FReeper Canteen ~ Most Excellent Adventures in TV Land ~ 2 September 05

TIME TRAVEL

Look…we’ve got a new time machine. Isn’t it nice? Let’s hope it works. ARE YOU READY? The Canteen is about to embark on another journey back in time.
If you're brave enough, climb aboard, no ticket required……we're about to take off.
Come on, hop in, watch your step ...... Let me set my controls.
Buckle up. Now don't be afraid....I know how to fly this thing.......Here we goooooooooo.......
WHOOOOOOSHHHHHHHH
Here we are - Ok. I see this new machine is working as it should. We’re moving ahead in time. A little. Let me turn on the television to see what is on.
Do any of you remember these shows?
"Lassie"
9/12/1954 - 9/12/1971 CBS
PLEASE NOTE THE DATES
Black and White - 30 minutes
From the Eric M. Knight book
Lassie Cast
Tommy Rettig as Jeff Miller (1954-1957)
Jan Clayton as Ellen Miller (1954-57)
George Cleveland as George (Gramps) Miller (1954-57)
Jon Provost as Timmy Martin
Cloris Leachman as Ruth Martin (1957-58)
Jon Shepodd as Paul Martin (1957-1958)
June Lockhart as Ruth Martin (1958-64)
Hugh Reilly as Paul Martin (1958-1964)
George Chandler as Uncle Petrie (1957-64)
Arthur Space as Doc Weaver (1954-1964)
Lassie Tidbits
I'm amazed that Lassie pulled off those weekly feats of derring-do. How confusing it must have been. First, they kept calling "Lassie, come here, girl" when the dog was, in fact, a male. Actually, six of them all trained by Rudd Weatherwax.
Then, just when Lassie would get used to one family's little quirks, along would come another. Only Doc Weaver (Arthur Space) and Lassie survived from one family to the next.
Lassie's first family was Jeff Miller (Tommy Rettig), his widowed mother Ellen Miller (Jan Clayton) and Gramps (George Cleveland.)
The Millers moved to the city and left Lassie with his second family. Timmy (Jon Provost) as Timmy Martin must have been as confused as Lassie because after the first year, his parents morphed from Cloris Leachman to June Lockhart as Ruth Martin, and Jon Shepodd to Hugh Reilly as Paul Martin
Then, the Martins moved to Australia where they quarantine dogs entering the country. So Lassie lives with a couple of forest rangers. Now off the farm he has a broader base of people to save and in the final seasons, he didn't need an owner at all. Hey, he never did.

Lassie Theme Song
"Whistle" by Les Baxter
Passings
George Cleveland died in 1957 of a heart attack, Jan Clayton died in 1983 of cancer, Robert Bray in 1983 of a heart attack, Arthur Space in 1983 of cancer, George Chandler in 1985 of cancer, Tommy Rettig in 1996, and Hugh Reilly in 1998 of emphysema.
Donna Reed Show
11/24/58 - 11/3/1966 – ABC
Black and White - 30 minutes
275 episodes

Donna Reed Show Cast
Donna Reed as Donna Stone
Carl Betz as Dr. Alex Stone
Shelley Fabares as Mary Stone (1958-1963)
Paul Petersen as Jeff Stone
Thurston Patti Petersen as Trish Stone (1963-1966)
Bob Crane as Dr. Dave Kelsey (1963-1965)
Ann McCrea as Midge Kelsey (1963-1966)
Janet Langard as Karen Holmby (1964-1965)
Darryl Richard as Smitty (1965-1966)

Donna Reed Show Theme Song
"Happy Days" by William Loose and John Seely
Donna Reed Show Tidbits
The Stone family lived in Hilldale. Alex (Carl Betz) was a pediatrician who had his office in the house. Donna (Donna Reed) and Alex had been married for 15 years when the show began and they had two kids, Mary (Shelley Fabares), who was three years older, and Jeff (Paul Petersen).
Mary goes off to college in 1962 and Jeff followed two season later. Paul Petersen's real life sister, Patty joins the cast as Trish, an eight year old orphan who wants to live with the Stones and gets her wish.
In 1962 Columbia Pictures, under their Colpix label, set Stu Phillips about the task of producing hit singles for the teenage stars of the show. The result was Shelley Fabares' '62 hit Johnny Angel, and Petersen's '63 hit, My Dad.
Among the celebs who made their first major TV appearances on the show:
John Astin ("Mouse at Play" 5/10/61)
James Darren ("April Fool" 1/4/59)
George Hamilton ("Have Fun" 4/2/59)

Donna Stone's maiden name was Mullenger and she was from Denison Iowa, which was Donna Reed's real name and real home town!
Donna Reed was married to the executive producer of the show, Tony Owen, but they were divorced in 1971. She married Grover Asmus in 1974.
The show was produced by Reed's husband, Tony Owen.
Passings
Donna Reed died in 1986 of a pancreatic cancer, and Betz in 1978 of lung cancer.

Dennis the Menace
10/4/1959 - 9/22/1963 CBS 30 minutes
Black & White
From the Hank Ketcham cartoon
Dennis the Menace Cast
Jay North as Dennis Mitchell
Herbert Anderson as Henry Mitchell
Gloria Henry as Alice Mitchell
Joseph Kearns as George Wilson (1959-1962)
Sylvia Field as Martha Wilson (1959-1962) P> Irene Tedrow as Mrs. Lucy Elkins
Dennis the Menace Theme Song
"Dennis the Menace" by Irving Friedman

Dennis the Menace Tidbits
Dennis wasn't bad, but he sure was trouble. The most mischievous boy on TV! He was always irritating his neighbor Mr. Wilson when one of his geat ideas would run afoul of Mr. Wilson's plans.
Joseph Kearns died before the filming of the 1961-1962 season was completed. They brought in Gale Gordon as his brother, John. By the start of the next season John was entrenched in the house, complete with wife, as if the first Mr. Wilson never had existed.
Dennis the Menace was made into a movie in 1993 starring Walter Matthau.
Address: 627 Elm Street in Hilldale
Henry: Engineer at Trask Engineering
Dog: Freemont
George Wilson's hobbies:
Coin collecting
Bird watching
Hank Ketcham had a real son named Dennis.

Passings
Joseph Kearns died in 1962, Sara Seeger in 1990 of a brain hemorrhage, Herbert Anderson in 1994, Irene Tedrow in 1995 of a stroke, Willard Waterman in 1995 of bone-marrow disease, Gale Gordon in 1995 of cancer, and Sylvia Field in 1998.

That's the end of the ride for today. Please watch your step on exiting the time machine. Now that I've shown you a few, how about you share something from your memory. Or, if one of these were your favorite show then, share a memory of the best episode for you.
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On This Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on September 02:
1661 Georg Bohm German organist/composer
1837 James Harrison Wilson, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1925
1838 Queen Lydia Kamekeha Liliuokalani last queen of Hawaii (1891-93)
1839 Henry George land reformer/writer (Progress & Poverty)
1850 Albert Spaulding baseball player/founded Spaulding sports company
1853 Wilhelm Ostwald Germany, physical chemist (Nobel 1909)
1856 Yang Hsiu-ch'ing commander in chief of the Taiping Rebellion
1866 Hiram Johnson (Gov-Progressive-Cal)
1884 Frank Laubach Benton Pa, educator, taught reading through phonetics
1901 Adolph Rupp, basketball coach at the University of Kentucky who achieved a record 876 victories.
1917 Cleveland Amory Nahant Mass, conservationist/TV reviewer (TV Guide)
1918 Allen Drury author (Advise & Consent-1960 Pulitzer Prize)
1918 Martha Mitchell wife of Attorney General John Mitchell
1919 Marge Champion LA Calif, dancer (Marge & Gower Champion Show)
1936 Joan Kennedy 1st wife of Mass Senator, Ted
1937 Peter Ueberroth organized 1984 LA Olympics/baseball commissioner
1940 Jimmy Clanton Baton Rogue, La, rock vocalist (Just a Dream)
1943 Rosalind Ashford Detroit,vocalist (Martha Reeve & Vandellas)
1944 Claude Nicollier Vevey Switzerland, astronaut (STS 61-K, sk: 46)
1948 Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe teacher/astronaut (Challenger)
1948 Terry Bradshaw NFL QB (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1951 Mark Harmon Burbank Calif, actor (Dr Caldwell-St Elsewhere)
1951 Michael Gray Chicago Ill, actor (Ronnie-Brian Keith Show)
1952 Jimmy Connors tennis brat (US Open-78,82,83 Wimbledon-74,82)
1964 Keanu Reeves actor (Speed)

Deaths which occurred on September 02:
1384 Louis I, duke of Anjou/king of Naples (Battle of Poitiers)
1547 Hernan Cortes Spanish general defeated Aztec Indians
1862 Thornton F Brodhead, US lawyer/politician/brig-general, dies at 40
1937 Baron Pierre de Coubertin revivor of Olympics, dies at 74
1964 Francisco H Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese gen/pres (1951-58), dies at 70
1964 Morris Ankrum, actor (Kronos, Earth vs Flying Saucers), dies at 67
1969 President Ho Chi Minh of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam dies of a heart attack
1970 Allan Walker actor/writer (Red Buttons Show), dies at 64
1973 J R R Tolkien, British story writer (Farmer Giles of Ham)
1982 Jay Novello actor, dies of cancer at 78
1994 Richard M Major, US anti-terror specialist (CIA Red Book), dies at 72
1997 Viktor Frankl, psychotherapist (Man's Search for Meaning), dies at 92

Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties

Iraq
02-Sep-2003 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Private 1st Class Christopher A. Sisson Camp Dogwood (S. of Baghdad) - Babil Non-hostile - helicopter crash

Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY

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On this day...
0031 BC Battle of Actium; Octavian defeats Antony, becomes Emp Augustus
0911 Viking monarch Oleg of Kiev, signs treaty with Byzantines
1192 Sultan Saladin (Salah ed Din) & King Richard I "Coeur-de-Lion" sign cease fire
1620 The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth with 102 Pilgrims.
1732 Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome
1752 Last day of Julian calendar in Britain, British colonies
1789 US Treasury Department established by Congress
1792 Paris masses remove nobles/clergymen from jails and slaughter them
1859 Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii
1864 Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta
(Anyone got a match?)
1870 Napoleon III surrenders to Prussian armies
1894 Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die
1898 Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain
1898 Machine gun 1st used in battle
1901 VP Theodore Roosevelt advises, "Speak softly & carry a big stick"
1919 Communist Party of America organized in Chicago
1922 Pres Ebert declares "Deutschland uber alas" as German national anthem
1927 Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers
1930 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)

1935 A hurricane slams the Florida Keys killing 423

1936 1st transatlantic round-trip air flight
1940 Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated
1941 Academy copyrights Oscar statuette
1944 Anne Frank (Diary of Anne Frank), is sent to Auschwitz
1944 During WW II, George Bush ejects from a burning plane
1945 Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day)

1945 V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WWII ends)

1946 Johnny Neun replaces Bill Dickey as Yankee manager
1949 Fire in riverfront area kills 1,700 (Chungking China)
1954 Hurricane Edna batters NE US, killing 20
1957 Milwaukee Braves' Frank Torre scores 6 runs in 1 game
1956 Tennessee National Guardsmen halt rioters protesting the admission of 12 African-Americans to schools in Clinton.
1963 Alabama Gov George C Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee HS
1963 CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes
1964 Norman Manley scores 2-consecutive holes-in-one at Del Valley, Cal
1971 Cesar Cedeno hits an inside-the-park grand slammer
1978 Graham Salmon set the worlds record for 100 meters by a blind man
1978 John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston
1983 Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israelli PM
1986 Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi
1987 Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan
1987 Kevin Bass is 1st NLer to switch hit HRs in a game twice in 1 season
1987 West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, goes on trial in Russia
1989 Rev Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst
1991 Jerry Lewis' 26th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45 Million
1999 Genetic experts report that Chardonnay and 15 other varietal wines have resulted from a coupling between Pinot and Gouais blanc grapes
2003 Locust plague, (Oedaleus decorus asiaticus), destroys some 47 million acres of Mongolian grasslands.
2004 Egypt's antiquities chief reveals a 2,500-year-old hidden tomb under the shadow of one of Giza's three giant pyramids.
2004 One policeman was killed and three others wounded in clashes with terrorists in a town northeast of Riyadh Saudi Arabia

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Vietnam : Independence Day (1945)
USA : National Sleepwalking Day.
International Gay Square Dance Month
National Spanish Green Olive Week (Day 5)
National Religious Reference Books Week (Day 5)
Victory in Japan Day (V-J Day)
Bourbon Month

Religious Observances
Luth : Commemoration of Bp Nikolai Grundtvig, renewer of the Church
Old Catholic : Feast of St Stephen, 1st King of Hungary
Christian : Feast of St William, English bishop, apostle to Danes
RC : Commem of Bl Andre Grasset, Canadian Holy Cross brother
Saint Agricola of Avignon Feast Day
Ang : Feast of the martyrs of New Guinea

Religious History
1758 The first Anglican service of worship to be held on Canadian soil was led by Rev. Robert Wolfall at Frobisher Bay, on Baffin Island.
1784 English clergyman Thomas Coke, 37, was consecrated, the first "bishop" of the Methodist Episcopal Church, by founder John Wesley. Coke afterward journeyed to America, where he and Francis Asbury oversaw Methodism in the Colonies.
1930 While a missionary in the Philippines, American linguistic pioneer Frank Laubach wrote in a letter: 'God is always awaiting the chance to give us high days. We so seldom are in deep earnest about giving him his chance.'
1949 English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.'
1973 Death of J.R.R. Tolkien, 81, English Christian language scholar and novelist. His 1954-55 "Lord of the Rings" trilogy describes a war between good and evil in which evil is routed through courage and sacrifice.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

German woman torches house trying to kill spiders
(HOME SAFETY ALERT! HOME SAFETY ALERT! HOME SAFETY ALERT!)

02 September 2005

BERLIN: A German woman laid waste to her family home by setting fire to it as she tried to kill spiders in a garage with a can of hairspray and a cigarette lighter.
Police in the western town of Zuelpich said that when the aerosol failed to finish them off, the 34-year-old woman tried to burn them with the lighter. However, this set the area she had just sprayed on fire and the blaze spread to a hedge.

"It was a series of unfortunate events which led to the damage," a police spokesman said.
"She tried to put the fire out with a garden hose, but couldn't. Instead her semi-detached house next to the hedge caught fire. It's now uninhabitable."

Fire-fighters managed to extinguish the blaze and save the neighbouring house, which sustained broken windows and some charring. The spokesman estimated the total cost of the damage at well over 100,000 euros. No one was hurt.

"The family have had to look for somewhere else to stay," he said. "The spiders are gone though – that problem was solved."

Thought for the day :
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."
J. R. R. Tolkien