Georgy Girl

To this day I've never seen the movie but in 1966, "Georgy Girl" by the Seekers was my favorite song. I had a vague idea who the Beatles were and I didn't hate their music or anything like that but it was "Georgy Girl" that had little me bopping around with my transistor radio in hand!

The Grinch!

50 years ago this evening.

Beatles '66

Not necessarily a recommendation as I just started reading it but consider this a notification that this book all about the Fabs in that magical, transformative year of '66, is available.

Nashville Rebel

A veteran of Buddy Holly's backing band on his last tour and later the focal point of country music's outlaw movement, this '66 feature was Waylon Jennings' sole starring movie vehicle as an actor.

ABC's Second Season

The Funnies On This Day in '66

The big event in the comics in October of '66 was the anticipation of the Great Pumpkin in PEANUTS. The concept had been introduced in the strip in 1959 but this year it was leading up to the debut of one of the most popular of all Charlie Brown TV specials, IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN!

But what else was going on in the Funnies on today's date in '66? Here we see a number of examples from both hugely popular and in some cases now legendary strips as well as from some obscure trivia questions. 

My Two Favorite TV Series

Today marks the 50th anniversary of my top two all-time favorite television series, THAT GIRL and STAR TREK. Both series premiered on Sept. 8th, 1966. The former ran for five seasons and the latter, famously for three. That first night I was seven years old and didn't have control of the TV set--a black and white one, I should add. My parents chose for us to skip STAR TREK in favor of the highly touted TAMMY GRIMES SHOW. Never heard of it? It was canceled after a month. We watched THAT GIRL from beginning, though. We didn't see much STAR TREK until Season three.