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January 10, 1969 – The Star Trek episode, in which the Enterprise picks up a passenger and his pursuer who are both members of a race locked in a planetary racial war, Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, first aired on this date. This is the only episode in the original series to feature close-upContinue reading “All that matters to them is their hate”

January 10 1927 –The film Metropolis premiered in Berlin on this date. It was the most expensive silent film of the time, adjusting for inflation, the budget for Metropolis (7m Reichsmarks) ran around $230 million (2016). (The film has gone into public domain a few years ago.) Much to Fritz Lang’s dismay, Adolf Hitler andContinue reading “Sci-Fi started here”

January 10 1984 –Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper became the first female recording artist since Bobbie Gentry (1967) to be nominated for five Grammy Awards: Album of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Pop Vocal Performance (Female), Record of the Year and Song of the Year on this date. She may be unusual but Cyndi isContinue reading “I’m sorry, baby, I’m leaving you tonight …”

January 9, 1965 –The Beatles album Beatles 65, started a nine week run at No.1 on the US album chart, the group’s fourth No.1, on this date. \ Beatles ’65 includes eight of the fourteen songs from Beatles for Sale and also includes I’ll Be Back from A Hard Day’s Night and the single IContinue reading “This happened once before”

January 9, 1984 –Van Halen released their sixth studio album, 1984, on this date. It was the last Van Halen studio album until 2012 with the release of A Different Kind of Truth, to feature lead singer David Lee Roth, who left the band in 1985 following creative differences.

January 9, 1968 –It Takes A Thief, starring Robert Wagner, premiered on ABC-TV on this date In the first season, Alexander Mundy was a cat burglar hired by American spy agency: The SIA. In the second season, he became a freelance operative.

January 9, 1997 –Based on the original BBC series, which premiered in 1979, Antiques Roadshow premiered on your local PBS station, on this date. In 2001, PBS began airing the original BBC version of Antiques Roadshow in the United States. In the United States, the BBC version is titled Antiques Roadshow UK to differentiate itContinue reading “It’s worth this much”

It’s the birthday of the 37th President of the United States, Richard Milhous Nixon, born in Yorba Linda, California, on this date in 1913. He had a childhood full of tragedy and disappointment. When Nixon was 12, his older brother had a vision of young Dick’s future and developed a headache that turned out toContinue reading “If you take no risks, you win no victories.”

January 8, 1966 –The Beatles single We Can Work It Out reached No. 1 on the Billboard Charts. It was their 12th No. 1 hit. The Beatles recorded this specifically for release as a single at two quick sessions while they were making the Rubber Soul album in October 1965. When it was released asContinue reading “Try to see it my way”

Elvis the King (who was born in 1935,) (As I always say – lay your hand upon the screen and feel his healing power pulsate through your nether regions.) and Davy Jones, who was born in 1947, somehow were both born on this date – (you may lay your hand upon the screen and feelContinue reading “Hosanna in the highest!”