This day in 1996 marked the last telecast of CBS's American Gothic. The supernatural horror series, created by Shaun Cassidy, starred Gary Cole as a murderous small-town sheriff with supernatural powers...

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1978: ABC NEWS INTRODUCES ITS THREE-ANCHOR NEWSCAST By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 1978, ABC News reformatted its evening newscast ABC Evening News, and re-introduced the program as World News Tonight...

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1994: THE DEBUT OF CBS'S 'MUDDLING THROUGH' By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 1994, CBS introduced the sitcom Muddling Through, a short-lived series starring Stephanie Hodge and the pre-Friends Jennifer Aniston...

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1992: VIEWERS MEET THE RESIDENTS OF 'MELROSE PLACE' By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 1992, Aaron Spelling's Spelling Television introduced Melrose Place, the second series in Spelling's Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise, on Fox...

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1975: 'RYAN'S HOPE' DEBUTS ON ABC By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 1975, ABC added the soap opera Ryan's Hope to its daytime lineup...

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1993: NO MORE 'ROOM FOR TWO' ON ABC By Christy Slewinski

This day in 1993 marked the last telecast of the ABC sitcom, Room For Two. The short-lived series — which debuted in 1992 and followed the top-rated Roseanne in the ABC lineup — starred Linda Lavin and current The Middle star Patricia Heaton...

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2000: VOYEURISM TV COMES TO CBS WITH 'BIG BROTHER' By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 2000, CBS debuted its version of the Dutch reality/competition show, Big Brother...

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1994: LAUNCH OF CABLE'S 'AMERICA'S TALKING' By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 1994, NBC launched the 24-hour cable network, America's Talking. The channel's creator, CNBC president and chief executive Roger Ailes, envisioned the cable network as a place average viewers could find talk shows featuring on a mix of news, health and relationship programming, newsmaker interviews, and more.America's Talking (and CNBC) was based in Fort Lee, N.J. and featured simple (and shared) bare-bones sets. AT hosts included Steve Doocy, who co-hosted the morning news talk

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1999: LAST TELECAST FOR 'THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN' By Christy Slewinski

This day in 1999 marked the last telecast of the CBS drama, The Magnificent Seven: The Series. The show was an adaptation of John Sturges' classic 1960 movie of the same name starring Yul Brenner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Eli Wallach and Robert Vaughn, in which seven men from different walks of life band together to protect a town from the lawlessness of the West. The 1960 movie was an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese film, Seven Samura

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ANDY GRIFFITH, DEAD AT 86 By Christy Slewinski

Actor Andy Griffith, star of The Andy Griffith Show and Matlock, died early today at his North Carolina home. He was 86...

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