August 24, 1979 –
NBC-TV introduced the girls of Eastland School, an all-girls boarding school in Peekskill, New York, to audiences when The Facts of Life premiered on this date.
The pilot Rough Housing may have been the very first children’s program on network television to discuss gender confusion and sexual identity crises among youth; as well as anti-gay bullying among teenagers.
The Haus of Dcaligari 