25 TV facts

  1. The total number of episodes for the sitcom "I Love Lucy" was 180.
  2. Only 1/3 of all “Gilligan’s Island” episodes are about getting off the island.
  3. In 1907 Russian scientist Boris Rosing became the first inventor to use a CRT in the receiver of an experimental television system. He used mirror-drum scanning to transmit simple geometric shapes to the CRT.
  4. In most advertisements the time displayed on an analog watch is 10:10.
  5. One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
  6. The first TV couple to sleep in the same bed was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
  7. The first toilet ever seen on television was on “Leave It To Beaver”.
  8. In 1926, Hungarian engineer Kálmán Tihanyi designed a television system utilizing fully electronic scanning and display elements, and employing the principle of "charge storage" within the scanning (or "camera") tube.
  9. Today there are almost a billion TV sets in the world.
  10. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
  11. In 1927, Philo Farnsworth made the world's first working television system with electronic scanning of both the pickup and display devices,[9] which he first demonstrated to the press on 1 September 1928.
  12. US citizens watch the most TV. By age 65, an American would have watched the equivalent of 9 years uninterrupted screening, viewing more than 20,000 TV commercials per year.
  13. The first practical use of television was in Germany. Regular television broadcasts began in Germany in 1929 and in 1936 the Olympic Games in Berlin were broadcast to television stations in Berlin and Leipzig where the public could view the games live.
  14. The first TV interview was made with Irish actress Peggy O'Neil in April 1930.
  15. In 1936, Kálmán Tihanyi described the principle of plasma television, the first flat panel system.
  16. In the US there are more TV sets than telephones.
  17. The General Lee cars used in the popular show The Dukes of Hazards were 1969 Dodge Chargers.
  18. The first televised sporting event was a Japanese elementary school baseball game, broadcast in September 1931. 
  19. The Muppet Show was banned from TV in Saudi Arabia because one of its stars was a pig.
  20. The first regular TV soap was DuMont TV's A Woman to Remember, which began its run in February 1947.
  21. The first music video ever played on MTV Europe was by Dire Straits, "Money For Nothing."
  22. The first daily broadcast was started by the BBC in November 1936.
  23. The childhood word game Hangman was the inspiration for TV's Wheel of Fortune.
  24. The world's first TV news helicopter was introduced by KTLA Channel 5 in Los Angeles on 4 July 1958.
  25. The first letter Vanna White ever turned on the game show Wheel of Fortune was the letter "T."
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