Richard (Dick) Wayne Van Dyke is 99 today.      
     
     
 

On December 13, 1925, Dick Van Dyke, the quintessential
“nice guy” actor who would become known for his work
in such movie classics as Mary Poppins (1964) and Chitty
Chitty Bang Bang (1968), as well as the popular 1960s CBS - 
TV sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961 – 1966), was born
in West Plains, Missouri.

Van Dyke, who was raised in Danville, Illinois, served in the
Army Air Force Special Services during World War II and in
the 1950s took various acting jobs and hosted a series of
TV game shows. In 1960, he starred on Broadway in Bye
Bye Birdie, a role which earned him a Tony Award.    
    
    
 Van Dyke was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in
1995 and the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1993, and has been
honored with the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement
Award in 2013, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2020, and
was recognized as a Disney Legend in 1998. 

(1993 – 2001)

NEW YORK (AP) — George Joseph Kresge Jr., who was known
to generations of TV watchers as the mesmerizing entertainer
and mentalist The Amazing Kreskin, reportedly died from
complications of dementia at an assisted living facility in Wayne,
New Jersey.         

Kreskin (right) and Johnny Carson.

Magnum, P.I. is a crime drama television series with Selleck as
a private investigator (P.I.) living on Oahu, Hawaii. The series
ran from December 11, 1980, to May 1, 1988, during its first-run
broadcast on CBS. Magnum, P.I. consistently ranked in the top
20 television programs in the Nielsen ratings during the first
five years of its original run, finishing as high as number three
for the 1982–83 season.

Magnum and his Ferrari 308 GTS.

Thomas William Selleck will be 80 on January 29th.

Michael Cole, who most famously portrayed Pete Cochran,
one of the three young undercover cops on ABC’s crime
drama Mod Squad (1968-1973), died on Tuesday at the 
Medical Center in Tarzana, California. No cause of death
has been revealed at this time.

Cole was the last surviving member of the original cast.

Richard Wagstaff Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012)

Dick Clark was a television and radio personality and producer
who hosted American Bandstand from 1956 to 1989.

He also hosted five incarnations of the Pyramid game show from
1973 to 1988 and Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, which
broadcast New Year’s Eve celebrations in New York City’s Times
Square.

Dick Clark hosting the New Year’s eve special from New
York’s Times Square.