When were the Goodwill Games first held?
The Goodwill Games were first held in July 1986, in Moscow.
The brainchild of Ted Turner, the games included events such as basketball, boxing, gymnastics, track and field, and wrestling.
The Goodwill Games were first held in July 1986, in Moscow.
The brainchild of Ted Turner, the games included events such as basketball, boxing, gymnastics, track and field, and wrestling.
The name of the fraternal order to which Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton belonged on the movie “The Honeymooners,” was The Raccoons. The name of Ralph’s bowling team was The Hurricanes.
It meant the kids had to move out of the master bedroom when their show-business father (Danny Thomas) returned from a tour on the TV series “Make Room for Daddy” (ABC, CBS, 1953-64).
The the cab company on the TV series “Taxi” (ABC, 1978-83) was called The Sunshine Taxi Company, in New York City.
Tracy Keenan Wynn wrote the screenplay, based on Ernest J. Gaines’s novel, and John Korty directed the TV movie “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” (CBS, 1974). The film, starring Cicely Tyson as a 110-year-old former slave, won nine Emmys, including Emmys for Tyson, Korty, and Wynn.
The cartoon character Mabel first appeared in 1954 advertising Carling Black Label Beer.
Yvonne Craig played Batgirl on the TV series “Batman” (ABC, 1966-68). She appeared only in the second and final season. Batgirl’s real identity was Barbara Gordon, Police Commissioner Gordon’s daughter.