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October 28, 1950 – The eternally 39-year old Benjamin Kubelsky (who was actually 56 at the time,) transitioned his successful radio program to television on this date when The Jack Benny Showdebuted on CBS-TV. In the early years, the program was originally titled The Lucky Strike Program after the show’s sponsor, Lucky Strike cigarettes, whichContinue reading “The Jack Benny Show first aired on TV”

October 28, 1956 –Elvis Presley made his second appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, (Ed Sullivan had sufficient recovered from his near fatal auto accident to resume host the program,) on this date. On the show besides Love Me Tender, Elvis performed, Don’t Be Cruel, Love Me and Hound Dog. Elvis also received a polioContinue reading “Elvis was back on The Sullivan Show”

October 27, 1966 – The third Charles Schultz Peanuts special, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, (directed again by Bill Melendez,) premiered on this date. This is the only special where Pig Pen is shown wearing glasses. You can see them when he is with the other kids at the Halloween party around the appleContinue reading “The first time we missed Halloween with Linus”

October 27, 1954 – Walt Disney’s first TV show, Disneyland, premiered on ABC-TV on this date. https://archive.org/embed/the-disneyland-story-1954 All of the ABC episodes were filmed in color, even though they aired in black and white. In general, ABC did not broadcast in color until the mid 1960s. During the years on ABC, the show went byContinue reading ““… It was all started by a mouse…””

October 27, 1966 – The Star Trek episode, Miri, where the Enterprise discovers an exact duplicate of Earth, where the only survivors of a deadly plague are the planet’s prepubescent children, first aired on this date. The girl held by Kirk as he rushes to the lab with his newly-recovered communicator is played by WilliamContinue reading “TOS: Miri premiered”

October 27, 1982 –Prince’s fifth album, 1999, was released on this date. It becomes his breakthrough, selling well over 5 million copies worldwide, thanks to Little Red Corvette and the title track. The album helped propel him to superstar status, a title he lived up to with electrifying live shows and a startlingly prolific outputContinue reading “We started partying like it was 1999”

Today is National American Beer Day – but please follow along as this will get confusing: National Beer Day, is celebrated on April 7.International Beer Day, is celebrated on the first Friday in August5.National Drink Beer Day, is celebrated on September 28, celebrated around Octoberfest, which is celebrated in Munich. While beer is not myContinue reading “Bunkies, refer to the hand outs”

October 26, 1982 – TV’s longest dream sequence, St. Elsewhere, premiered on NBC-TV on this date. The show never won high ratings but it lasted six seasons on NBC because it appealed to the desirable (for advertisers) educated 18-49 year old demographic.

October 26, 1972 – Ringo Starr and singer Lulu appear in non-speaking cameos on the Monty Python’s Flying Circus episode Mr And Mrs Brian Norris’ Ford Popular on this date. The tramp (Michael Palin) enters and sits between them and begins his introduction, in David Frost style: “Hello, good evening, welcome … It’s …” aContinue reading “Mr And Mrs Brian Norris’ Ford Popular first aired”

October 26, 1965 –Queen Elizabeth decorated The Beatles with the Order of the British Empire, at Buckingham Palace, on this date. The Beatles, ever polite, allowed Her Majesty to add chintz curtains and tufted sofas in their living rooms. (According to an account by John Lennon the group smoked dope in one of the palaceContinue reading “The Beatles went to London to visit the Queen”