Video: 'License to Steele' (Oct. 1, 1982)
(Friday, October 1, 1982, 10:00 p.m. EDT) — Remington Steele, a comedy-drama-detective television series about a licensed female private detective who invents a fictitious male superior to attract more business to her detective agency, debuted tonight on NBC-TV. It starred Stephanie Zimbalist, Pierce Brosnan and Doris Roberts.
Video: 'Lucy Show season 1 intro'
(Monday, October 1, 1962, 8:30 p.m. EDT) — The Lucy Show, Lucille Ball’s follow-up to I Love Lucy after her divorce with Desi Arnaz, debuted tonight on CBS-TV. It also starred Vivian Vance from I Love Lucy. Continue reading ‘The Lucy Show’ debuts on CBS-TV 50 years ago this hour (1962)
Video: 'HELLO GOODBYE PAUL McCARTNEY @ THE FLEET CENTER OCTOBER 1,2002'
(Tuesday, October 1, 2002) — Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney performed tonight at Fleet Center in Boston on the second night of the sixth stop of the 22-city Back in the U.S. second leg of his Driving World Tour.
Video: 'WORLD'S FIRST: Compact Disc Player made in 1982'
(Friday, October 1, 1982) — Sony today began selling the first commercial compact disc player, the CDP-101, in Japan at a list price of 168,000 yen (approx $730).
Video: 'BABE RUTH did he call the shot ?'
(Saturday, October 1, 1932) — Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees made his supposed called shot today, hitting a home run against Chicago’s Charlie Root in the fifth inning of Game 3 of the World Series, won by the New York Yankees 7-5 at Wrigley Field.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
