Portal:The arts/Did you know/July, 2009

... that the 1957–1958 CBS sitcom Mr. Adams and Eve featured Howard Duff and Ida Lupino, then married to each other in real life, as a fictitious husband/wife acting duo living in Beverly Hills?
... that in 1960, the CBS anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson featured Harpo Marx in the role of a deaf mute who witnesses a gangland murder?
... that the South Park episode "The Coon" spoofs such dark comic book movies as The Dark Knight, The Spirit and Watchmen?
... that Davy Crockett (1954–1955) was the first miniseries in the history of television, although the term "miniseries" had not yet been coined?