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September 21, 1968 –Based on the 1947 film of the same name, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir,  starring Hope Lange, Edward Mulhare, Charles Nelson Reilly, and Reta Shaw, first aired on this date. The series premiered on NBC on Saturday night at 8:30 PM EST. NBC canceled it after the first season, and it wasContinue reading “The Ghost & Mrs. Muir premiered”

In the key that our souls were singin’ According to Maurice White, he got the idea for this song in an unlikely place: a hotel room in Washington DC while there was some kind of protest going on below. Said White, “There’s all these cats screaming and throwing things and going crazy and this tuneContinue reading “Our hearts were ringin’”

September 20, 1946 – The first Cannes film festival, the first great international cultural event of the post-war period, begins on this date. Among the selections that year were:The Seventh Veil directed by Compton Bennett Wet Paint directed by Jack King, produced by Walt Disney The Bandit (Il bandito) directed by Alberto Lattuada Beauty andContinue reading “The first time they all gathered on the Golden Croissant”

September 20, 1984 –Tony Micelli first started taking care of Angela Bower’s household when Who’s the Boss premiered on ABC-TV on this date. This was Judith Light’s only foray into comedy; every other project has been a drama. She has said in interviews that while she tutored Tony Danza in dramatic acting he helping getContinue reading “Tony and Angela first met”

September 20, 1941 –The Looney Tunes cartoon Notes To You, directed by Friz Freleng and featuring Porky Pig and a proto-type of Sylvester the Cat debuted on this date. Porky’s home has the very latest cabinet radio. In the days before television, radio was the at home entertainment for Americans, and most of the songsContinue reading “Notes To You premiered”

September 20, 1973 –tennis star Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, at the Houston Astrodome. In recent years, a persistent urban legend has arisen (again,) that Bobby Riggs had thrown the tennis match against Billie Jean King, to pay off a purported $100,000 gambling debt he owed to theContinue reading “The famous so-called ‘Battle of the Sexes’”

September 20, 1975 –David Bowie’s Fame single hits #1 for two weeks on this date. This was Bowie’s first big hit in America, and also his first to do better in the US than the UK. He had a few UK hits before this, including Rebel Rebel, Life On Mars, and Diamond Dogs. In oneContinue reading “Fame topped the charts”

September 19, 1881 –The 20th President of the United States, James A. Garfield, (shot by assassin Charles J. Guiteau,) died from his wounds on this date. Psst – Guiteau didn’t kill the President, his doctors did. Several inserted their unsterilized fingers into the wound to probe for the bullet, and one doctor punctured Garfield’s liverContinue reading “Oopsies – First do no harm”

September 19, 1981 –Despite the fact that Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel had barely spoken to each other in ten year, they reunited on this date to raise funds to renovate Central Park and performed in front of 500,000 people in New York City. The concert was so successful, the duo decided to embark onContinue reading “Everyone was feelin’ groovy in Central Park”

September 19, 1970 –We got to meet the staff of WJM when The Mary Tyler Moore Show, starring Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Gavin MacLeod, Ted Knight, Cloris Leachman, and Valerie Harper premiered on CBS TV on this date. Producers almost didn’t hire Valerie Harper because while her performance was spot on, they felt sheContinue reading “The greatest sitcom every produced”