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 Unusual
deaths have plagued the cast of the Poltergeist trilogy of
films including 12-year-old actress Heather O'Rourke, who died of
septic shock. The theory is that the set was cursed by evil.
The "Miss America" pageant made its network
TV debut on ABC In 1954. Miss
California,
Lee Ann Meriwether, was crowned the winner.
The Les Nessman character
on WKRP in Cincinnatti wore a band-aid in every episode
Internationally, Baywatch is the most popular television show
in history.
The first live televised murder was in 1963,
when Jack Ruby killed JFK's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald while millions
of viewers watched.
There
wasn’t just one television Lassie, and none of the Lassies was female.
The part was played by a series of male dogs.
 In
the movie Casablanca Rick never says "Play it again, Sam." He
says: "You played it for her, you can play it for me. Play it!"
Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, was
created in 1939, in Chicago, for the Montgomery Ward department stores
for a Christmas promotion. The lyrics were written as a poem by Robert
May, but weren't set to music until 1947. Gene Autry recorded the hit
song in 1949.
King Kong was Adolf Hitler's
favorite movie.
During the chariot
scene in Ben Hur, a small red car can be seen in the distance.
The movie Titanic, at $200 million, cost more
than the ship itself. The cost to construct the ship in 1910-1912 was
$7.5 million at the time, which would have been the equivalent of
about $120 to $150 million at the time the movie was made.
The
Jazz Singer is widely believed to have been the first "talkie."
However, it wasn't - the first all-talking film was actually Lights
of New York shown in 1928.
 It's
not true that Gilligan, of Gilligan's Island, only had one
name. His first name was Willy. Additionally, the Skipper's name
wasn't Skipper, of course, it was Jonas Grumby. The Professor's
real name was Roy Hinkley. Mary Ann's last name was Summers.
A South
Korean movie theater owner decided that the movie The Sound of Music
was too long. His solution was to shorten the movie by cutting
out all of the musical scenes!
By the time a child finishes elementary
school she will have witnessed 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of
violence on television.
Captain Kirk
never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr.
Scott."
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Gunsmoke
debuted on CBS-TV in 1955, and went on to become the longest-series on
television - 20 years.
The
first toilet ever seen on television was on Leave It to Beaver.
