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November 24, 1963 – Extra-terrestrials used mass-hypnosis to persuade the world that someone resembling Jack Ruby had fatally shot someone resembling the person alleged to have been Lee Harvey Oswald on this date. This also became the first actual murder captured on live TV. The next day, November 25, the flag draped coffin containing theContinue reading “We were all witness to the crime”

November 24, 1968 –Diana Ross and The Supremes song Love Child hit No.1 on the US singles chart, their 11th No.1 in the US, on this date. Motown founder Berry Gordy wrote this with staff songwriters Deke Richards, Pam Sawyer, R Dean Taylor and Frank Wilson. Instead of writing about love, they came up withContinue reading “Love Child topped the charts”

November 24, 1966 –Captain Pike has an illusion, and you have reality. May you find your way as pleasant. The Star Trek episode The Menagerie, Part II first aired. This episode incorporate most of the unseen (at the time) pilot episode of Star Trek, The Cage, featuring Jeffrey Hunter, as Christopher Pike, captain of theContinue reading “The conclusion of the Menagerie premiered”

November 24, 1965 – NBC aired the Frank Sinatra: A Man And His Music to honor Sinatra, on this date. According to the April 1966 Esquire article Frank Sinatra Has a Cold by Gay Talese, Sinatra was suffering from a cold, when he started recording this special. If you pay close attention, you can seeContinue reading “A Man And His Music premiered”

November 24, 1958 – A precursor episode to the science fiction television series The Twilight Zone, The Time Element first aired on this date as part of the Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse anthology series on CBS-TV. Though not the pilot episode of Rod Serling’s series, The Twilight Zone, it was Rod Serling’s production that lead toContinue reading “The Time Element premiered”

November 23, 1963 – The first episode of Doctor Who, The Unearthly Child, premiered on the BBC, on this date. Of the 253 episodes of Doctor Who that were produced in the 1960s, 97 no longer exist in the BBC Television Archives due to an archive purge between 1967 and 1978, during which BBC EnterprisesContinue reading “The very first Dr. Who”

November 23, 1969 –The Rolling Stones made an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, which aired on this date, singing – Gimme Shelter, Love In Vain, and Honky Tonk Woman. They were promoting their latest album Let It Bleed. This was their sixth and final appearance on the show.

Just in time for Thanksgiving, Eat a Cranberry Day is celebrated this date each year. It was created in order to promote the health benefits of cranberries. (I have no idea why.) Cranberries are ingredients in more than 1,000 food and beverage products. One of those beverages is the Cosmopolitan. Enough said. Remember, it’s aboutContinue reading “Happy Turkey day folks”

IKEA (Canada) is reminding everyone that the holidays can be a little stressful. So we all need a little 5 minute break, apparently with an IKEA product: I say that Lou Reed was correct (as he usually was,) when suggesting that ‘Valium would have helped that bash‘ The Main Event: Turkey w/ stuffing Demand Euphoria!

November 22, 1968 – Many a KKK member and Daughter of the Civil War were given the vapors on this date in history. Capt. Kirk (William Shatner) and Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) share the first interracial kiss (of major characters on a series) in TV history on Star Trek on this date.