Alice Malsenior Walker is 69 today

Robert Klein is a stand-up comedian, singer and actor whose first 
major appearance was as host of the 1970 summer TV series Comedy
Tonight on CBS. Many of his routines were introduced on the series
and eventually released on record albums. Klein was very popular
in the 1970s with his routines on the Watergate scandal. He starred
in HBO’s first stand-up comedy special in 1975.

Our Gang cast (also known as The Little Rascals)

Where The Action Is!, a music-based television variety show 
that was carried by the ABC network each weekday afternoon
from 1965 to1967. It was created by Dick Clark as a spin-off of
his American Bandstand.

Dick Clark

Art Linkletter

House Party premiered on CBS Radio January 15, 1945, and ran
weekdays at 4 p.m., three days a week, through January 10, 1947. On 
December 31, 1948 the show switched to ABC Radio where it ran till
December 30, 1949. It returned to CBS Radio days later, making it’s
longest continued run from January 2, 1950 to October 13, 1967. The
audience participation show was hosted Art Linkletter. The Sponsors
included General Electric, Pillsbury, and Lever Brothers.

 
Fred Allen

Bob Hope 

 

Jack Webb

"Chesterfield Sound-Off Time" was a live, half-hour variety series on
NBC-TV with Fred Allen and Bob Hope alternating at hosts, and was
not very successful. However, on December 16, 1951,the show aired
the pilot for "Dragnet” called “The Human Bomb”, adapted from the
July 1949 radio episode. The special introduced many close-ups that
would become Jack Webb’s trademark. The pilot was such a success
that a regular TV series debuted in January 1952 on NBC, replacing
the variety show.

Premiere episode “The Human Bomb”

Joe Friday (Jack Webb); Ben Romero (Barton Yarborough),
and Chief of Detectives Thad Brown (Raymond Burr) try to
stop a man from blowing up city hall.