Month: January 2026

In the earliest days of television, showrunners didn’t often bother with tying up a long-running show’s loose ends. In a world without cable or many reruns, a series finale was…

Here are some things you might not have known about the award-winning—and much-beloved—1960s-set coming-of-age tale, which made its debut on January 31, 1988. 1. The basic concept for The Wonder…

15 Fun Facts About ‘Trading Places’ The John Landis-directed comedy classic helped turn stars Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd into household names. In Trading Places, millionaires Randolph (Ralph Bellamy) and…

Coming into their fifth and final album, 1983’s Synchronicity, The Police were on the verge of something big. Their previous LP, 1981’s Ghost In the Machine, had peaked at No.…

Unlike movies, where it’s rare that a second (or third) attempt at remaking a film can ever match—let alone top—the original, music is a different sort of creative beast. Just…

One thing that illustrated and photographic archives have taught us is that people have always known how to rock a stylish piece of headwear. From squat caps to towering toppers,…

An all-female cast for a crime drama was practically unheard of when ABC premiered Charlie’s Angels on September 22, 1976. Would audiences tolerate a lack of testosterone in a television…

Making its debut in 1989, MTV Unplugged—in which famous musicians perform stripped-down arrangements of their biggest hits—was a hit for both the cable network and the music industry, particularly in…

Romantic comedies don’t always get their due. The genre is as old as cinema itself, and has been making large audiences in dimly lit rooms flush with the sweeping highs…

1. THE RIDDLER (FRANK GORSHIN)Empty heading The quintessential (and first) Batman villain to star in the 1966 series, Frank Gorshin would end up playing The Riddler in all of the…