TV Firsts

Lorelli!

I always thought that the first televised interracial kiss was between Captain Kirk and Lt. Uhura in Star Trek but it wasn't.

From Wikipedia, "The first interracial kiss on television is a much debated topic concerning who the first two persons of different races to kiss on television were. For a time, it was understood to have occurred during an episode of the British soap opera Emergency – Ward 10 in 1964. However, in November 2015, a Granada Play of the Week, You in Your Small Corner, was uncovered which was broadcast in June 1962; that quickly led to the rediscovery of another play featuring the same young Jamaican actor, Hot Summer Night, televised in Britain on 1 February 1959. The first interracial kiss on U.S. television was broadcast in a 1960 episode of Adventures In Paradise, 'Makaha Surfing', also known as 'The Big Surf', between star Gardner McKay and Filipina Pilar Seurat. Competing claims have also been made in favour of I Love Lucy."

One first from I Love Lucy was when Lucille Ball became pregnant in real life so it was written into the storyline. The episode Lucy Goes To The Hospital was a first when the character's son was born. "On January 19, 1953, Little Ricky appeared for the first time on the show - just 12 hours after the real-life Lucy gave birth via Caesarian section to Desi Arnaz, Jr. The episode received higher ratings than Eisenhower's inauguration the next day and Queen Elizabeth II's coronation six months later. Lucy never was referred to as "pregnant," though - merely "expecting".

Another well known one is the first music video on MTV which was Video Killed The Radio Star by The Buggles.

Any other memorable or random TV firsts ?

Agent Coulson

Miley rolling in the hay with Fidelma.

brian_t

Lorelli! wrote: »

One first from I Love Lucy was when Lucille Ball became pregnant in real life so it was written into the storyline. The episode Lucy Goes To The Hospital was a first when the character's son was born. "On January 19, 1953, Little Ricky appeared for the first time on the show - just 12 hours after the real-life Lucy gave birth via Caesarian section to Desi Arnaz, Jr.

From Wikipedia,

Mary Kay and Johnny was the first program to show a couple sharing a bed, and the first series to show a woman's pregnancy on television: Mary Kay became pregnant in 1948 and after unsuccessfully trying to hide her pregnancy, the producers wrote it into the show. On December 31, 1948, the Stearns' weeks-old son Christopher appeared on the show and became a character.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kay_and_Johnny

brian_t

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Miley rolling in the hay with Fidelma.

What was that a TV first of ?

Lorelli!

brian_t wrote: »

From Wikipedia,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kay_and_Johnny

Maybe they mean that Lucy was the first to actually go into labour and have a baby in an episode because the Mary Kay and Johnny one says the child appeared weeks old and became a character?

brian_t wrote: »

What was that a TV first of ?

A first for Miley and Fidelma? :pac:

Skerries

Fidelma came first as Biddie was always faking it