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Netflix Bites MGM Grand Las Vegas
Pop Ups and Vendor Markets | Feb 11, 2025 - Feb 20, 2026
United States > Nevada > Las Vegas > > 89109

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Enter the My Nintendo Universal Epic Universe Super Nintendo World Sweepstakes
Gaming Contests | Mar 4 - Jun 30, 2025
United States > Florida > Orlando > > 32819

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Comic-Con Museum Presents Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder: Where Science Meets Fiction
Memorabilia Exhibition | Mar 15, 2025 - Mar 14, 2026
United States > California > San Diego > > 92101
Return of the Living Dead 40th Anniversary Cast Reunion at Monster-Mania Con
Horror Conventions | Mar 14 - Mar 16, 2025
United States > New Jersey > Cherry Hill > > 08002

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Pianoman Screening Series at MOCA New York
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United States > New York > New York City > > 10013

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Warden
DVD Releases | Mar 14, 2025

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Pianoman Screening Series at MOCA New York
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United States > New York > New York City > > 10013
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
U.S. Theatrical Releases | Mar 14, 2025

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Return of the Living Dead 40th Anniversary Cast Reunion at Monster-Mania Con
Horror Conventions | Mar 14 - Mar 16, 2025
United States > New Jersey > Cherry Hill > > 08002

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International Day of Mathematics
Social and Cultural Events | Mar 14

March 14th In History

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Particle Ink: House of Shattered Prisms Las Vegas Opening Day
Experiences | Mar 14, 2024
United States > Nevada > Las Vegas > > 89119

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Ansel Elgort
Birthdays | Mar 14, 1994
Jamie Bell
Birthdays | Mar 14, 1986
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Musical Variety TV Series Dance Fever Premieres, Brings Disco to the Masses | Jan 13, 1979

Musical Variety TV Series Dance Fever Premieres, Brings Disco to the Masses

Season 1 TV/Streaming Premiere, Television/Streaming Premiere | Jan 13, 1979

Ernest Chambers Productions, Merv Griffin Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Television

American musical variety television series Dance Fever aired weekly in syndication from January 1979 until September 1987. The concept for Dance Fever was created by Merv Griffin and his agent Murray Schwartz as a special Merv Griffin Show salute to then-newly released film Thank God It’s Friday, which would feature top disco dancers from eight cities competing for a title.

Casablanca Records had already paid for the set, so a pilot could be produced inexpensively. Griffin’s vision was to have frequent Merv Griffin Show celebrity guest Deney Terrio as the host, and to have celebrities dancing with professional disco dancers. On the Sunday prior to the show, director Dick Carson suggested that, since they already had the dancers for the Thank God It’s Friday salute, they should select the top four couples from that show and have them compete on the Dance Fever pilot episode with celebrity judges. Within a couple days, Sherman Hemsley, Barbi Benton and Herve Villechaize were secured as the first series judges.