Video: 'Romantic Improvisations' (Sept. 23, 1992)
(Wednesday, September 23, 1992, 9:30 p.m. EDT) — Mad About You, a television situation comedy series about a newly married couple in New York City, debuted tonight on NBC-TV. It starred Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt, Anne Ramsay, Leila Kenzle, John Pankow and Richard Kind.
Video: 'Archie's Fraud'
(Saturday, September 23, 1972, 8:00 p.m. EDT) — Archie’s Sunday job, driving taxi cabs for Bert Munson, has been a fine extra job for additional income. However, Archie has failed to report the extra income on his tax returns on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV sitcom All In The Family.
Video: 'The Jetsons ep Rosey the Robot' (Sept. 23, 1962)
(Sunday, September 23, 1962, 6:30 p.m. EDT) — The Jetsons, an animated television sitcom series projecting contemporary culture and lifestyle into another time period, debuted tonight as the very first program to air in color on ABC-TV.
Video: 'The West Wing: Twenty Five'
(Sunday, September 22, 2002) — The West Wing, NBC’s dramatic series about a fictional White House, won its third consecutive Emmy tonight as best drama at the 54th Primetime Emmy Awards at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
Friends, the NBC series that has been nominated four times for best comedy, won the top award tonight after nine seasons.
Video: 'Friends Theme Season 8'
Video: Sept. 22, 1942 (at 6:34)
(Tuesday, September 22, 1942, during the Battle of Stalingrad, part of the Eastern Front of World War II) — Wilhelm Hoffman, a soldier in the 267th Infantry Regiment, 94th Infantry Division of the German 6th Army who chronicled the Battle of Stalingrad in his journal, wrote today:
“Russian resistance in the elevator has been broken. Our troops are advancing toward the Volga. We found about 40 Russians dead in the elevator building. Half of them were wearing naval uniforms-sea devils. One prisoner was captured, seriously wounded, who can’t speak, or is shamming.”
Video: Sept. 21, 1952 (at 4:30)
(Sunday, September 21, 1952, 10:00 p.m. PDT, during the 1952 U.S. presidential campaign) — During a telephone call, GOP vice presidential nominee Richard Nixon, who had decided to make a television/radio broadcast to defend himself against charges he had improperly kept a “secret” fund, asked GOP presidential nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower if the general would be able to make a decision on Nixon’s fate immediately after the broadcast.
When Eisenhower hesitated, Nixon angrily burst out: “General, there comes a time in matters like this when you’ve either got to shit or get off the pot.”
Eisenhower replied that it might take three or four days to gauge public reaction.
Video: 'The Jack Paar Program' (Dec. 7, 1962)
(Friday, September 21, 1962, 10:00 p.m. EDT) — The Jack Paar Program, a weekly, prime-time television show that followed Paar’s stint on The Tonight Show, began a three-year run tonight on NBC.
Video: Sept. 21, 1862 (at 1:00:02)
(Sunday, September 21, 1862, during the American Civil War) — Margaret Lea Houston, former First Lady of the Republic of Texas, wrote to her eldest son, Sam Jr., today, notifying him of the deaths of ten of his friends and school mates.
Video: Sept. 20, 1952 (at 3:08)
(Saturday, September 20, 1952, during the 1952 U.S. presidential campaign) — Two days after the New York Post reported a “secret” campaign fund for Richard Nixon, the GOP vice presidential nominee told supporters in Portland, Oregon, that it was a lie that he took the money for his personal use and he denied that it was illegal and unethical as charged.
Video: Sept. 20, 1942 (at 6:26)
(Sunday, September 20, 1942, during the Battle of Stalingrad, part of the Eastern Front of World War II) — Wilhelm Hoffman, a soldier in the 267th Infantry Regiment, 94th Infantry Division of the German 6th Army who chronicled the Battle of Stalingrad in his journal, wrote today:
“The battle for the elevator is still going on. The Russians are firing on all sides. We stay in our cellar; you can’t go out into the street. Sergeant Major Nuschke was killed today running across a street. Poor fellow, he’s got three children.”
