Minisode Friday!

This week's Minisode is an episode from the classic 1970s-1980s television show "Charlie's Angels." Enjoy!

"Cheers" bloopers!

We finally found some! Here are some of the funniest bloopers ever from one of the funniest shows in history—"Cheers." Enjoy!

Way Back Wednesdays quiz!

Here's a fun quiz (courtesy of the fine folks at NBC.com) that tests you on your knowledge of classic television—enjoy!

Cartoonist Ted Key dies

Cartoonist Ted Key, who signature creations included a bossy maid and a time-traveling dog scientist, died at his home in Pennsylvania this past Saturday. He was 95.

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, "Hazel made Mr. Key famous: The maid became a weekly feature in the Saturday Evening Post soon after he sold his first cartoon to the publication in 1943. He drew Hazel for 50 years.

But others may best remember Mr. Key's animated characters—Mr. Peabody, the genius dog, and his boy, Sherman—that he drew for 'Rocky and His Friends.'"

Hazel went on to become a prime-time TV series in 1961 that starred Shirley Booth and ran four years on NBC and one year on CBS.

Mr. Key also wrote screenplays, wrote a play for radio, authored children's books, and created motivational "Positive Attitude" posters and pamphlets.

TV History Weekly

May 4
1929—Screen icon Audrey Hepburn is born on this day near Brussels.
1959—The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announces the winners of the first Grammy Awards on this day. Henry Mancini won the Best Album award for The Music from Peter Gunn; Perry Como was voted Best Male Vocalist and Ella Fitzgerald Best Female Vocalist.
1975—Moe Howard, one of the Three Stooges, dies on this day in 1975.

May 5
1936—Bette Davis wins the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in "Dangerous."
1943—Howard Walls, film curator of the Library of Congress, announces that the library will preserve some 5,000 films.
1986—Long-running romantic-comedy series "The Love Boat" airs its last episode. The show had been on the air since 1977.

May 6
1955—Actress Grace Kelly meets her future husband, Prince Rainier of Monaco, while on a photo shoot for a French fashion magazine.
1959—Raymond Burr wins the Best Actor in a Dramatic Series Emmy for "Perry Mason," in which he plays a crime-solving attorney.  The popular show, which debuted in 1957, ran for nine years.
1992—German-born actress Marlene Dietrich dies.

May 7
1901—On this day, film star Gary Cooper is born in Helena, Montana.
1947—"Kraft Television Theater," an early and influential anthology series, debuts on NBC with a play called "Double Doors." The show ran for 11 years.
1966—"Monday, Monday," by the Mamas and the Papas, hits the top of the charts. This was the first hit by a co-ed group.

May 8
1914—W.W. Hodkinson creates the film financing and distribution company Paramount Pictures.
1940—Eric Nelson, son of radio stars Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, is born. Eric, later known as Ricky, grew up to play himself on his parents' TV series and became a chart-topping singer.

May 9
1949—Singer Billy Joel is born on Long Island, New York.
1971—The last episode of "The Honeymooners" airs.
1971—Hal Holbrook wins the Emmy for the TV political drama "The Senator," in which Holbrook plays an idealistic politician whose drive for justice leads him into conflicts every week.

May 10
1936—"The Plow That Broke the Plains" premieres at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. Paid for by the U.S. Resettlement Agency, the highly acclaimed movie made important contributions to the development of the documentary film.
1954—"Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and the Comets is released. A year later, the song became the first rock and roll number to top the charts.
1977—Actress Joan Crawford, born Lucille Fay Le Sueur in 1904, dies.

Information collected from History.com.

 

Minisode Friday!

This week's Minisode feature is an episode of "Bewtiched" entitled "Witch or Wife?" Enjoy!

Mentos fresh!

Quite possibly the dorkiest commercial of the past two years. Enjoy!

Way Back Wednesdays

Every Wednesday on NBC.com you can view some of your favorite classic television shows—this week NBC is featuring an episode of "The A-Team" called "The Beast from the Belly of the Boeing." Originally aired in 1983, this episode features Hannibal, Murdock, Face and B.A. sneaking aboard a 747 to rescue passengers from a hijack. Enjoy and don't forget to tune in next week on NBC.com!

Johnny Carson "Who Do You Trust?" bloopers

Found this fantastic blooper reel on YouTube, featuring clips from Johnny Carson's 1950-1960s game show "Who Do You Trust?" Just from our familiarity with Johnny Carson, we have a nagging feeling some of these bloopers weren't bloopers at all—just Johnny being Johnny.

TV History Weekly

April 27
1937—The original version of "A Star Is Born" debuts.
1954—"White Christmas," starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, debuts.
1986—A video pirate manages to override the satellite transmission of an HBO movie.

April 28
1937—The country's first museum of costumes is incorporated. The Museum of Costume Arts, in New York, created a collection of theater and movie costumes to promote "cultural education" in the design field.
1990—The Broadway musical "A Chorus Line" closes after 6,237 performances.

April 29
1932—Long-running radio series "One Man's Family" debuts.
1944—"Dancing Romeo," the last "Our Gang" film, is released.
1960—In testimony before a House subcommittee, radio disk jockey Dick Clark denies involvement in the payola scandal that shook the radio industry in 1959 and 1960.

April 30
1945—Radio personality Arthur Godfrey debuts in his own morning show, "Arthur Godfrey Time."
1992—The final episode of the popular "Cosby Show" airs.

May 1
1941—Orson Welles' landmark film, "Citizen Kane," debuts.
1967—Elvis Presley marries 21-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu.

May 2
1932—Comedian Jack Benny's long-running radio show debuts.
1948—Radio program "Hour of Charm" broadcasts for the last time.
1972—Steven Spielberg begins filming "Jaws."

May 3
1937—Margaret Mitchell's novel, "Gone With the Wind," wins the Pulitzer Prize.
1960—The musical comedy "The Fantasticks" opens in an off-Broadway playhouse in New York's Greenwich Village.
1991—Prime-time soap opera "Dallas" airs its last episode.

Information provided by History.com.