On this day in television history - M Squad (1959):

M Squad

Season 2. Episode 40.
Episode entitled: Death Is a Clock.
Released July 3, 1959.
Directed by Robert Ellis Miller.
Written by Rik Vollaerts.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Madlyn Rhue, Douglas Henderson, Stacy Harris, James Seay, Claire Carleton, Vernon Rich, Walter Bacon, Richard LaMarr, George Selk.

On this day in movie history - Anatomy of a Murder (1959):

Anatomy of a Murder

directed by Otto Preminger,

written by Wendell Mayes,

based on the novel by Robert Traver,

was released in the United States on June 29, 1959.
Music by Duke Ellington.

Cast:

James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O'Connell, Eve Arden, Kathryn Grant, George C. Scott, Orson Bean, Russ Brown, Murray Hamilton, Brooks West, Ken Lynch, John Qualen, Howard McNear, Alexander Campbell, Ned Wever, Jimmy Conlin, Royal Beal, Joseph Kearns, Don Ross, Lloyd Le Vasseur, James Waters, Joseph N. Welch, Danny the Dog, Duke Ellington, Irv Kupcinet, Lawrence K. Paquin, Chuck Ramsay, Mrs. Joseph Welch.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1959):

M Squad

Season 2. Episode 39.

Episode entitled: The Platter Pirates.

Released June 26, 1959.

Directed by Dan Alexander.

Written by Robert C. Dennis and Jon Kubichan.

Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Gale Robbins, Tommy Farrell, Patricia Huston, Lou Krugman, Baynes Barron, Howard McLeod, Bruce Hayes, Frank Garfield, Robin Raymond.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1959):

M Squad

Season 2. Episode 38.

Episode entitled: Mr. Grim’s Rabbits.

Released June 19, 1959.

Directed by David Butler.

Written by Melvin Levy.

Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Carole Mathews, Tim Graham, Ralph Clanton, Patricia Michon, Freeman Lusk, Terry Frost, Voorheis J. Ardoin, Michael Carr, Jerry Hall, Don Hix.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1959):

M Squad

Season 2. Episode 37.
Episode entitled: Decoy in White.
Released June 12, 1959.
Directed by Sidney Lanfield.
Written by Robert Tallman.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Mike Road, Mike Mazurki, James Flavin, Judy Bamber, Maggie McCarter, Dorothea Lord.

Born on this day – Dee Freeman:

Dee Freeman

Actress

Producer

Writer

June 6, 1959 – April 2, 2026

Credits:

10-8: Officers on Duty (2004); 13th Annual Indie Series Awards (2023); 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996); ABC Afterschool Specials (1996); An Average American Marriage (2012); Anacostia (2017); Blue Hill Avenue (2001); Bones (2008); Boston Public (2003); Brothers & Sisters (2011); Caroline in the City (1998); Coach (1995); Cold Case (2003); Crossing Jordan (2005); Delicate State (2021); Dexter (2008); Do Us Part (2020); Don't Move (2026); ER (2002); Freezerburn (2005); From the Mouths of Babes (2014–2019); Ghost Whisperer (2007); Halfway Home (2007); High Incident (1997); Jackie's Back! (1999); Kenan & Kel (1999); Lost on Earth (1997); Motel Jerusalem (1999–2001); My Baby's Daddy (2004); NCIS: Los Angeles (2021); Nobody's Perfect (2015); Party of Five (1996); Passing the Time (2007); Perception (2014); Pet Bytez (2011); Pretty the Series (2010–2015); Profiler (1997); Reasonable Doubt (2022); Red Carpet Report (2011); Red Meat (1997); Reservations (2008); Rising Sun (2012); Rude Awakening (1999); Seinfeld (1998); Shameless (2016); Silk Stalkings (1997); Sistas (2026); Six Feet Under (2002); Sports Theater with Shaquille O'Neal (1996); Standardized Patience (2017); Stranger Inside (2001); Suddenly Susan (1997); Temps (2016); Thank You, Good Night (2002); The Astronaut (2023); The Captain (2008); The Case Within (2023); The Country They Call Life (2025); The District (2001); The Division (2002); The Gregory Hines Show (1997); The Guardian (2003); The Landlady (1998); The Loony Zoo (2015); The Shield (2002); The X-Files (2000); The Young and the Restless (1997–2009); Trailer Park Queen (date?); Urban Teach Now (2016); Way of Seeing (2013); Weight (2015).

On this day in television history - M Squad (1959):

M Squad

Season 2. Episode 36.
Episode entitled: The Dangerous Game.
Released June 5, 1959.
Directed by Bretaigne Windust.
Written by Joel Kane, Allen H. Miner and Frank L. Moss.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Kasey Rogers, Jonathan Hole, Paul Lukather, Laurie Mitchell, House Peters Jr., Mary Gregory, Max Dommar.

On this day in music history:

B.B. King Wails by B.B. King And His Orchestra (1959)

Eagles by the Eagles (1972)

Takin’ a Stand by Deborah Coleman (1995)

Piano Solos by Laura Sullivan (2003)

Moments from the Life Stories of Strangers Part Two by The Luminous World Orchestra (2016)

Chromatones by Darlene Koldenhoven (2018)

B.B. King Wails

Album by B.B. King And His Orchestra,

released in June 1959.

Exact release date unknown.

Track list: Joe Josea; I’ve Got Papers on You, Baby; Tomorrow Is Another Day; Come by Here; The Fool;  Love You So; The Woman I Love; We Can’t Make It Right; Treat Me Right; Time to Say Goodbye.

Eagles

Album by the Eagles,

released June 1, 1972.

Track list: Take It Easy; Witchy Woman; Chug All Night; Most of Us Are Sad; Nightingale; Train Leaves Here This Morning; Take the Devil; Earlybird; Peaceful Easy Feeling; Tryin’.

Takin’ a Stand

Album by Deborah Coleman,

released June 1, 1995.

Track list: Evil Gal’s Daughter; Missin’ You; Don’t Talk About Love; Takin’ A Stand; I Believe; Moanin’ The Blues; I Cry; What Should I Do; Can’t Leave The Blues; Them Changes; Changes Revisited.

Piano Solos

Album by Laura Sullivan,

released June 1, 2003.

Track list: Hope for the Sun; Dreaming Underwater; Selling Water by the River; Lullaby Wind; Sleepwalking (On a Tightrope); Claire De Lune; Calls to Spirit; Brave Mourning; Of Land & Sea, Of Mortal & Divine; The Voyage Home; In Last Hours.

Moments from the Life Stories of Strangers Part Two

Album by The Luminous World Orchestra,

conducted by Steven Chesne,

released June 1, 2016.

Track list: Grace of Ganesha; Perpetual Motion; Brushing Through the Crowd; The Mask of the Familiar; Glory Story #541; Cirrostratus; For When Innocence Finds Compassion; Cupid and Psyche; Fruits of Persistence; Voices in the Fountain: I. The Water; Voices in the Fountain: II. Emerging; Voices in the Fountain: III. Voices; Voices in the Fountain: IV. Resonant Fragment.

Chromatones

Album by Darlene Koldenhoven,

released June 1, 2018.

Track list: Golden Dawn; Mourning Doves; Red Savannah; Swans on the Seine; Terra Affirma; Native Bloom; Vibrant Worlds; Chromatones; Prism of Time; Painted Desert; Waltzing in Planetary Time.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1959):

M Squad

Season 2. Episode 35.
Episode entitled: High School Bride.
Released May 29, 1959.
Directed by John Brahm.
Written by Robert C. Dennis.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Jimmy Murphy, Marion Ross, Jeanne Bates, Rusty Lane, Deanna Ross, Phil Arnold.

Born on this day – Robyn Bernard:

Robyn Bernard

Actress

Musician

Singer

Pianist

May 26, 1959 – March 12, 2024

Credits:

Betty Blue (1986); Diva (1981); General Hospital (1984–1990); Hour Magazine (1986); Kings for a Day (1997); Maigret (1992); Roselyne and the Lions (1989); Simon & Simon (1983); The Facts of Life (1984); The New Hollywood Squares (1987); Tour of Duty (1988); Voices from the High School (2002); Whiz Kids (1983); Win, Lose or Draw (1988).

Born on this day – David Harris:

David Harris

Actor

Producer

May 23, 1959 – October 25, 2024

Credits:

18 Wheels of Justice (2001); A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion (1982); A Soldier's Story (1984); Any Day Now (2000); Attica (1980); Badge of the Assassin (1985); Benny's Place (1982); Black Scorpion II: Aftershock (1997); Brubaker (1980); Cop Rock (1990); Crime Story (1988); DEA (1990); Dead End City (1988); Death Penalty (1980); Dish Dogs (2000); Elementary (2014); Equal Justice (1991); ER (2000); Fatal Beauty (1987); Father & Son: Dangerous Relations (1993); Favorite Deadly Sins (1995); Fire with Fire (1986); First Wives Club (2019); Form, Space & Murder (1997); Great Performances (1977); Hill Street Blues (1984–1986); His Dying Wish (2016); In the Heat of the Night (1988); In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance (1994); Instinct (2018); James White (2015); Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys (1976); Kojak (1977); Law & Order (2010); Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2012); MacGyver (1986); Maniac (2013); Martial Law (1999); Mike Hammer, Private Eye (1997); Mommy's Box (2016); North & South: Book 1, North & South (1985); NYPD Blue (1993–2002); Pensacola: Wings of Gold (1998); Philly (2001); Profiler (1997); Purple Hearts (1984); Quicksilver (1986); Simon & Simon (1988); Straight (2014); The Andy Troy Show (2017); The Beginning: From Novel to Screen (2005); The Bob Show (2008); The Equalizer (1989); The Grindhouse Radio (2016); The Littlest Hobo (1982); The Phenomenon: Releasing the Warriors (2005); The Warriors (1979); The Warriors / Video Game (2005); The Warriors: Last Subway Ride Home (2015); The Way Home: Making the Warriors (2005); The White Shadow (1979); Under Cover (1987); Vietnam War Story (1987); Zoo Crew Two (2022).

On this day in television history - M Squad (1959):

M Squad

Season 2. Episode 34.
Episode entitled: The Outsider.
Released May 22, 1959.
Directed by Don Taylor.
Written by Jack Laird and Wilton Schiller.
Music by Count Basie and Stanley Wilson.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Joyce Meadows, William Tregoe, Michael Garth, Nancy Valentine, Nestor Paiva, Ralph Moody, Ed Prentiss, Molly Dodd.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1959):

M Squad

Season 2. Episode 32.
Episode entitled: The Baited Hook.
Released May 8, 1959.
Directed by Mark Sandrich Jr.
Written by Merwin Gerard.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Vic Perrin, Laurie Carroll, Buddy Lester, Jack Ging.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1959):

M Squad

Season 2. Episode 31.
Episode entitled: Robber’s Roost.
Released May 1, 1959.
Directed by Sidney Lanfield.
Written by Jack Jacobs.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Stanley Dyrector, Robert E. Griffin, Evelyn Scott, Jim Hayward, Howard McLeod, Paul E. Burns.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1959):

M Squad

Season 2. Episode 30.

Episode entitled: The Terror on Dark Street.

Released April 24, 1959.

Directed by Sidney Lanfield.

Written by Jack Laird.

Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Jocelyn Brando, Carleton G. Young, Barbara Drew, John Milford, Jack Rice, Dick Wilson.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1959):

M Squad

Season 2. Episode 29.
Episode entitled: The Fire Makers.
Released April 17, 1959.
Directed by Don Medford.
Written by Frank Moss.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, James Coburn, Leonard Nimoy, Georgine Darcy, Milton Frome, Steven Ritch, Maida Severn, Helen Conrad, Bud and Travis, Frank O’Connor.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1959):

M Squad

Season 2. Episode 28.

Episode entitled: The Crush Out.

Released April 10, 1959.

Directed by Virgil W. Vogel.

Written by Ric Hardman.

Music by Count Basie and Stanley Wilson.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, William Phipps, Tyler McVey, James Chandler, Robert Burton, Michael Rye, Ashley Cowan, Mike Ragan, Patricia Lloyd, Carl McIntire.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1959):

M Squad

Season 2. Episode 27.

Episode entitled: The Vanishing Lady.

Released April 3, 1959.

Directed by Sidney Lanfield.

Written by Jack Jacobs.

Music by Lyn Murray.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Jack Mullaney, Mary LaRoche, Mary Scott, William Hudson, John Eldredge, Henry McCann.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1959):

M Squad

Season 2. Episode 26.
Episode entitled: Ghost Town.
Released March 27, 1959.
Directed by John Brahm.
Written by Jack Laird, Lawrence Resner, John Francis Larkin and Boris Ingster.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Alan Marshal, Sally Todd, John Herman Shaner, Maggie McCarter, Charles Herbert, Bill Baldwin, Sid Melton.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1959):

M Squad

Season 2. Episode 25.
Episode entitled: The Harpies.
Released March 20, 1959.
Directed by Fletcher Markle.
Written by Robert C. Dennis.
Music by John Williams.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Beatrice Kay, Gail Kobe, Luana Anders, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Elmore Vincent, Judd Holdren.