Daily Archives: February 6, 2013

‘It May Look Like a Walnut!’ episode airs on ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show’ 50 years ago this hour (1963)


Video: 'It May Look Like a Walnut!' (Feb. 6, 1963)

(Wednesday, February 6, 1963, 9:30 p.m. ET) — Rob has a dream, inspired by a late-night horror movie on TV, involving walnuts, missing thumbs, and a creature named Kolac on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show.

In 1997, the episode was ranked #15 on TV Guide‘s 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.

Jury acquits actor Errol Flynn of statutory rape 70 years ago today (1943)


Video: 'Tasmanian Devil - The Fast And Furious Life Of Errol Flynn' (statutory rape case at 25:44)

(Saturday, February 6, 1943) — A Los Angeles jury today acquitted actor Errol Flynn, 33, of three counts of statutory rape. He had be charged with having sex with two under-age girls, Betty Hansen and Peggy Satterlee, at the Bel Air home of Flynn’s friend Frederick McEvoy.