Ben-Hur, a remake of the 1925 silent film with the same name, premiered at
Loew’s State Theatre in New York City. It was the fastest-grossing as well as
the highest grossing film of 1959 and also had the largest budget at $15.175
million with the largest sets built for any film produced at the time.

Charlton Heston

Original Run: November 7, 1932 to March 28, 1947
Network: CBS Radio Network (1932-1936) Mutual Broadcasting Network
(1939-1940 and 1946-1947)

The Buck Rogers show was the first science fiction radio program. It aired in
four separate runs with varying schedules, initially as a 15-minute show on a

Monday through Thursday schedule. 

Ted Beniades (Theodore Cleanthis Beniades)
(November 17, 1922 – October 24, 2014)

Beniades, a veteran actor who as an old-school undercover cop busts Al Pacino’s
Tony Montana for tax evasion in Scarface (1983), has died.

His family announced Beniades, who earlier starred as a detective on the gritty
1967-69 ABC series N.Y.P.D., died peacefully today at his home in Brookville, Pa.

Beniades also appeared with Pacino in Serpico (1973) and was in The Next Man
(1976), starring Sean Connery.

Original television run on CBS: September 22, 1964 – January 15, 1968

The series consisted of 105 episodes produced by Arena Productions using
the studio facilities of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The first season was broadcast
in black-and-white.

Original run on ABC-TV: September 17, 1963 – August 29, 1967

In 2002, The Fugitive was ranked No. 36 on TV Guide’s 50 Greatest TV
Shows of All Time.