Your Day in Pop Culture (Friday, March 8, 2013)

This Day in Pop Culture History
1978: BBC Radio 4 airs the first episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Zooey Deschanel wasn't a part of this version.
1979: Philips unveils the first compact disc. Portable CD players that didn't skip weren't perfected until right before MP3 players took over.

Famous People Have Birthdays Too
1921: Alan Hale Jr., actor (Gilligan’s Island)
1922: Ralph Baer, "The Father of Video Games"
1945: Micky Dolenz, singer (The Monkees)
1958: Gary Numan, singer
1966: Cheryl James, rapper (Salt-n-Pepa)
1976: Freddie Prinze Jr., actor (She's All That, Summer's Catch, Scooby Doo and a whole bunch of crap you saw in junior high)
1977: James Van Der Beek, actor (Dawson's Creek, Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23)
1979: Andy Ross, musician (OK Go)

Who's On What Tonight: Your Guide to Late-Night TV:
CONAN: NO EPISODE
LETTERMAN: REPEAT
KIMMEL: CLIP SHOW
LENO: REPEAT
FALLON: REPEAT
FERGUSON: Boston Public's Chi McBride, The Walking Dead's Laurie Holden

In Theaters This Weekend
Oz: The Great and Powerful: James Franco, Mila Kunis and Sam Raimi attempt to launch a new franchise based on L. Frank Baum's books (and not the movie Wizard of Oz, since Warner Bros. will sue Disney).
Dead Man Down: WWE Films has a hand in this movie, which confuses the crap out of us.