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September 25, 1965 –The Beatles Cartoon Show premiered on ABC-TV on this date. It racked up a 13 score (or 52 share), then unheard of in daytime television. After the end of the series, Al Brodax and George Dunning would continue with Beatles animation by creating the animated feature Yellow Submarine.

September 25, 1975 –Pink Floyd’s ninth studio album Wish You Were Here, goes No. 1 om the Billboard Album Charts on this date. During the final mixing sessions of this song in June of 1975, Syd Barrett wandered into the studios, ready to help out. He was fat, bald, and as crazy as they remembered,Continue reading “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”

September 25, 1943 –An rare but excellent Merrie Melodies cartoon, A Corny Concerto, featuring all of the Looney Tunes major players, was released on this date. A parody of Disney’s 1940 feature Fantasia, the film uses two of Johann Strauss II’s best known waltzes, Tales from the Vienna Woods and The Blue Danube, adapted byContinue reading “The music goes round and round …”

September 25, 1964 –The series Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., starring Jim Nabors (who was not married to Rock Hudson) premiered on CBS-TV on this date. Frank Sutton, whose best-known role was as Gunnery Sgt. Vince Carter in this series, could not pass the US Marine Corps physical during World War II, and ended up serving inContinue reading “Well Golly!”

September 25, 1997 – We got our first peek into the fashion world when Veronica’s Closet first opened, starring Kirstie Alley, Kathy Najimy, Dan Cortese, Wallace Langham, Darryl Mitchell, and Robert Prosky, on ABC, on this date. The show was known to poke fun at Kirstie Alley’s struggle to maintain her weight. In the firstContinue reading “Veronica Closet premiered”

It’s World Pharmacist Day – and it’s also National One Hit Wonder day. Celebrate responsibly – listen to only one or two of them at a time. 4 Non Blondes – What’s Up (I Just) Died In Your Arms – Cutting Crew Somebody’s Watching Me – Rockwell Bette Davis Eyes – Kim Carnes Bette DavisContinue reading “Better living through modern medicine”

Today is National Punctuation Day (!,?.) It’s a celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotation marks and other proper uses of periods, semicolons, and the every mysterious ellipsis. (The Percontation point is a reversed question mark later referred to as a rhetorical question mark, was proposed by Henry Denham in the 1580s and wasContinue reading “They are those little marks that use their influence …”

September 24, 1970 – Garry Marshall brought the Neil Simon hit play to television, when The Odd Couple, starring Tony Randall, and Jack Klugman, premiered on ABC, on this date. It was one of my father-in-law’s favorite shows. Early episodes from the first season were titled “Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple“. Neil Simon objected toContinue reading “The Odd Couple premiered”

September 24, 1968 –Created by Don Hewitt and Bill Leonard, 60 Minutes a television news magazine, originally hosted by Mike Wallace and Harry Reasoner, first aired on CBS on this date. In 2002, 60 Minutes was ranked number six on TV Guide’s list of the “50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time“, and in 2013,Continue reading “60 Minutes premiered”

September 24, 1961 –Students of Great Comedy lined up around the block to enroll in Whatsamatta U when The Bullwinkle Show moved to primetime on NBC TV on this date. The Bullwinkle Show incurred the wrath of no less a Hollywood heavyweight than Walt Disney. Each prime time episode was “introduced” by Bullwinkle himself (asContinue reading “The whole nation first met Mr. Know-It-All”