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March 23, 1982 –The spin-off of the very successful series Happy Days, Joanie Loves Chachi, starring Erin Moran and Scott Baio premiered on ABC-TV on this date. Nobody loved this musical disaster, and it was cancelled after 19 episodes.

March 23, 1912 –Wernher von Braun, German – born rocket pioneer who led the development of the V-2 rocket during World War II was born on this date. He was deemed one of the The Good Germans we collected as a bonus prize at the end of the war. Von Braun was said to beContinue reading “Wernher von Braun”

Today is the earliest day on which Easter Sunday (in the Roman Catholic faith) may occur, not that it occurs on this date this year; Easter is April 9th this year. Demand Euphoria!

March 22, 1978 – The seminal mockumentary about The Pre-Fab Four, The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, directed by Eric Idle and Gary Weis and starring some people from Monty Python and some other people from SNL, premiered on NBC-TV on this date. Neil Innes, Ricky Fataar and John Halsey regrouped in 1996 toContinue reading “The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash premiered”

March 22, 1931 –Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that’s part of what we do in ‘Close Up’, finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was. William Shatner, arguably the world’s (or at least Canada’s) greatest actor wasContinue reading “William Shatner”

March 22, 1963 – The Beatles’ first album, Please Please Me, was released in the UK on this date. The album went to the top of the UK charts in two months and remained there for 30 weeks. Please Please Me has been ranked in the top 50 of the “500 Greatest Albums of AllContinue reading “Please Please Me went on sale”

March 22, 1895 –Auguste and Louis Lumiere may have first demonstrated motion pictures in Paris using celluloid film. Unless it was March 19, 1895, or December 28, 1894, or cellulite instead of celluloid. And it may have been in Milan, or Warsaw, and it’s possible it wasn’t Louis and Auguste Lumiere, but Max and EmilContinue reading “The first public screening of a film (maybe)”

March 21, 1995 –We all get to spend Dave Nelson’s first day at WNYX when NewsRadio, starring Dave Foley, Phil Hartman, Maura Tierney and Andy Dick premiered on NBC-TV, on this date. Maura Tierney was added to the cast the day before they shot the pilot.

March 21, 1980 –On the season finale of Dallas, the infamous character J.R. Ewing was shot by an unknown individual – Who Shot JR? Viewers had to wait all summer, and most of the autumn because of a Hollywood actors’ strike (and Hagman’s own holdout), to learn whether J.R. would survive, and which of hisContinue reading “Well, I didn’t”

March 21, 1947 –In honor of the start of Spring, let us seriously consider spring cleaning and the unhappy ending of the Collyer brothers. Homer and Langley Collyer were well-to-do New Yorkers who grew up in a fashionable brownstone in Harlem with their mother and father, just before the turn of the previous century. UnfortunatelyContinue reading “This is what comes from improper hand washing”