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.

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

M Squad

Season 1. Episode 20.
Episode entitled: Dolly’s Bar.
Released February 7, 1958.
Directed by John Brahm.
Written by Lewis Reed.
Music by Stanley Wilson.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Janice Rule, Claire Carleton, Fredd Wayne, Paul Newlan, Russell Thorson, Joe Flynn, Michael Bachus.

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

M Squad

Season 1. Episode 19.
Episode entitled: The Shakedown.
Released January 31, 1958.
Directed by David Rich.
Written by Jack Laird and Wilton Schiller.
Music by Stanley Wilson.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Katharine Bard, Dean Harens, June Dayton, Duncan McLeod, H.M. Wynant, Joe Di Reda, Ted Hecht.

On this day in movie history - Touch of Evil (1958 movie & novel):

Touch of Evil

directed by Orson Welles,

based on the novel Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson,

was released in the United States on January 31, 1958.

Music by Henry Mancini.

Cast:

Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Joanna Cook Moore, Ray Collins, Dennis Weaver, Val de Vargas, Mort Mills, Victor Millan, Lalo Rios, Phil Harvey, Joi Lansing, Harry Shannon, Rusty Wescoatt, Wayne Taylor, Ken Miller, Raymond Rodriguez, Arlene McQuade, Dan White, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Marlene Dietrich, Mercedes McCambridge, William Tannen, Joseph Cotton.

Recommended reading:

Badge of Evil

By Whit Masterson.

Filmed as Touch of Evil (1958), directed by Orson Welles.

Published by Adams Media.
First published 1956.
ASIN: 1440560919
ISBN-10: 9781440560910
ISBN-13: 978-1440560910

Description:

“Orson Welles based his noir masterpiece on this equally fine novel.” – The Washington Post.

Quinlan and McCoy – veteran cops who could smell out a murderer …
A dark, swift-running tale of love and hate and death under the bright California sun.
Assistant District Attorney Mitch Holt suspects the wrong people have been arrested in the murder of Rudy Linneker. But if it wasn't Linneker's daughter and her fiance, who was it? And why do two of the city's most decorated and beloved cops look like they're not shooting straight? If they've planted evidence in this case, what else are they guilty of in the past?