Actor Alan Young and Bea Wain at the microphone
The Alan Young Show began on NBC Radio as a summer replacement
sitcom in 1944, featuring vocalist Bea Wain. It then moved to ABC Radio
until 1946 when the series returned to NBC for a year, was off in 1948
and returned to the air in 1949. The show made the move to television
in 1950 on the CBS network.
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Alan (Angus) Young will be 94 on November 19
Mariette Hartley as seen in an original series Star Trek episode
Mary Loretta “Mariette” Hartley
Hartley is a well known character actress who began her career in her
teens as a stage actress. Her film career began with Ride the High
Country (1962), She first appeared on television in a CBS episode
of Gunsmoke in 1962.
Dennis Weaver and Mariette Hartley from Gunsmoke
Polaroid commercial with James Garner and Mariette Hartley, 1981
Charles Farrell and Gale Storm
My Little Margie is a situation comedy series starring Gale Storm and
Charles Farrell that alternated between CBS and NBC from 1952 to
1955. The series was created by Frank Fox and produced in Los
Angeles, California at Hal Roach Studios by Hal Roach, Jr. and
Roland D. Reed.
My Little Margie premiered on CBS as the summer replacement for
I Love Lucy under the sponsorship of Philip Morris cigarettes.
Gale Storm (Josephine Owaissa Cottle)
(April 5, 1922 – June 27, 2009)
Helen Elizabeth Hunt
Hunt began working as a child actress in the 1970s. Her early
roles included an appearance as Murray Slaughter‘s daughter
on The Mary Tyler Moore Show on CBS (1970-1977). She also
starred in the NBC sitcom, Mad About You, for seven years
before being cast in the 1997 romantic comedy film, As Good
as It Gets for which she won the Academy Award for Best
Actress. She made her directorial debut in 2007 with Then
She Found Me.
1996
Robert George Young (February 22, 1907 – July 21, 1998)
Father Knows Best aired on CBS-TV from October
3, 1954 (1954-10-03) – May 23, 1960.
