Pittsburgh was the home of not only the first radio station but the first public broadcast TV station.
Well, not quite. Linda Thorson replaced Diana Rigg. Joana Lumley played Purdy in the New Avengers, a later version of the original series.
For a few episodes, the green Klein was replaced by a Cannondale Flying V (I believe). Rumor had it that Cannondale paid big bucks to have their bike placed there. No idea why it switched back.
Get Smart’s Agent 99 never reveals her real first name.
There IS one episode where she gets engaged to a wealthy casino baron and the audience are led to believe that her real name is revealed (I forget what it was), but she later explains that it was just a cover-up.
Mjolinir,
Will have to disagree with you on the first Klingon. Even then, it depends on what your definition of “first appearance” is “is.”
Lundin played Kor’s (John Colicos) second in command in the episode “Errand of Mercy,” where he was billed as Klingon Lieutenant (or maybe just Lieutenant).
The first Klingons to appear in the episode are a squad being marched across a courtyard. Although the “sergeant” in command of the squad appears to be calling cadence or somesuch, it’s a silent scene with Kirk’s log narration falling over it. So, technically these extras are the very first.
2nd Klingons – two guards (extras with no dialogue) enter the Organian council chambers and step aside as. . .
Kor enters. Kor says to the Organians: “This is the ruling council?”
As the first Klingon with dialogue, as well as the first Klingon of importance, he is always accorded the honorific “First Klingon on Star Trek.”
Vic Lundin doesn’t appear until a good deal later in the episode.
All in fun. . .
Sir Rhosis
And no, this not from memory, I have the episode on DVD and just sat skipping through it to confirm.
Gilligan’s Island: Raquel Welsh was also up for Gilligan’s Island- auditioning not for Ginger, but Mary Anne.
Jeffersons- Tom and Helen Willis were TV’s first racially mixed couple.
Not Estelle Getty (25 July 1923*) but Rue McClanahan (21 February 1935*), Blanche, is the youngest actress of the bunch.
*facts and faults provided by imdb
And Law & Order (1990-?) is now #2. Dick Wolf says that his goal is to beat Gunsmoke’s record. And considering that the show’s ratings keep on rising, he just may do it…
Roxie Roker…Helen Willis on the Jeffersons… Is Lenny Kravitzs’ mother
Sorry, but no. “Captain Video” ran five days a week for four years, four days a week for an additional three months, plus nearly a year on Saturdays. I don’t believe they did reruns, either. But assuming they had new episodes 39 weeks a year (the standard in the 50s), that’s over 880 episodes in prime time (which began at 7:00 p.m. at the time).
The first host of Saturday Night Live was Howard Cosell (a trick question – there was a show “Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell” first telecast a month before the better known version).
“War Bride,” broadcast by WRGB in Schenectady, NY, in 1946 was the first TV soap opera. “Faraway Hill” was the first network soap opera later that year.
Michael Keaton’s first job in the media was on “Misterroger’s Neighborhood.”
The “The Texas Wheelers” is the only network TV show whose theme song was about the joys of smoking marijuana (John Prine’s “Illegal Smile”).
The longest running TV show with the same host is The Open Mind with Richard D. Heffner. 45 Years and counting. It’s on PBS.
http://www.aptvs.org/catalog.nsf/bpt/24CAAC0CCB54180985256A87006C7B2C?OpenDocument
The Skipper’s “real” name was Jonas Grumby.
Professor’s “real” name was Roy Hinkle.
Okay, here are 2 odd facts:
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Both the Kinks and the Who recorded versions of the theme song from “Batman.”
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Batman’s butler Alfred was played by Alan Napier. Napier’s grandson, Brian Forster, was Chris the drummer, in “The Partridge Family.”
Law & Order isn’t even close to #2 (it’s actually #24). It is number two of shows currently running (the Simpsons is number one). L&O will have to be on the air for about another seventeen seasons to have more episodes than Gunsmoke…
For a list of shows with the most episodes, check here: http://www.angelfire.com/trek/proutsy
Eric
Actually, Kelsey Grammer first appeared as Frasier Crane in September 1984. He has received Emmy nominations for playing Frasier in 3 different shows: “Cheers”, “Wings”, and “Frasier”.
Oops… thanks for setting me and the record straight. And thanks to kinilou for additional info.
An interesting follow-up to your point, then, is that Joanna Lumley’s character on Ab Fab was once a Bond girl – in a movie which never appeared.
Also thanks to saitou for the correction on the Golden Girls.
Trivial Pursuit, anyone? Clearly I’m easy pickins. 
“The Dick Van Dyke Show” was originally conceived for a different lead actor – Carl Reiner. The title was changed when Van Dyke was hired. Reiner produced, and played Alan Brady – originally his face was never shown, but they changed their mind on that.
The first name of the Chief of Control in “Get Smart” was Thaddeus. No last name was ever given.
The first person to write an entire season of a TV show all by himself was David Kelley of “Picket Fences.”
Richard L. Bare directed every episode of “Green Acres,” the most for a director on one series.
William Conrad played Marshall Matt Dillion of “Gunsmoke” – on the radio, that is. When they made the transition to TV, Conrad was considered unacceptable, so he didn’t appear as a regular on TV until “Cannon” and later “Jake and the Fat Man.” He also did voice work, including the narrator in Rocky and Bullwinkle.
The TV show “Car 54, Where Are You” was shot on the streets of New York. In order to keep people from thinking they were real cops, the police cars used were painted green and white instead of the usual black and white. Since the show was shot in black and white, they cars looked authentic on screen.
The final episode of the “Dick Van Dyck Show” was the only one shot on location.
I believe the alias was Susan Hilton.
More on the bike: The way I hear it, Cannondale gave everyone in the cast a bike as part of the agreement to get their bike on the show. Shorty thereafter, the Cannondale was stolen off the set, so the original Klein went back up. You can tell the difference by the colour: the Klein was green, and the Cannondale was blue and white.
When it first appeared (the Klein), the front fork was installed backwards. This was fixed after one season.
IIRC, he also did a short-lived Nero Wolfe series on network TV, long before the current A&E series.