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Television History
Television History
1936 - The "The Rudy Vallee Show" debuted on CBS.
1953 - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided to approve RCA’s color television specifications.
1969 - Television history was made when Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki Budinger were married on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson.
1976 - WTCG-TV, Atlanta, GA, changed its call letters to WTBS, and was uplinked via satellite. The station became the first commercial TV station to cover the entire U.S.
1977 - Elvis Costello and the Attractions appear on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" in place of the Sex Pistols. The Sex Pistols could not get visas to enter the U.S.
1986 - Wayne "Danke Schoen" Newton won a $19.2 million suit against NBC News. NBC had aired reports claiming a link between Newton and mob figures. The reports were proven to be false.
1989 - The first episode of "The Simpsons" aired on FOX.
1990 - Olivia Newton-John appeared in the TV movie "A Mom For Christmas."
1993 - FOX outbid CBS for the National Football Conference TV package.
1993 - The "Perry Mason Mystery" TV movie "The Case of the Wicked Wives" aired.
1999 - Crossover jazz saxophonist, Grover Washington, collapsed and died in New York after taping a performance for CBS's "The Saturday Early Show." He was 56. The show aired the next day.
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Dick Clark's American Bandstand History
Dick Clark's American Bandstand History
1957 - Bobby Darin appeared on American Bandstand.
1966 - The Sandpipers performed "Louie Louie" and "Guantanamera" on American Bandstand.
1966 - The Monkees performed "I'm a Believer" and "Steppin' Stone" on American Bandstand.
1983 - Kim Carnes performed "Invisible Hands" and "You Make My Heartbeat" on American Bandstand.
1983 - Peter Shilling performed "Major Tom" 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
1977 - Mrs. Miskel Spillman, Elvis Costello, The Attractions, Al Franken, Tom Davis, Buck Henry and Michael O'Donoghue were guests on Saturday Night Live.
1988 - Melanie Griffith, Don Johnson and Little Feat were guests on Saturday Night Live.
1994 - George Foreman and Hole were guests on Saturday Night Live.
2002 - A "Christmas Special" of Saturday Night Live aired on NBC.
2005 - Jack Black and Neal Young were guests on Saturday Night Live.
2011 - Jimmy Fallon and Michael Bublé were guests on Saturday Night Live. Michael Bublé performed "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."
| Now, Garth, if you hurl, then I'm gonna spew. And if I spew, chances are someone else is gonna honk, alright? And if that happens it could set off a peristaltic chain reaction. - Mike Myers (as Wayne) |
Television History
Dick Clark's American Bandstand History