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April 1, 1978 – Tonight was the last time you could play the original version of the game, ‘Hi Bob‘ because the final episode of The Bob Newhart Show aired on this date. Over the course of the series, the phrase, “Hi, Bob” was said 256 times. Howard Borden (Bill Daily) said it a totalContinue reading “The finale of The Bob Newhart Show”

April 1, 1930 – Josef von Sternberg’s Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel), starring unknown German actress, Marlene Dietrich, premiered in Berlin on this date. Marlene Dietrich’s screen test for this film survives. In it, she upbraids an unidentified piano player for his bad playing and sings two songs, the first of which is “You’reContinue reading “The Blue Angel premiered”

March 31, 1994 –Madonna appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman on this date. She dropped the f-bomb more than a dozen times, exchanged less- than-friendly barbs with Dave and then stubbornly refused to leave the set. This made the episode the most censored in American network television talk-show history; it also resulted inContinue reading “Madonna drops the F bomb (a lot)”

March 31, 1987 – US network television’s very first cyberpunk series, Max Headroom premiered on ABC-TV, on this date According to the first episode, the name “Max Headroom” came about when Edison Carter was fleeing from security guards on a motorcycle, and he ran into a parking garage exit gate labeled MAX HEADROOM. While heContinue reading “20 minutes into the future”

March 31, 1943 –Ronald Walken, possibly the most imitated actor in America, was born on this date. In his almost 40 years career in film, he has acted in well over 90 films. He rarely turns down a part, under the belief that making movies (whether they turn out good or bad) is always aContinue reading “Christopher Walken”

March 30, 1964 –This game show is celebrating its’ 59th anniversary on this date? Pens down. Merv Griffin’s game show Jeopardy! made its debut on television. He sold the rights for the show to Coca-Cola for $250 million in 1986. The show was hosted by Art Fleming until 1975. It resurfaced in syndication in 1984Continue reading “Remember to answer in the form of a question”

March 30, 1966 –Barbra Streisand’s second television special, Color Me Barbra aired on CBS-TV, on this date. The concert was one of the first to be filmed in color. The technology was so new that when two of the three cameras broke immediately prior to the show, there were no parts available to repair them.

March 30, 1967 –The Beatles visited Michael Cooper’s London photographic studio on this date and shot the most iconic album cover ever created. The cover of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was designed by Peter Blake and put together by Peter Blake and Jann Haworth, who painstakingly combed through hundreds of photos for monthsContinue reading “One of the world’s most famous photos was taken”

March 30, 1909 – …The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge, is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.… – The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald The Queensboro Bridge (originally known as Blackwell’s Island Bridge, affectionately known as theContinue reading “Queensboro Bridge opened”

March 29, 1978 –After 11 seasons, CBS aired the last episode of The Carol Burnett Show on this date. The show won 25 Emmy Awards during it’s run. The Carol Burnett Show was one of the longest-running variety shows in television history; its conclusion marked the closing of another chapter in television as Burnett wasContinue reading “The finale of The Carol Burnett Show”