US Postal Service to Release Early TV Show Commemorative Stamps in 2009
From today's press release regarding planned stamps for 2009 from the US Postal Service:
Early TV Memories
Block your calendar for Aug. 11 to attend the dedication of the Early TV Memories stamps, scheduled to take place in Los Angeles. For more than half a century, Americans have turned to television for entertainment and information. To those watching in its early days, TV offered the additional excitement of the new. Whether laughing at the first situation comedies, tingling at crime dramas, or identifying with ordinary people who had their day in the spotlight on game shows, audiences were charmed by the novelty of the young medium. Today, memories from television’s “childhood” — often especially vivid — are a pure pleasure.
The Early TV Memories commemorated in the 20 stamp set include: Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet; Alfred Hitchcock Presents; Dinah Shore Show; Dragnet; Ed Sullivan Show; George Burns & Gracie Allen Show; Hopalong Cassidy; The Honeymooners; Howdy Doody; I Love Lucy; Kukla, Fran and Ollie; Lassie; The Lone Ranger; Perry Mason; Phil Silvers Show; Red Skelton; Texaco Star Theater; Tonight Show; Twilight Zone; and, You Bet Your Life.
7 comments:
Great news. I have been trying to get a stamp on Red Skelton. This is better than nothing. Still work on a stamp for his 100th brithday in 2013. Can you tell me were you got the image of the stamp sheet?
As usual, it seems, Ernie Kovacs has been left out of the landscape of early TV pioneers. Too bad...
What is disgraceful about this series is that it does not include Gertrude Berg, a pioneer in radio and television, who invented the concept of what we now call a situation comedy and set the stage for The Honeymooners, I Love Lucy, All in the Family, and even Seinfeld. She conceived of "The Goldbergs," produced it, wrote it, and starred in it. She wrote an estimated 12,000 scripts, and she stood up to the red-baiters and the cowards at General Foods and CBS.
What? There is no Amos & Andy! There is no Beulah or her black co-star Oriole! Go Figure!
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