George Jetson, An Unearthly Child, Doctor Who, Legion of Super-Heroes, Lancelot Biggs, Adventures Into Terror, Moonbase 3, Alfred Pennyworth,11001001.

I don't know which thing to mention first so I'm flipping a coin.

K, so today is the day you find out a little bit more about the fellow who did the voice of George Jetson. Not sure who he was then look a little lower.

And today in 1963 the first episode of Doctor Who was aired. Most think of Doctor Who as a British idea but to tell the truth it was a Canadian who was working for the BBC who created the character along with the idea of a box that was bigger on the inside then on the outside. Thank you Sydney Newman for making television better.


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Birthdays

Carl Gafford 1953, colorist (and occasional editor) who has worked for several decades in the comics industry. His career to date has spanned several publishers, including Marvel Comics, DC Comics and Topps Comics. Gafford began coloring The Legion of Super-Heroes with #288, and continued on that run for 7 years without missing an issue, totaling 125 regular issues, giants, mini-series and two different Legion books a month for a year.

Nelson Slade Bond 1908, science fiction writer, Bond was a pioneer in early science fiction and fantasy. His published fiction is mainly short stories, most of which appeared in pulp magazines in the 1930s and 1940s. Many were published in Blue Book magazine. He is noted for his "Lancelot Biggs" series of stories and for his "Meg the Priestess" tales, which introduced one of the first powerful female characters in science fiction.

Christopher Rule 1895, comic book artist active from the 1940s through at least 1960, and best-known as the first regular Marvel Comics inker for legendary comics artist Jack Kirby. Rule's earliest confirmed story work is penciling the seven-page "With Tears in My Soul" in My Own Romance #6 (June 1949). Rule continued to ink romance stories over such pencilers as Klein, Sekowsky, and Shores in such comics as Faithful, Love Classics, and Love Tales. He expanded into other forms with the mythologically-based superheroine Venus, inking Werner Roth on a story in Venus #10 (July 1950), and with horror via the story "Hands of Murder", penciled by Sekowsky, in Adventures Into Terror #4 (June 1951) from Marvel's 1950s iteration, Atlas Comics.

George O'Hanlon 1912, actor, Television viewers recognize him as the voice of George Jetson in Hanna-Barbera's 1962 prime-time animated television series The Jetsons and its 1985 revival. He also wrote stories for television series in the 1960s such as Petticoat Junction, 77 Sunset Strip and even wrote episodes for HB's The Flintstones. It is interesting to note that he also auditioned for the role of Fred Flintstone but lost to Alan Reed, however he was remembered when it was time to cast The Jetsons. Dr. Arnold Culver - Kronos (1957), George Jetson - The Jetsons (68 episodes, 1962-1987), George Jetson - Rockin' with Judy Jetson (1988) (TV) (voice) George Jetson - Jetsons: The Movie (1990) (voice).

Michael Gough 1917, actor, The Celestial Toymaker / Councillor Hedin - Doctor Who (7 episodes, 1966-1983), Master of the Moon - They Came from Beyond Space (1967), Sir Benjamin Dyce - Moonbase 3 (1 episode, "View of a Dead Planet", 1973), Hower - Blakes 7(1 episode, "Volcano",1980), Professor - Rarg (1988) (voice), Alfred Pennyworth - Batman (1989), Gopher - The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1 episode, "Shovel, Shovel, Toil and Trouble/The Wise Have It", 1991), Alfred Pennyworth - Batman Returns (1992), Alfred Pennyworth - Batman Forever (1995), Alfred Pennyworth - Batman & Robin (1997), Elder Gutknecht - Corpse Bride (2005) (voice), Dodo Bird - Alice in Wonderland (2010) (voice). Boris Karloff 1887, actor, Owaza - Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1927), The Monster - Frankenstein (1931), Dr. Fu Manchu - The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932), The Monster - Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Dr. Janos Rukh - The Invisible Ray (1936), Mr. Jevries/Dolman - The Invisible Menace (1938), The Monster - Son of Frankenstein (1939), Doctor Gustav Niemann - House of Frankenstein (1944), Gruesome - Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947), Dr. Henry Marco - Tales of Tomorrow (2 episodes, 1952-1953), Baron Victor von Frankenstein - Frankenstein - 1970 (1958), Narrator / The Grinch - How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966) (TV) (voice), Prof. John Mayer - The Incredible Invasion (1971).

Events

1963, On the BBC, the first episode, "An Unearthly Child" airs of the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.

1964, First day of rehearsals for TOS: "The Cage".

1974, Etta Kitt daily comic strip ends. Strip began in December 1925 originally as a single panel.

1981, Blakes 7, 4th series Episode 9. "Sand"

1987, Second day of filming on TNG: "11001001". Several scenes in the Bourbon Street Bar are filmed today, including Carolyn McCormick's first scenes as Minuet.

1994, Babylon 5 Episode 26 - "A Distant Star" first aired

1994, The Pagemaster is released.