Tonight in 1949 — THE LIFE OF RILEY starring Jackie Gleason debuted on NBC.

The first TV version of the radio sitcom won one of TV’s earliest Emmys.

It’s like a proto-HONEYMOONERS w/ Rosemary De Camp as Riley's Alice-esque wife Peg.

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 UNDERDOG debuted today in 1964. 💥

Wally Cox voiced the crime-fighting canine w/ Norma MacMillan as Sweet Polly and Allen Swift as Simon Bar-Sinister.

Produced by Total Television (not Jay Ward) but animated by the same studio. TTV + Ward cartoons were often mingled in reruns.

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 Tonight in 1973 — THE MAGICIAN debuted as a weekly series on NBC.

Bill Bixby starred as a wealthy illusionist who "fights crime with magic." 🎩

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 Today in 1961 — PASSWORD debuted on CBS

Betty White guest starred on the show’s third week — and married host Allen Ludden in 1963.

“He was the love of my life." 💕

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 “There is nothing in the dark that isn’t there when the lights are on.” 
— Rod Serling

THE TWILIGHT ZONE debuted tonight in 1959.

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 Charles M. Schulz's PEANUTS debuted on this day in 1950. 

It ran for 50 years and 17,897 comic strips!

#CharlieBrown

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 "I didn't want to be just a sex symbol. I wanted to be an actress."

Angie Dickinson is 92 today. ❤️

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 THE MONKEES debuted on NBC tonight in 1966.

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 Happy #StarTrekDay

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 "I watched a lot of TV when I was a kid, so I was exposed to people like Lucy, Eve Arden, Cara Williams, Betty White...This was the ‘50s and early ‘60s, so there was a lack of women’s progress. But not on television. These were women who were in charge.”

Jane Curtin is 76 today.

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 I hope everyone is donning their feather boas in honor of Jo Anne Worley's 86th birthday.

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