This Day in TV and Movie History
September 13

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What happened in history on this day: September 13?

On September 13 in ...

  • 1961 - NBC debuts the police sitcom Car 54 Where are You?.
  • 1965 - Today Show's first totally color TV broadcast.
  • 1967 - The NBC TV network resumes airing the The Kraft Music Hall 60-minute musical variety TV show in the USA.
  • 1969 - CBS begins airing The Monkees 30-minute comedy TV show.
  • 1969 - NBC airs the last Get Smart TV show.
  • 1972 - ABC premieres The Julie Andrews Hour 60-minute variety TV show.
  • 1974 - NBC-TV airs the first episode of The Rockford Files, starring James Garner.
  • 1974 - NBC-TV airs the first episode of Police Woman, starring Angie Dickenson.
  • 1977 - First TV "viewer discretion warning" - Soap.
  • 1986 - ABC begins airing the TV show The Wuzzles.
  • 1990 - NBC airs the first episode of TV show Law and Order.
  • 1993 - NBC debuts the Late Night with Conan O'Brien TV show.
  • 1996 - CBS began airing the television series Everybody Loves Raymond.

Births on September 13

  • 1895 - Birth of Ruth McDevitt in Coldwater, Michigan, USA; actress (Jo - All in the Family).
  • 1904 - Birth of Gladys George in Patten, Maine, USA; actress (Roaring Twenties).
  • 1912 - Birth of Reta Shaw in South Paris, Maine, USA; actress (The Ghost and Mrs Muir).
  • 1913 - Birth of Roy Engle in Missouri, USA; actor (Police Chief - My Favorite Martian).
  • 1920 - Birth of Carole Mathews in Montgomery, Illinois, USA; actress (Wilma - The Californians).
  • 1924 - Birth of Maurice Jarre in Lyons, France; composer (Dr Zhivago - Academy Award 1966).
  • 1924 - Birth of Norman Alden in Fort Worth, Texas, USA; actor (Pilaski - Hennesey, Al - Fay).
  • 1924 - Birth of Scott Brady in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (China Syndrome, Gremlins, Johnny Guitar).
  • 1931 - Birth of Barbara Bain in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actress (Cinnamon - Mission Impossible, Space 1999).
  • 1933 - Birth of Eileen Fulton in Asheville, North Carolina, USA; actress (Our Private World, As The World Turns).
  • 1937 - Birth of Fred Silverman; television program executive (NBC, ABC), producer (Matlock, In the Heat of the Night, Diagnosis Murder).
  • 1939 - Birth of Richard Kiel in Detroit, Michigan, USA; actor (James Bond adversary, Barbary Coast, Wild Wild West).
  • 1944 - Birth of (Winifred) Jacqueline Bisset in England; actress (Class, Deep, Secrets, Nip/Tuck).
  • 1948 - Birth of Clyde Kusatsu in Honolulu, Hawaii; actor (Ali - Bring 'em Back Alive).
  • 1948 - Birth of Nell Carter in Birmingham, Alabama, USA; actress and singer (Nell - Gimme a Break, Lobo, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper).
  • 1953 - Birth of Taryn Power in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Maria).
  • 1956 - Birth of Geri Jewell; actress (The Facts of Life, Deadwood).
  • 1958 - Birth of Ann Dusenberry in Tucson, Arizona, USA; actress (Jaws 2, Lies, Basic Training).
  • 1959 - Birth of Jean Smart in Seattle, Washington, USA; actress (24, Frasier, Designing Women).
  • 1964 - Birth of Tavis Smiley; radio and TV personality (PBS).
  • 1967 - Birth of Louis Mandylor; actor (Relic Hunter, My Big Fat Greek Life).
  • 1970 - Birth of Louise Lombard; actress (CSI).
  • 1975 - Birth of Scott Vickaryous in Port Alberni, BC, Canada; actor (Breaker High, Boston Public).
  • 1980 - Birth of Ben Savage; actor (Boy Meets World, Dear John).
  • 1995 - Birth of Mitch Holleman; actor (Reba).

Deaths on September 13

  • 1950 - Sara Allgood, actress (Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase), dies at age 56.
  • 1982 - Death of Philip Ober at age 80 of heart failure; actor (General Stone - I Dream of Jeannie TV show, I Love Lucy TV show).
  • 2001 - Death of Dorothy McGuire at age 85 of heart disease; actress (Rich Man, Poor Man, Little Women, The Young and The Restless, St. Elsewhere, Highway to Heaven, The Love Boat).
  • 2018 - Death of Marin Mazzie, American actress and singer (born 1960).
  • 2022 - Death of Jean-Luc Godard at age 91; French film-maker (À Bout de Souffle (1960), Le Mépris (1963), Bande à Part (1964), Une Femme Mariée (1964), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Two or Three Things I Know Abour Her (1967), Weekend (1967), Goodbye to Language (2014), Alphaville, Breathless).
  • 2022 - Death of Jean-Luc Godard at age 91; Swiss film director (Breathless (1959), Contempt (1963), Pierrot le Fou (1965)).

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