Airing on NBC for two seasons (58 episodes), the show chronicled the fictional misadventures of a struggling rock band.
The Monkees was my favorite sitcom as a child. Before video recording, I would use my Radio Shack Cassette Recorder to capture the audio of each episode. I didn’t have an external microphone, so I would stack up books and place the recorder by the TV speaker. I would then re-play the tape over and over and sing along to each episode’s songs.
Have you seen these? What are your favorites?
“A Charlie Brown Christmas” is a beloved animated TV special based on Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip. It premiered on December 9, 1965, on CBS and was written by Schulz, with direction by Bill Melendez. The special features the voices of Peter Robbins as Charlie Brown, Christopher Shea as Linus, and Tracy Stratford as Lucy.
Her striking beauty and Southern charm made her a prominent figure in television westerns.
Patricia Blair, born Patsy Lou Blake on January 15, 1933, in Fort Worth, Texas, was an American actress best known for her roles in popular television series during the 1960s. Her striking beauty and Southern charm made her a prominent figure in television westerns. Though her career in Hollywood wasn’t extensive in terms of volume, she made a lasting impression in several key roles.
Where everybody knows your name.
“Cheers” is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from September 30, 1982, to May 20, 1993, for 11 seasons and 275 episodes. Created by James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles, the show is set in a bar named Cheers in Boston, Massachusetts. The show’s name is a play on the idea of a place where everyone knows your name, which became its iconic theme song’s tagline.
Won’t you go away (little girl), Wish you wouldn’t stay (little girl), Won’t you go away (little girl), Woo ooh go away.
Steve Lawrence, born Sidney Liebowitz on July 8, 1935, was an American singer and actor renowned for his contributions to the entertainment industry. was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish parents. His father, Max, was a cantor at the Brooklyn synagogue Beth Sholom Tomchei Harav, and his mother, Helen, was a homemaker.
Some described it as a large, acorn-shaped object with distinctive hieroglyphic-like markings on its surface.
The Kecksburg UFO incident of 1965 is a well-known case of an alleged unidentified flying object (UFO) sighting and subsequent government involvement in the United States. It occurred on December 9, 1965, when numerous eyewitnesses reported seeing a fireball streaking across the sky over several U.S. states, including Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
Award-winning documentarian, journalist, entrepreneur, speaker, author, and philanthropist
María de la Soledad Teresa O’Brien is an American broadcast journalist and executive producer. She is a member of the Peabody Awards board of directors, which is presented by the University of Georgia’s Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
