'The Pen' (clip)
(Wednesday, October 2, 1991, 9:30 p.m. ET) — Jerry and Elaine go to Florida to visit Jerry’s parents for the weekend and go scuba diving on tonight’s episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld.
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‘Every Picture Tells a Story’ by Rod Stewart #1 album in USA 40 years ago today
Video: ‘(I Know) I’m Losing You’
(Saturday, October 2, 1971) — Every Picture Tells a Story by Rod Stewart became the #1 album on today’s Billboard 200 chart for the first of four weeks (October 2/9/16/23, 1971).
It would on go to be ranked #172 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
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‘Mister Ed’ debuts on CBS 50 years ago this hour
Video: 'Mr. Ed' theme
(Sunday, October 1, 1961, 6:30 p.m. EDT) — Mister Ed, a situation comedy TV series starring Alan Young as an eccentric and enormously klutzy yet friendly architect named Wilbur Post whose horse Mister Ed (“played” by gelding Bamboo Harvester and voiced by Allan Lane) could talk, debuted tonight on network television (on CBS; it had run in syndication from January 5 to July 2, 1961).
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‘Thor’ on tonight’s ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ 10 years ago this hour
Video: ‘Thor’ clip
(Sunday, September 30, 2001, 10:30 p.m. ET) — Larry seeks revenge on pro wrestler Thor Olson, who he believes slashed his tire after an argument on the road on tonight’s episode of the HBO comedy series Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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‘The Shelter’ debuts on ‘The Twilight Zone’ 50 years ago this hour
Video: 'The Shelter' (part 1)
(Friday, September 29, 1961, 10 p.m. ET) — When a nuclear attack appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbors fight over control of a single bomb shelter on tonight’s episode of The Twilight Zone. Continue reading ‘The Shelter’ debuts on ‘The Twilight Zone’ 50 years ago this hour
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First Moscow Conference opens 70 years ago today
Video: Lord Beaverbrook arrives in Moscow @ 8:14
(Monday, September 29, 1941) — The First Moscow Conference opened today as American Averell Harriman and Lord Beaverbrook representing the United Kingdom met with Joseph Stalin to give assurances that those two leading Allies of World War II would aid and support the Soviet Union in the common fight against Nazi Germany.
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‘Wednesday, Ladies Free’ on tonight’s ‘Hawaii-Five-0’ 40 years ago this hour
Video: 'Wednesday Ladies Free' (part 1)
(Tuesday, September 28, 1971, 8:30 p.m. ET) — Vic Tanaka is murdering women and painting their faces to resemble a former prostitute, who is now happily married, on tonight’s episode of the CBS police procedural drama Hawaii Five-0. Continue reading ‘Wednesday, Ladies Free’ on tonight’s ‘Hawaii-Five-0’ 40 years ago this hour
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‘Dr. Kildare’ debuts on NBC 50 years ago this hour
Video: 'Dr. Kildare ' clip (Oct. 8, 1964)
(Thursday, September 28, 1961, 7:30 p.m.) — Dr. Kildare, a medical drama TV series starring Richard Chamberlain as a young intern working in a fictional large metropolitan hospital (Blair General) while trying to learn his profession, debuted tonight on NBC.
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TV legend Ed Sullivan born 110 years ago today
(Saturday, September 28, 1901) — Edward Vincent “Ed” Sullivan, who entertained millions of Americans with his long-running Sunday night variety TV show, was born today in New York City.
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McClellan’s war plans presented at Cabinet meeting 150 years ago today
McClellan's plan @ 1:27:18 into video
(Friday, September 27, 1861) — Amid public pressure for increased action, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and General George B. McClellan conferred today in a meeting with the Cabinet over plans for an offensive in Virginia during the American Civil War.
