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September 16, 1972 – Everybody’s favorite therapist, other than Frasier (see below) walked through his front door as The Bob Newhart Show premiered on CBS-TV on this date. Actor Peter Bonerz who played Jerry the dentist learned how to direct on the set of this show and went on to become an award-winning director ofContinue reading “The first time we got to play the Oh Bob game”

September 16, 1963 – The science-fiction anthology series The Outer Limits premiered on ABC-TV on this date. The original title for this series was Please Stand By, but because the Cuban Missile Crisis had happened less than a year earlier, executives thought it might make people fearful of an air raid. As a reference toContinue reading “Do not attempt to adjust the picture.”

September 5, 1944 –The Looney Tunes short, Plane Daffy , directed by Frank Tashlin and starring Daffy Duck, was released on this date. Despite being the main character, Daffy Duck doesn’t actually appear until the cartoon is over halfway finished.

September 16, 1949 – The Looney Tunes short, Fast and Furry-ous, directed by Chuck Jones and starring Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, was released on this date. This marks the debut of both Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner.

September 5, 1950 – The Merrie Melodies short, A Fractured Leghorn, directed by Bob McKimson, and Foghorn Leghorn, was released on this date. This is the first Foghorn Leghorn short to not feature Barnyard Dawg or Henery Hawk.

September 16, 1977The eponymously named debut LP, Talking Heads: 77, was released on this date It has long been considered one of the best debut albums of the CBGB habitués

September 15, 1979 –The eighth and final studio album by Led Zeppelin, In Through the Out Door, was No 1 on the Billboard Charts on this date. When they were recording this album, Jimmy Page and John Bonham were spending a lot of time together and would usually show up at the studio very lateContinue reading “I’m looking for a woman, oh, but the girl don’t come”

September 15, 1945 – The Looney Tunes short, The Bashful Buzzard, directed by Bob Clampett and starring x3tpzgr, was released on this date. The premise of this cartoon is very similar to Beaky Buzzard’s debut cartoon Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid with Bugs Bunny, and the opening scene of this cartoon is nearly identical toContinue reading “The Bashful Buzzard premiered”

September 15, 1922 –According to fashion arbiters from days gone by – you should not be wearing your straw hats any longer this season – In the early 20th Century, tradition held that a man switch from straw hats to felt ones on September 15th. If he wore “the taboo headgear” after that date, hooligansContinue reading “Fashion rules!”