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The Edsel Show
The Edsel Show is an hour-long television special broadcast live on CBS in the United States on October 13, 1957, intended to promote Ford Motor Company's new Edsel cars. It was a milestone in the long career of entertainer Bing Crosby and is notable as the first CBS entertainment program to be recorded on videotape for rebroadcast in the western part of the country following a live performance for the east coast. Crosby arranged for this ‘live’ program to be ‘produced’ by his alma mater
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- "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show" was introduced. The cartoon was shown on ABC network stations at 5:30 each afternoon and was originally called "Rocky and Friends", although Bullwinkle the moose soon became more popular than Rocky the flying squirrel.
- In its third unsuccessful year, the last Edsel automobile was manufactured by the Ford Motor Company, after a loss of $100,000,000 on the program. Eighteen of the 1960 Edsels were produced on the final day.
- Born: Allison Janney, American