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📺 🏀 October 27, 1990: “NBA Inside Stuff” debuted on NBC. Hosted by Ahmad Rashad, the Saturday daytime sports program ran for 12 years on NBC and 4 years on ABC. It was later revived by NBA TV in 2013 with hosts Grant Hill and Kristen Ledlow.

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📺 October 27, 1996: “Pop-Up Video” debuted on VH1. The program, created by Woody Thompson and Tad Low, showcased music videos annotated via “pop-up” bubbles containing relevant information and historical trivia. Its original run lasted six years. Its reboot in 2011 lasted eleven months.

⚾️ October 26, 2000: The New York Yankees achieve the “three-peat,” defeating Subway Series rival New York Mets in five games of the World Series. In Game 5 at Shea Stadium, Bernie Williams and Series MVP Derek Jeter hit solo home runs, and Luis Sojo hit a 9th-inning 2-run go-ahead RBI single.

⚾️ October 26, 1996: “The Yankees are champions of baseball!” uttered Joe Buck as New York’s third baseman Charlie Hayes caught a foul pop-up as the last out of Game 6, defeating the Atlanta Braves 3-2 and earning the franchise’s 23rd MLB championship. It was Fox’s first ever World Series telecast.

⚾️ October 26, 1997: The Marlins won their first World Series title, defeating Cleveland in seven games. Édgar Rentería hit an 11th-inning 2-out walk-off RBI single, scoring Craig Counsell to win 3-2 in the decisive Game 7.

⚾️ October 26, 1985: Umpire Don Denkinger incorrectly ruled Kansas City Royals batter Jorge Orta safe at first base, sparking a 2-run 9th inning rally to win Game 6 over the St. Louis Cardinals. The Royals would also win the next night to capture the franchise’s first World Series title.

📺 October 26, 1985: “Children of the Night” premiered on CBS. The TV film, which starred Kathleen Quinlan, Nicholas Campbell and Mario Van Peebles, was a fictionalized biopic of Dr. Lois Lee, based on her work among young prostitutes in L.A. and the Children of the Night organization she had founded

📺 October 26, 1984: “V” opened its one-season run as a regularly scheduled series on NBC. The science fiction drama, which starred Jane Badler, Marc Singer and Robert Englund, was a continuation of the hit miniseries from one year earlier.

📺 October 26, 1982: “St. Elsewhere” opened its six-season run on NBC. The medical dramedy starred William Daniels, Ed Flanders, Denzel Washington, Howie Mandel, Ed Begley, Jr., Mark Harmon, David Morse and Norman Lloyd.

📺 October 25, 1996: "Millennium" opened its three-season run on Fox. The supernatural crime drama was created by Chris Carter ("The X-Files") and starred Lance Henriksen.

📺 October 25, 1988: "Midnight Caller" began its three-season run on NBC. The drama about a former detective who became an overnight talk radio host starred Gary Cole, Wendy Kilbourne and Mykelti Williamson.

📺 October 25, 2020: “The Undoing” debuted on HBO. David E. Kelley’s 6-episode murder mystery about the lives of a wealthy New York therapist and her family being turned upside down starred Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, Lily Rabe and Donald Sutherland.

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📺 October 25, 1999: “Time of Your Life” debuted on Fox. The “Party of Five” spinoff followed Jennifer Love Hewitt’s character Sarah Reeves in NYC so she could learn more about her biological parents. It aired for one season and also starred Jennifer Garner, Pauley Perrette & Johnathon Schaech.

📺 October 25, 1993: Half-hour late night talker “The Jon Stewart Show” opened on MTV. At the end of the first season, it expanded to one hour and moved into first-run syndication as a replacement for “The Arsenio Hall Show” for one season.

📺 October 25, 1983: “Bay City Blues” from Steven Bochco debuted on NBC. The baseball comedy starred Michael Nouri, Ken Olin, Dennis Franz, Pat Corley, Sharon Stone, Michele Greene, Patrick Cassidy, Bernie Casey, Larry “Flash” Jenkins and Mykelti Williamson. Only four episodes aired.

📺 October 24, 2016: “Man with a Plan” began its four-season run on CBS. The family sitcom starred Matt LeBlanc, Liza Snyder, Kevin Nealon and Stacy Keach.

⚾️ October 24, 1992: The Toronto Blue Jays won their first World Series title (the first for a non-United States team) as they defeated the Atlanta Braves 4-3 in 11 innings in Game 6 of the World Series.

📺 October 24, 1985: Hunt Block made his first appearance as sleazy Peter Hollister, Greg Sumner’s (William Devane) assistant, on CBS primetime soap “Knots Landing”

📺 October 23, 2020: “The Queen’s Gambit” debuted on Netflix. Based on Walter Tevis’ 1983 novel of the same name, the award-winning 7-episode miniseries starred Anya Taylor Joy as an American chess prodigy in the 1960’s who rose to the top of the chess world while struggling with drugs and alcohol.

📺 October 23, 2009: “White Collar” began its 6-season run on USA Network. The police procedural comedy-drama starred Matt Bomer as con man-turned-FBI informant Neal Caffrey and Tim DeKay as the agent who captured Caffrey then worked with him on other white collar cases.

📺 October 23, 2000: “Boston Public” began its 4-season run on Fox. The high school drama from David E. Kelley starred Chi McBride, Loretta Devine and Anthony Heald. Jeri Ryan and Michael Rapaport joined the series in its second season.

🏈 October 23, 2000: Down 30-7 to the Miami Dolphins on ABC’s “Monday Night Football”, the New York Jets scored 4 touchdowns and a field goal in the 4th quarter to send the game into overtime where the Jets would win 40-37 in the game dubbed as the "Monday Night Miracle."

⚾️ October 23, 1993: Joe Carter hit a walk-off 3-run home run in the bottom of the 9th inning to lift the Toronto Blue Jays to an 8-6 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 6 of the World Series. It also earned the Blue Jays its second consecutive world title.

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📺 October 22, 1982: “The Quest” debuted on ABC. The family adventure drama starring Perry King aired for only five episodes.

📺 October 22, 2001: “Pardon the Interruption” (“PTI”) debuted on ESPN. Former Washington Post sports reporters Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon are its primary hosts. Since its inception, it has been TV’s most-watched weekday sports talk show.

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⚾️ October 21, 1975: Boston Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk blasted a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 12th inning at Fenway Park to give Boston a 7-6 Game 6 victory over the Cincinnati Reds and forced a Game 7 of the World Series.

📺 October 21, 1983: “Jennifer Slept Here” debuted on NBC. The fantasy sitcom, which starred Ann Jillian, Georgia Engel, Brandon Maggart, John P. Navin Jr. and Glenn Scarpelli, only lasted 13 episodes.

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📺 October 20, 1951: The CBS Eye logo was first introduced during the network’s station breaks.

📺 October 20, 1994: On NBC’s “Friends”, Ross and Rachel shared their first kiss after he showed her how to do laundry and she successfully prevented a pesky woman at the laundromat from stealing her cart. In shock by the sudden kiss, Ross banged his head on a washing machine door and fell over.

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📺 October 20, 2003: “Skin” debuted on Fox. The modern-day “Romeo & Juliet” drama starred Ron Silver, Kevin Anderson, Olivia Wilde, D.J. Cotrona and Laura Leighton. Despite heavy promotion, it was canceled after three episodes.

⚾️ October 19, 2006: New York Mets’ Endy Chavez leapt above the Shea Stadium left field wall to rob St. Louis Cardinals’ Scott Rolen of a 2-run homer in the 6th inning of Game 7 of the National League Championship Series.

📺 October 19, 2004: “The Biggest Loser”, hosted by Caroline Rhea, debuted on NBC. The competition series ran for 17 editions thru 2016; USA Network revived it for an 18th season in 2020. Alison Sweeney took over as host in the 5th edition; trainer Bob Harper hosted the 17th edition.

📺 October 19, 1995: On NBC’s “Seinfeld”, Elaine’s house guest Jean-Paul was racing in first place in the New York City Marathon but got an unpleasant surprise when he tried to reach for a cup of water from the bystanders nearby and instead grabbed Kramer’s scalding hot cup of tea.

📺 October 19, 1982: On ABC’s “Three’s Company”, Jack met his blind date at a roller rink but he unknowingly got mixed up in a plot to fence stolen jewels.

🎵 October 19, 1985: “Take on Me” by the Norwegian band a-ha hit No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Its music video was one of the most iconic on MTV in the 1980’s due to its innovative hybrid of live-action and animation.

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📺 October 18, 2010: “The Talk” launched on CBS in daytime. Sara Gilbert developed the daytime talk show, with Gilbert, Julie Chen, Sharon Osbourne, Leah Remini, Holly Robinson Peete and Marissa Jaret-Winokur as members of the original host panel. It ran 15 seasons.

📺 October 18, 2004: The remake of science fiction drama “Battlestar Galactica”, developed by Ronald D. Moore, began as a weekly series on Sci-Fi Channel. It starred Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Tricia Helfer and Grace Park.

📺 October 18, 1988: “Roseanne” began its ten-season run on ABC. The sitcom starred Roseanne Barr, John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, Sara Gilbert, Lecy Goranson and Michael Fishman.

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