"No Such Thing as Vampires" is the pilot episode of the American paranormal romance television drama Moonlight. Premiering on CBS on September 28, 2007, it was written by series creators and executive producers Trevor Munson and Ron Koslow and directed by executive producer Rod Holcomb. The pilot introduces Mick St. John (Alex O'Loughlin, pictured), a private investigator and a vampire, along with his love interest Beth Turner (Sophia Myles), his mentor Josef Kostan (Jason Dohring), and his ex-wife Coraline Duvall (Shannyn Sossamon). Originally titled Twilight, the project was renamed and recast when picked up by CBS for the 2007–2008 American television season. Although received poorly by critics, the pilot managed to finish first for its night among total viewers and adults 18–49. Many critics faulted the acting and writing, but some thought that the series showed promise, and Dohring's performance was praised.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1611:

The first recorded performance of Shakespeare's play The Tempest was held at the Palace of Whitehall in London, exactly seven years after the first certainly known performance of his tragedy Othello, held in the same building. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello

1944:

World War II: An American F-13 Superfortress made the first flight by an Allied aircraft over Tokyo since the Doolittle Raid in April 1942. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_November_1944_reconnaissance_sortie_over_Japan

1959:

After being struck in the face with a hockey puck, Jacques Plante played the rest of the game wearing a face mask, now mandatory equipment for goaltenders in ice hockey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Plante

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cherub: 1. (biblical) A winged creature attending on God, described by Pseudo- Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 5th–6th century) as the second highest order of angels, ranked above thrones and below seraphim; similar to a lamassu in the pre-exilic texts of the Hebrew Bible, more humanoid in later texts. 2. An artistic depiction of such a being, typically in the form of a winged child or a child's head with wings but no body. 3. (figuratively) A person, especially a child, seen as being particularly angelic or innocent. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cherub

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.   --Étienne de La Boétie https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_de_La_Bo%C3%A9tie