; ct2gcal.pl output ; ; Absolutely NO warrenty! ; ; ;# CalenTool V2.2 - nflag=1 range=1,12 - DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE ;# $Header: television,v 1.2 91/03/07 16:21:34 billr Exp $ ;# Special days file for calentool (rel 2.1) ;# Events from TV shows or concerning TV ;# Today in History dates provided by Robert Heckendorn at ;# Hewlett-Packard in Fort Collins, Colorado. ;# Any corrections or additions may be sent to robert@fc.hp.com ;# ;# Additional dates provided from ProLine's today file ;# Twin Peaks dates provided by Larry Virden. ;# ;# Converted to calentool format by Larry Virden (lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu) ;# and further edited and merged by Bill Randle (billr@saab.cna.tek.com). ;# 00000101 "Hopalong Cassidy" show first aired on television (1950)%s19500101 00000106 "Upstairs Downstairs" premiers, a serial TV program taking the Belamy household from 1903-1930 in four seasons (1974)%s19740106 00000119 Lucy Ricardo (played by Lucille Ball) has Little Ricky on the "I Love Lucy" episode show this day. Four hours before the showing Lucille Ball gave birth to Desi Arnaz, Jr. (1953)%s19530119 00000125 1st Emmy Awards are given out. (1949)%s19490125 00000126 First television show (1926)%s19260126 00000127 1st public demonstration of television. (1926)%s19260127 00000201 First TV soap, "Secret Storm", is aired (1954)%s19540201 00000211 Jack Paar walks off his show after NBC censors excised one of his risque stories (1960)%s19600211 00000212 Laura and James go on a picnic (TP) 00000219 "Mister Roger's Neighborhood" premiers on PBS (1968)%s19680219 00000223 Laura's last day (TP) 00000224 Cooper comes to town to track down Laura's killer (TP) 00000225 Sarah sees Killer Bob in vision (TP) 00000226 Albert arrives in Twin Peaks and Cooper dreams (TP) 00000227 Maddie arrives and everyone goes to Laura's funeral (TP) 00000228 Hawk tracks down Phillip Gerard and Bernard is killed by Leo (TP) 00000228 The last original episode of M*A*S*H is aired as a 2 1/2 hour special (1983)%s19830228 00000301 Cooper finds Jacques cabin (TP) 00000302 The cataclysm - Waldo is killed, Cooper and Leo are shot, Catherine and Shelley are in the fire and we wait till next season (TP) 00000303 "Mr. Wizard", educational science program for kids, first comes to TV (1951)%s19510303 00000303 Cooper meets a giant, Leo, Cooper and Nadine are fine (TP) 00000318 Birthday of Number 6 from "The Prisoner" 'Arrival' (1928)%s19280318 00000325 RCA manufactures the first COLOR television set. (1954)%s19540325 00000402 "As the World Turns" and "Edge of Night" premier on CBS (1956)%s19560402 00000403 "The Smother's Brothers" TV show is canceled by CBS for their controversial political comedy (1969)%s19690403 00000409 TV Guide publishes their first issue. (1953)%s19530409 00000430 NBC makes 1st US demo of TV at opening of NY World's Fair. (1939)%s19390430 00000430 Valerie Perrine becomes the first woman to bare her breasts in an American dramatic TV show, PBS's Steambath (1973)%s19730430 00000511 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week). (1929)%s19290511 00000601 The Cable News Network, CNN, makes its debut (1980)%s19800601 00000620 Ed Sullivan has his first really big 'shoe' on Sunday night TV. (1948)%s19480620 00000723 San Jose's KNTV airs the first condom commercial (1975)%s19750723 00000729 Jack Paar made his debut on the Tonight Show (1957)%s19570729 00000731 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ending 'Huntley-Brinkley Report' (No more "Goodnight, David" "Goodnight, Chet") (1970)%s19700731 00000801 The cable network MTV (Music Television) goes on the air (1981)%s19810801 00000902 The last "Star Trek" episode is telecast (1969)%s19690902 00000904 NBC begins first network coast to coast programming (1951)%s19510904 00000904 cartoon characters, the Flintstones, created (1960)%s19600904 00000907 ESPN, the sports cable network, makes its debut (1979)%s19790907 00000908 "Star Trek" debuts on NBC (1966)%s19660908 00000909 NBC created by the Radio Corporation of America. (1926)%s19260909 00000910 "Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS television. (1955)%s19550910 00000915 "The Lone Ranger", based on the radio show of the same name, made its television debut on ABC (1949)%s19490915 00000921 The television series Perry Mason, made its debut on CBS. (1957)%s19570921 00000923 1st closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event. (1952)%s19520923 00000924 "The Tonight Show" premieres. (1954)%s19540924 00000924 Howdy Doody's Clarabell the clown, silent for 13 years ended Howdy's last show by saying "Goodbye, kids." (1960)%s19600924 00000924 The CBS television magazine "60 minutes" debuted. (1968)%s19680924 00001001 Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show. (1962)%s19621001 00001003 Captain Kangaroo is shown for the first time (1955)%s19551003 00001004 "Leave It to Beaver" premiered. (1957)%s19571004 00001005 PBS becomes a network. (1970)%s19701005 00001007 First Bandstand (later, American Bandstand) broadcast (1957)%s19571007 00001011 "Saturday Night Live" premiers (NBC-TV, 1975)%s19751011 00001011 The first political telecast in the United States took place. (1932)%s19321011 00001015 The TV comedy "I Love Lucy" premiered on CBS. (1951)%s19511015 00001023 "The Jonathan Winter's Show" airs the first video taped short clip (1956)%s19561023 00001025 Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show (1964)%s19641025 00001026 Charles Kuralt heads off "on the road". He will wear out seven mobile homes and log over one million miles (1969)%s19691026 00001027 Walt Disney's first television program, "Disneyland" premieres (1954)%s19541027 00001029 "Goodnight, David" "Goodnight, Chet" heard on NBC for 1st time. (Chet Huntley & David Brinkley, NBC News, team up) (1956)%s19561029 00001101 National Coalition against violence on TV says the average U.S. child will see 50000 attempted murders on TV by age 16. (1985)%s19851101 00001106 WGY-TV (Schenectady NY), 1st commercial-license station begins service (1939)%s19391106 00001107 NBC becomes the first network to go all color (1966)%s19661107 00001108 Cable programming begins with HBO (1972)%s19721108 00001110 "Sesame Street" made its debut on PBS TV. (1969)%s19691110 00001115 KRON (Channel 4, San Francisco) signs on, from 7 to 10 PM. (1949)%s19491115 00001125 Edward R. Murrow's "Harvest of Shame", a documentary about migrant workers, is the first documentary shown on TV (1960)%s19601125 00001203 1st television broadcast in Hawaii. (1952)%s19521203 00001209 "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is shown for the first time (1965)%s19651209 00001217 "The Nat King Cole Show" is canceled after a year for lack of a sponsor (1957)%s19571217 00001227 First "Howdy Doody" show (1947)%s19471227 00001229 The first showing of the Star Trek episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" (1967)%s19671229