What happened in history on this day: September 14?
On September 14 in ...
- 1964 - CBS airs the last East Side / West Side TV show. A total of 26 episodes aired.
- 1964 - CBS airs the last The Danny Thomas Show TV show.
- 1965 - ABC-TV debuts F-Troop TV show, a military satire set in the Old West.
- 1965 - NBC premieres the TV show My Mother The Car, starring Jerry Van Dyke.
- 1966 - ABC premieres the ABC Stage '67 60-minute anthology TV show.
- 1967 - The NBC TV network airs the first Ironside 60-minute crime drama TV show in the USA.
- 1968 - CBS-TV premieres The Archies TV show as a Saturday morning cartoon musical series. A band on screen, the vocals are all overdubbed by one man, Ron Dante.
- 1969 - The NBC TV network airs the first The Wonderful World of Disney show, featuring Wild Geese Calling.
- 1969 - The NBC TV network airs the first The Bill Cosby Show 30-minute comedy TV show in the USA.
- 1969 - The NBC TV network airs the first The Bold Ones 60-minute TV show in the USA.
- 1971 - The NBC TV network airs the first The Funny Side 60-minute satire TV show in the USA.
- 1971 - NBC resumes airing The Red Skelton Show 30-minute variety TV show.
- 1972 - CBS debuts family drama The Waltons on TV.
- 1978 - ABC-TV airs the first show of the TV series Mork and Mindy, starring Robin Williams as Mork.
- 1981 - Entertainment Tonight premieres in syndication.
- 1985 - The CBS TV network begins airing the animated weekly show The Wuzzles.
- 1985 - The NBC TV network begins airing the animated weekly TV show Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears.
- 1985 - The NBC TV network begins airing the Disney show The Golden Girls.
- 1988 - NBC debuts Unsolved Mysteries, hosted by Robert Stack.
- 1991 - The NBC TV network debuts the series Nurses.
- 1993 - The Fox TV network first airs the show Bakersfield P.D..
- 2002 - The ABC TV network begins airing the show Fillmore on ABC Kids.
Births on September 14
- 1899 - Birth of Hal Wallis; movie producer (The Maltese Falcon, Barefoot in the Park).
- 1908 - Birth of Clayton Moore in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (The Lone Ranger).
- 1918 - Birth of Jack Somack in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Ball Four, Stockard Channing Show).
- 1925 - Birth of Robert Webber in Santa Ana, California, USA; actor ($, Nuts, Private Benjamin).
- 1933 - Birth of Harve Presnell in Modesto, California, USA; actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown).
- 1933 - Birth of Zoe Caldwell in Australia; actress (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie).
- 1938 - Birth of Nicol Williamson in Scotland; actor (Excalibur, Robin and Marian).
- 1938 - Birth of Walter Koenig in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Checkov - Star Trek).
- 1956 - Birth of Joe Penny in London, England; actor (Gangster Wars, Riptide, Jake and the Fatman).
- 1959 - Birth of Mary Crosby in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Kristin - Dallas, Ice Pirates).
- 1960 - Birth of Anthony Addabbo; actor (Jason - Generations).
- 1964 - Birth of Faith Ford in Louisiana, USA; actress (Another World, Corky - Murphy Brown).
Deaths on September 14
- 1966 - Gertrude Berg, actress (Molly Goldberg - The Goldbergs), dies at age 66.
- 1974 - Death of Barbara Jo Allen at age 68; writer/comedienne (radio character Vera Vague, regular spots on Bob Hope's Pepsodent radio programs, appeared in some 60 films, hosted TV show Follow the Leader).
- 1974 - Warren Hull, actor (Strike it Rich, Who in the World), dies at age 71.
- 1982 - Grace Patricia Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco, dies at age 52 in a car crash (born 1929).
- 1991 - Julie Bovasso, actress (Saturday Night Fever), dies at age 61 of cancer.
- 2002 - Death of LaWanda Page at age 81 due to complications from diabetes; actress (Aunt Esther - Sanford and Son, Amen, Martin).
- 2009 - American actor Patrick Swayze (Dirty Dancing, Ghost) dies after a long battle with pancreatic cancer at age 57.
- 2022 - Death of Irene Papas at age 96; Greek actor (The Guns of Navarone, Zorba the Greek, Captain Corelli's Mandolin).
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