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Right on the heels of yesterday’s Talk Like a Pirate Day, September 20th is National Rum Punch Day. While not a huge fan of the cocktail – I say, get a big bottle of ACME light rum – why not celebrate!

September 20, 1976 –The short-lived the variety show, The Captain and Tennille Show, starring husband and wife team, Toni Tennille and Daryl Dragon, premiered on ABC-TV, on this date. Despite decent ratings, it ranked #19 among the network’s shows and was canceled by ABC. Other, lower ranking shows on the network were renewed. The cancellationContinue reading “The Captain and Tennille Show premiered”

September 20, 1941 –The Looney Tunes cartoon Notes To You, directed by Friz Freleng and featuring Porky Pig and a proto-type of Sylvester the Cat premiered on this date. Porky’s home has the very latest cabinet radio. In the days before television, radio was the at home entertainment for Americans, and most of the songsContinue reading “Notes To You debuted”

September 20, 1978 –The failed Norman Lear sitcom, In The Beginning, starring McLean Stevenson, and Priscilla Lopez premiered on CBS-TV on this date. It was something of a modern-day adaptation of the classic 1944 Bing Crosby film, Going My Way. While the show’s pilot reportedly received praise from a Catholic audience at both Notre DameContinue reading “In The Beginning debuted”

September 20, 2005 – The TV comedy series, created by Greg Garcia, My Name is Earl, starring Jason Lee, Ethan Suplee, Jaime Pressly, Nadine Velazquez, and Eddie Steeples, premiered on NBC-TV, on this date. The items in Earl’s list shown during the opening sequence read as follows:

September 20, 1946 – The first Cannes film festival, the first great international cultural event of the post-war period, begins on this date. Among the selections that year were: The Turning Point directed by Fridrikh Ermler The Seventh Veil directed by Compton Bennett The Last Chance directed by Leopold Lindtberg The Lost Weekend directed by BillyContinue reading “Film critics took their first stroll along the Golden Croissant”

September 19, 1981 –Despite the fact that Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel had barely spoken to each other in ten year, they reunited on this date to raise funds to renovate Central Park and performed in front of 500,000 people in New York City. The concert was so successful, the duo decided to embark onContinue reading “We’d all like to know a little bit about for our files”

September 19, 1931 – Paramount released the Marx Brother’s third film, Monkey Business on this date. At different times in the movie Chico and Harpo can be heard whistling the song I’m Daffy Over You and Harpo eventually plays it on the harp at Chico’s urging. It is also performed by Chico on the pianoContinue reading “The beer is warm, and the women cold”

September 19, 1975 – The British sitcom Fawlty Towers, created by John Cleese, and starring John Cleese, Connie Booth, Prunella Scales, and Andrew Sachs, premiered on BBC2 on this date. John Cleese (Basil Fawlty) and Connie Booth (Polly Sherman) were really husband and wife when they created and wrote the scripts for the first series.Continue reading “Remember – don’t mention the war”

September 19, 1970 –We got to meet the staff of WJM when The Mary Tyler Moore Show, (the greatest sitcom every produced,) starring Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Gavin MacLeod, Ted Knight, Cloris Leachman, and Valerie Harper premiered on CBS TV on this date. The lyrics to the theme song were rewritten after the firstContinue reading “She made it VERY well on her own”