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Fans of nostalgia TV will be tickled pink over this first-ever collection of holiday themed TV episodes from the 50's and 60's. Seasonal episodes include: from 1954 - Robert Young and Jane Wyatt in Father Knows Best: The Christmas Story ; from 1962 - Ernest Borgnine in McHale's Navy: The Day They Captured Santa Clause ; from 1964 - Elizabeth ...

Got hot tips, pics or just want something posted send an e-mail to tips@celebdirtylaundry.com and we will be glad to post it! November 17, 2009 Nonagenarian Ernest Borgnine Academy Award-winning actor of television and the big screen, whose career has spanned for over five decades.

Paul Wendkos, who directed over 100 films and television shows during a 50-year career, including the 1959 surf movie "Gidget," has died.

Carl Ballantine, the comedy-magician and character actor who was part of the World War II P.T. boat crew on the 1960s sit-com "McHale's Navy," has died.

He was 92. He started his career as a magician and but found more fame as the "Magician who could never do a trick." Billing himself as "Ballantine the Great" or "The Amazing Ballantine," he created a comedy magic act similar to that of British prestidigator Tommy Cooper, where the trick always failed.

Funny man Tim Conway began his small screen career as a regular on The Steve Allen Show , brought havoc to the Pacific in McHale's Navy , and spent several years cracking up fellow comedian Harvey Korman on The Carol Burnett Show .

Carl Ballantine, a wonderfully clever magician and comic actor, has died at age 92.

Tim Conway thinks many of the things on television these days are inappropriate for families.

Oscar-winner and Navy man Ernest Borgnine, 92, pauses in front of an American flag at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans on Sept.

Ernest Borgnine has been working in Hollywood for more than a half a century, in roles ranging from hard-edged soldiers to an Emmy-nominated turn on the medical drama 'ER' to an animated geriatric superhero known as Mermaid Man.

The theater in a 1958 photo. Courtesy CVLT Tim Conway, who grew up in Chagrin Falls, appeared as Ensign Pulver in Chagrin Valley Little Theatre's 1964 production of "Mr. Roberts" to help raise money to pay off the theater's mortgage.

By KAREN JEWELLHour Water ColumnistRemember the television series from way back titled "McHale's Navy?"It was one of the first sitcoms of its type and featured Ernest Borgnine as the skipper of a somewhat motley crew aboard an old PT boat.

A vivacious redhead with a knack for verbal and physical comedy, Debra Messing was a Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning actress who dominated the sitcom scene for eight years as lovelorn interior designer Grace.... A vivacious redhead with a knack for verbal and physical comedy, Debra Messing was a Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning ...

He won the Oscar for the movie 'Marty' in 1952, then went on to star in the hit TV show Mchale's Navy.

In this Thursday, Oct. 21, 1988 file photo, Ernest Borgnine is pictured in New York.

In this Thursday, Oct. 21, 1988 file photo, Ernest Borgnine is pictured in New York.

In this Thursday, Oct. 21, 1988 file photo, Ernest Borgnine is pictured in New York.

The storied Venice Film Festival is updating its awards lineup by offering a prize for the best 3D movie of the year.

On Wednesday, actor Ernest Borgnine returned to Rhode Island and reprised a role he played 74 years ago.

Fred Thompson, who ran for president on the GOP ticket in 2008, is also known for his prosecutorial stint on ``Law and Order.'' ASSOCIATED PRESS, FILE Ernest Borgnine, 92, an Oscar winner beloved by baby boomers who watched ``McHale's Navy,'' will be in Grand Rapids to shoot ``The Genesis Code.'' Want to be in the film? Anyone interested in being ...