Video: 'Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids - Episode 1'
(Saturday, September 9, 1972, 12:30 p.m. EDT) — Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, an animated television series created, produced, and hosted (in live action bookends) by comedian Bill Cosby, based on Cosby’s remembrances of his childhood gang, debuted today on CBS-TV.
Video: 'Comedy Playhouse - Are You Being Served? (Pilot)'
(Friday, September 8, 1972) — Are You Being Served?, a British sitcom set in the ladies’ and gentlemen’s clothing departments of Grace Brothers, a large, fictional London department store, debuted tonight on BBC1 in the form of a pilot for the series Comedy Playhouse. It starred Frank Thornton, Mollie Sugden, John Inman, Wendy Richard and Nicholas Smith.
Video: 'Fred Korematsu - PROTEST'
(Tuesday, September 8, 1942, during World War II) — U.S. District Court Judge Martin I. Welsh, ruling from Sacramento, California, on a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Fred Korematsu, upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.
Video: 'ABC News 1972 Munich massacre coverage'
(Wednesday, September 6, 1972) — Athletes and officials from the competing nations clogged the Olympic Stadium today in a memorial service for slain members of the Israeli team, but International Olympic Committee President Avery Brundage said the terror would not disrupt the 20th Summer Games. Continue reading Memorial service held for murdered Israeli athletes, Olympic Games resume 40 years ago today (1972)
Video: 'The New Price Is Right - episode 01 - VTR Aug 19th 1972'
(Monday, September 4, 1972, Labor Day, 10:30 a.m. EDT) — The (New) Price Is Right, a game show that revolved around contestants competing to identify the pricing of merchandise to win cash and prizes, debuted today on CBS-TV (taped Aug. 19, 1972, at CBS Television City in Hollywood) with Bob Barker as host.
Video: 'The Joker's Wild - First Episode 1972'
(Monday, September 4, 1972, Labor Day, 10:00 a.m. EDT) — The Joker’s Wild, a game show where contestants answered questions based on categories that were determined randomly by a mechanism resembling a slot machine, debuted today on CBS-TV (taped at CBS Television City in Hollywood) with Jack Barry as host (click here to watch the entire first episode).
Video: Sept. 3, 1862 (at 40:20)
(Wednesday, September 3, 1862, during the American Civil War) — Just two days after the Battle of Chantilly, Confederate General Robert E. Lee wrote to President Jefferson Davis today that he had decided to cross into Maryland unless the president objected. Lee also began shifting his army north and west from Chantilly towards Leesburg, Virginia.
Video: 'The Crying Game' trailer
(Wednesday, September 2, 1992) — The Crying Game, an intriguing tale of a group of IRA kidnappers and the British soldier they nab and want to exchange for one of their own, premiered today at the Venice Film Festival
Directed by Neil Jordan, the film starred Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson, Miranda Richardson and Forest Whitaker. It would go on to receive six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture.
Video: Nixon joins U.S. Navy (at 2:10)
(Wednesday, September 2, 1942) — Richard M. Nixon, 29, setting aside his Quaker pacifism, was today commissioned as Navy Lieutenant (junior grade).
Video: Sept. 2, 1862 (at 35:18)
(Tuesday, September 2, 1862, during the American Civil War) — U.S. President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restored Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan to full command today following the defeat of General John Pope at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
