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The year 1970 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of notable television-related events in that year.
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The year 1966 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in that year.
The year 1964 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events which occurred in that year.
Samuel Shepard Rogers III was an American actor, playwright, author, director and screenwriter whose career spanned half a century. He won 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most by any writer or director. He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. Shepard received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in the 1983 film The Right Stuff. He received the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award as a master American dramatist in 2009. New York magazine described Shepard as "the greatest American playwright of his generation."
National Educational Television (NET) was an American educational broadcast television network owned by the Ford Foundation and later co-owned by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It operated from May 16, 1954, to October 4, 1970, and was succeeded by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which has memberships with many television stations that were formerly part of NET.
WNET, branded on-air as "Thirteen", is a primary PBS member television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey, United States, serving the New York City area. Owned by The WNET Group, it is a sister station to the area's secondary PBS member, Garden City, New York–licensed WLIW, and two class A stations which share spectrum with WNET: WNDT-CD and WMBQ-CD ; through an outsourcing agreement, The WNET Group also operates New Jersey's PBS state network NJ PBS and the website NJ Spotlight.
Walter Stacy Keach Jr. is an American actor, active in theatre, film and television since the 1960s. He is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, four Drama Desk Awards, two Helen Hayes Awards and nominations for a Primetime Emmy and a Tony Award.
The Dating Game is an American television game show that first aired on December 20, 1965, and was the first of many shows created and packaged by Chuck Barris from the 1960s through the 1980s. ABC dropped the show on July 6, 1973, but it continued in syndication for another year (1973–1974) as The New Dating Game. The program was revived three additional times in syndication afterward, with the first from 1978 to 1980 as The All-New Dating Game, the second from 1986 to 1989, and the third from 1996 to 1999.
Louis Antonio is an American actor and TV director best known for performing in the films Cool Hand Luke and America America. He also starred in two short-lived TV series, Dog and Cat, and Makin' It.
Kim Darby is an American actress best known for her roles as Mattie Ross in True Grit (1969) and Jenny Meyer in Better Off Dead (1985).
James David Sharman is an Australian director and writer for film and stage with more than 70 productions to his credit. He is renowned in Australia for his work as a theatre director from the 1960s to the present, and is best known internationally as the director of the 1973 theatrical hit The Rocky Horror Show, its film adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) and the film's follow-up, Shock Treatment (1981).
Eric Salzman was an American composer, scholar, author, impresario, music critic, and record producer. He is known for advancing the concept of "New Music Theater" as an independent art form differing in scope, both economically and aesthetically, from grand opera and contemporary popular musicals. He co-founded the American Music Theater Festival and was, at the time of his death in 2017, Composer-in-Residence at the Center for Contemporary Opera.
Late Night Line-Up was a pioneering British television discussion programme broadcast on BBC2 between 1964 and 1972.
Bernardus Adriaan “Barry” Hulshoff was a Dutch footballer who played for Ajax Amsterdam and was part of their European Cup victories in 1971, 1972 and 1973. He earned 14 caps for the Netherlands national football team.
Sam Brown was an American jazz guitarist.
This is a list of British television related events from 1970.
John McGreevey was an American writer and screenwriter. He is the father of former Disney star and Emmy-nominated television writer Michael McGreevey.
Thirteen Revisited is a 1987 anthology series presented by WNET in celebration of its silver anniversary. Each program is a repeat of an older WNET-produced program from the '60s and the '70s, with a select few from the '80s.
Pinacotheca was a gallery in Melbourne, Australia. Established in 1967 by Bruce Pollard, it was ideologically committed to the avant-garde and represented a new generation of artists interested in post-object, conceptual and other non-traditional art forms.
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- ↑ "CTVA U.S. Anthology "NET Playhouse" (WNDT/WNET, 1966-72)". Archived from the original on February 28, 2015. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
- ↑ "La MaMa". 2018-07-24. Archived from the original on 2018-07-24. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
- ↑ "La MaMa". 2018-07-24. Archived from the original on 2018-07-24. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
- ↑ "N.E.T. Playhouse" listing, Pasadena Independent Star-News, May 14, 1967, "TV Week" section, p. 22.