Buster Keaton playing a kindly hospital janitor who dresses up as Santa Claus for bedridden children in The Donna Reed Show holiday special, “A Very Merry Christmas” (December 24, 1958).
Watched this the first time this year and loved it. Great episode.
Versatile actress Lurene Tuttle was born August 29, 1907. Tuttle is most well-known to listeners of the podcast as Effie Perrine, loyal secretary to Sam Spade. But Effie was just one of dozens of roles she played on hundreds of programs during the Golden Age of Radio. Tuttle could be heard on Dragnet, Suspense, and The Whistler, and in comedies like The Great Gildersleeve and The Red Skelton Show.
After radio, Tuttle continued to work on screen throughout the golden age of television. Here she is in “The Case of the Artful Dodger” from Perry Mason in 1959.
Dell Comics – 1954
Just a sampling of the “I Love Lucy” comic series that ran from 1954 to 1962 for 35 issues.
WKRG-TV first signed on the air September 5, 1955. The station was founded by the architect and movie theater owner Kenneth R. Giddens, who also put WKRG radio (710 AM, now WNTM, and 99.9 FM, now WMXC) on the air. WKRG has served as the market’s CBS affiliate from its sign-on. The station originally operated from studios located on St. Louis Street in downtown Mobile until around 1982, when it relocated its operations to an area near the Bel Air Mall, which Giddens also had a hand in developing. WKRG-TV operates on the bottom floor and the radio stations operate on the second and third floors of the building.
For years, WKRG-TV was the only locally owned station in the Mobile-Pensacola-Pascagoula area. This changed after the death of Giddens in 1993. The radio stations were sold off in 1994, although they remain housed in the same building as the television station. Spartan Communications purchased WKRG-TV in 1998; the station then came under the ownership of Media General after it purchased Spartan in 2000. The station celebrated its 50th year of broadcasting in 2005. (Wikipedia)
My Third Parent 