Original television run on NBC: October 29, 1956 – July 31, 1970
From left: Chet Huntley and David Brinkley
The news show succeeded the Camel News Caravan anchored by John
Cameron Swayze which was falling behind its main competition, CBS’s
Douglas Edwards with the News.
Original television run on NBC/CBS: September 30, 1951 – August 1, 1971
During its run, the show received three Emmy Awards, for Red Skelton as best
comedian and the program as best comedy show during its initial season, and
an award for comedy writing in 1961. In 1959 Skelton also received a Golden
Globe for Best TV Show.
Richard Bernard "Red" Skelton
(July 18, 1913 – September 17, 1997)
Denny Miller in Wagon Train
Denny Scott Miller (Dennis Linn Miller)
(April 25, 1934 – September 9, 2014)
Denny Miller, who played scout Duke Shannon on the classic TV Western Wagon
Train on NBC/ABC (1957-1965) and was the first blond Tarzan on the big screen
in 1959, has died.
Miller, who wore a yellow rain slicker as the Gorton’s Fisherman in TV commercials
for the seafood company for more than a decade, was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease in January and died Tuesday in Las Vegas.
Miller as the Gorton’s Fisherman
From the film One Million Years B.C.
Raquel Welch (Jo Raquel Tejada)
International sex symbol Raquel Welch appeared in One Million Years B.C.
(1966). Her other films include 2001’s Legally Blonde and 1967’s The Oldest
Profession. Before fame Welch performed ballet for ten years. In 1964, she
debuted in A House is Not a Home.
