The General Electric Theater was produced by MCA-TV/Revue, was broadcast
every Sunday evening at 9:00pm, EST, beginning February 1, 1953 and ending
May 27, 1962. Each of the estimated 209 television episodes was an adaptation
of a novel, short story, play, film, or magazine fiction. On September 26, 1954,
Ronald Reagan debuted as the only host of the program.
The sitcom The Monkees, which first aired on NBC in September of 1966, won two
Emmy Awards in 1967: Outstanding comedy Series and Outstanding Directorial
Achievement in Comedy (James Frawley).
Most of the episodes from the second season of the show didn’t use a laugh track,
which was the common practice at the time. The non-use of canned laughter was
used by NBC as one of several reasons for cancelling the series.
Scene from the final episode (#58)
Barney Keep during his last radio show for KEX on Wednesday, February 14, 1979. The retirement party concluded 35 continuous years with the station.
M*A*S*H is a television series adapted from the 1970 feature film MASH, which was
itself based on the 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, written by Richard Hooker. The medical drama/black comedy series premiered on September
17, 1972 and ended February 28, 1983. The final episode became the most watched television show in U.S. television history with 105.97 million viewers. In 2002, M*A*S*H was ranked #25 on TV Guide’s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
