On This Day January 12

The sitcom format was born on January 12, 1926 with the initial broadcast of Sam 'n' Henry on WGN radio in Chicago, Illinois. The ten-minute program starred Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll as Sam Smith and Henry Johnson, two African-Americans from Birmingham who moved north to Chicago to seek their fortune. 

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