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📺 April 20, 2014: Supernatural horror drama "Salem" debuted on WGN America. Starring Janet Montgomery, Shane West and Seth Gabel, it was the cable network’s first original scripted series. Ran for three condensed seasons.
"Dream West" also starred Alice Krige, Ben Johnson, Rip Torn, and F. Murray Abraham.
Part 3 delivered a 20.1 household rating and a 32 share, marking the highest-rated “Dream West” episode and had ranked eighth for the week of April 14-20, 1986.
📺 April 20, 1986: The third and final installment of the miniseries “Dream West” originally aired on CBS. It starred Richard Chamberlain as frontier explorer John C. Fremont, who furthered “manifest destiny” in the American West and became involved with politics in the mid-19th century.
📺 April 20, 1981: “Soap” concluded on ABC. The controversial sitcom ran four seasons. Its spinoff “Benson,” starring Robert Guillaume, had a longer run at seven seasons (from 1979-86).
Network TV ratings from Nielsen for the week ending April 25, 1993 (Full ratings: www.facebook.com/share/p/18pr...)
📺 April 20, 1993: The pilot episode of drama “Walker, Texas Ranger” starring Chuck Norris aired on CBS. 3 episodes ran in the abbreviated 1st season, then aired for 8 full seasons. It returned as a made-for-TV movie in 2005, and was rebooted in 2021 as “Walker” starring Jared Padalecki on The CW.
📺 April 20, 1966: Comedian Jerry Lewis had a cameo appearance on ABC’s “Batman” in the episode entitled “The Bookworm Turns.” Roddy McDowall played villain the Bookworm.
Animated comedy “The Angry Beavers” opened on Nickelodeon in 1997. It aired for four seasons…
NBC sitcom “Wings” premiered following "Cheers" in 1990. It aired through May 21, 1997, and was what you would call a “time period hit.”
📺 April 19, 1948: The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) launched. Originally spun off from the NBC Blue Network following antitrust action by the FCC, ABC initially struggled to gain traction. However, by the mid-1950s, it began to carve out an identity following its landmark deal with Disney.
📺 April 19, 1987: The animated family named the Simpsons debuted on the Fox network comedy/variety half-hour “The Tracey Ullman Show” as a series of shorts. At present, Fox's “The Simpsons” is now in season 37, with over 800 episodes produced.
Nielsen ratings for network TV for the week ending April 22, 1990 and for syndication for the week ending April 15, 1990 (Full rankings: www.facebook.com/share/p/1KsZ... )
💪 April 18, 1938: Superman made his debut when he appeared in the first issue of Action Comics. It is widely considered to be both the beginning of the superhero genre and the most valuable comic book in the world.
📺 April 18, 1979: “Real People,” a combination of comedy, reality and talk, debuted on NBC. It aired for five seasons and the regular hosts included Sarah Purcell, Byron Allen, John Barbour, Skip Stephenson, Bill Rafferty, Mark Russell, Peter Billingsley and Fred Willard.
📺 April 17, 2012: The Sarah Michelle Gellar drama “Ringer” concluded after one season on The CW. It was originally in development at CBS.
📺 April 17, 1967: Late-night talk show “The Joey Bishop Show” debuted on ABC. Hosted by Joey Bishop and featuring Regis Philbin as the announcer and sidekick, it was created to challenge “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” but it only aired thru Dec. 26, 1969.
📺 April 17, 1967: “Gilligan’s Island” concluded its three-season run on CBS. It wasn’t until the first of three television movies, “Rescue From Gilligan’s Island” in 1978, that the castaways finally left the island.
Daffy Duck made his first appearance in the animated short “Porky’s Duck Hunt” in 1937.
📺 April 16, 1993: "Dudley" starring Dudley Moore as a divorced pianist debuted on CBS. The sitcom, which also starred Joanna Cassidy, Joel Brooks, Max Wright and Harley Cross, had aired for five episodes before its cancellation.
📺 April 16, 2019: "Bless This Mess" debuted on ABC. The modern day "Green Acres" comedy starred Dax Shepard, Lake Bell (who also co-created the show with Elizabeth Meriwether), Pam Grier, Ed Begley Jr., David Koechner and Lennon Parham. It ran two seasons.
📺 April 16, 1984: Capitalizing on the craze of the hit film “Flashdance,” the animated “Peanuts” special “It’s Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown” premiered on CBS.
📺 April 16, 1990: Legal drama "Shannon's Deal," starring Jamey Sheridan and Elizabeth Peña, officially began as a series on NBC. Only 14 episodes aired across two spring seasons.
📺 April 16, 2018: The ensemble dramedy “Scorpion” concluded its four-season run on CBS. The series starred Elyes Gabel, Katharine McPhee, Eddie Kaye Thomas, and Robert Patrick.
📺 🍇 April 16, 1956: While visiting Italy, Lucy (Lucille Ball) worked in a vineyard to “soak up a little color” for a role in a film called “Bitter Grapes” in this classic episode of “I Love Lucy”.
Laurel and Hardy at their best. Short film "The Music Box," starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, opened in theaters in 1932. It won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.
Remember Peter Billingsley from the holiday TV movie classic "A Christmas Story"? Today, we wish Peter a Happy 55th Birthday.
Before she became a household name on the big screen, Sandra Bullock starred in the sitcom "Working Girl," which premiered on NBC in 1990. The series, based on the 1988 film of the same name, produced 12 episodes, but only 8 aired.
The actors who have portrayed the legendary figure on television have been John Lafayette, Andre Braugher, Blair Underwood, Antonio Todd and Robert Hamilton.
⚾️ April 15, 1947: The Brooklyn Dodgers started Jackie Robinson at first base, officially making him the first Black player in Major League Baseball and breaking the sport’s color barrier. Robinson’s entry into the majors has since been a primary symbol for the inclusion of minorities in U.S. sports.