#howard hesseman
Herb’s into Zappa (specifically The Mothers’ “Just Another Band From L.A.” album)? That explains…pretty much nothing.
Today, September 18, is the 40th anniversary of the premiere of WKRP in Cincinnati. To celebrate, please enjoy an interview I did with Howard and Jan last week at the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention in Maryland. I hope you learn something new.
And my jacket? It’s real; I wish I could’ve properly showed the back (with the show logo), but it was just amazing to be there with both of them.
Picture, if you will, Point Place, Wisconsin. The year is 1977. A man and his son have just watched the man’s wife go angrily upstairs to sleep. What they don’t know, and will soon find out, is that it’s the thirteenth (possibly in October) and they just forgot her birthday. Red Forman picks up a TV Guide, but not just any TV Guide. It’s a certain TV Guide with four guys from a semi-popular Cincinnati radio station.
This is from That ‘70s Show season 3, episode 17, titled “Kitty’s Birthday (That’s Today?!)” and it stunned me when I noticed it. If you can’t see it too well in these images, here’s a closer look:
Despite the fact that the Forman scene takes place in 1977, and that issue didn’t come out until 1978, and the other fact that Red is looking at listings for the 13th, and the issue actually was for October 21-27 (hey, they got the month correct), this Easter Egg is pretty darn cool.
Here’s the scene in question:
It looks like the estate is starting to get disseminated. Now (March 2022) on a well-known auction site, someone has begun “selling Mr. Hesseman’s collection of over 1000 vinyl records.”
So if you have some money, possibly a little above market value, YOU can own a record that used to belong to Dr. Fever, well, Howard anyway.
This isn’t an ad; it’s just a curiosity.
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Today, September 18, is the 40th anniversary of the premiere of WKRP in Cincinnati. To celebrate, please enjoy an interview I did with Howard and Jan last week at the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention in Maryland. I hope you learn something new.
And my jacket? It’s real; I wish I could’ve properly showed the back (with the show logo), but it was just amazing to be there with both of them.
I’ve been trying to collect my thoughts ever since I heard about Howard’s passing (many thanks to the many and varied friends who blew up my phone today just to let me know and ask how I am).
Maybe the best way to share how I feel is to repost the interview I did with Howard and Jan back in 2018 for the Mid Atlantic Nostalgia Convention (I believe I did my best and I know it shows). I am forever grateful he and Jan took some time to show a devoted fan a good time.
Goodbye, Johnny.
Bengals won one for Johnny today, and Cincinnati is going to the Super Bowl!
You might want to sit down for this, fellow babies. The Doctor is out.
Tweet via original SNL alum Laraine Newman, obit by Hollywood Reporter.
Goodbye, Johnny.
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THIS IS SPINAL TAP (1984)
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