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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. Rockin Robin – Bobby Day O-o-h Child – Five Stairsteps Dancing in the Moonlight – King Harvest Come On Eileen – Dexys Midnight Runners The band’s name was inspiredContinue reading “Trust me, there’s a point to this”

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. Although the series had a military setting and the Vietnam War was going on at the time it originally aired, the war itself is never discussed. Jim Nabors said that itContinue reading “Well Golly”

September 25, 1970 – Everybody was implored to ‘Get Happy‘ when The Partridge Family first aired on this date. Originally, the show was to star the real-life musical family The Cowsills. However, they backed out when the producers decided to have Shirley Jones take over the role of the mother from the group’s actual matriarch,Continue reading “The Partridge Family debuted”

G’mar chatima tova – Yom Kippur starts this evening. If you’re celebrating (strange choice of words,) – Don’t hesitate to contact me if you can’t remember the things you should be atoning for by now.

September 24, 1991 – Nirvana’s album Nevermind was released 32 years today on this date. Within a year of the album’s release, much of the hair metal and hard rock that had commanded the airwaves was being phased out in favor of the “grunge” style often attached to Nirvana.

September 24, 1964 – We all visited 1313 Mockingbird Lane for the first time when The Munsters premiered on ABC-TV on this date. The show was shot in black and white because the studio did not want to pay an extra $10,000 per episode for color.

Today is the first full day of Autumn (some call it Fall.) Seize the day (there are only 88 more of the left this season.)

September 24, 1938 – One of the craziest cartoons Looney Tunes ever produced, Porky in Wackyland was released on this date. You need to watch it a few times to really get everything that’s going on in this one. At one point in the pan of the various denizens of Wackyland, a character with largeContinue reading “Porky in Wackyland premiered”

September 23, 1979 –The short lived comedy set at a white-shoe law firm, The Associates, starring Wilfrid Hyde-White, Martin Short, Alley Mills, Joe Regalbuto, Shelley Smith, and Tim Thomerson, first aired on ABC-TV on this date. While the series only had 13 episodes (and only nine of them aired), The Associates was nominated for twoContinue reading “The Associates premiered”

September 23, 1978 –The short lived adventure series, The American Girls, starring Priscilla Barnes and Debra Clinger aired on CBS TV on this date. Seven of the 11 episodes that were produced were actually aired.