Tag: Bicentennial Minute
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LUCY: 40 YEARS OF TELEVISION
1974 A big year for Lucille Ball. After six seasons, “Here’s Lucy” wraps up and Ball returns to movies with “Mame.” To promote the film, and her first network special, Lucille goes on a publicity tour of talk shows! “Lucy Is a Bird-Sitter” (HL S6;E15) ~ January 7, 1974 Arte Johnson plays an eccentric ornithologist,…
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LUCY’S BICENTENNIAL MINUTE
November 28, 1974 “The Bicentennial Minutes” Premiering July 4, 1974, the CBS series consisted of 732 one-minute programs, each recounting an authenticated piece of American history – everything from the momentous to the obscure. Each dealt with something that happened exactly 200 years earlier on the same date as the broadcast. The series was originally…