On this day in television history - M Squad (1958):

M Squad

Season 1. Episode 34.

Episode entitled: The $20 Plates.

Released May 16, 1958.

Directed by Allen H. Miner.

Written by Merwin Gerard.

Music by Stanley Wilson.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Lynette Bernay, Logan Field, Joel Smith, Sara Taft, Paul Newlan, Charles Seel, Theodore Newton, Arthur Kendall, Joseph J. Greene, Jeanne Dante.

On this day in movie history - Violent Road a.k.a. Hell's Highway (1958 movie & novel):

Violent Road

aka Hell's Highway,

directed by Howard W. Koch,

written by Richard H. Landau and Don Martin,

based on the novel Le Salaire de la peur (The Salary of Fear) by Georges Arnaud,

was released in the United States on May 10, 1958.
Music by Leith Stevens.

Cast:

Brian Keith, Dick Foran, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Merry Anders, Sean Garrison, Joanna Barnes, Perry Lopez, Arthur Batanides, Ed Prentiss, Ann Doran, John Dennis, Susan Adams, Robert Alderette, Peter Brown, John Caler, Bud Cokes, Joe Connors, Charmienne Harker, Dennis Holmes, Pat Lawless, Jack Lomas, Asa Maynor, Gil Perkins, Joel Smith, Venetia Stevenson, John Veitch, Robert B. Williams.

Recommended reading:

The Wages of Fear

Original title: Le Salaire de la peur.

By Georges Arnaud.

Originally published in 1950.

This English language translation edition was published in 1968.

Paperback.

Avon edition.

ASIN: B000VDT4KS

Description:

Las Piedras, beaching port. There are hundreds of them, coming from who knows where, to forget the impasse of their existence in the tropics. For a handful of dollars, these low-rankers are ready to do anything. Ready to face kilometers of impassable track, behind the wheel of a dilapidated truck, to transport nitroglycerin. At the slightest deviation, at the slightest shock, it is death. An epic of pure anguish...

On this day in movie history - Thunder Road (1958):

Thunder Road

directed by Arthur Ripley,

written by James Atlee Phillips and Walter Wise,

based on a story by Robert Mitchum,

was released in the United States on May 10, 1958.
Music by Jack Marshall.

Cast:

Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Jacques Aubuchon, Keely Smith, Trevor Bardette, Sandra Knight, James Mitchum, Betsy Holt, Francis Koon, Randy Sparks, Mitchell Ryan, Peter Breck, Peter Hornsby, Jerry Hardin, Robert Porterfield, Charles Elledge, Charles Hendrix, Christopher Mitchum, Jack Perry, Dale Van Sickel.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1958):

M Squad

Season 1. Episode 33.
Episode entitled: Day of Terror.
Released May 9, 1958.
Directed by Sidney Lanfield.
Written by Harry W. Junkin.
Music by Stanley Wilson.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Fay Baker, Tom Pittman, Barbara Benson, Doris Packer, Paul Newlan, Jess Kirkpatrick, Alice Backes.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1958):

M Squad

Season 1. Episode 32.
Episode entitled: The Healer.
Released May 2, 1958.
Directed by Sidney Lanfield.
Written by Lawrence Menkin.
Music by Stanley Wilson.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Gloria Talbott, Paul Newlan, Robert Carson, Sarah Selby, Paula Hill, Dayton Lummis.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1958):

M Squad

Season 1. Episode 31.
Episode entitled: Guilty Alibi.
Released April 25, 1958.
Directed by Allen H. Miner.
Written by Harry W. Junkin and Norman Lessing.
Music by Stanley Wilson.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Brook Byron, Ross Elliott, Paul Newlan, Viola Harris, Jeanne Bates, Kay Cousins Johnson, Orville Sherman, Elaine Sinclair, Meg Wyllie, Michael McHale.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1958):

M Squad

Season 1. Episode 30.
Episode entitled: The Fight.
Released April 18, 1958.
Directed by Don Taylor.
Written by Jack Laird and Wilton Schiller.
Music by Stanley Wilson.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Rachel Ames, Rusty Lane, Paul Newlan, John Harmon, Leonard Bell.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1958):

M Squad

Season 1. Episode 29.
Episode entitled: The Twenty-Six Girl.
Released April 11, 1958.
Directed by Don Taylor.
Written by Jack Laird and Wilton Schiller.
Music by Stanley Wilson.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Diane Brewster, Simon Scott, Paul Newlan, Ellen Parker, Ward Wood, Betty Edwards.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1958):

M Squad

Season 1. Episode 28.

Episode entitled: Shot in the Dark.

Released April 4, 1958.

Directed by James Neilson.

Written by Merwin Gerard and Leonard Lee.

Music by Stanley Wilson.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Karin Booth, Raymond Greenleaf, Clarke Gordon, Paul Newlan, John Beradino, Bartlett Robinson, Jeanne Baird, Ken Lynch, John Zaremba, David McMahon.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1958):

M Squad

Season 1. Episode 27.
Episode entitled: Hideout.
Released March 28, 1958.
Directed by John Brahm.
Written by Merwin Gerard.
Music by Stanley Wilson.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Jack Elam, Stacy Graham, Dick Miller, Paul Newlan, Terry Burnham, DeForest Kelley, William Hudson, Paul Comi, Ferris Taylor.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1958):

M Squad

Season 1. Episode 26.
Episode entitled: Girl Lost.
Released March 21, 1958.
Directed by Richard Bartlett.
Written by David P. Harmon.
Music by Stanley Wilson.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Bill Williams, Margaret Field, Paul Newlan, Myron Healey, Vera Marshe, Ross Ford, Louise Truax, Beryl Machin, Earl Hansen.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1958):

M Squad

Season 1. Episode 25.

Episode entitled: The Chicago Bluebeard.

Released March 14, 1958.

Directed by David Rich.

Written by Donald Clark and Oscar Millard.

Music by Stanley Wilson.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Vaughn Taylor, Bart Burns, Amzie Strickland, Mary Adams, Betty Hanna, Paul Newlan, Molly Glessing, Mildred Law, Edward Earle, Courteen Landis.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1958):

M Squad

Season 1. Episode 24.
Episode entitled: The Man in Hiding.
Released March 7, 1958.
Directed by Don Taylor.
Written by Harry W. Junkin.
Music by Stanley Wilson.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Alan Baxter, John Hoyt, Paul Newlan, Edwin Reimers, June Vincent, Ralph Neff, Willard Thompson.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1958):

M Squad

Season 1. Episode 23.
Episode entitled: The Black Mermaid.
Released February 28, 1958.
Directed by David Rich.
Written by James Edward Grant and Harry W. Junkin.
Music by Stanley Wilson.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Marcia Henderson, Biff Elliot, Paul Newlan, Harry Bartell, Arthur Hanson, Stanley Adams, Eddie Ryder, Elizabeth Harrower.

Born on this day – Richard Greenberg:

Richard Greenberg

Writer

February 22, 1958 – July 2025

Credits:

A Naked Girl on the Appian Way; Bal Masque; Breakfast at Tiffany's; Eastern Standard; Everett Beekin; Hurrah at Last; Jenny Keeps Talking; Life Under Water; Neptune's Hips; Night And Her Stars; Our Mother's Brief Affair; Pal Joey; Take Me Out; The American Plan; The Assembled Parties; The Author's Voice & Imagining Brad; The Babylon Line; The Bloodletters; The Dance of Death; The Dazzle; The Extra Man; The House in Town; The Hunger Artist; The Injured Party; The Maderati; The Violet Hour; The Well-Appointed Room; Three Days of Rain; Vanishing Act.

Movies and Television:

American Playhouse (1989); Santa's Little Helper (1999); Sisters (1991–1993); Take Me Out (2005); The 57th Annual Tony Awards (2003); The Phony (2010); Theater Talk (2016); Time of Your Life (1999); Trying Times (1989); Working in the Theatre (2003).

On this day in television history - M Squad (1958):

M Squad

Season 1. Episode 22.
Episode entitled: The Frightened Wife.
Released February 21, 1958.
Directed by Don Taylor.
Written by Irving Rubine and Rik Vollaerts.
Music by Stanley Wilson.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Marian Seldes, Whitney Blake, Esther Dale, Herbert Rudley, David Lewis, Larry Kerr, Leslie Bradley, William Fawcett, Nelson Welch.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1958):

M Squad

Season 1. Episode 21.
Episode entitled: Lover’s Lane Killing.
Released February 14, 1958.
Directed by Robert Altman.
Written by Joel Murcott.
Music by Stanley Wilson.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Kent Smith, Ruta Lee, John Doucette, Angela Greene, Leonard Bremen, Douglas Rader.