…The Father Of Electronic Television Was Born 108 years ago today, Philo Taylor Farnsworth was born in Beaver, Utah and by age 14, he had worked out the principles for the Image Dissector tube which occurred to him while plowing back and forth on the family farm. The video at this link was […]