Fred Allen

Bob Hope 

 

Jack Webb

"Chesterfield Sound-Off Time" was a live, half-hour variety series on
NBC-TV with Fred Allen and Bob Hope alternating at hosts, and was
not very successful. However, on December 16, 1951,the show aired
the pilot for "Dragnet” called “The Human Bomb”, adapted from the
July 1949 radio episode. The special introduced many close-ups that
would become Jack Webb’s trademark. The pilot was such a success
that a regular TV series debuted in January 1952 on NBC, replacing
the variety show.

Premiere episode “The Human Bomb”

Joe Friday (Jack Webb); Ben Romero (Barton Yarborough),
and Chief of Detectives Thad Brown (Raymond Burr) try to
stop a man from blowing up city hall.

Goldie Jeanne Hawn is a actress, film director, producer, and occasional singer, 
best known for her roles in Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In on ABC-TV (1968-1972),  
Private Benjamin (1980),Overboard (1987), and Cactus Flower, for which she 
won the 1969 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Goldie Hawn appearing on the The Dean Martin Show in 1968

                        Imogene Fernandez de Coca

                  (November 18, 1908 – June 2, 2001)

Imogene Coca was a comic actress best known for her role
opposite Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows, a live 90-minute
variety show that appeared Saturdays (9-10:30 p.m. ET) on
NBC from February 25, 1950, until June 5, 1954. Coca took
Lessons in piano, dance, and voice as a child and while still a
teenager moved from Philadelphia to New York City to become
a dancer. She got her first job in the chorus of the Broadway
musical When You Smile

Martin Scorsese is 70 years old today

Bob Elliott (born 1923) and Ray Goulding (1922–1990) were a radio
comedy team whose career spanned five decades. During their last
years in radio, they were heard on National Public Radio until 1987.

1957

Bob Elliott turned 89 in March. He is the father of
comedian/actor Chris Elliott.