Friday, March 9, 2007

Television's "Webster," Emmanuel Lewis celebrates his birthday today. Part of a brief trend of "interracial adoptive family sitcoms with short leads," Webster was actually more "heavy" than some of the other sitcoms of the era, with many memorable "very special episodes." Moreover, the reason he called his adoptive mother "Ma'am" for the run of the series still gets us choked up.

Oddly enough, it was on this day in 1945 that the radio series "Those Websters" made it's debut on CBS.



Pictured above is an advertisement for Webster cigars.