The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone premiered on CBS on October 2nd, 1959.

The Twilight Zone (1959-1964)

Created and hosted by Rod Serling.

Rod Serling 

Where is Everybody? (S1E1)

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (S5E3 1963)
with William Shatner

Relative:

Outer Limits

The Day The Earth Stood Still

Also on this date:

Richard Hell was born in 1949

Ted Healy

Ted Healy was born on October 1st, 1896 in Kaufman, Texas. 

Creator of The Three Stooges. 

Charles Ernest Lee Nash (1896-1937)

Soup to Nuts (1930)
with Shemp Howard, Moe Howard, Larry Fine 
and Billy Barty

Ted Healy and his Stooges
with Curly Howard 

Meet the Barron (1933)

Relative:

Joe Besser

Joe DeRita

Christine McIntyre

Also on this date:

Night of the Living Dead premiered in 1968

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark

 Elvira: Mistress of the Dark premiered on September 30th, 1988. 

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)

Cassandra Peterson 

 

 

Edie McClurg and Kate Brown

 

Also on this date:

The Flinstones premiered on ABC in 1960

Madeline Kahn

 Madeline Kahn was born on September 29th, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts. 

Madeline Gail Kahn (1942-1999)

Paper Moon (1973)

Blazing Saddles (1974)
with Gene Wilder and Cleavon Little

Young Frankenstein (1974)
with Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle
and Rolfe Sedan

History of the World, Part I (1981)

Madeline Kahn Sings at the
All Star Party for Burt Reynolds (1981)

Clue (1985)

Also on this date:

Prince’s Let’s Go Crazy topped the Billboard charts in 1984

Sylvia Kristel

 Sylvia Kristel was born on September 28th, 1952 in Utrecht, Netherlands. 

Sylvia Marie Kristel (1952-2012)

Emmanuelle (1974)

Private Lessons (1981)

Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1981)

Private School (1984) with
Phoebe Cates, Kathleen Wilhoite and Betsy Russell 

Dracula’s Widow (1988)

Also on this date:

Gene Roddenberry’s 

Star Trek: The Next Generation premiered

Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway

 Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway premiered on NBC on September 27th, 1975. 

The made for TV drama stars Eve Plumb (The Brady Bunch) and was Directed by Randal Klieser (Grease). 

Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway 

Eve Plumb

Also on this date:

Eve March was born in 1910

Gilligan’s Island

 Gilligan’s Island first aired on September 26th, 1964 on CBS.

Created and Produced by Sherwood Schwartz.

Gilligan’s Island (1964-1967)

Jim Backus, Russell Johnson, Natalie Schafer,
Bob Denver, Tina Louise, Alan Hale Jr.
and Dawn Wells

Dawn Wells

Rory Calhoun as Jonathan Kincaid (S3E18)
The Hunter

Barbara Bain and Martin Landau with Bob Denver
The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island
(1981) TV movie

Also on this date:

Knight Rider premiered in 1984

The Mummy (1959)

 The Mummy was released in the UK on September 25th, 1959.

 The Hammer Film Production was directed by Terrence Fisher. 

The Mummy (1959)

Peter Cushing

Christopher Lee 

Yvonne Furneaux

Also on this date:

The Beatles cartoon premiered on ABC on 1965