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Today in TV HistoryAugust 19, 1985: During a taping of “Late Night with David Letterman,” the host stands in front of a window looking down upon Rockefeller Center, where...
Today in TV HistoryAugust 11, 1951: The first baseball game is broadcast in color — a double header between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Braves. Read More →
Today in TV HistoryAugust 8, 1974: Facing impeachment, President Richard M. Nixon faces live TV and resigns. Accompanying him to his San Clemente exile are loyal staffers including...
Today in TV HistoryAugust 6, 1956: After ten years in operation, the DuMont television network limps off the air. It was the home of “Captain Video” and birthplace of...
Today in TV HistoryAugust 5, 1957: “Bandstand,” a daily show produced in Philadelphia and airing on WFIL, joins the daily lineup on ABC and is renamed “American Bandstand.”...
Today in TV HistoryAugust 4, 1983: Today’s episode of the NBC soap “Search for Tomorrow” is performed live for the first time since 1967. The reason is given as a...
Today in TV HistoryAugust 1, 1981: MTV makes its debut, and here’s how it looked: Read More →
Today in TV History, Part 3July 31, 1998: Gary Coleman is charged with assaulting a female bus driver at a California mall. Read More →
Today in TV History, Part 2July 31, 1995: The Walt Disney Company announces it will buy ABC and ESPN; the deal will be finalized the following year. Read More →
Today in TV History, Part 1July 31, 1970: Ending his 14-year run as co-anchor, Chet Huntley steps down as part of NBC’s popular evening newscast, “The Huntley-Brinkley Report.”...
Today in TV HistoryJuly 30, 1948: The Olympic games open in London, and BBC begins regular television coverage. It will average over three hours a day of live coverage, a first. Read More →
After 50 Years, Van Doren SpeaksIn 1959, Charles Van Doren appeared before a congressional committee and spilled the beans about his tenure as a contestant who won over $100,000 on the NBC quiz...
Today in TV HistoryJuly 29, 1957: Jack Paar becomes host of the “Tonight” show. The show had become a news-interview program following the departure of host Steve Allen,...
Today in TV HistoryJuly 25, 1969: U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy faces TV cameras and answers questions about his car accident on Chappaquiddick which resulted in the death of his passenger,...
Today in TV HistoryJuly 24, 1959: While touring a model of an American kitchen at an exhibit in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon gets into a debate with Soviet Premier Nikita...
tv trivia
Dear David: Did Tony and his pal on “The Time Tunnel” return to their own time (circa 1968)...
Dear David Inman: I remember a show from the 1960s that I believe was called “Supercar.”...
Dear Inman: The wife on “The Bill Engvall Show” looks amazingly like Judith Light. What...
Dear Incredible: When I was little my parents would let me stay up and watch “Make Me Laugh”...
movie trivia
Hi, David: Years ago I saw a movie on TV and it left me with a life lesson. I’ve thought...
Dear Inman: A couple of years ago I saw the play “Mamma Mia” and I remembered seeing a...
Dear David: In what movie does Ginger Rogers sing “We’re in the Money” in pig latin?...
Dear Mr. Inman: Who played the Beastmaster and what is he doing now? – B.J., Rochester,...
that's odd
Mr. Inman: In the 1960s there was a famous commercial in which a woman was cooking something,...
Dear Answer Man: Every time I watch “Saturday Night Live” and Kenan Thompson comes on my...
Dear David: The time is the fall semester, 1956-57 school year, in Melvindale, Michigan. For...
Dear Incredible Inman: Back around 1971 I remember seeing a movie about a giant breast terrorizing...
Dear Incredible Inman: This is going to sound really weird, but I have a memory for faces and...
Dear Inman: Did Tom Cruise play a supporting role in an older science fiction movie called...
pre-code movies
James Cagney is one of my favorite movie stars, largely because the movies he made for Warner...
