Timeline

* 1942 - Bob Ross was born in Daytona Beach, Florida. His birthday is October 29th.
* 1961 - Enlisted for the US Air Force at the age of 18; Bob couldn't yell and scream anymore, so he wanted his voice to be soft.
* 1965 - Bob Ross married his first wife Vivian Ridge.
* 1975 - Bob Ross saw a painting show on television, called *The Magic of Oil Painting*
* 1977 - Married his wife Jane Ross. Their marriage lasted until her death in 1992.
* 1981 - Bob Ross gets a curly hair to save money on haircuts; The funding for PBS got really bad, and WIPB was the PBS station in Muncie, Indiana.
* 1982 - Bill Alexander made a TV commercial with Bob Ross to promote his painting classes; but the commercial wasn't recorded on a VHS tape, it needed to be converted into a format that television stations could air. So they took the commercial to the local public television in Falls Church, Virginia, WNVC.
* 1983 - *The Joy of Painting*'s first season was produced by WNVC in Falls Church, Virginia, but the initial audience was small. And the quality of the audio and video was so poor, that the first season of *The Joy of Painting* was never aired again, and a book that goes along with it is a rare find. The partnership with WNVC dissolved; Bob Ross had to look for a new studio on PBS, this time at WIPB in Muncie, Indiana. Bob Ross became a pop culture icon, in which he appeared as an HBO filler to run between movies.
* 1984 - The show moved to WIPB in Muncie, Indiana, and the show had a national audience that's almost 400 half-hour episodes; This new partnership with PBS station WIPB, who produced *The Joy of Painting* until the show's ending in 1994. WIPB produced a marketing campaign aired before and Bill Alexander's program; So WIPB became the permanent home of *The Joy of Painting*.
* 1985 - *The Joy of Painting* began using guest appearances from other painters beginning in Season 3, who paint alongside Bob.
* 1986 - The Martin F. Weber Company introduced a line of Bob Ross painting products, and the 3 hour Workshop video was released.
* 1987 - Bob Ross is a fan of country music, who inducts Hank Snow into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
* 1989 - The first hardcover book *The Best of the Joy of Painting* was released, and he hit the talk show circuit, starting with his appearance on *The Joan Rivers Show*.
* 1991 - *The Joy of Painting*'s 300th episode aired in the United States, and then in Canada. Soon, *The Joy of Painting* began broadcasting internationally in many translations and satellites around the world, such as Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, the United Kingdom, Europe, Latin America, the Netherlands, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Turkey, Iran, South Korea, Australia, and Japan.
* 1992 - *The Joy of Painting* began syndicating to PBS stations across the country under the moniker *The Best of the Joy of Painting*. Bob Ross's wife Jane Ross died of cancer that same year. Bob Ross's second hardcover book *More Joy of Painting* was released.
* 1993 - Bob Ross made TV commercials for MTV, where he paints the MTV logo made out of a landscape.
* 1994 - *The Joy of Painting* was cancelled by PBS stations across the country, and Bob Ross returned back to his hometown Orlando, Florida. Bob Ross appeared on *Bill Nye the Science Guy* (season 1, episode 20: "Eyeball") in a self-parody segment entitled "The Artistic Eye with Bob Ross". Bob Ross made his final talk show appearance on *The Phil Donahue Show*.
* 1995 - Bob Ross teamed up with a crew from Muncie, to produce a show called *The Adventures of Elmer and Friends*. But he was too ill to travel to Indiana to shoot the pilot. So the crew came along, and recorded Bob's parts from his home. Bob Ross died from lymphoma at the age of 52.
* 2021 - Bob Ross appeared in a Mountain Dew commercial. He paints happy little droplets on the Mountain Dew bottle, and takes the Mountain Dew off of a landscape oil painting.