September 22, 1985
NBC began airing the series Amazing Stories.
Amazing
Stories is a fantasy, horror,
and science fiction television anthology series created by Steven Spielberg. It originally ran on NBC in the United States from 1985 to 1987.The series was nominated for
12 Emmy Awards and won five. The first season episode "The
Amazing Falsworth" earned writerMick Garris an Edgar Award for
Best Episode in a TV Series. It was not a ratings hit (ranking 40th in Season 1
and 46th in Season 2), however, and the network did not renew it after the
two-year contract expired. The 1987 science fiction movie, *batteries
not included was originally
intended to be featured in Amazing Stories, but Steven Spielberg liked the idea
so much that he decided to make it a theatrical release.[4]
The series title licensed the
name of Amazing Stories, the first dedicated science fiction
magazine.
September 22, 1985
The first Farm Aid concert is held in Champaign, Illinois.
It started with an offhand remark made by Bob Dylan
during his performance at Live Aid, the massive fundraising concert held at
Wembley Stadium, London, and JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, in the early summer of
1985. As television viewers around the world phoned in donations in support of
African famine relief, Dylan said from the stage, "I hope that some of the
money...maybe they can just take a little bit of it, maybe...one or two
million, maybe...and use it, say, to pay the mortgages on some of the farms
and, the farmers here, owe to the banks." Dylan would come under harsh
criticism from Live Aid organizer Bob Geldof for his remarks ("It was a
crass, stupid and nationalistic thing to say," Geldof would later write),
but he planted a seed with several fellow musicians who shared his concern over
the state of the American family farm. Less than one month later, Willie
Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp announced plans for "Farm
Aid," a benefit concert for America's farmers held in Champaign, Illinois, on this day in 1985.As one might have expected of a concert staged to
"raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to raise funds to keep
farm families on their land," Farm Aid featured a number of performers
from the worlds of country, folk and rootsy rock music. There were the three
main organizers and the instigator Bob Dylan, for instance, along with Hoyt
Axton, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Loretta
Lynn, Joni Mitchell and Charley Pride. But the first Farm Aid, more than any of
the annual Farm Aid concerts since, was a bit of a stylistic free-for-all,
featuring artists united only by their interest in supporting a good cause.
"As soon as I read in the paper that there was
gonna be such a thing," Sammy Hagar told MTV's cameras on the day of the
show, "I called my manager and said, 'I wanna do it.' And he said, 'It's
all country.' I said, 'I don't care. It's America. I wanna do it.' If there was
anything more surprising than hearing Hagar perform his hard-rock anthem
"I Can't Drive 55" on the same stage that had earlier featured the
quiet folk of Arlo Guthrie, it was hearing Lou Reed perform "Walk On The
Wild Side" on a stage that had featured John Denver.
Over the years since its
first charity concert on this day in 1985, the Farm Aid organization has raised
upwards of $33 million to support small farmers, promote sustainable farming
practices and encourage consumption of "good food from family farms."
September 24, 1955
Judy Garland made her TV
debut on the "Ford Star Jubilee" on CBS. Ford Star Jubilee routinely featured major stars, such as Judy Garland, Betty Grable, Orson Welles, Julie Andrews (at the time that she
was preparing for her starring role in My Fair Lady on Broadway), Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Lillian Gish, Charles Laughton, Jack Lemmon, Raymond Massey, Lauren Bacall, Claudette Colbert, Noël Coward, Nat 'King' Cole, Mary Martin, Eddie Fisher, Ella
Fitzgerald, Red Skelton and Debbie Reynolds.Instead of the usual live performance staged
especially for Ford Star Jubilee, the final episode on November 3,
1956 was a special, two-hour presentation of the 1939 MGM theatrical
Technicolor film The
Wizard of Oz, hosted by Bert Lahr, 10-year-old Liza Minnelli and young Oz expert
Justin Schiller. This marked the first time that the film had ever been shown
on television, and the only time that one of the film's actual actors (Lahr) as
well as one of the children of the film's star (Judy Garland) hosted it. The
broadcast was a critical and ratings smash, but the film was not shown on TV
again until 1959, when it was presented by CBS at 6:00 P.M., E.S.T. rather than
9:00 P.M., and this time as a Christmas season special in its own right, not as part of an anthology
series. The 1959 telecast was hosted by comedian Red Skelton and his daughter
Valentina. This broadcast attracted an even wider audience, because children
were able to watch, and thus began the tradition of showing the film annually
on television.
Another rare instance of Ford Star Jubilee presenting
a filmed, rather than live, program was their 1956 musical version of Maxwell Anderson's High Tor, starring Bing Crosby and Julie Andrews. Music was
by Arthur
Schwartz,
noted composer of such scores as those for The Band Wagon and Revenge with Music. Crosby, according to
sources, had insisted the production be filmed rather than presented live,
because he did not feel comfortable acting in a live television musical play.[1] Although it was
filmed in color, the musical version of High Tor has never
been released on VHS or DVD.
September 24, 1970
The
Odd Couple is a television
situation comedy broadcast from September 24, 1970 to March 7, 1975 on ABC.
It stars Tony Randall as Felix Unger and Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison,
and was the first of several developed by Garry Marshall for Paramount
Television. The show is based upon
the play of the same name, which was written by Neil Simon.
September 24, 1985
The first episode of
"Growing Pains" aired on ABC.
The Seaver family resides
at 15 Robin Hood Lane in Huntington, Long Island, New York. Dr. Jason Seaver, a psychiatrist, works from home because
his wife, Maggie, has gone back to work as a reporter. Jason has to take care of
the kids: ladies man Mike, bookish honors student Carol, and
rambunctious Ben. A fourth child, Chrissy Seaver, is born in 1988. In the
beginning, she is played in her infant stage by twins. In season six,
Chrissy's age was advanced to six years old.
September 25, 1965
The half hour Saturday
morning cartoon "The Beatles" premiered on ABC-TV.
The
Beatles is
an American animated television series featuring the fanciful and musical
misadventures of the popular English rock band of the same name. It ran from 1965 to 1969
on ABC in
the US (only 1965 to 1967 was first run; later transmissions were reruns). The
series debuted on September 25, 1965 and ended on September 7, 1969. A total of
39 episodes were produced. The series was shown on Saturday mornings at 10:30
AM EST until the 1967 third season when it was moved to 12:00 PM EST. For the
fourth season, which consisted of reruns, the series was shown at 9:30 AM EST
on Sunday mornings. Each episode has a name of a Beatles song, so the
story is based on its lyrics and it is also played at some time in the episode.
The original series was rebroadcast in syndication by MTV in 1986 and 1987 and on the Disney Channel. The series was a
historical milestone as the first weekly television series to feature animated
versions of real, living people.
September 25, 1970
The
Partridge Family premieres on ABC television.
Unwilling
to rest as a one-hit wonder when its first big hit, The Monkees, went
off the air in 1968, the television production company Screen Gems wasted no
time in trying to repeat its success. On this day in 1970, in the 8:30 p.m.
time slot immediately following The Brady Bunch, ABC premiered a program
that would give Screen Gems its second TV-to-pop-chart smash: The Partridge
Family.
If the Beatles served as the inspiration for The
Monkees, it was the real-life family act the Cowsills that inspired Screen
Gems to dream up The Partridge Family. Originally made up of four
teenage brothers (Bill, Bob, Barry and John), the Cowsills scored their first
top-40 hit with "The Rain, The Park & Other Things" (1967) after
adding their mother to the lineup. They earned three more hits in 1968 with
"We Can Fly," "Indian Lake" and "Hair" after
adding two additional younger siblings, and it was in this configuration that
they caught the eyes of the folks at Screen Gems. In fact, Screen Gems
approached the Cowsill family about having the children star in the show that
would eventually become The Partridge Family, but the family demurred
when it learned that actress Shirley Jones, and not Barbara Cowsill, would be
playing the role of Shirley Partridge. Undaunted, Screen Gems hired four
non-singing child actors for the roles of Laurie, Danny, Chris and Tracy Partridge
and one future teen idol, David Cassidy, for the role of Keith.
In the pilot episode of The Partridge Family,
the five children of a widowed single mother convince their mom to join them in
their garage recording sessions and then watch their first record, "I
Think I Love You" become a #1 pop hit. In a case not so much of life
imitating art as of a brilliant marketing machine replicating its earlier
success, the song "I Think I Love You" raced to the top of the
real-life pop charts less than two months after its television debut.
However, hits like "I Think I Love You" and
"I Woke Up in Love This Morning" were not actually recorded by a five
siblings and their mom in a garage. The Partridge Family's hits were recorded
by some of the best professional musicians working in Los Angeles at the time,
including drummer Hal Blaine and the other studio musicians known as the
Wrecking Crew. The Partridge Family did, however, launch David Cassidy
on a short-lived career as an actual pop singer, and it also, according to news
reports, inspired some misguided runaways to show up on Shirley Jones' Beverly
Hills lawn in the hopes that she might adopt them into her television family.
September
26, 1960
The Beverly Hillbillies is an
American situation comedy originally broadcast for nine seasons on CBS from 1962 to 1971, starring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna
Douglas, and Max Baer,
Jr.
The series is about a poor
backwoods family transplanted to Beverly Hills,
California, after striking oil on
their land. A Filmways production created by writer Paul Henning,
it is the first in a genre of “fish out of
water” themed television shows, and
was followed by other Henning-inspired country-cousin series on CBS. In 1963,
Henning introduced Petticoat Junction, and in 1965 he reversed the rags to riches model
for Green Acres. The show paved the way for later culture-conflict
programs such as The Jeffersons, McCloud, The Nanny, The Fresh
Prince of Bel-Air, and Doc.
Panned by many entertainment critics of its time, it quickly became a huge
ratings success for most of its nine-year run on CBS.
September 26, 1960
First Kennedy-Nixon debate.For the first time in U.S. history, a debate between major party presidential
candidates is shown on television. The presidential hopefuls, John F. Kennedy,
a Democratic senator of Massachusetts, and Richard M. Nixon, the vice president
of the United States, met in a Chicago studio to discuss U.S. domestic matters.
Kennedy emerged the apparent winner from this first of four televised debates,
partly owing to his greater ease before the camera than Nixon, who, unlike
Kennedy, seemed nervous and declined to wear makeup. Nixon fared better in the
second and third debates, and on October 21 the candidates met to discuss
foreign affairs in their fourth and final debate. Less than three weeks later,
on November 8, Kennedy won 49.7 percent of the popular vote in one of the
closest presidential elections in U.S. history, surpassing by a fraction the
49.6 percent received by his Republican opponent.
One year after leaving the vice presidency, Nixon returned to politics, winning
the Republican nomination for governor of California. Although he lost the
election, Nixon returned to the national stage in 1968 in a successful bid for
the presidency. Like Lyndon Johnson in 1964, Nixon declined to debate his
opponent in the 1968 presidential campaign. Televised presidential debates
returned in 1976, and have been held in every presidential campaign since.
September 22, 1985
NBC began airing the series Amazing Stories.
The series was nominated for
12 Emmy Awards and won five. The first season episode "The
Amazing Falsworth" earned writerMick Garris an Edgar Award for
Best Episode in a TV Series. It was not a ratings hit (ranking 40th in Season 1
and 46th in Season 2), however, and the network did not renew it after the
two-year contract expired. The 1987 science fiction movie, *batteries
not included was originally
intended to be featured in Amazing Stories, but Steven Spielberg liked the idea
so much that he decided to make it a theatrical release.[4]
The series title licensed the name of Amazing Stories, the first dedicated science fiction magazine.
September 22, 1985
The first Farm Aid concert is held in Champaign, Illinois.
It started with an offhand remark made by Bob Dylan during his performance at Live Aid, the massive fundraising concert held at Wembley Stadium, London, and JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, in the early summer of 1985. As television viewers around the world phoned in donations in support of African famine relief, Dylan said from the stage, "I hope that some of the money...maybe they can just take a little bit of it, maybe...one or two million, maybe...and use it, say, to pay the mortgages on some of the farms and, the farmers here, owe to the banks." Dylan would come under harsh criticism from Live Aid organizer Bob Geldof for his remarks ("It was a crass, stupid and nationalistic thing to say," Geldof would later write), but he planted a seed with several fellow musicians who shared his concern over the state of the American family farm. Less than one month later, Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp announced plans for "Farm Aid," a benefit concert for America's farmers held in Champaign, Illinois, on this day in 1985.As one might have expected of a concert staged to
"raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to raise funds to keep
farm families on their land," Farm Aid featured a number of performers
from the worlds of country, folk and rootsy rock music. There were the three
main organizers and the instigator Bob Dylan, for instance, along with Hoyt
Axton, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Loretta
Lynn, Joni Mitchell and Charley Pride. But the first Farm Aid, more than any of
the annual Farm Aid concerts since, was a bit of a stylistic free-for-all,
featuring artists united only by their interest in supporting a good cause.
"As soon as I read in the paper that there was
gonna be such a thing," Sammy Hagar told MTV's cameras on the day of the
show, "I called my manager and said, 'I wanna do it.' And he said, 'It's
all country.' I said, 'I don't care. It's America. I wanna do it.' If there was
anything more surprising than hearing Hagar perform his hard-rock anthem
"I Can't Drive 55" on the same stage that had earlier featured the
quiet folk of Arlo Guthrie, it was hearing Lou Reed perform "Walk On The
Wild Side" on a stage that had featured John Denver.
Over the years since its
first charity concert on this day in 1985, the Farm Aid organization has raised
upwards of $33 million to support small farmers, promote sustainable farming
practices and encourage consumption of "good food from family farms."
September 24, 1955
Instead of the usual live performance staged
especially for Ford Star Jubilee, the final episode on November 3,
1956 was a special, two-hour presentation of the 1939 MGM theatrical
Technicolor film The
Wizard of Oz, hosted by Bert Lahr, 10-year-old Liza Minnelli and young Oz expert
Justin Schiller. This marked the first time that the film had ever been shown
on television, and the only time that one of the film's actual actors (Lahr) as
well as one of the children of the film's star (Judy Garland) hosted it. The
broadcast was a critical and ratings smash, but the film was not shown on TV
again until 1959, when it was presented by CBS at 6:00 P.M., E.S.T. rather than
9:00 P.M., and this time as a Christmas season special in its own right, not as part of an anthology
series. The 1959 telecast was hosted by comedian Red Skelton and his daughter
Valentina. This broadcast attracted an even wider audience, because children
were able to watch, and thus began the tradition of showing the film annually
on television.
Another rare instance of Ford Star Jubilee presenting
a filmed, rather than live, program was their 1956 musical version of Maxwell Anderson's High Tor, starring Bing Crosby and Julie Andrews. Music was
by Arthur
Schwartz,
noted composer of such scores as those for The Band Wagon and Revenge with Music. Crosby, according to
sources, had insisted the production be filmed rather than presented live,
because he did not feel comfortable acting in a live television musical play.[1] Although it was
filmed in color, the musical version of High Tor has never
been released on VHS or DVD.
September 24, 1970
The Odd Couple is a television situation comedy broadcast from September 24, 1970 to March 7, 1975 on ABC.
It stars Tony Randall as Felix Unger and Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison, and was the first of several developed by Garry Marshall for Paramount Television. The show is based upon the play of the same name, which was written by Neil Simon.
September 24, 1985
The first episode of
"Growing Pains" aired on ABC.
The Seaver family resides at 15 Robin Hood Lane in Huntington, Long Island, New York. Dr. Jason Seaver, a psychiatrist, works from home because his wife, Maggie, has gone back to work as a reporter. Jason has to take care of the kids: ladies man Mike, bookish honors student Carol, and rambunctious Ben. A fourth child, Chrissy Seaver, is born in 1988. In the beginning, she is played in her infant stage by twins. In season six, Chrissy's age was advanced to six years old.
September 25, 1965
The half hour Saturday
morning cartoon "The Beatles" premiered on ABC-TV.
September 25, 1970
The Partridge Family premieres on ABC television.
If the Beatles served as the inspiration for The
Monkees, it was the real-life family act the Cowsills that inspired Screen
Gems to dream up The Partridge Family. Originally made up of four
teenage brothers (Bill, Bob, Barry and John), the Cowsills scored their first
top-40 hit with "The Rain, The Park & Other Things" (1967) after
adding their mother to the lineup. They earned three more hits in 1968 with
"We Can Fly," "Indian Lake" and "Hair" after
adding two additional younger siblings, and it was in this configuration that
they caught the eyes of the folks at Screen Gems. In fact, Screen Gems
approached the Cowsill family about having the children star in the show that
would eventually become The Partridge Family, but the family demurred
when it learned that actress Shirley Jones, and not Barbara Cowsill, would be
playing the role of Shirley Partridge. Undaunted, Screen Gems hired four
non-singing child actors for the roles of Laurie, Danny, Chris and Tracy Partridge
and one future teen idol, David Cassidy, for the role of Keith.
In the pilot episode of The Partridge Family,
the five children of a widowed single mother convince their mom to join them in
their garage recording sessions and then watch their first record, "I
Think I Love You" become a #1 pop hit. In a case not so much of life
imitating art as of a brilliant marketing machine replicating its earlier
success, the song "I Think I Love You" raced to the top of the
real-life pop charts less than two months after its television debut.
However, hits like "I Think I Love You" and
"I Woke Up in Love This Morning" were not actually recorded by a five
siblings and their mom in a garage. The Partridge Family's hits were recorded
by some of the best professional musicians working in Los Angeles at the time,
including drummer Hal Blaine and the other studio musicians known as the
Wrecking Crew. The Partridge Family did, however, launch David Cassidy
on a short-lived career as an actual pop singer, and it also, according to news
reports, inspired some misguided runaways to show up on Shirley Jones' Beverly
Hills lawn in the hopes that she might adopt them into her television family.
September
26, 1960
The Beverly Hillbillies is an
American situation comedy originally broadcast for nine seasons on CBS from 1962 to 1971, starring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna
Douglas, and Max Baer,
Jr.
September 26, 1960
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