1998 in American television
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The following is a list of events affecting American television during 1998. Events listed include television series debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel initiations, closures and rebrandings, as well as information about controversies and disputes.
Events[edit]
January[edit]
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 3 | Jim McKay announces that Wide World of Sports has been cancelled by ABC after 37 years. |
| 4 | Nick Jr. celebrates its 10th anniversary. |
| 5 | An affiliation swap occurs in Sacramento, California: KMAX-TV switches its affiliation to UPN after being purchased by Paramount Stations Group, while The WB affiliates with KQCA. |
| 12 | CBS acquires the rights to the AFC of the NFL as part of a $4 billion, eight-year contract; Fox and ABC renew their agreements for the NFC and Monday Night Football, respectively (Super Bowl XXXII, broadcast on January 25, would be NBC's last NFL game until 2006). |
February[edit]
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 9 | Prevue Channel (now Pop) revamps its programming to include short-form segments. The revamp lasts until January 31, 1999, when the channel is renamed TV Guide Channel. |
March[edit]
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 2 | The Powerhouse era begins on Cartoon Network, replacing the Checkerboard era. |
| 10 | Showtime launches a new multiplex channel, Showtime Extreme, which airs action and adventure films, thrillers, gangster films and sporting events. The channel's launch coincided with Viacom's channels (excluding the Showtime networks) moving from USSB to DirecTV. |
| 29 | BBC Worldwide debuts BBC America. |
| World Wrestling Federation wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin defeats Shawn Michaels, winning his first WWF World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania XIV. With this, it has been cited to be the full beginning of the "Attitude Era". |
April[edit]
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 4 | CatDog premieres on Nickelodeon after the 1998 Kids' Choice Awards. The show was not aired until October. |
| 6 | Long running British children's television series Teletubbies begins its U.S. television debut on PBS Kids. |
| 9 | The Price Is Right's 5,000th episode is broadcast on CBS. On the show, every pricing game is played for a car (something Price had only done once before. It has been repeated only once since then). At the beginning of the show, CBS announces it has renamed Studio 33 (the studio at CBS Television City where The Price Is Right has taped since its 1972 return) the Bob Barker Studios in honor of the show's then-host and executive producer. |
| 11 | The National Cable Television Association announces they will discontinue the CableACE awards, due to the Emmy Awards recognizing cable programming. |
| 18 | Toon Disney – devoted to carrying animated series and movies, 24 hours a day, is launched by The Walt Disney Company. |
| 24 | A second special episode of Dallas, Dallas: War of the Ewings, airs on CBS seven years after the original series finished. |
| 30 | Seven television stations broadcast the suicide of maintenance worker Daniel V. Jones on live television. The incident causes many to criticize Los Angeles television stations' practice of airing police pursuits live and calls for proposed changes in the way live coverage of events are handled in the future. |
May[edit]
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 7 | The infamous Seinfeld episode, "The Puerto Rican Day" is broadcast on NBC. In it, Cosmo Kramer accidentally burns and then stomps on the Puerto Rican flag. NBC was forced to apologize and had it banned from airing on the network again. Also, it was not initially part of the syndicated package. In the summer of 2002, the episode started to appear with the flag-burning sequence intact. |
| 11 | ZDTV, a technology-based cable channel, debuts. |
| 14 | 76.3 million people tune in to The Finale of Seinfeld on NBC. |
| 28 | Former Saturday Night Live actor and comedian Phil Hartman, then featuring on the NBC sitcom NewsRadio, the Fox animated sitcom The Simpsons, and announcer of Cartoon Network is shot and killed by his wife (who then kills herself). |
June[edit]
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 11 | United Video Satellite Group, parent company of the Prevue Channel (now Pop), acquires TV Guide from News Corporation for $800 million and 60 million shares of stock worth an additional $1.2 billion. In recognition of this, Prevue Channel will rebrand to the TV Guide Channel on February 1, 1999.[1][2] |
| 14 | Game 6 of the NBA Finals between the Chicago Bulls and Utah Jazz is broadcast on NBC. The game registered a 22.3 Nielsen rating and 38 share with average 35.9 million viewers. This made it the highest rated and most watched game in the history of the National Basketball Association. 72 million people in the US watched at least part of the game.[3] The previous record was a 21.2 rating and 37 share for Game 7 of the 1988 NBA Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Detroit Pistons.[4] |
| 29 | Lifetime Movie Network, a movie channel from Lifetime, debuts. |
August[edit]
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 15 | More than a year after its acquisition by News Corporation's Fox Kids Worldwide, Inc., The Family Channel is re-initiated as Fox Family Channel, with the network now targeting a younger family-oriented audience than that of its predecessor. |
| A pre-season football game in Vancouver, British Columbia between the San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks is CBS's first NFL football broadcast since January 1994. | |
| 16 | KATH-LP in Juneau, Alaska signs on the air, giving the Juneau market its first full-time NBC affiliate. The sign-on was delayed for a month due to delays in receiving the equipment required to place the station on the local GCI cable system (Sister station KSCT-LP in Sitka, the market's former Fox affiliate, had already switched to NBC).[5][6] |
| 31 | Pax TV (now named Ion Television), a family-oriented broadcast network owned by Paxson Communications, begins broadcasting. The network was originally carried for Paxson-owned stations by a number of paid programming services (as well as the overnight Christian block The Worship Network), branded as the Infomall Television Network until at the time of its network launch.[7] |
September[edit]
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 6 | CBS resumes its regular season coverage of the National Football League for the first time since 1993. |
| 8 | In front of a nationwide audience watching on Fox, Mark McGwire hits his 62nd home run of the Major League Baseball season, breaking the 37 year old record held by Roger Maris. |
| 14 | The revived edition of Hollywood Squares resumes syndication. Tom Bergeron serves as host. |
| 21 | The WB launches its programming service of cable-only networks, branded as the 100+ Station Group. It was originally known as The WeB, which was from its launch until March of next year. Several cable providers that carried The WB's programming on WGN Superstation feed (until it was dropped the following September) were replaced by its own service.[8] |
October[edit]
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1 | Style Network debuts. |
| 4 | UPN adds two additional nights of programming to its schedule with primetime series added to Friday nights, including a movie block on Thursday nights. |
| 15 | Plinko, one of the most-popular pricing games on The Price Is Right increases its middle slot to $10,000, making its top prize $50,000. |
| 21 | Fox broadcasts the Game 4 of its second World Series. The New York Yankees defeat the San Diego Padres, winning their 24th championship and second since 1996. |
| 19 | Fox Family Channel airs new block: 13 Nights of Halloween. |
November[edit]
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 16 | Elmo's World debuts on Sesame Street . |
| 18 | The Powerpuff Girls premieres on Cartoon Network, becoming Hanna-Barbera's final TV show, distributing episodes until 2001 when Cartoon Network Studios took over until the series ended in 2005. |
| 20 | The Rugrats Movie, based on Nickelodeon's hit series Rugrats is released in theaters. The movie introduces the character of Dil Pickles, who became a main character in Rugrats the following January. The Rugrats Movie was a commercial success, making a grand total of $100,494,675 domestically and another $40,400,000 in international markets.[9] To promote the movie, Nickelodeon put all Rugrats episodes on hiatus for the week. It was the first time since 1994 that Rugrats was not part of Nick's daily schedule. |
Programs[edit]
Debuts[edit]
Ending this year[edit]
| Date | Show | Debut |
|---|---|---|
| January 1 | 413 Hope St. | 1997 |
| Living Single | 1993 | |
| January 3 | Newton's Apple | 1983 |
| January 4 | Beakman's World | 1992 |
| Inspector Gadget's Field Trip | 1996 | |
| January 9 | Gullah Gullah Island | 1994 |
| January 10 | Jungle Cubs | 1996 |
| January 12 | Jenny | 1997 |
| January 15 | Dellaventura | |
| The Secret World of Alex Mack | 1994 | |
| January 16 | The Visitor | 1997 |
| The Ink and Paint Club | ||
| January 22 | Union Square | |
| January 24 | Cracker | |
| January 29 | Ask Harriet | 1998 |
| January 31 | Spider-Man | 1994 |
| February 7 | Wheel 2000 | 1997 |
| February 8 | Muppets Tonight | 1996 |
| February 9 | Fired Up | 1997 |
| February 10 | Make Me Laugh | 1958 |
| February 13 | Teen Angel | 1997 |
| February 17 | Grace Under Fire | 1993 |
| February 20 | Channel Umptee-3 | 1997 |
| February 23 | Bobby's World | 1990 |
| February 27 | The Gregory Hines Show | 1997 |
| March 2 | Sparks | 1996 |
| March 3 | Four Corners | 1998 |
| March 4 | 101 Dalmatians: The Series | 1997 |
| March 6 | Hiller and Diller | |
| March 7 | Gadget Boy & Heather | 1995 |
| USA Up All Night | 1989 | |
| March 14 | Nothing Scared | 1997 |
| March 15 | The Tom Show | |
| March 16 | George & Leo | |
| March 20 | Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation | |
| March 21 | Fame L.A. | |
| March 25 | Significant Others | 1998 |
| March 27 | Big Bag | 1996 |
| April 17 | Players | 1997 |
| April 25 | The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police | |
| April 27 | Brooklyn South | |
| Tots TV | 1993 | |
| May 3 | Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher | 1996 |
| You're the One | 1998 | |
| May 4 | The Closer | |
| Alright Already | 1997 | |
| May 14 | Seinfeld | 1989 |
| May 10 | Big Bag | 1996 |
| May 16 | Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman | 1993 |
| Silver Surfer | 1998 | |
| May 18 | Murphy Brown (returned in 2018) | 1988 |
| Team Knight Rider | 1997 | |
| May 19 | Good News | |
| May 22 | Singled Out | 1995 |
| May 25 | The Naked Truth | |
| May 26 | Soul Man | 1997 |
| May 31 | Sleepwalkers | |
| The Larry Sanders Show | 1992 | |
| June 7 | Kelly Kelly | 1998 |
| June 12 | Geraldo | 1987 |
| June 15 | Michael Hayes | 1997 |
| June 20 | Bill Nye the Science Guy | 1993 |
| June 23 | You Wish | 1997 |
| June 25 | New York Undercover | 1994 |
| June 26 | Step by Step | 1991 |
| July 2 | C-16: FBI | 1997 |
| July 7 | Invasion America | 1998 |
| July 8 | The Simple Life | |
| July 9 | Prey | |
| July 13 | Cybill | 1995 |
| July 17 | Family Matters | 1989 |
| July 18 | Timecop | 1997 |
| July 22 | Ellen | 1994 |
| July 25 | Weird Science | |
| August 6 | Push | 1998 |
| August 14 | Shop 'til You Drop (returned in 2000) | 1991 |
| Debt | 1996 | |
| Shopping Spree | ||
| August 25 | USA Tuesday Night Fights | 1982 |
| September 2 | Style & Substance | 1998 |
| September 3 | The Statler Brothers Show | 1991 |
| September 12 | Think CBS Kidz | 1997 |
| September 20 | NBC Nightside | 1991 |
| September 23 | The RuPaul Show | 1996 |
| October 2 | Wishbone | 1995 |
| The Reel to Reel Picture Show | 1998 | |
| October 4 | You're On! | |
| October 12 | The Brian Benben Show | |
| October 13 | Costello | |
| October 16 | Getting Personal | |
| Living in Captivity | ||
| October 17 | Sins of the City | |
| The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper | 1996 | |
| October 28 | The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer | 1998 |
| November 6 | All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series | 1996 |
| November 7 | The Secret Lives of Men | 1998 |
| November 14 | Animaniacs (returned in 2020) | 1993 |
| Pinky and the Brain | 1995 | |
| November 16 | Goosebumps | |
| November 21 | Power Rangers in Space | 1998 |
| November 25 | Babylon 5 | 1994 |
| December 4 | The Puzzle Place | 1995 |
| Buddy Faro | 1998 | |
| December 9 | To Have & to Hold | |
| December 12 | The Cut | |
| The New Adventures of Zorro | 1997 | |
| December 13 | The Army Show | 1998 |
| The New Adventures of Robin Hood | 1997 | |
| December 15 | Holding the Baby | 1998 |
| December 20 | The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo | 1996 |
| December 21 | Conrad Bloom | 1998 |
| December 28 | Mr. Show with Bob and David | 1995 |
| What’s My Musical Line | 1996 | |
| December 29 | Reunited | 1998 |
| December 31 | This Week in Baseball | 1977 |
Entering syndication this year[edit]
| Show | Seasons | In production | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago Hope | 4 | Yes | [10] |
| Dave's World | 4 | No | [7] |
| Doug | 6 | Yes | |
| Diagnosis: Murder | 5 | Yes | [7] |
| ER | 4 | Yes | [11] |
| Friends | 4 | Yes | [12] |
| The Nanny | 5 | Yes | [13] |
| New York Undercover | 4 | No | [14] |
| Newsradio | 4 | Yes | [15] |
| Sister, Sister | 5 | Yes | [16] |
| This Old House | 19 | Yes | [17] |
| Touched by an Angel | 4 | Yes | [7] |
Returning this year[edit]
| Show | Last aired | Previous network | New network | Date of return |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kids Say the Darndest Things | 1995 | CBS | Same | January 9 |
| Sailor Moon | 1996 | USA Network and TBS | Toonami | June 15 |
| The NFL Today | 1994 | CBS | Same | September 6 |
| Doug | 1997 | ABC | September 12 | |
| Hollywood Squares | 1989 | Syndication | September 14 | |
| Love Connection | 1994 | September 21 | ||
| Match Game | 1991 | ABC | Syndication |
Changes of network affiliation[edit]
Made-for-TV movies[edit]
| Title | Network | Date of airing |
|---|---|---|
| Halloweentown | Disney Channel | October 17 |
Miniseries[edit]
| Title | Network | Date of airing |
|---|---|---|
| The Last Don II | CBS | May 3 |
| Peter Benchley's Creature | ABC | May 17 |
| Thanks of a Grateful Nation | Showtime | May 31 |
Television stations[edit]
Station launches[edit]
Stations changing network affiliation[edit]
| Market | Date | Station | Channel | Prior affiliation | New affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albany, New York | October 5 | WVBG-LP | 25 | Independent | UPN |
| Baltimore, Maryland | January 15 | WNUV | 54 | UPN | The WB |
| Cincinnati, Ohio | WBQC-LP | 25 | The WB | Independent | |
| WSTR-TV | 64 | UPN | The WB | ||
| Indianapolis, Indiana | WTTV/WTTK | 4/29 | Independent | ||
| Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | KOCB | 34 | The WB | ||
| Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | WNPA | 19 | The WB | UPN | |
| WCWB | 22 | UPN | The WB | ||
| Kansas City, Missouri | January 21 | KSMO-TV | 62 | ||
| San Antonio, Texas | January 25 | KRRT | 35 | UPN | The WB |
| Provo, Utah | August 31 | KUPX-TV | 16 | inTV | Pax TV |
| Las Vegas, Nevada | March 1 | KUPN | 21 | UPN | The WB |
| KFBT | 33 | The WB | Independent | ||
| Indianapolis, Indiana | April 6 | WTTV/WTTK | 4/29 | Independent | The WB |
| WNDY-TV | 23 | The WB | UPN | ||
| Lake Worth/West Palm Beach, Florida | August 31 | WPXP-TV | 68 | inTV | Pax TV |
| Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | June 15 | KPSG | 43 | PBS | UPN |
| Norfolk, Virginia | August 1 | WTVZ-TV | 33 | Fox | The WB |
| WVBT | 43 | The WB | Fox | ||
| Raleigh, North Carolina | WLFL | 22 | Fox | The WB | |
| WRAZ | 50 | The WB | Fox | ||
| Akron/Cleveland, Ohio | August 31 | WVPX-TV | 23 | inTV | PAX TV |
| Arlington/Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas | KPXD-TV | 68 | |||
| Detroit, Michigan | Unknown date | WLPC-LP | 26 | America One (primary) FamilyNet (secondary) |
FamilyNet (exclusive) |
| Norwell/Boston, Massachusetts | August 31 | WBPX-TV | 46 | inTV | Pax TV |
| Champaign/Decatur/Urbana, Illinois | WPXU-TV | 23 | |||
| Chicago, Illinois | WCFC/WCPX-TV | 38 | Christian independent | ||
| Hagerstown, Maryland (Washington, D.C.) |
WWPX-TV | 60 | inTV | ||
| Kenosha/Milwaukee, Wisconsin | WHKE/WPXE-TV | 55 | |||
| Los Angeles, California | KPXN-TV | 30 | |||
| Miami/Fort Lauderdale, Florida | WPXM-TV | 35 | |||
| New York, New York | WPXN-TV | 31 | |||
| Melbourne/Orlando, Florida | WOPX-TV | 56 | |||
| Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Wilmington, Delaware) |
WPPX-TV | 61 | |||
| Rome/Atlanta, Georgia | WTLK/WPXA-TV | 14 | |||
| San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, California | KKPX-TV | 65 | |||
| Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania | WQPX-TV | 64 | inTV (as WSWB-TV) | ||
| Seattle-Tacoma, Washington | KBGE/KWPX-TV | 33 | ValueVision | ||
| Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania | November 1 | WSWB WILF |
38 53 |
Fox | The WB |
Births[edit]
| Date | Name | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| January 4 | Coco Jones | Actress (So Random!, Good Luck Charlie) and singer |
| January 9 | Kerris Dorsey | Actress (Brothers & Sisters, Ray Donovan) |
| January 12 | Nathan Gamble | Actor (Runaway, Hank) |
| January 22 | Joe Serafini | Actor (High School Musical: The Musical: The Series) |
| January 23 | Rachel Crow | Actress (Fred: The Show, Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh) and singer |
| January 28 | Ariel Winter | Actress (Modern Family) |
| February 15 | Zachary Gordon | Actor (Bubble Guppies, Diary of a Wimpy Kid) |
| February 20 | Matt Hunter | Colombian-American singer and voice actor (Go, Diego, Go!) |
| March 5 | Micah Fowler | Actor (Speechless) |
| March 22 | Paola Andino | Actress (Every Witch Way) |
| April 6 | Peyton List | Actress (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jessie, Bunk'd) |
| Spencer List | Actor | |
| April 9 | Elle Fanning | Actress and sister of Dakota Fanning |
| April 11 | Oliver Dillon | English actor (Lumpy on My Friends Tigger & Pooh) |
| April 12 | Larry Saperstein | Actor (High School Musical: The Musical: The Series) |
| April 24 | Ryan Newman | Actress (Zeke and Luther, See Dad Run, The Thundermans) |
| June 11 | Charlie Tahan | Actor (Wayward Pines) |
| June 16 | Lauren Taylor | Actress (Best Friends Whenever) and singer |
| June 19 | Atticus Shaffer | Actor (The Middle, Fish Hooks, Steven Universe, The Lion Guard) |
| June 24 | Coy Stewart | Actor (Are We There Yet?, Bella and the Bulldogs) |
| July 7 | Dylan Sprayberry | Actor (Teen Wolf) |
| July 8 | Jaden Smith | Actor (All of Us, The Get Down), rapper and son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith |
| July 9 | Robert Capron | Actor (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) |
| July 10 | Haley Pullos | Actress (General Hospital) |
| July 17 | Kennedy Lea Slocum | Actress (WITS Academy) |
| July 22 | Madison Pettis | Actress (Cory in the House, Phineas and Ferb, Life with Boys, Lab Rats, The Fosters) |
| July 24 | Bindi Irwin | Australian actress (Dancing with the Stars season 21 [winner]) |
| Logan Grove | Voice actor (Gumball on The Amazing World of Gumball (2011–14)) | |
| July 25 | Kyson Facer | Actor (I Am Frankie) |
| July 31 | Rico Rodriguez | Actor (Modern Family) |
| August 1 | Khamani Griffin | Actor (All of Us, Carpoolers, Ni Hao, Kai-Lan) |
| August 3 | Cozi Zuehlsdorff | Actress and singer |
| August 8 | Shawn Mendes | Canadian singer |
| August 13 | Devan Leos | Actor (Mighty Med) |
| August 25 | China Anne McClain | Actress (Tyler Perry's House of Payne, Jonas, A.N.T. Farm, Descendants: Wicked World, Descendants, Black Lightning) and singer |
| September 4 | Elizabeth Elias | Actress (Every Witch Way) |
| October 1 | Danika Yarosh | Actress (See Dad Run, Shameless, Heroes Reborn) |
| October 6 | Matt Cornett | Actor (High School Musical: The Musical: The Series) |
| October 28 | Nolan Gould | Actor (Modern Family) |
| November 4 | Darcy Rose Byrnes | Actress (The Young and the Restless, Desperate Housewives, The Legend of Korra, Sofia the First, Spirit Riding Free) |
| November 22 | Eric Unger | Actor |
| November 23 | Bradley Steven Perry | Actor (Good Luck Charlie, Mighty Med, Descendants: Wicked World, Lab Rats: Elite Force) |
| November 24 | Peyton Meyer | Actor (Girl Meets World) |
| December 2 | Annalise Basso | Actress |
| Amber Frank | Actress (The Haunted Hathaways, Spirit Riding Free) | |
| December 16 | Kiara Muhammad | Voice actress (Doc McStuffins, Sofia the First) |
| December 17 | Jasmine Armfield | English actress (EastEnders) |
| December 22 | G Hannelius | Actress (Surviving Suburbia, Sonny with a Chance, Good Luck Charlie, Dog with a Blog) and singer |
| December 23 | Jackie Radinsky | Actor (Bella and the Bulldogs) |
| December 29 | Paris Berelc | Actress (Mighty Med, Lab Rats: Elite Force, Alexa & Katie) |
Deaths[edit]
| Date | Name | Age | Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 4 | Mae Questel | 89 | Actress (voice of Olive Oyl in Popeye the Sailor) |
| January 5 | Sonny Bono | 62 | Singer and entertainer (The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour) |
| January 21 | Jack Lord | 77 | Actor (Steve McGarrett on Hawaii Five-O) |
| February 3 | Fat Pat | 27 | American rapper |
| February 6 | Carl Wilson | 51 | Singer-songwriter (The Beach Boys) and brother of Brian Wilson |
| February 19 | Grandpa Jones | 84 | Comedian and musician (Hee Haw) |
| February 23 | Philip Abbott | 74 | Actor (The F.B.I.) |
| March 10 | Lloyd Bridges | 85 | Actor (Mike Nelson on Sea Hunt) |
| April 17 | Linda McCartney | 56 | Musician (guest star on The Simpsons) (Paul McCartney's wife) |
| May 14 | Frank Sinatra | 82 | Singer, actor, and producer |
| May 28 | Phil Hartman | 49 | Actor, comedian (Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, NewsRadio) |
| July 6 | Roy Rogers | 86 | Singer and actor (The Roy Rogers Show) |
| July 21 | Robert Young | 91 | Actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby, M.D.) |
| July 30 | Buffalo Bob Smith | 80 | Children's show host (Howdy Doody) |
| August 2 | Shari Lewis | 65 | Puppeteer (Lamb Chop's Play-Along) |
| September 23 | Mary Frann | 55 | Actress (Joanna on Newhart) |
| October 2 | Gene Autry | 91 | Musical performer (The Gene Autry Show) |
| October 3 | Roddy McDowall | 70 | Actor (Tales of the Gold Monkey) |
| November 17 | Dick O'Neill | 70 | Actor (Family Matters, Home Improvement) |
| Esther Rolle | 78 | Actress (Florida on Maude and Good Times) | |
| December 6 | Michael Zaslow | 56 | Actor (Roger Thorpe on Guiding Light) |
| December 14 | Norman Fell | 74 | Actor (Stanley Roper on Three's Company) |
| December 22 or 23 | Michelle Thomas | 30 | Actress (Myra on Family Matters, Justine on The Cosby Show) |
| December 25 | Richard Paul | 58 | Actor (Carter Country, Match Game) |
See also[edit]
Other articles of the topic 1990s : N.W.A
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References[edit]
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- ↑ "72 million saw Bulls take the prize". San Francisco Chronicle. Associated Press. June 17, 1998. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
- ↑ "NBA Players Removed from U.S. Rosters". Los Angeles Times. 1998-06-17. Retrieved 2009-02-13.
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