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ANGIE DICKINSON IS 80 TODAY

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Actress Angie Dickinson has appeared in more than fifty films, including
Rio Bravo (1959), Ocean’s Eleven (1960), Dressed to Kill (1980), and
Pay It Forward (2000). She also starred as Sergeant Suzanne “ Pepper”
Anderson in the NBC-TV crime series Police Woman, from September
13, 1974 to March 29, 1978. She won a Golden Globe Award for Best
Actress-Drama Series for the show in 1975 and received Emmy Award
nominations in 1975, 1976, and 1977 for the series.   

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Angie Dickinson with Dean Martin on the set of Rio Bravo

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MEDICAL DRAMA PREMIERED ON THIS DATE IN 1969

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Medical Center
is a medical drama series which aired on the CBS television
network from Wednesday September 24, 1969 to September 6, 1976. The
lives of both doctors and patients at a fictitious university hospital in Los
Angeles were showcased each week.

 

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Filming an episode of Medical Center

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Chad Everett turned 75 on June 11

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POLICE DRAMA PEMIERED ON THIS DATE IN 1968

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The ABC television series The Mod Squad ran from Tuesday September 24, 1968,
until August 23, 1973. It was loosely based on the the experiences of the shows
creator Bud Ruskin’s as a squad leader for undercover narcotics police officers
in the late 1950s.  

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MEDICAL DRAMA PREMIERED ON THIS DATE IN 1969

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Marcus Welby, M.D. is a medical drama that aired on ABC-TV from Tuesday
September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. The pilot, A Matter of Humanities, had
previously aired as a ABC Movie of the Week on March 26, 1969. The shows
handling of many varied medical cases, some common and some uncommon,
made it an instant hit for ABC.

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 James Brolin     

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                                                    Elena Verdugo

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DEBUT OF ‘’PERRY MASON’’ ON THIS DAY IN 1957

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The Legal drama Perry Mason had an original run from September 21, 1957 to
May 22, 1966. The title character was portrayed by Raymond Burr (above).The
show was, at one time, television’s most successful and longest-running lawyer
series.

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Perry Mason has been airing syndicated repeats of the show since
1966 as part of it’s afternoon viewing schedule.

 

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