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2018 Deaths In American Television ...
The following deaths of notable individuals related to American television occurred in 2018. January February March April May June July August September October November December See also *2018 in American television * Deaths in 2018 References {{Years in TV by country, 2018 American television Lists of deaths in American television Deaths Death is the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain an organism. For organisms with a brain, death can also be defined as the irreversible cessation of functioning of the whole brain, including brainstem, and brain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television In The United States
Television is one of the major mass media outlets in the United States. , household ownership of television sets in the country is 96.7%, with approximately 114,200,000 American households owning at least one television set as of August 2013. The majority of households have more than one set. The peak ownership percentage of households with at least one television set occurred during the 1996–97 season, with 98.4% ownership. In 1948, 1 percent of U.S. households owned at least one television while 75 percent did by 1955, and by 1992, 60 percent of all U.S. households received cable television subscriptions. As a whole, the television networks that broadcast in the United States are the largest and most distributed in the world, and programs produced specifically for US-based networks are the most widely syndicated internationally. Due to a recent surge in the number and popularity of critically acclaimed television series during the 2000s and the 2010s to date, many critics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Van Dyke
Jerry McCord Van Dyke (July 27, 1931 – January 5, 2018) was an American actor and comedian. He was the younger brother of Dick Van Dyke. Van Dyke had a long and successful career mostly as a character actor in supporting and guest roles on popular television series. He made his television acting debut on ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'' with several guest appearances as Rob Petrie's brother, Stacey. From 1989 to 1997, he played Luther Van Dam on the popular series ''Coach''. Early life Jerry McCord Van Dyke was born in Danville, Illinois on July 27, 1931, to Hazel Victoria (née McCord), a stenographer, and Loren Wayne "Cookie" Van Dyke, a salesman. He was of Dutch, English, Irish, and Scottish descent. Career Early career Van Dyke pursued a stand-up comedy career while still in Danville High School and was already a veteran of strip joints and nightclubs when he joined the United States Air Force Tops In Blue in 1954 and 1955. During the mid-1950s, Van Dyke worked at WTHI-TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augie Doggie And Doggie Daddy
Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy are Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters who debuted on '' The Quick Draw McGraw Show'' and appeared in their own segment. The segments centered on the misadventures of a dachshund father-and-son team. Doggie Daddy (voiced on the show by Doug Young with a Brooklyn accent, based on a Jimmy Durante impersonation) tried to do the best he could at raising his rambunctious son Augie (voiced by Daws Butler). The characters have made appearances outside of their series, including in their own video game and in '' Yogi's Ark Lark'' and its spin-off series. Summary The segments centered around the misadventures of a dachshund father-and-son team. Doggie Daddy (voiced by Doug Young) tried to do the best he could at raising his rambunctious son Augie (voiced by Daws Butler). Augie, who loved his father, would often refer to him as "dear old Dad." Their mutual admiration included Daddy gently chiding, "Augie, my son, my son", when he would disappoint his father; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Young (actor)
Douglas Hiram Young (December 21, 1919 – January 7, 2018) was an American voice actor who worked on radio programs and in animated cartoons. Biography Young was born in Los Angeles, California, on December 21, 1919. Early in his career, Young appeared in classic radio shows including ''The Cisco Kid'', ''The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'', ''Red Ryder'' and ''The Whistler''. He was also the announcer on the syndicated radio comedy ''The Anderson Family,'' which starred fellow cartoon voice artist Walter Tetley, and aired from 1946 to 1948. Young later went to work for Hanna-Barbera; a master of accent and dialect, he often based his voices on those of famous performers, such as Jimmy Durante and Buddy Hackett. His credits include: * ''The Huckleberry Hound Show'' (Ding-A-Ling Wolf) * ''Loopy De Loop'' * ''The Yogi Bear Show'' * ''The Flintstones'' (Various characters) * ''Jonny Quest'' * '' Winsome Witch'' (Various characters) * ''The Peter Potamus Show'' (Yippee) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Van Dyke
Richard Wayne Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an American actor, entertainer and comedian. His award-winning career has spanned seven decades in film, television, and stage. Van Dyke began his career as an entertainer on radio and television, in nightclubs, and on the Broadway stage. In 1961, he starred in the original production of '' Bye Bye Birdie'' alongside Chita Rivera, a role which earned him the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Carl Reiner then cast him as Rob Petrie on the CBS television sitcom '' The Dick Van Dyke Show'' (1961–1966), which made him a household name. He went on to star in the motion picture musicals '' Bye Bye Birdie'' (1963), '' Mary Poppins'' (1964), and ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'' (1968), and in the comedy-drama '' The Comic'' (1969). He made guest appearances on television programs ''Columbo'' (1974) and '' The Carol Burnett Show'' (1977), and starred in '' The New Dick Van Dyke Show'' (1971–74), '' Diagnosis: Murder'' (1993� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dick Van Dyke Show
''The Dick Van Dyke Show'' is an American television sitcom created by Carl Reiner that initially aired on CBS from October 3, 1961 to June 1, 1966, with a total of 158 half-hour episodes spanning five seasons. It was produced by Calvada Productions"Calvada" is derived from the letters from producers ''CA''rl Reiner, Sheldon ''L''eonard, ''VA''n Dyke and ''DA''nny Thomas. SourceThe Dick Van Dyke Show: Anatomy of a Classic/ref> in association with the CBS Television Network, and was shot at Desilu Studios. Other producers included Bill Persky and Sam Denoff. The music for the show's theme song was written by Earle Hagen. The show starred Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, and Larry Mathews. ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'' centered on the work and home life of television comedy writer Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke), the head writer for the fictional ''Alan Brady Show,'' who lived in New Rochelle, New York with his stylish wife Laura Petrie ( Mary Tyler Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Mother The Car
''My Mother the Car'' is an American fantasy comedy that aired for a single season on NBC between September 14, 1965 and April 5, 1966. Thirty episodes were produced by United Artists Television. The premise features a man whose deceased mother is reincarnated as an antique car, who communicates with him through the car radio. Critics and adult viewers generally disliked the show, often savagely. In 2002, ''TV Guide'' proclaimed it to be the second-worst of all time, behind ''The Jerry Springer Show''. TV Land's first day of programming in April 1996 included the series premiere as a collection of television firsts and rarities, billing it as "the strange but true...infamous series". The show's premise was similar to other popular comedies of the 1960s that featured a fantastic gimmick, such as a talking horse (''Mister Ed''), a suburbanite witch (''Bewitched''), an obedient genie (''I Dream of Jeannie''), or a flying nun (''The Flying Nun''). ''My Mother the Car'' had an ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Accidental Family
''Accidental Family'' is an American sitcom broadcast on NBC during the first part of the 1967-68 U.S. television season. The show ran for sixteen episodes, from September 15, 1967, to January 5, 1968. The show aired on Fridays at 9:30pm, sandwiched between the non-sitcoms ''Star Trek'' before it, and documentaries after, which was not considered an auspicious timeslot. The program consistently lost in the Nielsen ratings to both the '' CBS Friday Night Movies'' and the ABC Western ''The Guns of Will Sonnett'' and was cancelled, midseason as a result. It was initially replaced by the first prime-time run of the game show ''Hollywood Squares''. Van Dyke publicly groused about the show's timeslot, complaining that nobody watched the show because of its competition. By October 13 — the airdate of the fourth episode — Van Dyke was already declaring defeat in the ''Arizona Daily Star''. "In this business you've got to have such confidence," he said, "and I never did, so I'm begi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Headmaster (TV Series)
''Headmaster'' is an American half-hour television comedy-drama starring Andy Griffith and broadcast by CBS in the United States during the 1970–71 season. Griffith returns to TV ''Headmaster'' marked the return to series television of Griffith, whose previous eponymous show had been one of CBS's major hits of the 1960s prior to his voluntary departure and a program which was still in production (as ''Mayberry R.F.D.''), when ''Headmaster'' was launched. Griffith had just signed a three-picture deal with Universal Pictures but was so disappointed with the first film in the contract, the rural comedy ''Angel in My Pocket'', that the two parties never made the other two films and he quickly returned to television. With ''Headmaster'', Griffith fulfilled his desire to be cast in a television series as something other than a rural bumpkin dispensing folksy wisdom; here his character, Andy Thompson, was the headmaster of a prestigious California private school, the Concord Scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
13 Queens Boulevard
''13 Queens Boulevard'' is an American sitcom that aired from March 20 until July 24, 1979. Premise The series was about the diverse residents of a Queens apartment complex. The major residents of the complex were Felicia and Steven Winters (Eileen Brennan and Jerry Van Dyke) who have been happily married for over 15 years. Also living in the complex were Elaine Dowling (Marcia Rodd), a divorcee who was Felicia's best friend; and the Capestros, which included Mildred (Helen Page Camp) and her daughters, Annie (Susan Elliott) and Jill (Louise Williams). Others in the complex included Camille (Karen Rushmore) and Lois (Frances Lee McCain). Cast *Eileen Brennan as Felicia Winters *Jerry Van Dyke as Steven Winters *Marcia Rodd as Elaine Dowling *Helen Page Camp as Mildred Capestro *Susan Elliot as Annie Capestro *Louise Williams as Jill Capestro *Karen Rushmore as Camille *Frances Lee McCain as Lois Production Richard Baer created the program; Bernie Orenstein, Saul Turteltaub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teen Angel (1997 TV Series)
''Teen Angel'' was an American fantasy sitcom that aired as part of ABC's TGIF Friday night lineup from September 26, 1997, to February 13, 1998. It stars Corbin Allred as a high school student whose recently deceased best friend, played by Mike Damus, returns to earth as his guardian angel. The series was created by Al Jean and Mike Reiss. Synopsis ''Teen Angel'' follows a high school boy, Steve Beauchamp (Corbin Allred), and his recently deceased best friend, Marty DePolo (Mike Damus), who dies from eating a six-month-old hamburger from under Steve's bed on a dare and is then sent back to Earth as Steve's guardian angel. Marty's guide is a large disembodied head named Rod (Ron Glass), who identifies himself as God's cousin (a running gag throughout the series is that Rod is mistaken for God himself). Maureen McCormick, who played Steve's mother, Judy, left the series halfway through its run. Marty, as a supernatural being, would frequently break the fourth wall. For instance, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Wish (TV Series)
''You Wish'' is an American fantasy sitcom television series created by Michael Jacobs, that ran from September 26, 1997 to June 19, 1998. It started as part of ABC's TGIF programming on Friday nights for the fall of 1997, along with ''Sabrina, the Teenage Witch'', ''Boy Meets World'', and '' Teen Angel''. Synopsis Just as ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'' was considered a 1990s version of ''Bewitched'', ''You Wish'' was a 1990s version of ''I Dream of Jeannie''. In this sitcom, a genie lives with a family, instead of a single man. In the show's pilot episode (in which the proposed series was still known under a working title of ''Genie''), Gillian Apple (Harley Jane Kozak) and her two children, Mickey Apple (Alex McKenna) and Travis Apple ( Nathan Lawrence) visit a rug shop where they meet the owner, Madman Mustafa (John Rhys-Davies). There they buy a rug, where they unexpectedly release a genie (John Ales), who has been imprisoned for 2,000 years. The genie's name is simply "Genie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
