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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2012
Sep
10
1955: 'GUNSMOKE' STARTS BLAZING ITS LONG TV TRAIL By Christy Slewinski
 
 
On this day in 1955, one of television's best-known and longest-running dramas, Gunsmoke, made its debut on CBS...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
9
1975: 'WELCOME BACK KOTTER' BEGINS ON ABC By Christy Slewinski
 
 
On this day in 1975, ABC introduced the situation comedy Welcome Back Kotter...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
8
1966: 'STAR TREK' LAUNCHES ON NBC By Christy Slewinski
 
 
This day in 1966 marked the debut of Star Trek — later known as Star Trek: The Original Series to differentiate the show from its many TV and film spinoffs — on NBC...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
7
1967: 'THE FLYING NUN' SOARS ONTO ABC By Christy Slewinski
 
 
On this day in 1967, ABC introduced The Flying Nun, starring Sally Field...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
6
1969: 'H.R. PUFNSTUF' DEBUTS ON NBC By Christy Slewinski
 
 
On this day in 1969, NBC introduced the live-action children's television series, H.R. Pufnstuf...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
5
1966: JERRY LEWIS' FIRST MDA LABOR DAY TELETHON By Christy Slewinski
 
 
On this day in 1966, the very first Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Association Labor Day telethon came to a close...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
4
1992: BROADCAST NETWORKS SIMULCAST 'SCARED SILENT' By Christy Slewinski
 
 
On this day in 1992, three major broadcast networks — NBC, CBS and PBS — banded together to present the documentary Scared Silent: Exposing and Ending Child Abuse...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
3
1951: 'SEARCH FOR TOMORROW' BEGINS ITS 35-YEAR RUN By Christy Slewinski
 
 
On this day in 1951, CBS premiered the daytime soap opera Search for Tomorrow...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
2
2000: T-T-THAT'S ALL, FOLKS: ABC BROADCASTS ITS LAST 'BUGS BUNNY' CARTOON By Christy Slewinski
 
 
On this day in 2000, ABC presented its final episode of The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show, marking the last time a Bugs Bunny, Looney Tunes or Merrie Melodies cartoon appeared on broadcast television as part of a regularly-airing series...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
1
1986: DAN DEBUTS A RATHER COURAGEOUS 'CBS EVENING NEWS' SIGN-OFF By Christy Slewinski
 
 
On this day in 1986, CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather debuted a new newscast sign-off: Courage...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver
By Christy Slewinski
 
 
 
 
'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy
By Noel Holston
 
 
 
 

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James
By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley