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.
Only fifty kids at a time sat in the Peanut Gallery on “Howdy Doody”.
Only Audrey Meadows, who played Alice Kramden, received residuals from the endless reruns of “The Honeymooners” (CBS, 1955-56). Her manager negotiated for TV residual rights before most people took them seriously.
The DuMont TV network started operating in 1944 with station WABD in New York (now WNYW). It had financing from Paramount Pictures but lacked a radio network such as the other networks had. Owning a radio network made it easier to sign up TV station affiliates. Further, complicated court rulings prevented DuMont from owning as…
It meant the kids had to move out of the master bedroom when their show-business father (Danny Thomas) returned from a tour on the TV series “Make Room for Daddy” (ABC, CBS, 1953-64).
Henry Fonda endorsed GAF on TV. Robert Young endorsed Sanka. Andy Griffith endorsed Maxwell House.
The bar aboard the Enterprise on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” was called Ten Forward. Whoopi Goldberg, as Guinan, runs it.