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September 19, 2005 – The comedy series, How I Met Your Mother, starring, Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris, Alyson Hannigan, and Cristin Milioti first aired on CBS TV, on this date. The husbands of three of the main actors have appeared on the show, each time as the significant other ofContinue reading “How I Met Your Mother premiered”

September 19, 1994– We got to meet the staff of the emergency room of Cook County General Hospital, ER, starring Anthony Edwards, George Clooney, Sherry Stringfield, Noah Wyle, and Eriq La Salle, debuted on NBC TV on this date Although mostly shot at Warner Brother’s Burbank soundstages, the cast and crew usually would make atContinue reading “ER premiered”

September 19, 1955 –The Producer’s Showcase presentation of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, starring Eva Marie Saint, Frank Sinatra and Paul Newman premiered on NBC-TV, on this date. In 2002, Paul Newman once again appeared in a production of Our Town – this time in the role of the Stage Manager – at the Westport CountyContinue reading “Our Town premiered”

September 18, 1975 –The burst of the Thompson gun stopped ringing in her ears on this date. Fugitive kipnapped newspaper heiress, then zealot compatriot, Patricia Hearst and three other comrades, Wendy Yoshimura, William and Emily Harris were arrested and arraigned, ending one of the longest manhunts in American history.

September 18, 1957 – The western series, Wagon Train, starring Ward Bond Robert Horton, John McIntire, Robert Fuller, Michael Burns, Frank McGrath, Terry Wilson, and Scott Miller originally debuted on NBC TV on this date, then moved to ABC TV in it’s sixth season. Ward Bond (Major Seth Adams) and Robert Horton (Flint McCullough) didContinue reading “Wagon Train premiered”

September 18, 1964 –The most normal family’s ever presented on US television, The Addams Family first aired on ABC-TV on this date. Carolyn Jones and John Astin decided to give Gomez and Morticia “a grand romance” as an antidote to the virtually asexual parents then common in television shows.

September 18, 1978 – We first started living on the air in Cincinnati when WKRP in Cincinnati, started broadcasting on CBS-TV on this date. The show was videotaped instead of filmed because the rights to rock songs were cheaper for a taped show than for a filmed show.

September 17, 1968 –The TV series Julia premiered on this date, starring Diahann Carroll (as a nurse with a young son whose husband was killed in Vietnam), Lloyd Nolan, and Marc Copage. Carroll was the first African-American woman to star in a non-servant role in a TV series. Diahann Carroll said in interview that theContinue reading “Julia premiered”

September 17, 1969 –It was everyone’s first day at Walt Whitman High School, when ABC TV premiered Room 222 starring Lloyd Haynes, Denise Nicholas, Michael Constantine, and Karen Valentine, aired on this date. This was the first of three long-running sitcom franchises created or developed by James L. Brooks that are currently the property ofContinue reading “Room 222 premiered”

September 17, 2011 –Adelle made everyone cry so much with her single Someone Like You that it hits no. 1 on the Billboard Charts on this date. Adele had boundless resources at her disposal, but all this song needed was two people, two days, and a studio with a grand piano. She wrote and recordedContinue reading “Someone Like You topped the charts”