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.
In the 1960s, Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels (The Lone Ranger and Tonto, respectively) advertised Jeno’s Pizza Rolls.
Daniel J. Travanti and JoBeth Williams played Adam’s parents John and Reve Walsh, who became crusaders for missing children after their child Adam was kidnapped and murdered in the TV movie “Adam” (1983). A sequel, “Adam: His Song Continues” (1986) followed, with Travanti and Williams reprising their roles.
As the announcer never failed to remind us, the TV show, “The F.B.I.”, was a “Quinn Martin Production.”
“The Guiding Light” (CBS, 1952) was the daytime TV drama which the rock group the B-52s once performed on.
Larry Hagman was offered “The Waverly Wonders” (NBC, 1978), a sitcom about a high school basketball coach (starring Joe Namath) the same year he was offered “Dallas” (CBS, 1978-91). Hagman favored this series, which lasted one month; but his wife advised him to take “Dallas.”
Two actors have played Mickey Spillane’s detective Mike Hammer on TV: Darren McGavin, in “Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer” (synd., 1957-59); and Stacy Keach in “Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer” (CBS, 1984-87).