The original ABC Monday Night Football commentators from left: Don
Meredith, Howard Cosell and Frank Gifford.

Monday Night Football (MNF) is a live broadcast of the National Football
League on ESPN. From September 21, 1970 to 2005 it aired on ABC. It
was one of the longest running prime time commercial network television
series ever, particularly among male viewers. As of September 19, 2011,
the franchise had aired a total of 646 games.

Lost in Space is a science fiction TV series ran for three seasons with 82
episodes beginning with the debut on September 15, 1965 and ran till
March 6, 1968. The first season of the show was filmed in black and
white. Lost in Space was created and produced by Irwin Allen for 20th
Century Fox Television.

Arnold Daniel Palmer is a professional golfer, generally regarded as one of the
greatest players in the history of men’s professional golf. He has won numerous
events on both the PGA and Champions Tour, dating back to 1955. He is one of
golf’s most popular stars and its most important trailblazer of the sport’s television
age, which began in the 1950s. He is part of "The Big Three" in golf, along with
Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player, who are widely credited with popularizing the
sport around the world. Palmer won the PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement
Award in 1998, and in 1974 he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.

David Pollock in Bad News Bears

Former child actor David Pollock (50), who played one of the little league player’s,
Rudi Stein in the 1976 comedy film “Bad News Bears”, is taking a swing at politics
these days. He has entered into a Congressional race as a Democrat in California’s
26th Congressional district. Pollock’s political aspirations began in 1994 when he was asked to consider running for his local school board which he did successfully. He
was on the board for 15 years. David has said that he is “proud of getting away
from Hollywood while the getting was good”.

Radio announcer Red Barber called the first televised major league baseball
game which was broadcast on experimental station W2XBS, later WNBC-TV,
from Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York. The Brooklyn Dodgers and the
Cincinnati Reds played a doubleheader. The Reds won the first 5-2, and
the Dodgers took the second, 6-1.

Red Barber 

Red Barber (center right) interviewing Leo Durocher after the game