March 2, 1935
Porky Pig is an animated character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. He was the first character created by the studio to draw audiences based on his star power, and the animators created many critically acclaimed shorts featuring the character. Even after he was supplanted by later characters, Porky continued to be popular with moviegoers and, more importantly, the Warners directors, who recast him in numerous everyman and sidekick roles.
He is known for his signature line at the end of many shorts, "Th-th-th-that's all folks!" This slogan (without stuttering) had also been used by both Bosko and Buddy and even Beans at the end of Looney Tunes cartoons. In contrast, the Merrie Melodies series used the slogan: So Long, Folks! until the mid 1930s when it was replaced with the same one used on the Looney Tunes series (when Bugs Bunny was the closing character, he would break the pattern by simply saying, in his Brooklynese accent, "And Dat's De End!"). He is the oldest continuing Looney Tunes character.
Porky's most distinctive trait is a severe stutter, for which he sometimes compensates by replacing his words; for example, "What's going on?" might become "What's guh-guh-guh-guh—...what's happening?" Porky's age varied widely in the series; originally conceived as an innocent seven-year-old piglet (explicitly mentioned as such in Porky's Preview), Porky was more frequently cast as an adult, often being cast as the competent straight man in the series in later years. In the ending of many Looney Tunes cartoons, Porky Pig bursts through a bass drum head, and his attempt to close the show with "The End" becomes "Th-Th-The, Th-Th-The, Th-Th... That's all, folks!" Porky Pig would appear in 153 cartoons in the Golden age of American animation.
March 3, 1985
March 7, 1955
The play was Peter Pan, starring Mary Martin.
March 7, 1960
A
month after walking off The Tonight Show to protest censorship, host
Jack Paar returns to the show. Paar, who had been hosting the show since July
1957, shortly after host Steve Allen left, was protesting NBC's censorship of a
joke about a "water closet," which the network deemed inappropriate.
March 7, 1975
March 8, 1945
The actor, musician,
television director, radio personality and theater director, best known as a
member of the 1960s made-for-television band The Monkees.
March 2, 1935
March 3, 1985
Porky Pig is an animated character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. He was the first character created by the studio to draw audiences based on his star power, and the animators created many critically acclaimed shorts featuring the character. Even after he was supplanted by later characters, Porky continued to be popular with moviegoers and, more importantly, the Warners directors, who recast him in numerous everyman and sidekick roles.
He is known for his signature line at the end of many shorts, "Th-th-th-that's all folks!" This slogan (without stuttering) had also been used by both Bosko and Buddy and even Beans at the end of Looney Tunes cartoons. In contrast, the Merrie Melodies series used the slogan: So Long, Folks! until the mid 1930s when it was replaced with the same one used on the Looney Tunes series (when Bugs Bunny was the closing character, he would break the pattern by simply saying, in his Brooklynese accent, "And Dat's De End!"). He is the oldest continuing Looney Tunes character.
Porky's most distinctive trait is a severe stutter, for which he sometimes compensates by replacing his words; for example, "What's going on?" might become "What's guh-guh-guh-guh—...what's happening?" Porky's age varied widely in the series; originally conceived as an innocent seven-year-old piglet (explicitly mentioned as such in Porky's Preview), Porky was more frequently cast as an adult, often being cast as the competent straight man in the series in later years. In the ending of many Looney Tunes cartoons, Porky Pig bursts through a bass drum head, and his attempt to close the show with "The End" becomes "Th-Th-The, Th-Th-The, Th-Th... That's all, folks!" Porky Pig would appear in 153 cartoons in the Golden age of American animation.
March 3, 1985
The television show Moonlighting premiered.
Moonlighting is an American television series that aired on ABC from March 3, 1985,
to May 14, 1989. The network aired a total of 66 episodes (67 in syndication as
the pilot is split into two episodes). Starring Bruce
Willisand Cybill
Shepherd as private detectives, the show was a mixture of
drama, comedy, and romance, and was considered to be one of the first
successful and influential examples of comedy-drama,
or "dramedy", emerging as a distinct television genre.
The
show's theme song was performed by jazz singer Al Jarreau and
became a hit. The show is also credited with making Willis a star, while
providing Shepherd with a critical success after a string of lackluster
projects. In 1997, the episode "The Dream Sequence Always Rings
Twice" was ranked #34 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest
Episodes of All Time. In 2007, the series was listed as one
of Time magazine's
"100 Best TV Shows of All-Time." The relationship between
David and Maddie was included in TV Guide 's list of the best TV
couples of all time.
March 7, 1955
The first Broadway play to be televised in color,
featuring the original cast, airs.
The play was Peter Pan, starring Mary Martin.
The play was Peter Pan, starring Mary Martin.
March 7, 1960
Jack Paar
returns to the Tonight Show.
A
month after walking off The Tonight Show to protest censorship, host
Jack Paar returns to the show. Paar, who had been hosting the show since July
1957, shortly after host Steve Allen left, was protesting NBC's censorship of a
joke about a "water closet," which the network deemed inappropriate.
March 7, 1975
The final episode of The Odd Couple aired on ABC.
March 8, 1945
George Michael
"Micky" Dolenz, Jr. is born.
The actor, musician,
television director, radio personality and theater director, best known as a
member of the 1960s made-for-television band The Monkees.
Dolenz
was born at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Los Angeles California, the son of
George Dolenz and Janelle Johnson, both of whom were Hollywood actors.
To quote the Bicentennial Minute, "And that's the way it was".
To quote the Bicentennial Minute, "And that's the way it was".
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Tony Figueroa
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