Video: 'Romper Room with Miss Nancy'
(Tuesday, February 10, 1953) — Romper Room, a long running children’s television series targeted at preschoolers, children five years of age or younger, debuted today in Baltimore.
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Lucille Ball big winner at Emmys 60 years ago tonight (1953)
Video: 'I Love Lucy Job Switching Recap' (Sep. 15, 1952)
(Thursday, February 5, 1953) — Lucille Ball, the red-haired star of television’s I Love Lucy show, won two awards tonight at the 5th Annual Emmy Awards at the Hotel Statler in Los Angeles. Continue reading Lucille Ball big winner at Emmys 60 years ago tonight (1953)
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Edith Piaf performs on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ 60 years ago this hour (1952)
(Sunday, November 16, 1952, 8 p.m. EST) — Edith Piaf performed “Le Vie En Rose” on tonight’s live edition of the CBS-TV variety show The Ed Sullivan Show.
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Nixon makes first appearance on ‘Meet The Press’ 60 years ago today (1952)
(Sunday, September 14, 1952, during the 1952 U.S. presidential campaign) — Republican vice presidential nominee Richard Nixon made his first appearance today on Meet The Press, a weekly American television news/interview program produced by NBC.
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‘The Guiding Light’ debuts on CBS-TV 60 years ago this hour (1952)
Video: '1952: Guiding Light in TV'
(Monday, June 30, 1952, 2:30 p.m. EST) — Meta laments to her sister Trudy that she has left her husband Joe and her step-daughter Kathy hates her on today’s CBS television debut of The Guiding Light, a popular radio program for 15 years now. The soap opera is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television history, running 57 years until 2009.
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‘Lucy Does a TV Commercial’ episode airs on ‘I Love Lucy’ 60 years ago this hour (1952)
Video: 'Lucy Does a TV Commercial' (clip)
(Monday, May 5, 1952, 9 p.m. EST) — Desperate to be in Ricky’s new television commercial, Lucy makes every attempt to get her way on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV sitcom I Love Lucy.
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Jackie Gleason performs on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ 60 years ago this hour (1952)
(Sunday, March 30, 1952, 8 p.m. EST) — Jackie Gleason performs his bakery comedy routine with the conveyer belt on tonight’s edition of the CBS-TV variety show The Ed Sullivan Show.
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‘Fred and Ethel Fight’ episodes airs on ‘I Love Lucy’ 60 years ago this hour (1952)
Video: 'Fred and Ethel Fight' (clip)
(Monday, March 10, 1952, 9 p.m. EST) — Fred and Ethel have been going at each other’s throats for the past few days now, and aren’t talking to each other any more on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV sitcom I Love Lucy.
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‘The Big Cast’ episode debuts on ‘Dragnet’ 60 years ago this hour (1952)
(Thursday, February 14, 1952, 9:00 p.m. ET) — The police interrogate a suspect whom they believe to have murdered more than a dozen men on tonight’s episode of the NBC-TV crime drama Dragnet.
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‘Breaking the Lease’ debuts on ‘I Love Lucy’ 60 years ago this hour (1952)
Video: 'Breaking the Lease' (clip)
(Monday, February 11, 1952, 9 p.m. EST) — The Mertzes, as landlords, decide that the Ricardos’ merrymaking have gone too far on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV sitcom I Love Lucy.
