On January 17, 1966, the National Broadcasting Corporation
ordered 32 episodes of a new TV show, "The Monkees," for
its upcoming fall schedule. Little did producers know that the
fake pop music band they were launching would become an
actual pop culture sensation—whose records would even
outsell the Beatles. The sitcom aired from 1966 to 1968.
Randolph and co-star Art Carney in a promo photo
for The Honeymooners (circa 1955).
NEW YORK — “Honeymooners” actress Joyce Randolph, who
played Ed Norton’s sarcastic wife Trixie, has died. She was 99.
Her son Randolph Charles told The Associated Press Sunday,
his mother died of natural causes Saturday night at her home
on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
She was the last surviving main character of the beloved comedy
from television’s golden age of the 1950s.
The Honeymooners is a television sitcom that originally
aired from 1955 to 1956, created by and starring Jackie
Gleason, and based on a recurring comedy sketch of the
same name that had been part of Gleason’s variety show.
Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph.
Bill Hayes, best known for his role as Doug Williams on the hit
soap opera "Days of Our Lives," has died.
"Bill peacefully passed Friday morning surrounded by family.
Born William Foster Hayes III in Harvey, Illinois in 1925, the late
actor was one of the longest-running characters on "Days of Our
Lives." Hayes originated the role and has portrayed Williams
since 1970.
This past June, Hayes celebrated his 98th birthday with his
colleagues from the soap opera (below).
The oil tycoon Blake Carrington (John Forsythe) prepares to
marry his former secretary, the beautiful and innocent Krystle
(Linda Evans), in the three-hour television movie that kicks
off the prime-time ABC soap opera Dynasty on January 12,
1981.
David Soul (David Richard Solberg)
(August 28, 1943 – January 4, 2024)
Actor David Soul, the blond half of the TV crime-fighting duo
"Starsky and Hutch"who went on to become a successful pop
singer, has died.
Soul was a 3 pack a day smoker for fifty years. Although he
stopped smoking ten years prior, he was seriously affected
by COPD. He had also had a lung removed due to cancer.
Soul died in a London hospital, surrounded by family on
Thursday.
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