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RADIO SHOW DEBUT ON THIS DAY IN 1930

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First episode

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William Hooker Gillette

Based on the popular characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
aired on coast-to-coast radio 
beginning Monday October 20, 1930 and ran until June 5, 1955. Over 
time, there were 574 broadcasts on the NBC, Mutual and ABC network 
stations.

The original cast featured William Gillette as Holmes and Leigh Lovell
as Dr. Watson. The first sponsor was George Washington Coffee. The
announcer was Joseph Bell.

 


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FINALLY A SIXTH SEASON, SORT OF

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(The Hollywood Reporter) – NBC’s The Six Million Dollar Man has been
off the air since 1978, but fans who have spent the last three and a half
decades wishing for a sixth season of the Lee Majors-starring drama will
finally see their dream come true — kind of — next year when Dynamite
Entertainment launches The Six Million Dollar Man: Season 6.

The monthly comic book picks up the continuity of the original television
series from the end of the fifth and final season, with writer James Kuhoric
promising to "bring back all the things that made it special to me back in
the day." Amongst those things, Kuhoric said, are the show’s trademark
slow motion effect sequences. He said "We went out of our way to use
the ‘Kung Fu Slow Motion’, the sound effects, and all the oddities of that
era so the comic book would feel like the original TV series.”

The Six Million Dollar Man: Season 6 will be released in comic book stores
and digitally in February 2014, in time for the series’ 40th anniversary year
(It debuted on NBC January 18, 1974).

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Award-winning comic book writer James Kuhoric

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COWBOY STAR BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1914

CLAYTON MOORE YNG

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Jack Clayton Moore (September 14, 1914 – December 28, 1999)

Clayton Moore is best known for playing the masked man, a western
character in The Lone Ranger on ABC television from 1949–1951
and 1954–1957. Before fame, he became a circus acrobat with a

trapeze act at age 8. As a young man, Moore worked successfully
as a John Robert Powers model. Moving to Hollywood in the late
1930s, he worked as a stunt man and bit player between modeling
jobs

 

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SYLVESTER STALLONE IS 67 TODAY

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1965

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Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone

Stallone is known for his Hollywood action roles, most notably, are the
boxer Rocky Balboa in the Rocky series from 1975 to 2006 and soldier
John Rambo in the series that began in 1982. It was announced on
December 7, 2010 that Stallone was voted into boxing’s Hall of Fame
.

 

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BOND FILM RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN 1973

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Sir Roger George Moore

Live and Let Die is the eighth film in the James Bond 007 series. It was
the first to star Roger Moore as secret agent James Bond.

Roger-Moore now
Roger Moore will be 86 in October

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