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Television History
Television History
1953 - "Make Room for Daddy" premiered on ABC-TV.
1960 - "My Three Sons" debuted on ABC-TV.
1963 - "My Favorite Martian" premiered on CBS-TV.
1963 - "The Judy Garland Show" premiered on CBS-TV.
1977 - Eva Shain became the first woman to officiate a heavyweight title boxing match. About 70 million people on watched Muhammad Ali defeat Ernie Shavers on NBC-TV.
1985 - The pilot episode of "MacGyver" aired on ABC.
1986 - The first episode of "Designing Women" aired on CBS.
1992 - The 100th episode of "Roseanne" aired on ABC.
1999 - The first episode of "Popular" aired.
2002 - The first pilot episode of "American Chopper" aired. A second pilot was aired on January 19, 2003.
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Dick Clark's American Bandstand History
Dick Clark's American Bandstand History
1960 - Chubby Checker performed "The Twist" on American Bandstand.
1973 - The Raspberries performed "Tonight" on American Bandstand.
1984 - Y&T performed "Don't Stop Runnin'" and "Lipstick and Leather" on American Bandstand.
1984 - The video of The Fixx's "Are We Ourselves" was aired on American Bandstand.
1984 - O'Bryan performed "Breakin' Together" on American Bandstand.
| "He had boundless energy and a remarkable ability to do innumerable things at any given time." - Fran La Maina, the longtime president of Dick Clark Productions Inc. |
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Saturday Night Live History
Saturday Night Live History
1990 - Kyle MacLachlan, Conan O'Brien and Sinead O'Connor were guests on Saturday Night Live. This was the first time for Chris Farley and Chris Rock to appear as featured performers.
1998 - "The Best of Saturday Night Live: The Mr. Bill Collection" was released on VHS.
2001 - Reese Witherspoon, Rudolph Giuliani, Alicia Keys and Paul Simon were guests on Saturday Night Live. Tina Fey became a full-time cast memeber in this episode.
| Well, isn't that special. - The Church Lady |
Television History
Dick Clark's American Bandstand History