Since 2007, ACME has been proud to recognize that every year from the 8th to the 12th of October, International Cephalopod Awareness Days come around to teach the world about Cephalopods! Today is …

October 8, 1975 – While a critical success, the comedy film, Hearts of the West, directed by Howard Ziff, and starring Jeff Bridges, Andy Griffith, Blythe Danner, Donald Pleasence, and Alan A…

October 8, 1927 -The Hal Roach studio released The Second Hundred Years short, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy – the first Laurel and Hardy film with them appearing as a team on this da…

October 8, 1938 – The Merrie Melodies short, Little Pancho Vanilla, directed by Frank Tashlin, was released on this date. This short has seldom aired on American television since the 1990s du…

October 8, 1960 – The Merrie Melodies short, Hopalong Casualty, directed by Chuck Jones, and starring Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, was released on this date. The first of the so-called…

October 7, 1957 –The first movie to be adapted to become a TV series, How to Marry a Millionaire, starring Lori Nelson, Merry Anders, and Barbara Eden opened on this date. It was syndicated and not…

October 7, 1960 – Route 66 starring Martin Milner and George Maharis premiered on CBS TV, on this date. The series’ writers travelled around the U.S. looking for locations, about which …

September 7, 1939 -The Looney Tunes short, Naughty Neighbors, directed by Bob Clampett and starring Porky Pig and Petunia Pig, was released on this date. This is the final appearance of Petunia Pig…

September 7, 1939 -The Merrie Melodies short, The Little Lion Hunter, directed by Chuck Jones and starring Inki, was released on this date. Like the other Inki cartoons, this short has been It is r…

September 7, 1949 – The Merrie Melodies short, Frigid Hare, directed by Chuck Jones and starring Bugs Bunny, was released on this date. This short reverses the common mistake shown in polar s…

October 7, 1950 -The character of Granny appeared for the first time in a Looney Tunes Cartoon when Canary Row, directed by Friz Freleng and starring Sylvester and Tweety, premiered on this date. M…

October 6, 1951 -The Merrie Melodies short, Ballot Box Bunny, directed by Friz Freleng, and starring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam, was released on this date. The original cartoon finished with Bugs …

October 6, 1963 -The wonderful adaption of the classic 18th Century novel, Tom Jones opened in NYC on this date. (Bizarre piece of trivia: this was the last film that John F. Kennedy saw before his…

October 6, 1960 – Stanley Kubrick’s gladiator spectacular, Spartacus, starring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, and Tony Curtis…

Whether or not you want to acknowledge this – the start of Hanukkah begins in 59 days – and Christmas begin in 80 days! Bunkies, try to do something to get off the naughty list! Or hope…

October 5, 1950 – You Bet Your Life, hosted by Groucho Marx with his announcer George Fenneman, premiered on NBC-TV on this date. Its’ run lasted 11 years. Not to creep you out but ever…

October 5, 1969 – The British Empire had been on a long slow decline for many years. The last flourish of that dying world power happened on this date – Monty Python’s Flying Circ…

October 5, 1946 – The Looney Tunes short, The Big Snooze, directed by Bob Clampett, and starring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, was released on this date. As Bugs is pleading with Elmer not to qu…

October 4, 1952 -The Merrie Melodies short, Tree for Two, directed by Friz Freleng and starring Sylvester the Cat was released on this date. This cartoon marks the debut of Spike and Chester, two a…

October 4, 1947 -The Looney Tunes short, Little Orphan Airedale, directed by Chuck Jones, and starring Porky Pig and Charlie Dog, was released on this date. While looking for prospective masters, C…

October 3, 1942 – The Looney Tunes short, The Hep Cat, directed by Bob Clampett, was released on this date. Among the personalities depicted are popular pinup film star Victor Mature (the cat…

October 3, 1953 -The Merrie Melodies short, Duck! Rabbit, Duck!, directed by Chuck Jones and starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd, was released on this date. Bugs Bunny stuck out four sig…

October 3, 1936 – The Looney Tunes short, Milk and Money, directed by Tex Avery and starring Speedy Gonzalez and Sylvester the Cat, was released on this date. At the door of “MR. & …

October 2, 1957 – The World War II drama The Bridge on the River Kwai, directed by David Lean, and starring William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, and Sessue Hayakawa, opened in Britain…

October 2, 1959 -…a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind…. The first episode of the anthology series The Twilight Zone, Where is Everybody?, premiered on this date Rod Serl…

October 2, 1948 -The Looney Tunes short, Odor of the Day, directed by Arthur Davis, and starring Pepe Le Pew, was released on this date. This is another cartoon in which the identity of the main ch…

October 2, 1954 – The Looney Tunes short, By Word of Mouse, directed by Friz Freleng, was released on this date. This was the first of three cartoons on economic subjects underwritten by the …

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…