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This Day in Pop Culture for September 3

TV’s “Search for Tomorrow and “Sons of Anarchy” began on TV.

September 3, 2020

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2008: ‘Sons of Anarchy’ Debuts

FX debuted its series, Sons of Anarchy on this day in 2008. Following the lives of an outlaw motorcycle club in Charming, California, Sons of Anarchy was created by Kurt Sutter and starred Charlie Hunnam, Katey Sagal and Ron Perlman. David Labrava, a real-life Hell’s Angel from Oakland, California served as a technical adviser and even played the club’s assassin Happy Lowman. While telling tales of vigilantism, government corruption and racism, it is said that the show served as an analogy for human transformation. The show ended on December 9, 2014.

1951: ‘Search for Tomorrow’ Begins Its Long Run

The American daytime TV show Search for Tomorrow began its long run on this day in 1951 on CBS. The show’s initial sponsors were Proctor & Gamble’s “Joy” and “Spic and Span” which helped the show earn its name as a “soap opera.”Tomorrow began as a 15-minute serial and was shown live until March of 1967. The show also went from black and white to color in September of 1967 and became a half-hour serial in September 1968.

On March 29, 1982, the show made the big move from CBS to NBC. On August 4, 1983, both the master and backup copy of Tomorrow became lost, and the cast was forced to do the show live for the first time in 16 years.

The show’s last airing was on December 26, 1986, and it was during this time that it held the record for the longest-running non-news program on television. The record was broken by the Hallmark Hall of Fame TV specials.

1962: See Ya Later Wally Gator

Produced by Hanna-Barbera, The Wally Gator Show featured three cartoon shorts including the talking alligator (who during each episode tried to escape his zoo home), Touché Turtle and Dum Dum (a fencing do-gooder and his sheepdog sidekick) and Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har (about a lion continually coming up with get rich quick schemes and his friend whose lines mostly consisted of saying, “Oh me, oh my, oh dear.” Though the show only ran for one year, Wally is still beloved by fans. (Image: Warner Bros.)