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The show's origins were completely by happenstance. In the summer of 1949, then-General Manager Mort Watters asked Lewis (hired on two months earlier as WCPO's first art director) to host an hour-long filler show called Al's Corner Drugstore, in which Lewis, dressed in a soda jerk's uniform, would take phone-in requests for songs which he would play on his accordion, which would later become ...
In 1954, after The General Store, Shreve was lured over to fledgling television station WCPO-TV, where he co-hosted an afternoon show with Wanda Lewis and Colin Male and played Lucky the Clown and Roger the Robot on the station's long-running morning children's program The Uncle Al Show.
James Thurston Nabors (June 12, 1930 – November 30, 2017) was an American actor, singer, and comedian, widely known for his signature character, Gomer Pyle.. Nabors was discovered by Andy Griffith while working at a Santa Monica nightclub, and he later joined The Andy Griffith Show, where he played the good-natured, unsophisticated Gomer Pyle.
"It's actually for Al." For Martin, 79, Short got sun tan lotion. "It's SPF Infinity because, let's face it, Steve is whiter than a Coldplay meet and greet," he teased.
As it turned out, Colin was a contestant on an NBC game show called The Weakest Link (which aired from 2001 to 2002 and was later revived in 2022 for three seasons) — Jimmy had found the tape of ...
In 1967, Giles became a television studio director and producer at WBNS-TV channel 10 in Columbus. [1] He then moved in 1974 to WCPO-TV channel 9 in Cincinnati, [1] where he was executive producer of the station, producer and director of IN PERSON, and produced programs on quarter horses, amateur boxing, and specials such as a 25th anniversary of The Uncle Al Show, which at the time was the ...
Thanks, Uncle Al.” Meanwhile, over on The View , the group was split as Golden Bachelor superfan Sunny Hostin was disappointed. “I fell for this nonsense,” Hostin, 55, said on Friday.
Mike Starr (born July 29, 1950) is an American character actor.Tall and burly with a deep voice, Starr often performs as mobsters, police officers, blue-collar workers or tough guys.