The Who’s American TV Debut Really Blew Up, Especially Keith Moon’s Drums
Nobody watching that episode of the show was going to forget an introduction like that.
In Sweden And Finland, The Thursday Before Easter Is The Time For Trick-Or-Treating Witches
We're just a few days away from Easter for many people around the world. For kids in Finland and Sweden, the Thursday before Easter is itself a pretty important time: it’s when they turn themselves into witches.
Turn-On, The TV Show That Got Pulled Off The Air During Its Premiere
Today in 1969 was the premiere of Turn-On, a show that the ABC network more or less turned off during its first episode.
“Dinner For One,” The British Comedy Sketch That’s A New Year’s Eve Tradition In Germany
Watching TV on the last night of the year? That's fine; in fact, there’s a tradition on German TV of showing a classic comedy sketch every December 31.
Animation Legend Chuck Jones Made Dr. Seuss’s Grinch A Part Of TV History
Today in 1966 CBS first broadcast a holiday classic, “Dr. Seuss’s How The Grinch Stole Christmas.” It came to the small screen largely because a giant in the cartoon industry happened to be an old friend of the author.
Charlie Brown Is A Blockhead, But He Did Star In A Great Christmas Special
Today in 1965, CBS broadcast “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” It's one of the iconic TV holiday specials today, but pretty much everyone who put the TV special together thought it was going to be a failure.
The Really (Expletive) Complicated History Of Swearing On TV
Today in 1965, a landmark moment in the history of televised profanity: an f-bomb live on the BBC! We'll look back at some choice moments where people used choice words on the air.
Why Did The Fonz Jump The Shark In The First Place?
The phrase “jump the shark” is now a shorthand we use for the moment a show or a story turns absolutely ridiculous and keeps heading downhill. But why the heck did it happen at all?
Bonnie Richardson Won A State Track Team Championship By Herself – Twice
This month in 2008, a high school athlete from a very small town competed as a team of one in the Texas track championships, and finished first two years in a row.
Communist Countries Thought The TV Show “Dallas” Would Scare Citizens Away From Capitalism, But It Backfired
The iconic TV show was just supposed to be a miniseries, but it kept winning over audience after audience - even some behind the Iron Curtain.