Actress Dawn Elberta Wells is best known for her role as
Mary Ann Summers on the CBS sitcom, Gilligan’s Island 
(1964-1967).    

The Royal Teens performing “Short Shorts”, 1958

Penny Marshall in dance school during the 1940s

Carole Penny Marshall

Marshall is a actress, television producer, film producer, and
television director. After appearing in several small roles for
television, she was cast as Laverne DeFazio on the ABC
sitcom Laverne & Shirley, which ran from 1976 until 1983,
during which Marshall was nominated for a Golden Globe
award for her performance three times

Grady Demond Wilson

Wilson is best known for his role as peacemaker Lamont Sanford
in the NBC-TV hit series, Sanford and Son (1972-1977). Time
magazine included the show on their list of the "100 Best TV
Shows of All Time in 2007. He was wounded while fighting in
the Vietnam War with the U.S. Army’s 4th Infantry Division
and returned home a decorated veteran in the late 1960s.

       
        1972

The CBS television sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show originally aired
until June 1, 1966. It was created by comedian Carl Reiner and won
15 Emmy Awards. In 2002, the series ranked at 13 on TV Guide’s 50
Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

Mary Tyler Moore is 76 (Dec. 29, 1936) and Richard Wayne “Dick” Van
Dyke is 87 (Dec. 13, 1925). They are shown here as they appeared on
the ‘Rachael Ray’ TV show in 2011.

The series began on CBS, originally sponsored by Lorillard‘s Kent cigarettes in its
first season, Scott Paper Company became the primary sponsor when the series
moved to NBC in the fall of 1955, remaining as sponsor even after it moved back
to CBS in September 1958, with Lever Brothers as an alternate sponsor from 1957 through 1960. A total of 203 episodes were produced, running until September 17,
1960, and appearing on all three of the television networks of the time, including
prime-time repeats from September 1960 through April 1963.