‘Where There’s Smoke, There’s Rhoda’ episode airs on ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ 40 years ago this hour (1972)

1970s, Television 1970s

(Saturday, February 12, 1972, 9:30 p.m. ET) — When Rhoda’s apartment is destroyed by fire, she moves in with Mary. The two find that while they are best friends, they make awful roommates on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

‘Of Mastodons and Men’ episode airs on ‘The Wonder Years’ 20 years ago this hour (1992)

1990s, Television 1990s


Video: 'Of Mastodons and Men' (part 1)

(Wednesday, February 12, 1992, 8:30 p.m. ET) — Kevin has been dating Julie Aidem for two weeks when she invites him for dinner with her family and asks him to tell her parents they are going steady on tonight’s episode of the TV comedy-drama series The Wonder Years. Continue reading ‘Of Mastodons and Men’ episode airs on ‘The Wonder Years’ 20 years ago this hour (1992) →

‘Edith Gets a Mink’ episode airs tonight on ‘All In The Family’ 40 years ago this hour (1972)

1970s, Television 1970s

(Saturday, February 12, 1972, 8:00 p.m. ET) — Edith gets a package in the mail and discovers that it is a mink cape sent to her as a ‘thank you’ gift by her Cousin Amelia for Edith taking care of her after a surgery on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV sitcom All In The Family.

‘Missing’ opens in U.S. 30 years ago today (1982)

1980s, Movies 1980s


Video: 'Missing' trailer

(Friday, February 12, 1982) — Missing, a drama film based on the true story of American journalist Charles Horman, who disappeared in the bloody aftermath of the US-backed Chilean coup of 1973 that deposed leftist President Salvador Allende, opened today in U.S. theaters, including the Beekman Theater in New York.

Directed by Costa Gavras, the film starred Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, Charles Cioffi and Janice Rule.

‘I Heart NY’ episode airs on ‘Sex And The City’ 10 years ago this hour (2002)

2000s, Television 2000s


Video: 'I Heart NY' (clip)

(Sunday, February 10, 2002, 9 p.m. ET) — Carrie accidentally finds out that Big is planning on moving away from NY and wonders if she should have goodbye sex with him on tonight’s season four finale episode of the TV series Sex and the City.

McCartney’s ‘Give Ireland Back to the Irish’ banned in Britain 40 years ago today (1972)

1970s, Popular Music 1970s, The Beatles 1970s

(Thursday, February 10, 1972) — 12 days after British paratroopers shot dead thirteen Catholics after a civil rights demonstration in Londonderry in what is known as Bloody Sunday, Paul McCartney’s new single Give Ireland Back to the Irish was banned on British airwaves (it would still be released Feb. 25, 1972).