Archive for September, 2016

SERIES PREMIERED ON THIS DAY IN 1966

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The series was filmed and financed by Desilu Productions, and aired on the
CBS network from September 17, 1966 to March 30, 1973. The show was
reprised in 1988 for two seasons on ABC, retaining only Graves in the cast.

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1968

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RECAPPING PAST NEWS HEADLINES

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CAMILLE BOHANNON

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Hiram King "Hank" Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953)

Legendary country star Hank Williams released 35 Top-10 singles on the Billboard Country & Western Best Sellers chart and 11 #1 singles between 1948 and 1953, including "Your Cheatin’ Heart" and "Hey, Good Lookin’." Williams dropped out of
school to write music for the Drifting Cowboys, and heavily when his band mates
were drafted during World War l l, and was dismissed by radio station WSFD in
Montgomery, Alabama due to his alcoholism.

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TV SERIES BEGAN ON THIS DAY IN 1963

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The Fugitive is a drama series created by Roy Huggins. It was produced
by QM Productions and United Artists Television. It aired on ABC from
1963 to 1967. David Janssen (above) stars as Richard Kimble. The
show was nominated for five Emmy Awards and won the Emmy for
Outstanding Dramatic Series
in 1966.

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David Janssen (David Harold Meyer) 
(March 27, 1931 – February 13, 1980)

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PLAYWRIGHT DIES AT 88

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Edward Franklin Albee III  (March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016)

NEW YORK (AP) — Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward
Albee, who challenged theatrical convention in masterworks such as
“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “A Delicate Balance,” died Friday.

His personal assistant Jackob Holder said Albee died at his home in
Montauk, east of New York, No cause of death was immediately given,
although he had suffered from diabetes. With the deaths of Arthur Miller
and August Wilson in 2005, Edward Albee was arguably America’s greatest
living playwright.

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ACTOR STERLING HOLLOWAY

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Sterling Price Holloway Jr. was born in Cedartown,
Georgia
. (January 4, 1905 – November 22, 1992)

Holloway was a actor and voice actor who appeared in over
100 films and 40 television shows. He was also a voice actor
for The Walt Disney Company, well known for his distinctive
tenor voice and is perhaps best remembered as the original
voice of Mr. Stork in Dumbo, Adult Flower in Bambi, the
Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland, the title character in
Winnie the Pooh
, Kaa in The Jungle Book, and Roquefort
in The Aristocats.


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From left: Sterling Holloway and Walt Disney.

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