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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.

September 24, 1995 –Hearts were all aflutter all over England when BBC One aired the first episode of the six part adaption of Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice, starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth, on this date. Producer Sue Birtwistle particularly wanted Colin Firth, a relatively unknown British actor in his mid-30s at the time,Continue reading “Pride and Prejudice (the TV series) premiered”

Today is National Punctuation Day (!,?.) It’s a celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotation marks and other proper uses of periods, semicolons, and the every mysterious ellipsis. (The Percontation point is a reversed question mark later referred to as a rhetorical question mark, was proposed by Henry Denham in the 1580s and wasContinue reading “Remember the Percontation point!”

September 23, 1977 –ABC Records breathed a huge sigh of relief when they were finally able to release the much delayed sixth studio album of the ultra-perfectionists Steely Dan’s Aja on this date. The album is pronounced “Asia,” and was inspired by the continent. Steely Dan have several songs with a Far East influence, sinceContinue reading “In the corner of my eye …”

September 23, 1962 –The Jetsons debuted on ABC-TV’s Sunday night’s prime time lineup on this date. It was the network’s first program ever to be broadcast in color. The series displays several devices that did not exist at the time, such as a flatscreen television, newspaper on a computer-like screen, a computer virus, video chat,Continue reading “I don’t think Jane ever stopped that crazy thing”

September 23, 1968 –ABC Pictures moving drama, Charley, based on the short story Flowers for Algernon, starring Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom, Lilia Skala, Leon Janney, Dick Van Patten and Barney Martin premiered on this date. The reason that Cliff Robertson was not at the Oscars to receive his Best Actor award was because he wasContinue reading “Charley premiered”

September 23, 1976 –The first episode for a very short lived series (the series only lasted 11 episodes.) Gemini Man, starring Ben Murphy, William Sylvester, and Katherine Crawford, first aired on this date. The series was conceived as a second attempt to adapt H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Maninto a spy series, following the failed attemptContinue reading “Gemini Man premiered”

September 23, 1949 –Happy Birthday Bruce! If you are of a certain age, at one point, Bruce meant everything to you.

Camels can travel up to 161 km (100 miles) in the hot desert without water. But contrary to popular misconception, a camel’s hump is not filled with water. Instead, it is filled with fat (up to 36 kg, or 80 lbs.) that is metabolized for energy and water when needed. As the fat is usedContinue reading “More about camels than you need to know”