50 Years Ago Tonight (October 11, 1975): NBC's Saturday Night premieres in the 11:30PM time slot formerly held by weekend reruns of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. The first host is George Carlin. In 1977 the official name will be changed to Saturday Night Live. #SNL #50thAnniversary

Glorious. 🤣 #StarTrek #Enterprise #StarTrekEnterprise #FaithOfTheHeart

50 Years Ago Today (September 19, 1975). The lunacy checks in for the first time. Fawlty Towers premieres on BBC Two, and English hotels are never again the same. #FawltyTowers #BBC #50thAnniversary

RIP Robert Redford. Sundance has ridden into the sunset. "You just keep thinkin', Butch. That's what you're good at." #RobertRedford #RIP #NowIsAHelluvaTimeToTellMe #Sundance

Thirty years ago today on September 12, 1995, the greatest actor to ever take on the role of Sherlock Holmes left us. Jeremy Brett was Conan Doyle's whimsy made flesh. #SherlockHolmes #PBS #Detective #ArthurConanDoyle #JeremyBrett

Here's a comparison of the Gorn bodysuit, worn by the actors/stuntmen playing the Gorn in #StarTrekSNW's "Terrarium" and #StarTrekTOS' "Arena". I like how the hands, legs, knees and feet are very similar to the original (the Gorn on #StarTrekENT was three-fingered, for example).

59 years ago tomorrow on September 8, 1966, the final frontier opened up before us, and the possibilities became endless. #StarTrek #StarTrekDay

We get some really good shots of the Stamets-type shuttle Archimedes (NCC-1701/8) in #StarTrekSNW's "Terrarium". I believe this is also the first time that the shuttle's name at the front of the shuttle is legible on the show.

100 Years Ago Today (September 6, 1925): The Phantom of the Opera, directed by Rupert Julian, premieres at the Astor Theatre in New York City. One of the greatest films in the annals of silent cinema is first seen by audiences. #ThePhantomOfTheOpera #Movie #100thAnniversary #SilentFilms

40 Years Ago Today (September 1, 1985): Dr. Robert Ballard discovers the wreck of RMS Titanic after 73 years unseen by human eyes. #Titanic #40thAnniversary

The Sickbay biobed readout in Strange New Worlds versus a Sickbay biobed readout in TOS, in the chronology just six or seven years apart. #StarTrek #TheOriginalSeries #StrangeNewWorlds #GraphicDesign

Released 50 years ago today on August 25, 1975. Bruce's best album. Bruce's best song. Born in the U.S.A. is outstanding, but it's not Born to Run. #BornToRun #50thAnniversary #BruceSpringsteen #RockAndRoll

From this week's episode of Strange New Worlds, the official in-universe length and mass of the Enterprise 1701. 442 meters long, 190,000 metric tons, carrying 203 officers and noncommissioned personnel (the exact same crew complement the Enterprise 1701 had in "The Cage(TOS)"). #StarTrek

80 Years Ago Today (August 15, 1945): V-J Day. World War II is effectively over, the official Japanese surrender being just eighteen short days away. #WorldWarII #VJDay #80thAnniversary #History

80 Years Ago Today (August 6, 1945): Hiroshima. The Atomic Age begins, and the world begins its delicate dance on the knife's edge of nuclear destruction. Over the next forty years the world's nuclear arsenals grow to some 60,000 weapons. #Hiroshima #Hiroshima80 #NuclearWeapons #AtomicBomb

The Academy itself is aboard the USS Athena, a new massive ship that serves as home base of the series #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy

The bridge of the USS Athena, the setting for #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy

Paul Giamatti's villain character Nus Braka is half-Klingon, half-Tellarite! #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy

"Do you wish that the first Apollo mission hadn't reached the Moon? And that we hadn't gone on to Mars, and then to the nearest star? RISK. RISK IS OUR BUSINESS. That's what this starship is all about. THAT'S WHY WE'RE ABOARD HER." #Apollo11 #MoonLanding #Anniversary #StarTrek #Exploration

80 Years Ago Today (July 16, 1945): The Atomic Age is born. The first thermonuclear weapon in history is detonated 35 miles southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, at the Trinity Site. The first manmade atomic explosion has a yield of 25 kilotons of TNT. #History #AtomicBomb #WorldWar2 #NuclearWeapons

30 years ago this weekend we lost the great Bob Ross, who left us at the age of only 52. Bob inspired the world with his humble approach to the creation of art and his warm and compassionate personality that won over millions of television viewers. Thanks for everything, Bob. #BobRoss #30Years

Legendary actress June Lockhart turns 100 today. Roles ranging in diversity from the 1938 film adaptation of A Christmas Carol, Meet Me in St. Louis and Sergeant York to General Hospital, TV's Lassie and the original Lost In Space have made her beloved. #JuneLockhart #100thBirthday #Actress

50 years ago today we were gonna need a bigger boat. Jaws opened in theaters on June 20, 1975, forever changing Hollywood and the moviegoing experience. #Jaws #50thAnniversary #StevenSpielberg #MovieHistory

One of the greatest songwriters in the history of popular music turns 83 today. Happy Birthday, Sir Paul! #HappyBirthday #PaulMcCartney

Brian Wilson is gone. One of the songwriting geniues of the past century has fallen silent. Rest well, Troubadour. You've earned it. #BrianWilson #RIP

36 Years Ago Today (June 9, 1989). Marshmelons and fan dances for everybody! Seriously, it grows on you with time. The McCoy's father scene alone is one of the best sequences ever filmed for the Trek movie franchise and the late, lovely DeForest Kelley is the GOAT and MVP of this film. #StarTrek

The righteous dude pretended to be sick and skipped school 40 years ago today. #FerrisBuellersDayOff #FerrisBueller #40YearsAgoToday #SkippingSchool

56 Years Ago Tonight (June 3, 1969): Star Trek: The Original Series airs its last episode, "Turnabout Intruder," just 47 days before Apollo 11 lands on the Moon. TOS goes out as humanity prepares to set foot on another world, and live-action Trek enters hibernation for a decade. #StarTrek #TOS

"After you're home, I'll only be a smile on your face your wife won't understand." Loretta Swit has died. She was 87. And the best Hot Lips in the M*A*S*H franchise. Thanks for a lifetime of entertainment, Loretta. You were always cool. #LorettaSwit #MASH #RIP #HotLips

Found online. If Andor were a 1990s Expanded Universe novel. 🙂 #StarWars #Andor #Books #Novels #EU #ExpandedUniverse #AlternateReality

40 Years Ago Today (May 22, 1985): The 14th official James Bond movie (and the seventh and final installment to star Roger Moore as 007) premieres in San Francisco. The Duran Duran theme song is still pure fire and my all-time favorite James Bond theme song. #JamesBond007 #JamesBond

45 years ago today one of the greatest sequels ever made was first released. #StarWars #TheEmpireStrikesBack #45thAnniversary #ESB45 #EpisodeV

20 Years Ago Today (May 19, 2005). The circle was complete. For the moment. #StarWars #EpisodeIII #RevengeOfTheSith #20thAnniversary #SoThisIsHowLibertyDiesWithThunderousApplause

Joe Don Baker has shuffled off this mortal coil at the age of 89. Mitchell has left the building. Rest in Peace, Joe Don. You were enjoyed. #JoeDonBaker #RIP

20 Years Ago Today (May 15, 2005): Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is screened in public for the very first time at the Cannes Film Festival. It would premiere in London the next day and then across North America three days after that. #StarWars #RevengeOfTheSith

20 Years Ago Tonight (May 13, 2005): The Classic Era of the Star Trek franchise (1966-2005) ends with the deeply unpopular Enterprise one-hour series finale, "These Are The Voyages..." The finale airs at 9pm and is preceded at 8pm by the penultimate episode of the series, "Terra Prime." #StarTrek

Happy 70th Birthday to Kermit the Frog, who debuted in the first episode of a 19-year-old Jim Henson's Washington, D.C.-area puppet show titled Sam & Friends. In 70 years he gained a frilly collar and more color but he's basically the same frog he was seventy years ago. #KermitTheFrog #Birthday

Pope Leo XIV. an American from the Deep Dish homeland of Chicago, and the first Pope to use the name Leo in 122 years. #PopeLeoXIV #Pope #Chicago #USA

Love the Easter egg in one of last week's Andor episodes, one I completely missed until tonight. Two Tenctonese/Newcomers from Alien Nation (a 20th Century Fox-produced franchise but now also owned by Disney) are in a restaurant scene on Ghorman. Were they drinking sour blue milk? #StarWars #Andor

Happy 80th birthday to the one and only Bob Seger, one of both my and my family's favorite vocalists. Bob Seger has always been a master of his craft and this song in particular fills me with a pervasive sense of joy along with a very wistful mindset. Happy Birthday, Bob. #BobSeger #Birthday

The Republican nominees for President from 1944 through 1972. Eight elections, four men, four victories and four losses. And any one of these four men would be leagues preferable to what we (and the Republican Party) have right now. #President #RepublicanParty #AmericanHistory #History

50 years ago today Monty Python and the Holy Grail was released in the United States. And there was much rejoicing. [*Yaaaaaaaaaaay*] #MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail #50thAnniversary #MontyPython #50YearsAgoToday

50 Years Ago Tonight (April 28, 1975): John Lennon gives his last ever television interview, appearing for the full 90 minutes on NBC's The Tomorrow Show hosted by Tom Snyder. The John Lennon episode will go on to become one of the most famous and requested shows in Snyder's career. #JohnLennon

80 Years Ago Today (April 25, 1945): U.S. and Soviet troops meet outside Torgau at the Elbe River, officially marking the linking up of Allied forces and dividing Germany in two. World War II in Europe is now less than two weeks away from being over. #WorldWar2 #History

40 Years Ago Today (April 23, 1985): New Coke is introduced. Shortly thereafter, New Coke is unintroduced. And the world keeps turning, not a thing of value having been lost. #CocaCola #Food #Soda #History

20 years ago tonight we looked into a mirror, darkly. And it was glorious. #StarTrek #Enterprise #MirrorUniverse #20YearsAgoToday

Happy Easter! Go boldly, Peeps. #HappyEaster #StarTrek #Easter #Easter2025 #Trekkies

250 Years Ago Today (April 19, 1775): The Battles of Lexington and Concord. The shot heard round the world is fired. The American Revolution begins. #AmericanRevolution #250thAnniversary #Lexington #Concord #RevolutionaryWar

250 Years Ago Tonight (April 18, 1775): Paul Revere's midnight ride. The American Revolution is just hours away. #PaulRevere #AmericanRevoluton250 #AmericanHistory #History

One of the greatest gameshow emcees in the history of television has left us. Wink was part of my childhood, and I more than once rushed home from important meetings and playing with my cousins and friends to watch Tic-Tac-Dough. Rest in Peace, Wink. You were always top prize. ❤️ #WinkMartindale