Not much happening on the new media of the day - except for the debut of a few new shows. New shows that would become classics. Some of these would run for years. Debuting What's My Line? Your Show of Shows Your Hit Parade The Colgate Comedy Hour Truth or Consequences The Jack Benny Show The Cisco Kid The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show … [Read more...]

A banner year for the cartoon family, The Simpsons. Bart and family showed up for the first time as a series of short animated segments on The Tracey Ullman Show. It was also the year that actor Pierce Brosnan won and then lost the role of "James Bond". NBC had put his series Remington Steele on hiatus for six months, then unexpectedly renewed it, forcing Brosnan to back out of … [Read more...]