How many children sat in the Peanut Gallery on “Howdy Doody”?
Only fifty kids at a time sat in the Peanut Gallery on “Howdy Doody”.
Only fifty kids at a time sat in the Peanut Gallery on “Howdy Doody”.
Old Gold cigarette packs started dancing in TV commercials in 1950, in a spot called “Dancing Butts.” Women wearing huge Old Gold packages did the dancing.
John Ratzenberger (Cliff Clavin) of “Cheers” (NBC, 1982) was a staff person at NASA Mission Control in Houston in Superman II (1980).
Will Robinson (Billy Mumy) is easy to remember from the many scenes in “Lost in Space” where the Robot shouts things like “Danger, Will Robinson!.” The other Robinsons were his sisters Penny (Angela Cartwright) and Judy (Marta Kristin); his mother Maureen (June Lockhart); and his father John (Guy Williams). Also aboard the Jupiter II were…
Dena Dietrich was Mother Nature in the Parkay Margarine campaign, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature”. She also appeared in TV series such as “Adam’s Rib” (ABC, 1973) and “The Ropers” (ABC, 1979-80).
NBC began regular television transmission to the American public in 1939.
Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion (1965), was the basis for the TV show “Daktari” (CBS, 1966-69) , with Betsy Drake and Marshall Thompson.