Giles French (Sebastian Cabot) was the name of the housekeeper on the TV series “Family Affair” (CBS, 1966-71).
On “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father” (ABC, 1969-72)?
Mrs. Livingston (Miyoshi Umeki).
On “The Jetsons” (ABC, 1962-63)?
Rosie the Robot (voice by Jean VanderPyl).
Stalag 13. The PT boat number on “McHale’s Navy” (ABC 1962-66) was PT 73.
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 exterior of the bar in the TV series “Cheers” (NBC, 1982) was filmed at a Boston bar called “The Bull and Finch” on Beacon Street across from the Boston Common.
No, Dooley Wilson didn’t actually play the piano in Casablanca (1942). Wilson sang in the movie, but couldn’t play piano. Accompaniment was dubbed in.
“The Mary Tyler Moore Show” (CBS, 1970-77) had three spinoffs, all on CBS: “Rhoda” (1974-78); “Phyllis” (1975-77); and “Lou Grant” (1977-82).
“As the World Turns” (CBS, 1956) was the first soap opera to change its format from fifteen minutes to thirty minutes each weekday.