Forty-six years ago this day, The Brady Bunch filmed the King's Island episode.
Trivia: The actors playing Jan and Bobby faced probable decapitation via a forty pound camera improperly bolted down on the Racer coaster, capable of sixty mile an hour speeds, they rode in the final scene. The issue was detected and remedied at the last second.
Dracula had a Mike Brady haircut!
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Quote from: ER on August 21, 2019, 01:05:05 PM
Forty-six years ago this day, The Brady Bunch filmed the King's Island episode.
Trivia: The actors playing Jan and Bobby faced probable decapitation via a forty pound camera improperly bolted down on the Racer coaster, capable of sixty mile an hour speeds, they rode in the final scene. The issue was detected and remedied at the last second.
Damn, think of what it could having done for the ratings ...
This day in 1967, Gilligan's Island passed on to eternal life in syndication Heaven: ad meliora.
On this day in the fateful month of September 2001, The Amazing Race, my all-time favorite reality series, debuted.
September 7, 2008, True Blood premiered on HBO.
Fifty-three years ago today Star Trek premiered on NBC!
Quote from: ER on September 08, 2019, 10:39:37 AM
Fifty-three years ago today Star Trek premiered on NBC!
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Today in 1926, NBC, first a radio giant, later home of Must-See TV, came into existence.
Future Cornholeifornia star David Duchovny appeared in the first episode of FOX's much-needed megahit The X-Files, on this day in 1993.
This day in 1994, Party of Five, a show I disdained in high school but secretly watched a few times with the sound low so no one would catch me, aired for the first time on FOX.
Factoid: Chelsea Clinton said around this time that PO5 was her favorite new show.
This day in 1993 Conan O'Brien took over Late Night on NBC, to many negative reviews and few expectations of long-term survival. A decade and a half of highjinx followed amid a supporting cast that included the Masturbating Bear, Little Dead Jimmy, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, and that coattail-riding a***ole Andy Richter.
This day in 1963, producers of ABC's new series, The Outer Limits began arguing, "We are not just a Twilight Zone ripoff!"
Full House debuted in 1987, and Dave Coulier was not yet the victim of an Alanis Morissette song.
This day fifty-one years ago, 60 Minutes began its demonic run of forever inflicting itself on schoolchildren, who still associate that accursed ticking stopwatch with having to get ready for school the next morning. The horror....the horror....
Fifty-four years ago today, the Beatles became a Saturday Morning Cartoon on ABC, and in a related note, John Lennon went on a shame-fueled drinking spree that resulted in him waking up in bed three weeks later with a strange Japanese woman wearing his mother's wedding ring. Yup, that's how it happened....
Quote from: ER on September 25, 2019, 08:57:08 AM
Fifty-four years ago today, the Beatles became a Saturday Morning Cartoon on ABC, and in a related note, John Lennon went on a shame-fueled drinking spree that resulted in him waking up in bed three weeks later with a strange Japanese woman wearing his mother's wedding ring. Yup, that's how it happened....
That is my understanding of those events.
The Beverly Hillbillies, Gilligan's Island, Hawaii Five-O, The Brady Bunch, Knight Rider, and Murder She Wrote, all debuted on this day in various years. In a related note, also on this day, aliens who were monitoring our airwaves voted to bypass contacting humankind.
Fifteen years ago today Conan was given the nod to eventually replace Jay on The Tonight Show.
I'm sure in some alternate universe everything turned out just fine.
Quote from: ER on September 27, 2019, 01:23:54 PM
Fifteen years ago today Conan was given the nod to eventually replace Jay on The Tonight Show.
I'm sure in some alternate universe everything turned out just fine.
Did he crush the jeweled thrones of the world beneath his sandaled feet?
Quote from: Alex on September 28, 2019, 12:25:43 AM
Quote from: ER on September 27, 2019, 01:23:54 PM
Fifteen years ago today Conan was given the nod to eventually replace Jay on The Tonight Show.
I'm sure in some alternate universe everything turned out just fine.
Did he crush the jeweled thrones of the world beneath his sandaled feet?
All the while muttering "KROM" under his breath.
Fifty-seven years ago this very day, Johnny Carson took up hosting duties on The Tonight Show. A master of the witty comeback and an early pioneer of sketch comedy, over his thirty year tenure more than 10,000 guests would appear on Carson's stage, and he would go on to invent one of the most popular fictional characters in entertainment history....Johnny Carson.
NBC's Saturday Night, then a comedy, debuted forty-four years ago this day. It went on to be re-named Saturday Night Live, and eventually stopped being a comedy.
Fifty-six years ago today, the Beatles made their first TV appearance. Watching from across the world, an Indian guru remarked to himself, "I do think I could fleece those boys of a lot of their money."
This day in 1904, no one watched any TV whatsoever.
This day in 1991 Full House celebrated its 100th episode, which saw Joey meeting his childhood hero, Ranger Roy, and also revealing to the girls that his real name is not Joey, it's (wait for it!) Hermes.
This day in 1977, NBC aired KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park. Seventy-nine little old church ladies keeled over in their parlors, and the devil snared at least 3,000 teenage souls.
Quote from: ER on October 28, 2019, 01:57:44 PM
This day in 1977, NBC aired KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park. Seventy-nine little old church ladies keeled over in their parlors, and the devil snared at least 3,000 teenage souls.
I saw it! :thumbup:
I liked it back then (of course I was a teenage metalhead).
I watch it now-it's like a live action Scooby-Doo. And KISS cannot act.
I saw Kiss on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert. I had some of they're records. I had a poster- a big one- of Space Ace hanging on my wall. Right nest to my green black lite poster of Frankenstein.
This was about 1975. I was 13! I started buying comic books like a drug addict. I worked picking asparagus and pickles to make money.
It was 1977!
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This day in 1978 Diff'rent Strokes, the most tragedy-cursed sit-com ever set to tape, premiered on Enn Bee Cee.
Eighteen years ago today Jack Bauer began the longest day of his life, and in an even bolder move, for the first time ever a murderous terrorist felt comfortable being called Mandy.
Seventeen years ago today a bunch of prudes lost their minds when CBS aired a prime time Christmas special featuring Victoria's Secret models.
On this day in 1980, Americans, who'd spent the previous six months foaming at the mouth obsessed, finally found out who the fvck shot JR Ewing. First people gasped, then they yawned.
It was a simpler time.
Twenty-four years ago today ABC aired a six-hour Beatles documentary that saw the release of a video for the band's hit single Free as a Bird. I actually remember that night and that video and all the Easter eggs in it (The Fool on the Hill, Here Lies Eleanor Rigby, etc.) Greatest band of all time....even with fake Paul.
December 10, 2019. Flamboyant idiot Cookie Monster contributed to his 1,000,000th case of juvenile diabetes. He celebrated by cramming cookies in his mouth and dashing around.
happy and joyous saturnalia to you ellie! :cheers:
And also with your spirit, Barri! :smile:
thank you. hopefully the spirits of my parents will be with us this holiday to see their great grandchildren celebrating with the three generations of US.
Thirty-one years ago today, FOX's America's Most Wanted premiered to the consternation of ne'er do wells everywhere.