To celebrate the launch of It’s A Stampede!, every day for the next year I will be presenting a totally informative, yet totally useless fact under the banner heading: ‘On this day in geekdom’.

Yep, that’s 365 facts!

Here’s today’s slice of geekdom…

August 21st – On this day in 1987, Dirty Dancing arrives in cinemas. Directed by Emile Ardolino and written by Eleanor Bergstein, the movie stars Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey.

More tomorrow…