GARRY MOORE WAS BORN ON THIS DATE IN 1915

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Garry Moore was a game show host and comedian best known for his
work in television.  Moore entered show business as a radio personality
in the 1940s and was a television host on several game and variety show  
programs during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s such as The Garry Moore
Show
on CBS-TV from 1959 to 1967 and I’ve got a secret from 1952 to
1967 on CBS. Moore was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1976 and
retired from television. He died on November 28, 1993.

    i've got a sec.

[From 1961]

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TOM SELLECK TURNED 66 TODAY

 
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Thomas William "Tom" Selleck  is an actor and film producer, best known for his starring role as Hawaii-based private investigator Thomas Magnum on the CBS-TV
show Magnum, P.I.(1980 – 1988).Tom also plays Jesse Stone in a series of made-
for-TV movies. In 2010, he appeared as Chief Frank Reagan in the drama Blue
Bloods
on CBS. His most successful movie release was Three Men and a Baby
which was the highest grossing movie in 1987. 

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                        Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum

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JUDY NORTON TAYLOR IS 53 TODAY

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Judy Norton Taylor is an actress, singer, and director. She is
best known for her role as the oldest daughter, Mary Ellen, on
The Waltons  series which aired on CBS-TV from September 
14, 1972 to June 4, 1981. Judy is also a veteran of the stage,
where she made her first appearance at the age of 7.

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                              Taylor as Mary Ellen Walton

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BARNABY JONES PREMIERED ON THIS DATE IN 1973

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Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee
Meriwether (seen above) as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private
detective firm in Los Angeles. The show ran on CBS-TV until April 3, 1980,
when it was cancelled due to low ratings among young viewers.

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BIRTHDAY WISHES TO ALAN ALDA ~ 75 TODAY

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    Hawkeye

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Alan Alda ,an actor, director and screenwriter is a five-time Emmy Award and six-time Golden Globe Award winner. He is best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce ( above)
in the TV series M*A*S*H on CBS from September 17, 1972 to February 28, 1983. He was nominated for 21 Emmy Awards, and won five. He took part in writing 19 episodes, including the finale, and directed 32. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Stony Brook University School of Journalism.

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Alda as U.S. Republican Senator Arnold Vinick in West Wing on NBC-TV
from 1999 to 2006

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Alan Alda played  U.S. Senator Owen Brewster (above) in The Aviator
in 2004. He received his first  Academy Award nomination for the role. 

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