Amanda Blake (Beverly Louise Neill)  
(February 20, 1929 – August 16, 1989)

Actress Amanda Blake is best known for the role of the
red-haired saloon proprietress "Miss Kitty Russell" on
the western CBS-TV series Gunsmoke (1955 – 1975)

Along with her fourth husband, Frank Gilbert, she ran
one of the first programs for breeding cheetahs in
captivity.         

In 1968, Blake was inducted into the Hall of Great
Western Performers at the National Cowboy and
Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. She
was the third performer inducted, after Tom Mix
and Gary Cooper, selected in 1958 and 1966,
respectively.

Blake died of liver failure brought on by viral hepatitis
at Mercy General Hospital in Sacramento, California

       
          

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William Shatner in The Twilight Zone episode: Nightmare At
20,000 Feet. (1963)    

Shatner is best known for his portrayal of Captain James T. Kirk
of the USS Enterprise (above) in the Star Trek franchise; from the
second pilot in 1965 to his final appearance as Kirk in the 1994 
Star Trek Generations. 

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is a Western television series
that ran for eight seasons from April 15, 1951, through September
24, 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran
on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC
from 1957 through 1958. The Kellogg’s cereal company was the
show’s national sponsor.

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok starred Guy Madison
(right) as the legendary Old West lawman (in real life,
also a gunfighter) U.S. Marshal James Butler "Wild
Bill" Hickok, and Andy Devine (left) as his comedy
sidekick, Jingles P. Jones. Devine opened each episode
by shouting “Wiiiiiild Biiiiilll Hickok.” He also delivered
the opening commercial for Kellogg’s Sugar Corn Pops.

Guy Madison (Robert Ozell Moseley)
(January 19, 1922 – February 6, 1996)

Following his retirement, Madison built a large ranch home
in Morongo Valley, California. He died of emphysema at the
Desert Hospital Hospice in Palm Springs at the age of 74.

The Songbird. a twin-engine Cessna T-50 .

The television version (NBC/ABC) starred Kirby Grant as Schuyler 
“Sky” King, an Arizona rancher and airplane pilot, with Gloria
Winters as his niece Penny and Sky’s nephew Clipper, played by
Ron Hagerty. 

The series had strong Western elements, King usually captured
criminals and spies and found lost hikers, though he did so with
the use of his airplane, the Songbird.
 

From left: Kirgy Grant,Gloria Winters and Ron Hagerty.

Original Release: September 16, 1951 – March 8, 1959.

During production of the series.

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Dr. Kildare is an NBC medical drama television series which originally ran from September 28, 1961, until August 30, 1966 for a total of 191 episodes over five seasons Produced by MGM Television.

The TV series quickly achieved success and made a star of Richard Chamberlain, who played the title role. Dr. Kildare.

George Richard Chamberlain will
be 88 years old on March 31st.