The Pluot was featured on an Andy Rooney segment on 60 Minutes.

** Andy Rooney, American journalist ( 60 Minutes ) ( d. 2011 )

This ran until 1979, when Andy Rooney, whose commentaries were already alternating with the debate segment since late 1978, replaced it.

Former Stars and Stripes staffers also include 60 Minutes ’ Andy Rooney and Steve Kroft, songwriter and author Shel Silverstein, comic book illustrator Tom Sutton, author Ralph G. Martin, painter and cartoonist Paul Fontaine, author and television news correspondent Tony Zappone, cartoonist Vernon Grant ( A Monster Is Loose in Tokyo ), Hollywood photographer Phil Stern and the late stock market reporter and host of public television's Wall Street Week, Louis Rukeyser.

With the creation of Archie, publisher Goldwater hoped to appeal to fans of the Andy Hardy movies starring Mickey Rooney.

John Goldwater, inspired by the popular Andy Hardy movies starring Mickey Rooney, wanted to create a comic about a normal person to whom readers could relate.

Andy Hardy ( Mickey Rooney ) is putting a $ 12 down payment on a used car.

* Mickey Rooney as Andrew ' Andy ' Hardy

* Mickey Rooney began to receive " star billing " in subsequent films due to his success in Love Finds Andy Hardy, and worked on this film simultaneously with Boys Town.

* Andy Rooney

In 1937 Stone essayed the role which would become his most famous, that of Judge James Hardy in the Mickey Rooney " Andy Hardy " series.

Instead, she was assigned opposite teen idol Mickey Rooney in the Andy Hardy film Love Finds Andy Hardy ( 1938 ).

The movie was part of the Andy Hardy series starring Mickey Rooney in the title role.

Alumni in journalism include Howard Fineman, the Chief Political Correspondent of Newsweek, Andy Rooney, Monica Crowley, Chris Hedges, and Bob Woodruff.

The first award was given in 1998 but six awards were given in 2001 to Jesse Ventura, Ted Turner, Andy Rooney, Janeane Garafalo, George Carlin, Richard Dawkins, and Katha Pollitt.

Andy Rooney, a World War II war correspondent and later 60 Minutes commentator, wrote the following about General Rose in his book " My War ":

* Excerpt of Andy Rooney book " My War ", describing his encounter with General Rose

These were usually people or characters who shared a common name — for example: " Andy Taylor, Andy Warhol, or Andy Rooney.

Other Rankin / Bass voice actors have included Andy Griffith, Burl Ives, Casey Kasem, Fred Astaire, Red Skelton, Danny Kaye, Boris Karloff, Jimmy Durante, Danny Thomas, Ethel Merman, Vincent Price, Bob McFadden, Robie Lester, Linda Gary, Mickey Rooney, Morey Amsterdam, Marlo Thomas, Greer Garson, Angela Lansbury, June Foray, Don Messick, Jackie Vernon, Allen Swift, Robert Morse, Mia Farrow, and Shelley Winters.

Andrew " Andy " Hardy is a fictional character played by Mickey Rooney in an MGM film series from 1937 to 1958.

In three films, Rooney was paired with Judy Garland, beginning with Love Finds Andy Hardy ( 1938 ), and continuing with Andy Hardy Meets Debutante ( 1940 ) and Life Begins for Andy Hardy ( 1941 ).

In 1958 Jewison was recruited to work for CBS in New York, where his first assignment was Your Hit Parade, followed by The Andy Williams Show.

* The 1951 – 1953 CBS sitcom Amos & Andy is pulled from syndication broadcast due to complaints from civil rights organizations.

She initially declined the position, but during a lunch with Andy Hill, then President of CBS, she mentioned the show and suggested he find a producer who would create a show with " loving, joyful " angels that the audience would have to believe in.

When Andy Griffith decided to leave his series, most of the supporting characters returned for the new program, which ran for three seasons ( 78 episodes ) on the CBS Television Network from 1968-1971.

While Mayberry RFD continued from 1968 – 71, where The Andy Griffith Show left off, the concept of returning Gomer to Mayberry was nixed, as the actor was given a CBS variety show of his own ( which lasted two seasons ).

Substituting for Amos ' n ' Andy, it aired Sunday evenings on CBS from May 31, 1953 until September 20, 1953.

As comedy specialists, the Christie Film Company debuted comedy actors Harold Lloyd, Fatty Arbuckle, Anita Garvin and black actor Spencer Williams, later known for his portrayal of Andy Brown in the Amos & Andy " CBS Television series.

The Mutual Broadcasting System began broadcasting a radio version of Hopalong Cassidy, with Andy Clyde ( later George McMichael on Walter Brennan's ABC sitcom The Real McCoys ) as the sidekick, in January 1950 ; at the end of September, the show moved to CBS Radio, where it ran until 1952.

He was a guest star on Fred Waring's CBS television program in the 1950s, and appeared on Circus Boy as a hot air balloonist, Five Fingers (" The Temple of the Swinging Doll "), The Untouchables, Hazel, The Twilight Zone ( episode " What's in the Box "), The Brothers Brannagan, Gilligan's Island, The Andy Griffith Show, The Donald O ' Connor Show, Peter Gunn as ' Felony ', F Troop, and Moonlighting.

She made guest appearances or did cameo roles in such series as Murder, She Wrote on CBS and The Andy Williams Show and McMillan & Wife, both on NBC.

The show featured guest stars such as David Cross, Andy Richter and Patton Oswalt, and was distributed via CBS's new internet channel, CBS Innertube.

McNear is best remembered as Floyd Lawson, the barber in The Andy Griffith Show and as Doc Charles Adams in CBS Radio's Gunsmoke ( 1952 – 1961 ).

* Andy Richter Controls the Universe ( 2002 – 03, distributed by CBS Television Distribution in USA )

When Williams accepted the role of Andy, he returned to a familiar location ; the CBS studios were built on the former site of the Christie Studios.

From 1964-1965, Goddard starred in another one-season CBS series, Many Happy Returns, in which he portrayed Bob Randall, the young husband of Joan Randall, played by Elinor Donahue, formerly of Father Knows Best and The Andy Griffith Show.

Sanka was a sponsor of I Love Lucy and The Andy Griffith Show during their respective runs on CBS television in the 1950s and early 1960s.

: The Nielsen ratings of the top ten radio shows seemed to indicate that not much has changed in radio: 1 ) Jack Benny Show ( CBA ), 2 ) Amos ' n ' Andy ( CBS ), 3 ) People are Funny ( NBC ), 4 ) Our Miss Brooks ( CBS ) 5 ) Lux Radio Theater ( NBC ), 6 ) My Little Margie ( CBS ), 7 ) Dragnet ( NBC ), 8 ) FBI in Peace and War ( CBS ), 9 ) Bergen and McCarthy ( CBS ), 10 ) Groucho Marx ( NBC ).

CBS was the network most associated with the trend, with series such as The Andy Griffith Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, and Hee Haw.

Sheriff Andrew Jackson " Andy " Taylor is the principal character on The Andy Griffith Show, an American sitcom which aired on CBS, ( 1960 – 1968 ).

The programme was devised by producer Bill Dare and developed with Jon Holmes, Andy Hurst and Simon Blackwell.

New writings have arisen from the involvement of cris cheek, Bridgid Mcleer, and Alaric Sumner, under the direction of Caroline Bergvall and John Hall through the Performance Writing programme at Dartington College of Arts including Kirsten Lavers, Andy Smith, and Chris Paul ; from the involvement of Redell Olson in the MA in Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway, University of London, including Becky Cremin, Frances Kruk, Ryan Ormond, Sophie Robinson, John Sparrow and Stephen Willey ; and Keith Jebb at University of Bedfordshire's Creative Writing programme, including Alyson Torns and Allison Boast.

* Andy Hamilton -- Taranis, British " warrior " and sometime programme associate.

* Andy Gillies was the co-presenter of CUR's first sports programme.

Among Timmy's team of helpers were Chris Evans known as ' Nobby Nolevel ', Andy Bird who played the pirate radio character ' Radio Diggle ', Karen Walsh was the original ' Aunty Boney kneecaps ', Brian Cox made jingles, friends Sally Mais and Anna Laurie were the cleaners, and many others were regulars on the programme.

He became known for his regular performances on BBC radio, and in particular his numerous sessions recorded for John Peel's influential radio programme, and later for Andy Kershaw's programme.

When presenter Simon Thomas left in 2005, he was awarded a gold badge on his last programme, and this has become a tradition with Liz Barker, Matt Baker, Konnie Huq, Katy Hill, Joel Defries and Andy Akinwolere also awarded gold badges on their final show.

* Andy Akinwolere, BBC Blue Peter TV programme presenter, was educated here, at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic School

On Monday 13 July 2009, Channel M's news coverage was incorporated into a magazine programme entitled Channel M Today, broadcast on weekdays between 4pm & 7pm and presented by chief news anchor Andy Crane alongside a rotating team of sports and features presenters.

They were also accompanied by Mr Jolly, ( Robin Fritz, later Clive Duncan and then Andy Hockley ) who would usually end each programme with a song ( usually a nursery rhyme ) on a magical roundabout named Rosie.

Andy Kane ( born 25 October 1965, in South London ), nicknamed Handy Andy, is a British television personality best known for his work on the BBC's DIY programme Changing Rooms.

In 2008, Jack McCulloch and Andy Newman appeared on an episode of the British television programme Those Were The Days to comment upon the night of the first Moon Landing, when Thunderclap Newman had performed an almost-nightlong concert.

It had four main syndicated programmes: a weekday mid-morning programme hosted by Phillippa Collins ( this show was only carried on a few stations, when taken over by Global radio the show was rolled out to all stations ) a weeknightly music and showbiz based programme ( formerly called ' Core Control ' and then ' Music Control ') ( weekdays 7pm to 10pm ) presented by Kam and Sally, Kam was replaced by Kevin Hughes, ' Late Night Love ' ( Sunday to Thursday 10pm to 1am ) presented by Graham Torrington ( later the show was replaced by ' the wind down ' presented by Cat James ) and Music On Demand ( 1am till Breakfast, 7 days a week ) presented by Dan Wood or Andy Henley.

The programme was led from 2007 until 2011 by Dr Andy Williamson, a well known researcher and commentator on digital democracy.

Before the departures of Richard Keys and Andy Gray, the programme had a different appearance to Super Sunday, presented by Keys and Gray from a purpose-built studio with Andy Gray's analysis also returning from its Sunday evening slot.

He has green hair and appeared on the CBBC interstitial or in-vision continuity programme The Broom Cupboard alongside ( human ) presenters Andy Crane and Andi Peters.

During his term, Clarke Rogers started a script-oriented New Works programme and most recently, current Artistic Director Andy McKim opened the theatre's doors to anyone with new ideas for Passe Muraille's new Five-minute Pitch programme.

On many occasions in the 1960s and 1970s he appeared on the BBC Television Hogmanay celebration programme, alongside Jimmy Shand, Andy Stewart and Moira Anderson.