The announcement of President Kennedy’s assassination was made on TV at 1:40 P.M. EST on Friday, November 22, 1963.
On CBS, “As the World Turns” was interrupted by Walter Cronkite with the news bulletin.
Actress Helen Wagner had just been saying, “I gave it a great deal of thought, Grandpa,” when the episode was cut off.
The title character in the TV series “My Mother the Car” was a 1928 Porter with Ann Sothern’s voice. The “Porter” is a fictitious make.
Veteran character actor George Tobias played Abner Kravitz on the TV series “Bewitched” (ABC, 1964-1972). Alice Pearce was the original Gladys Kravitz; Sandra Gould replaced her when Pearce died in 1966.
Mr. T’s real name on the TV series “The A-Team” was Lawrence Tero. He was born in Chicago in 1952 and appeared as Sgt. Bosco “B.A.” Baracus on “The A-Team” from 1983 to 1987.
William (Bill) Loud and Pat Loud were the parents of the family on the TV series “An American Family” (PBS, 1973). Their five children included Lance, their twenty-year-old son. They lived in Santa Barbara, California. The twelve-hour TV series first aired in February 1973.
The powerhouse Saturday night lineup that baby boomers remembered watching on CBS in the 1973-74 season was: 8:00 “All in the Family”; 8:30–“M*A*S*H”; 9:00 “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”; 9:30—”The Bob Newhart Show”; 10:00 “The Carol Burnett Show.”
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.