Monthly Archives: September 2012

‘Did You See the Sunrise?’ episode airs on ‘Magnum, P.I.’ 30 years ago this hour (1982)


Video: 'Did You See the Sunrise?' (clip)

(Thursday, September 30, 1982, 8:00 p.m. ET) — Magnum, T.C., and an ex-army buddy named Nuzzo try to track down Ivan, a Russian who held them captive during the Vietnam War and won’t stop until he kills them all on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV series Magnum, P.I..

This episode is listed as #98 on TV Guide‘s 2009 list of Top 100 Episodes of All Time.

Masayoshi Yamazaki performs for Paul McCartney 10 years ago today (2002)


Video: Yamazaki performs for McCartney

(Monday, September 30, 2002) — Japanese singer-songwriter Masayoshi Yamazaki played his own arrangement of All My Loving for ex-Beatle Paul McCartney backstage at Fleet Center in Boston to promote the fourth and final leg (in Japan) of McCartney’s Driving World Tour.

‘This Is Cinerama’ premieres in New York 60 years ago today (1952)


Video: 'This is Cinerama' trailer

(Tuesday, September 30, 1952) — The motion picture This Is Cinerama, which introduced the triple-camera, triple-projector Cinerama widescreen process, premiered today at the New York Broadway theatre in New York City.

Directed by Merian C. Cooper, the film is narrated by travel writer and newscaster Lowell Thomas.

Starr returns to Liverpool to complete TV special 20 years ago today (1992)


Video: 'Ringo Starr - Going Home' (performances captured on July 6, 1992; interviews were done Sept. 29,1992)

(Tuesday, September 29, 1992) — Ex-Beatle Ringo Starr returned to his birthplace of Liverpool today to film a walking tour of the city for the Disney Channel television special Ringo Starr: Going Home, featuring clips from a July 6 concert with his All-Starr band before 2,300 people at the Empire Theatre

Girl, 12, dies in first Chicago Tylenol murder 30 years ago today (1982)


Video: 'Chicago Tylenol Murders'

(Wednesday, September 29, 1982) — Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide claimed the first of seven victims in the Chicago area today, twelve-year-old Mary Kellerman of Elk Grove Village, Illinois. To date, the case remains unsolved.

‘My Fair Lady’ closes on Broadway after record 2,717 performances 50 years ago today (1962)


Video: 'My Fair Lady "Wouldn't It Be Lovely" on The Ed Sullivan Show' (Mar. 19, 1961)

(Saturday, September 29, 1962) — The musical My Fair Lady closed on Broadway (at The Broadway Theatre) today after 2,717 performances, a record at the time.

Starr tapes an appearance for ‘Parkinson in Australia’ 30 years ago today (1982)


'Honey Don't'

(Tuesday, September 28, 1982) — Ex-Beatle Ringo Starr taped an appearance today for Parkinson in Australia in North Ryde, Australia. Ringo played drums on Honey Don’t with Glenn Shorrock on vocals for airing on October 8.

Rory Storm of Rory Storm and the Hurricanes commits suicide 40 years ago today (1972)


Video: 'Rory Storm & the Hurricanes'

(Thursday, September 28, 1972) — Singer Rory Storm, 34, of Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, which featured drummer Ringo Starr before he quit to join The Beatles in August 1962, killed himself today in an apparent suicide pact with his mother. He reportedly couldn’t accept that his band didn’t enjoy the same success as other bands from the Liverpool scene.

Kissinger’s talks spur Vietnam peace rumor 40 years ago tonight (1972)


Video: Sept. 27, 1972 (0:09)

(Wednesday, September 27, 1972, during the Vietnam War) — U.S. National Security Advisor Henry A. Kissinger arrived in Washington from Paris tonight amid rumors, which were strongly denied by the White House, that there had been a breakthrough in Vietnam peace negotiations.