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What happened in history on this day: September 29?
On September 29 in ...
- 1953 - ABC-TV debuts 30-minute family comedy Make Room for Daddy, starring Danny Thomas.
- 1953 - NBC-TV debuts the Buick-Berle Show, starring Milton Berle.
- 1956 - CBS resumes airing The Jackie Gleason Show 60-minute comedy variety series.
- 1956 - CBS-TV debuts the Oh! Susanna TV show, starring Gale Storm.
- 1958 - CBS-TV airs the final anthology drama Studio One.
- 1959 - CBS-TV debuts The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis, starring Dwayne Hickman.
- 1959 - ABC-TV debuts the Philip Marlowe TV show.
- 1960 - ABC-TV debuts the My Three Sons TV show, starring Fred MacMurray.
- 1963 - CBS-TV debuts The Judy Garland Show.
- 1963 - CBS-TV debuts TV show My Favorite Martian, starring Ray Walston.
- 1964 - NBC premieres the That Was the Week That Was 30-minute satire TV show.
- 1969 - ABC-TV debuts Love American Style TV show.
- 1971 - NBC-TV debuts TV show McMillan and Wife, starring Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James.
- 1976 - CBS-TV debuts TV sitcom show Alice.
- 1985 - NBC-TV begins airing Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
- 1985 - ABC-TV debuts MacGyver, starring Richard Dean Anderson.
- 1985 - NBC-TV premieres Amazing Stories by Steven Spielberg.
- 1986 - CBS debuts comedy TV show Designing Women.
- 1987 - ABC-TV debuts the relationship drama thirtysomething.
- 1993 - ABC-TV debuts sitcom Grace Under Fire, starring Brett Butler.
- 2002 - Discovery Channel airs the first pilot episode of American Chopper.
- 2003 - Disney subsidiary Buena Vista Datacasting introduces the video-on-demand service MovieBeam in three cities in the United States: Spokane, Washington, Jacksonville, Florida, and Salt Lake City, Utah. The service lets users download and store films for up to 24 hours on a television set-top device. Rental of the device costs US$6.99 per month, with film costs of US$1.99-3.99 per title.
Births on September 29
- 1903 - Birth of Ted Decorsia in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (Police Chief Hegedorn - Steve Canyon).
- 1907 - Birth of Gene Autry in Tioga, Texas; cowpoke/singer/actor/California Angels owner.
- 1907 - Birth of Michael Shepley in Plymouth, England; actor (Dick and the Duchess).
- 1910 - Birth of Virginia Bruce; actress (Action in Arabia).
- 1916 - Birth of Trevor Howard in England; actor (Mutiny on the Bounty, Ryan's Daughter).
- 1920 - Birth of James Mitchell in California, USA; actor (Oklahoma, Devil's Doorway).
- 1922 - Birth of Lizabeth Scott in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Dark City, Desert Fury).
- 1924 - Birth of Steve Forrest in Huntsville, Texas, USA; actor (Ben - Dallas, SWAT).
- 1931 - Birth of Anita Ekberg in Sweden; Swedish actress (La Dolce Vita, War and Peace).
- 1931 - Birth of Eddie Barth in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Shaft, Simon and Simon).
- 1939 - Birth of Larry Linville in Ojai, California, USA; actor (Frank Burns - M*A*S*H, Blue Movie).
- 1939 - Birth of Mylene Demongeot in Nice, France; actress (Just Another Pretty Face).
- 1942 - Birth of Donna Corcoran in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA; actress ("Man Without a Star").
- 1942 - Birth of Ian McShane in Blackburn, England; actor (Roots, Bare Essence).
- 1942 - Birth of Madeline Kahn in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; actress (Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety).
- 1948 - Birth of Bryant Gumbel in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; sportscaster/TV host (Today Show).
- 1953 - Birth of Drake Hogestyn in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA; actor (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers).
- 1954 - Birth of Cindy Morgan [Cichorski] in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actress (Tron).
- 1960 - Birth of Leslie Graves in Silver City, New Mexico, USA; actress (Capitol).
- 1966 - Birth of Jill Whelan in Oakland, California, USA; actress (Vicki - The Love Boat).
- 1970 - Birth of Emily Lloyd; actress (Wish You Were Here).
Deaths on September 29
- 1959 - Harold Huber, actor (I Cover Times Square), dies at age 49.
- 1964 - Robert Burton, actor (Dr Gordon - Kings Row), dies at age 69.
- 1970 - Edward Everett Horton, actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show), dies at age 84.
- 1986 - Betty Kean, actress (Amy Tucker - Leave it to Larry), dies at age 69.
- 2021 - Death of Ravil Isyanov at age 59 of cancer; actor (NCIS: Los Angeles TV show, The Americans TV show).
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