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What happened in history on this day: September 20?
On September 20 in ...
- 1952 - CBS premieres The Jackie Gleason Show 60-minute comedy variety series.
- 1953 - NBC premieres the A Letter to Loretta 30-minute anthology TV show.
- 1956 - NBC airs The Dinah Shore Show, formerly called The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, and expanded to 30 minutes.
- 1968 - The NBC TV network airs the first The Name of the Game 90-minute crime drama TV show in the USA.
- 1969 - NBC resumes airing The Andy Williams Show 60-minute musical variety TV show.
- 1976 - ABC-TV debuts the Captain and Tennille Show.
- 1984 - NBC-TV debuts The Cosby Show starring Bill Cosby.
- 1984 - ABC airs the first episode of TV show Who's the Boss?.
- 1986 - 38th Emmy Awards.
Best Comedy: The Golden Girls,
Best Drama: Cagney & Lacey.
- 1986 - NBC debuts the Matlock TV show, starring Andy Griffith.
- 2006 - In the USA, the CW Television Network (a merger of The WB and UPN) officially begins operations.
Births on September 20
- 1899 - Birth of Elliot Nugent; director (And so They were Married).
- 1902 - Birth of Kermit Maynard in Vevey, Indiana, USA; cowboy actor (Saturday Roundup).
- 1927 - Birth of Clarice Taylor in Virginia, USA; actress (Nurse Bailey - Nurse).
- 1927 - Birth of Rachel Roberts in Wales; actress (Foul Play, Doctor's Wife).
- 1933 - Birth of Bob Banas in New York City, New York, USA; choreographer (Malibu U, Jonathan Winters Show).
- 1934 - Birth of Sophia Loren in Rome, Italy; actress (Desire Under the Elms, Black Orchid).
- 1936 - Birth of Dany Carrel in Touraine, Indo-china; actress (Passionate Summer).
- 1950 - Birth of Debi Morgan in Dunn, North Carolina, USA; actress (Angie - All My Children, Cry Uncle).
- 1951 - Birth of JoAnna Cameron in Colorado, USA; actress (I Love My Wife, Isis).
- 1954 - Birth of Brinke Stevens [Charlene Brinkman] in California, USA; actress (Slumber Party Massacre).
- 1957 - Birth of Fran Drescher in New York City; actress (Cadillac Man).
Deaths on September 20
- 1959 - Olin Howlin, actor (Swifty - Circus Boy), dies at age 63.
- 1971 - James Westerfield, actor (Travels of Jaime McPheeters), dies at age 59.
- 1973 - Glenn Strange, actor (Sam the Bartender - Gunsmoke), dies at age 74.
- 1996 - Death of Paul Weston AKA Paul Wetstein at age 84; Orchestra leader, music arranger (Rudy Vallee's Fleischmann Hour radio show, Tommy Dorsey, Dinah Shore, Bob Crosby, Johnny Mercer's Music Shop radio show, Chesterfield Supper Club, Duffy's Tavern), TV musical director (Danny Kaye, Jonathan Winters, Jim Nabors).
- 2016 - Death of Curtis Hanson, American film director and screenwriter (born 1945).
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