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ALAN ALDA IS 77 TODAY

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Actor Alan Alda (Alphonso Joseph D’Abruzzo) is a six-time
Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, best known
for his role as
Hawkeye Pierce in the CBS-TV series M*A*S*H
(1972-1983).

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News conference following the wrapping of the series in 1983

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SITCOM ACTOR HAS DIED AT 89!

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Conrad Stafford Bain
(February 4, 1923 – January 14, 2013)

Bain’s television credits include the role of Phillip Drummond in the
sitcom
Diff’rent Strokes (NBC/ABC 1978 – 1986) and as Dr. Arthur
Harmon on Maude (CBS 1972 – 1978).

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BONNIE FRANKLIN IS 69 TODAY!

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Bonnie Gail Franklin played Ann Romano, the mother on the CBS sitcom “One
Day at a Time” (1975-1984). She made her television debut at age 9 on “The
Colgate Comedy Hour” on NBC. Franklin was the first actress to portray a
a divorced woman on a hit TV show.

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SITCOM DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN1961

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Mister Ed is a situation comedy produced by Filmways that
first aired in
syndication from January 5 to July 2, 1961, and
then on
CBS from October 1, 1961 to February 6, 1966.

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JACK KLUGMAN HAS DIED AT 90!

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Jack Klugman 

Jacob Joachim "Jack" Klugman
(April 27, 1922 – December 24, 2012)

Klugman died at his home in Northridge, California. He was diagnosed with throat
cancer in 1974 and lost a vocal cord to cancer in 1989, but continued to act. The
exact cause of his death is not known. 

He was best known as Felix Unger‘s sloppy roommate Oscar Madison in the ABC
television series The Odd Couple (1970–1975), for his starring role in Quincy, M.E.
on NBC-TV (1976–1983), as Juror #5 in 12 Angry Men, and multiple appearances
on The Twilight Zone.

 

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