67 years ago today, ‘THE TWILIGHT ZONE’ premiered on CBS, introducing audiences to Rod Serling’s iconic anthology series.
Created and hosted by Rod Serling, the anthology series ran for five seasons from 1959 to 1964 and went on to have a lasting influence on science fiction, horror and television storytelling.
Its legacy can still be seen across film and television today.
55 years ago today, October 2, 1971, Soul Train premiered in national syndication. Created, hosted and executive produced by Don Cornelius, the music and dance program featured performances by R&B, soul, dance pop and hip hop artists, along with funk, jazz, disco and gospel acts, while its dancers made the Soul Train Line a signature of the show.
Cornelius launched the program locally on Chicago station WCIU on August 17, 1970, before taking it national the following year, when production moved to Los Angeles. He hosted until 1993, and the show went on to produce more than 1,100 episodes. Later opening sequences billed it as the longest running first run, nationally syndicated program in American television history, a title it held until Entertainment Tonight passed it in 2016.
The final first run episode aired March 27, 2006, after which a rerun package, The Best of Soul Train, aired for two more years. BET Networks acquired the rights to the Soul Train brand, library and related events in 2016, including the annual Soul Train Music Awards.
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Andrew Morgan My grandmother lived a century, 1900-2000. Farmer all her life, her own parents among the early settlers. The Sixties came along and my parents had school and work in the city, so grandma would spend a lot of time tending to the children. I remember her driving us up W. Washington in Madison, and we could look a block over at Mifflin St, parallel to us, and mobs of protesting students were being chased by Nat'l. Guard in their troop carriers. Grandma turned away from this, turned the radio on, we listened to some pop music. Chrystal Blue Persuasion, I think it was. And she asked me, can you understand the lyrics. I nodded, noncommittally. I was maybe 9 at the time. Now I'm 69 and I can't understand the lyrics.
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