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DWAYNE HICKMAN TURNED 78 TODAY

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"Hollywood Collectors & Celebrities Show"

Dwayne Bernard Hickman is a former actor and television executive at CBS,
known primarily for his "teenage" roles on television
sitcoms. Hickman is best
known for playing Chuck MacDonald, Bob Collins’s (played by
Bob Cummings)
teenaged nephew, on the popular 1950s series, The Bob Cummings Show

(a.k.a. Love That Bob), and the title role in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.

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Dwayne Hickman and Bob Denver from Dobie Gillis

 

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REMEMBER THOSE WISE TV MOMS?

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Barbara Billingsley (Dec. 22, 1915 – Oct. 16, 2010) was June Cleaver


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On CBS-TV from 1957 – 1958, ABC-TV from 1958 – 1963

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FIRST TIME ON DVD THIS WEEK

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Season 1 (1977) on 2 Discs

“Eight is enough” was a ABC television series that ran
from March 15, 1977 to August 29, 1981.

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COMEDIAN BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1917

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         Hans Georg Conried, Jr. (April 15, 1917 – January 5, 1982)

Hans Conried was an comedian, character actor and popular voice actor who 
appeared regularly on many radio shows during the 1940s and 1950s, notably 
the George Burns & Gracie Allen Show, on which he played a psychiatrist. His 
many television guest appearances included such shows as The Monkees
and I Love Lucy. Conried also was a cast member of The Rocky and Bullwinkle
Show
, voicing the character of Snidely Whiplash in the Dudley Do-Right
shorts. He also hosted Fractured Flickers, a live-action syndicated half-hour
television comedy show .Critics regarded Conried as one of the great comic
character actors. 

Fractured Flickers Cover

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COMEDIAN SHECKY GREENE IS 86 TODAY

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Shecky Greene ((born Fred Sheldon Greenfield) is known for his nightclub
performances in Las Vegas as a headliner for more than thirty years. His
first gig in Vegas was in 1953. He has appeared in several films, including
History of the World, Part l (1981) and Splash (1984). He also made guest
appearances on TV shows such as Mad About You, Laverne & Shirley,
Love American Style, and Combat.

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