What did the title “Lonesome Dove” (CBS, 1989) mean?
“Lonesome Dove” was the name of a town in south Texas.
Retired Texas ranger Gus McCrae (Robert Duvall) ran a ranch near there.
“Lonesome Dove” was the name of a town in south Texas.
Retired Texas ranger Gus McCrae (Robert Duvall) ran a ranch near there.
The Ponderosa ranch in “Bonanza” (NBC, 1959-73) was near Virginia City, Nevada. The age order of the Cartwright sons from oldest to youngest were: Adam (Pernell Roberts) Eric “Hoss” (Dan Blocker) Joseph “Little Joe” (Michael Landon)
The TV game show “The $64,000 Question” (CBS, 1955-58) cost only a small fraction of that to produce each week, about $15,000 per weekly episode. This was much cheaper than another top-rated half-hour show of the period, “The Jack Benny Show” (CBS, NBC, 1950-65), which cost $42,000 an episode.
Liberace’s real name was Wladziu Valentino Liberace.
Jimmy Carter was the first president whom Sam Donaldson covered as ABC’s White House correspondent, beginning in 1977. By the time Carter’s term was over, the departing president wished two bad things on his successor: Menachem Begin and Sam Donaldson.
The club where Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz) played on “I Love Lucy” was in New York, he played at the Tropicana. When the family moved to Connecticut, he started his own club, the Ricky Ricardo Babaloo Club.
The Simpsons live in a town called Springfield.