September 9, 1975
The first episode of "Welcome Back, Kotter"
aired on ABC.
The show starred stand-up
comic/actor Gabriel 'Gabe' W. Kaplan as the title character, Gabe Kotter, a
wisecracking teacher who returns to his alma mater high school, the
fictional James Buchanan High
in Brooklyn, New York, to teach an often unruly group of remedial
loafers self-labeled as the "Sweathogs." (The nickname reflected the
fact that the remedial classes were held on the very top floor of the high
school.) The school was based on New Utrecht High School, which was used in the opening credits, and also the
high school that Kaplan attended. The school's principal was perpetually
absent, while the uptight vice principal, Michael Woodman (John Sylvester White),
dismissed the Sweathogs as worthless hoodlums and only expected Kotter to
attempt to contain them until they inevitably dropped out.Kotter
had attended the same remedial classes when he was a student at Buchanan, and
was a founding member of the Sweathogs. Recognizing that he was his students'
last chance to learn enough to survive beyond high school, he soon befriended
them as they grew to recognize and appreciate his faith in their potential. His
devotion to the class was such that his students often visited his Bensonhurst apartment, sometime via window, to
the chagrin of his wife, Julie (Marcia Strassman).
Many
of the characters of Welcome Back, Kotter were based on people
from Kaplan's teen years as a remedial school student in Brooklyn. As a
stand-up comic, one of Kaplan's routines was "Holes and Mellow
Rolls", in which he talked in depth about his former classmates. The names
of characters in Holes and Mellow Rolls: "Vinnie Barbarino" was
inspired by Eddie Lecarri and Ray Barbarino, from Miami, FL; "Freddie
'Boom Boom' Washington" was inspired by Freddie "Furdy" Peyton;
"Juan Epstein" was partially inspired by Epstein "The
Animal"; and "Arnold Horseshit" was changed to "Arnold
Horshack" for network television.
The drama series Law & Order premieres on
NBC.
The first half of the hour-long
program, which is set in New York City, focuses on the police as they
investigate a crime--often inspired by real-life news stories--while the second
part of the show centers on the prosecution of those accused of that crime.
Each episode opens with a narrator stating: “In the criminal justice system,
the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the
police, who investigate crime, and the district attorneys, who prosecute the
offenders. These are their stories.”
On September 20, 1999, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,
starring Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni as a pair of New York City
detectives who investigate sex-related crimes, premiered on NBC. Law &
Order: Criminal Intent followed in 2001. Law & Order: Trial by Jury
debuted in 2005 and lasted for one season. The Law & Order franchise
was created by Dick Wolf, who was born in 1946 and began his television career
as a writer for such shows as Miami Vice.
My Mother The Car premiered
on NBC TV. The series was canceled after only a few weeks after the
debut.
Critics and adult viewers
generally panned the show, often savagely. In 2002, TV Guide proclaimed
it to be the second-worst of all time, just behind The Jerry Springer
Show. In 2010 The O'Reilly
Factor recorded its viewers
as listing it as the worst show of all time. In the context of its time,
however, My Mother the Car was an original variation on
then-popular "gimmick" shows like My Favorite
Martian, The Flying Nun, I Dream of Jeannie, and especially Mister Ed,
all of which depended on a fantastic, quirky premise for their comedy. Like
these situation comedies of the 1960s, My Mother the Car is
remembered fondly by baby boomerswho
followed the series during its one broadcast season.
Allan Burns, co-creator of My Mother the Car, went on
to create some of the most critically acclaimed shows in television history,
including The Mary
Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda,
and Lou Grant. Television producer James L. Brooks,
who later collaborated with Burns on these series, created, among others, Room 222 and Taxi,
and served as executive producer of The Simpsons (which later parodied the show in the "Lovematic
Grandpa" segment of "The
Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase"),
got his start in television sitcoms when he was called upon to rewrite a script
for an episode of the series. The other co-creator, Chris Hayward,
produced and wrote for Barney Miller during its first several seasons.
September 14, 1965
F Troop debuted. F Troop is a satirical American television sitcom about
U.S. soldiers and American
Indians in the Wild West during
the 1860s that originally aired for two seasons on ABC-TV.
It debuted in the United States on September 14,
1965 and concluded its run on April 6, 1967 with a total of 65 episodes. The
first season of 34 episodes was broadcast in black-and-white,
the second season in color.
The series relied heavily on
character-based humor; verbal and visual gags, slapstick, physical comedy and burlesque comedy
make up the prime ingredients of F Troop. The series played fast
and loose with historical events and persons, and often parodied them for
comical effect (such as with calling the Winchester 73 rifle the Chestwinster 76 rifle) There were
some indirect references made to the culture of the 1960s such as a
"Playbrave Club" (a parody of a Playboy Club) and
imitations of Rock & Roll bands (including singing songs written in the
1960s).
September 14, 1985
The Golden Girls first aired.
Created by Susan Harris and starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty. The show centers on four older women sharing a
home in Miami,
Florida. It was produced
by Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions, in association with Touchstone Television, and Paul Junger Witt, Tony
Thomas, and Harris served as
the original executive producers.
The Golden Girls received critical acclaim throughout most of
its run and won several awards, including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series twice. It also won three Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Series –
Musical or Comedy. Each of the four
stars received an Emmy
Award (from multiple
nominations during the series' run), making it one of only three sitcoms in the
award's history to achieve this. The series also ranked among the top ten
highest-rated programs for six out of its seven seasons. In 2014, the Writers
Guild of America placed the
sitcom at #69 in their list of the "101 Best Written TV Series of All
Time".
September 9, 1975
The first episode of "Welcome Back, Kotter" aired on ABC.
The show starred stand-up comic/actor Gabriel 'Gabe' W. Kaplan as the title character, Gabe Kotter, a wisecracking teacher who returns to his alma mater high school, the fictional James Buchanan High in Brooklyn, New York, to teach an often unruly group of remedial loafers self-labeled as the "Sweathogs." (The nickname reflected the fact that the remedial classes were held on the very top floor of the high school.) The school was based on New Utrecht High School, which was used in the opening credits, and also the high school that Kaplan attended. The school's principal was perpetually absent, while the uptight vice principal, Michael Woodman (John Sylvester White), dismissed the Sweathogs as worthless hoodlums and only expected Kotter to attempt to contain them until they inevitably dropped out.Kotter had attended the same remedial classes when he was a student at Buchanan, and was a founding member of the Sweathogs. Recognizing that he was his students' last chance to learn enough to survive beyond high school, he soon befriended them as they grew to recognize and appreciate his faith in their potential. His devotion to the class was such that his students often visited his Bensonhurst apartment, sometime via window, to the chagrin of his wife, Julie (Marcia Strassman).
Many of the characters of Welcome Back, Kotter were based on people from Kaplan's teen years as a remedial school student in Brooklyn. As a stand-up comic, one of Kaplan's routines was "Holes and Mellow Rolls", in which he talked in depth about his former classmates. The names of characters in Holes and Mellow Rolls: "Vinnie Barbarino" was inspired by Eddie Lecarri and Ray Barbarino, from Miami, FL; "Freddie 'Boom Boom' Washington" was inspired by Freddie "Furdy" Peyton; "Juan Epstein" was partially inspired by Epstein "The Animal"; and "Arnold Horseshit" was changed to "Arnold Horshack" for network television.
The drama series Law & Order premieres on NBC.
On September 20, 1999, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,
starring Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni as a pair of New York City
detectives who investigate sex-related crimes, premiered on NBC. Law &
Order: Criminal Intent followed in 2001. Law & Order: Trial by Jury
debuted in 2005 and lasted for one season. The Law & Order franchise
was created by Dick Wolf, who was born in 1946 and began his television career
as a writer for such shows as Miami Vice.
My Mother The Car premiered on NBC TV. The series was canceled after only a few weeks after the debut.
Critics and adult viewers generally panned the show, often savagely. In 2002, TV Guide proclaimed it to be the second-worst of all time, just behind The Jerry Springer Show. In 2010 The O'Reilly Factor recorded its viewers as listing it as the worst show of all time. In the context of its time, however, My Mother the Car was an original variation on then-popular "gimmick" shows like My Favorite Martian, The Flying Nun, I Dream of Jeannie, and especially Mister Ed, all of which depended on a fantastic, quirky premise for their comedy. Like these situation comedies of the 1960s, My Mother the Car is remembered fondly by baby boomerswho followed the series during its one broadcast season.
Allan Burns, co-creator of My Mother the Car, went on to create some of the most critically acclaimed shows in television history, including The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, and Lou Grant. Television producer James L. Brooks, who later collaborated with Burns on these series, created, among others, Room 222 and Taxi, and served as executive producer of The Simpsons (which later parodied the show in the "Lovematic Grandpa" segment of "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase"), got his start in television sitcoms when he was called upon to rewrite a script for an episode of the series. The other co-creator, Chris Hayward, produced and wrote for Barney Miller during its first several seasons.
September 14, 1965
F Troop debuted. F Troop is a satirical American television sitcom about U.S. soldiers and American Indians in the Wild West during the 1860s that originally aired for two seasons on ABC-TV.
It debuted in the United States on September 14, 1965 and concluded its run on April 6, 1967 with a total of 65 episodes. The first season of 34 episodes was broadcast in black-and-white, the second season in color.
The series relied heavily on
character-based humor; verbal and visual gags, slapstick, physical comedy and burlesque comedy
make up the prime ingredients of F Troop. The series played fast
and loose with historical events and persons, and often parodied them for
comical effect (such as with calling the Winchester 73 rifle the Chestwinster 76 rifle) There were
some indirect references made to the culture of the 1960s such as a
"Playbrave Club" (a parody of a Playboy Club) and
imitations of Rock & Roll bands (including singing songs written in the
1960s).
September 14, 1985
The Golden Girls first aired.
The Golden Girls received critical acclaim throughout most of
its run and won several awards, including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series twice. It also won three Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Series –
Musical or Comedy. Each of the four
stars received an Emmy
Award (from multiple
nominations during the series' run), making it one of only three sitcoms in the
award's history to achieve this. The series also ranked among the top ten
highest-rated programs for six out of its seven seasons. In 2014, the Writers
Guild of America placed the
sitcom at #69 in their list of the "101 Best Written TV Series of All
Time".
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