October 1, 1992 -Turner Broadcasting launched a cable channel with 24 hour animated programming called the Cartoon Network on this date. The first program aired on the channel was the Looney Tunes …

October 1, 1955 – The Merrie Melodies short, Knight-Mare Hare, directed by Chuck Jones, and starring Bugs Bunny, was released on this date. The cartoon is loosely based on Mark Twain’s …

October 1, 1971 -The comedy-variety sketch series, The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine, starring, Marty Feldman, Spike Milligan, John Junkin, Hugh Paddick, Frances de la Tour, and Barry Levinson, was …

October 1, 1955 – The Honeymooners half hour episodes premiered on this date. The show was shot “as live” (filmed before an audience, edited and shown later). If you ever notice J…

October is the tenth month of the year and its name is therefore derived from Octo, the Latin word for eight (as the vegetables in V8 well knows.) October is often preceded by September and sometim…

September 30, 2011 -The TV drama, Pan Am, starring Christina Ricci, Margot Robbie, Karine Vanasse, Kelli Garner, Michael Mosley, and Mike Vogel, premiered on ABC-TV, on this date. The average caree…

September 30, 1938 – RKO Studios released the eighth Marx Brothers film, Room Service, on this date. This is the only film The Marx Brothers made at RKO. During salary negotiations with the s…

September 30, 1944 – The Merrie Melodies short, Lost and Foundling, directed by Chuck Jones, and starring Sniffles, was released on this date. The labels of two bottles read GRIB and BROEK re…

September 30, 1960 -The first prime-time animated series aimed at adults, The Flintstones, premiered on ABC-TV on this date. Fred and Wilma Flintstone were the first animated married couple ever sh…

September 30, 1965 – Gerry Anderson’s supermarionation take on The Tracy family business, Thunderbirds premiered on this date in the UK. The five Tracy brothers were named after astrona…

September 29, 1960 – We were all welcomed into the Douglas household when My Three Sons, starring another of TV favorite alcoholic dads, Fred McMurray, premiered on ABC on this date. The show…

September 29, 1948 -Laurence Olivier’s powerful interpretation of Shakespeare’s melancholy Dane, Hamlet premiered in New York City on this day. This is the only movie version of Hamlet …

September 29, 1934 -The Merrie Melodies short, Shake Your Powder Puff , directed by Friz Freleng, was released on this date. This is the first Warner Brothers short to conclude with the “That…

September 29, 1956 – The Looney Tunes short, Deduce, You Say , directed by Chuck Jones and starring Porky Pig and Daffy Duck, was released on this date. The sign inside of Henry the Eight&#82…

September 29, 1967 -Gerry Anderson’s supermarionation take on superheroes, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons premiered on this date in the UK. The face and voice of Captain Scarlet were both …

September 28, 1980 -Billions and billions of brilliant moments on TV are about to be aired – Carl Sagan’s 13 part Cosmos debuted on PBS. In many episodes we see a photo of Earth showing…

September 28, 1961 -Viewers got to spend time with the Baxter’s and their wise-cracking maid when Hazel premiered on CBS-TV on this date. The house where Hazel and the Baxters lived was also …

September 28, 1963 -Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales cartoon debuts on CBS-TV on this date. Whenever Phineas J. Whoopee goes to an overloaded closet for his 3-Dimensional Blackboard, assorted items c…

September 28, 1963 – The Merrie Melodies short, Aqua Duck, directed by Bob McKimson, and starring Daffy Duck, was released on this date. Final Daffy Duck cartoon directed by Robert McKimson i…

September 28, 1957 – The Looney Tunes short, Greedy for Tweety, directed by Friz Freleng and starring Tweety Bird and Sylvester the Cat, was released on this date. Sylvester’s carefully…

September 28, 1946 – The Merrie Melodies short, Fair and Worm-er, directed by Chuck Jones, was released on this date. The skunk character looks (and hops) like an early Pepe Le Pew. The worm …

September 28, 1940 – The Merrie Melodies short, Stage Fright, directed by Chuck Jones, was released on this date. The tough bird in this short reappeared in The Bird Came C.O.D..

September 27, 1987 –The Dolly Parton Variety Show premiered on ABC-TV on this date The series, starring Dolly Parton, was an attempt to revive the variety show genre and was promoted as a more crea…

September 27, 1975 -The documentary film by Albert and David Maysles, Grey Gardens, debuted in the New York Film Festival on this date. Edith Bouvier Beale was the sister of Jacqueline Kennedy&#821…

September 27, 1958 – The Merrie Melodies short, A Bird in a Bonnet, directed by Friz Freleng and starring Tweety Bird and Sylvester the Cat, was released on this date. Sylvester does not talk…

September 27, 1952 – The Merrie Melodies short, The EGGcited Rooster, directed by Bob McKimson and starring Foghorn Leghorn and Henery Hawk, was released on this date. This cartoon rarely air…

September 27, 1941 – The Merrie Melodies short, The Brave Little Bat, directed by Chuck Jones, and starring Sniffles, was released on this date. This is also the final Sniffles cartoon with t…

September 27, 1933 – The Merrie Melodies short, Bosko’s Mechanical Man, directed by Hugh Harman and Rudolph Ising, was released on this date. The newspaper Bosko reads is called The Dai…

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September 26, 1980 -The concert film of Bette Mildler’s 1979 tour, Divine Madness, was released on this date. The 94 minute theatrical cut of this film was edited from around 185 hours of foo…

September 26, 1580 -Francis Drake returned to Plymouth, England, on this date, ending a three-and-a-half year journey around the world. Drake was knighted and awarded a prize of 10 thousand pounds …

There are 90 days until Christmas (and 79 days until the first night of Hanukkah.) (I’m sure many of you have failed the naughty/ nice test already. Maybe you still have time.)

(you’d swear it doesn’t sound like them at all) September 25, 1965 – The Beatles Cartoon Show premiered on ABC-TV on this date. It racked up a 13 score (or 52 share), then unheard…

September 24, 1961 -Students of Great Comedy lined up around the block to enroll in Whatsamatta U when The Bullwinkle Show moved to primetime on NBC TV on this date. The Bullwinkle Show incurred th…

September 24, 1960 – The Merrie Melodies short, The Dixie Fryer, directed by Bob McKimson, and starring Foghorn Leghorn,was released on this date. Pappy’s beak being dislocated after El…

September 24, 1938 – One of the craziest cartoons Looney Tunes shorts ever produced, Porky in Wackyland, directed by Bob Clampet, and starring Porky Pig, was released on this date. You need t…

September 24, 1938 – The Merrie Melodies short, A Feud There Was, directed by Tex Avery, and starring Elmer Fudd/ Egghead was released on this date. Although The Isle of Pingo Pongo promoted …

September 24, 1933 – The Merrie Melodies short, The Dish Ran Away with the Spoon, directed by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, was released on this date. The audio of Wilber crying for help in B…

September 24, 1945 – Michael Curtiz’ tense film noir, Mildred Pierce, starring Joan Crawford and her enormous shoulder pads, was released on this date. There were conflicts between Mich…

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 Co…

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.…

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 des…

September 23, 1961 – The Looney Tunes short, Daffy’s Inn Trouble, directed by Bob McKimson and starring Porky Pig and Daffy Duck, was released on this date. This was the last Porky Pig …

September 23, 1950 -The Merrie Melodies short, Bunker Hill Bunny, directed by Friz Freleng, and starring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam, was released on this date. The gag of an opponent of Bugs yelli…

September 23, 1939 -The Looney Tunes short, Jeepers Creepers, directed by Bob Clampett and starring Porky Pig, was released on this date. This is the first of four Warner Bros. cartoons in which Po…

September 23, 1949 – The Merrie Melodies short, Each Dawn I Crow, directed by Friz Freleng, and starring Elmer Fudd, was released on this date. The dramatic structure, with a sinisterly toned…

September 23, 1939 – The Merrie Melodies short, Land of the Midnight Fun, directed by Tex Avery, was released on this date. This cartoon seldom airs on American television due to Inuit stereo…

September 23, 1933 – The Merrie Melodies short, I’ve Got to Sing a Torch Song, directed by Tom Palmer, was released on this date. This is the first Merrie Melodies cartoon in which a ch…

September 23, 1944 – Frank Capra’s screwball comedy, Arsenic and Old Lace, starring Cary Grant, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Priscilla Lane. Peter Lorre, Edward Everett Horton, James Gl…

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, premiered on th…