Editor’s Note: The four-part series “TV on the Edge: Moments That Shaped Our Culture” runs Sunday nights through October 13. For months before the 1997 premiere of “The Puppy Episode,” the ...

Alice Hirson, a veteran character actress whose TV credits included more than a half dozen daytime and primetime soaps, and who played mom to Ellen on the 1990s ABC sitcom, died Feb. 14 of natural ...

Alice Hirson, who had long-running roles on soaps Another World and One Life to Live in the 1970s before becoming a busy and ...

(CNN) — For months before the 1997 premiere of “The Puppy Episode,” the groundbreaking episode of Ellen DeGeneres’ hit sitcom “Ellen,” rumors swirled that the comedian and her fictional counterpart ...