- The first couple to be shown on a sitcom sleeping in the same bed was "Mary Kay and Johnny."
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Daytime dramas are called Soap Operas because they were originally used to advertise soap powder. In America in the early days of TV, advertisers would write stories around the use of their soap powder.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The first TV commercial advertisement was by the Bulova Watch company on July 1, 1941. The watch company paid $9.00 for an announcement that was 10 seconds long.
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(Added: Mon May 31 2004) - On average, 81% of Americans 16 years of age and older watch television at least once in a day.
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(Added: Mon May 31 2004) - 44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep.
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(Added: Mon May 31 2004) - Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of Helen on the TV sitcom "The Jeffersons."
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The first female guest host of Saturday Night Live was actress Candace Bergen.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Actress Sally Field was paid $4,000 a week for her role in the TV show The Flying Nun.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - In 1952, the first TV toy commercial aired. It was for Mr. Potato Head.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The first episode of the popular television sitcom Happy Days was titled "All The Way."
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The first letter Vanna White ever turned on the game show Wheel of Fortune was the letter "T."
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The first television broadcast of the Oscars took place in 1953, hosted by Bob Hope on NBC.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The first television newscaster was Kolin Hager, who used to broadcast farm and weather reports in 1928.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - In 1965, the price for an issue of TV Guide was 15 cents.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Wheel of Fortune star Vanna White holds the record for putting her hands together approximately 140,000 times to clap.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Many of the sweaters worn by Mr. Rogers on the popular television show, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, were actually knitted by his real mother.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The total number of episodes for the sitcom "I Love Lucy" was 180.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The stage were the television sitcom "Friends" is shot on is said to be haunted.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The name of Oscar the Grouch's pet worm on Sesame Street is Slimey.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The General Lee cars used in the popular show The Dukes of Hazards were 1969 Dodge Chargers.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The name of the hotel on the popular children's T.V. show Sesame Street is "The Furry Arms."
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - On September 9, 1950 dubbed laughter was used for the first time on television. It was used for the sitcom "The Hank McCune Show."
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - There is a muppet named Kami that appears on the South African version of the T.V. show "Sesame Street" that is HIV-positive.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - 7-Eleven was the first convenience store to have television advertising. The animated commercial ran in 1949 and had a singing rooster and owl.
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