Born on this day – Kirsty MacColl:

Kirsty MacColl

Singer

Songwriter

October 10, 1959 – December 18, 2000

Credits:

Albums:

30:30 The Essential Collection (2013); A New England: The Very Best of Kirsty MacColl (2013); All I Ever Wanted (2014); All I Ever Wanted: The Anthology (2014); Can’t Stop Killing You (1993); Days (1988 - 1991) (2018); Desperate Character (1981); Electric Landlady (1991); Electric Landlady (Deluxe Edition) (1991); From Croydon to Cuba: An Anthology (2005); Galore (1995); Kite (1989); Kite (Deluxe Edition) (1989); Live At The Jazz Café, London, 12 October 1999 (2023); Real (2023); See That Girl (2023); See That Girl 1979–2000 (2023); The Best of Kirsty MacColl (2005); The Essential Collection (1993); The One and Only (2001); The Real MacColl (1991); The Stiff Singles Collection (2006); The Stiff Years (2005); Titanic Days (1993); Tropical Brainstorm (2000); What Do Pretty Girls Do? (1998).

Songs:

All I Ever Wanted; Angel; Can't Stop Killing You; Caroline; Days; Dear John; Don't Come the Cowboy with Me Sonny Jim!; Fairytale of New York; Free World; He's on the Beach; I Want Out; In These Shoes?; Innocence; Keep Your Hands off My Baby; Mambo de la Luna; Miss Otis Regrets; My Affair; A New England; Perfect Day; See That Girl; Terry; There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis; They Don't Know; Walking Down Madison; You Caught Me Out.

Movies, television and video:

A Question of Pop (2000); Adore (2013); Angela and Friends (2009); Any Time Now (2002); Bargain Hunt (2018); BBC Music Live 2000 (2000); Beautiful People (1999); Billy Bragg: Sexuality (1991); Boomers (2015); Britain's Favourite Christmas Songs (2011); Cannonball (2017); Completely Pogued (1991); Cow (2021); Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan (2020); Cuck (2019); De verschrikkelijke jaren tachtig (2022); Dinner at Noon (1991); Doom Patrol (2019); Dream Stuffing (1984); EastEnders (2000–2022); EastEnders: Back to Ours (2015); F.C. De Kampioenen (1991); Folk Britannia (2006); Folk Hibernia (2007); French and Saunders (1990); Fresh Meat (2016); Get It Together (1981); Girls (2016); Good Morning Britain (2017–2019); Hittimittari (1984); Hotel Babylon (2007); I Want You (1998); If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story (2001); If It Ain't Stiff (2007); Kinky Boots (2005); Kirstie's Handmade Britain (2011); Kirstie's Handmade Christmas (2014); Kirsty MacColl: A New England (1984); Kirsty MacColl: Days (1989); Kirsty MacColl: Don't Come the Cowboy with Me, Sonny Jim! (1990); Kirsty MacColl: Freeworld (1989); Kirsty MacColl: He's on the Beach (1985); Kirsty MacColl: Terry (1983); Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl (2001); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993); Later... With Jools Holland (1992–2000); Live from Studio Five (2009); Mad Love (1995); Midsomer Murders (2013); Misfits (2009); Moving Story (1994–1995); MTV 80s - Top 100 Forgotten Gems of the 80s! (2024); MTV 80s - Top 100 Hits of 80s Wonder Women! (2024); Musikladen (1984); National Geographic Explorer (1985); Never Mind the Buzzcocks (1997 / 2000); Not Going Out (2017–2019); Our Nixon (2013); P.S. I Love You (2007); Peter Andre's Xmas Extravaganza Top 50 (2014); Picking up the Pieces (1998); Picture Perfect (1997); Rage (1994); Razzmatazz (1981); Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter (1990); Reeling in the Years (1999); Run All Night (2015); Sex and the City (2001); She's Having a Baby (1988); Sings the Great American Songbook (2010); Something Else (1981); Sounds of the 80s (2015); Talking Heads: (Nothing But) Flowers (1988); Tattoo Fixers (2017); Teachers (2002); Ted Lasso (2021); The 80s - Music's Greatest Decade? (2021); The Adventures of Mole (1995); The Catherine Tate Show (2004); The End of the Tour (2015); The Ghosts of Oxford Street (1991); The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022); The Jack Docherty Show (1997); The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl: Fairytale of New York (1987); The Pogues: Live at the Town and Country (1988); The Project (2023); The Roxy (1987); The Sara Cox Show (2019); The Story of Fairytale of New York (2005); The Vicar of Dibley (1996); Top of the Pops (1980–1991); Tracey Takes On... (1996–1999); Tracey Ullman: Terry (1985); Tracey Ullman: They Don't Know (1983); Tracy Beaker Returns (2012); Who Killed Kirsty MacColl? (2004); Wogan (1985–1991); Women in Rock (1986).

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

M Squad

Season 3. Episode 4.
Episode entitled: Jeopardy by Fire.
Released October 9, 1959.
Directed by Don McDougall.
Written by Stuart Jerome and Maxwell Shane.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Marc Lawrence, William Keene, Harlan Warde, Penny Edwards, Harry Harvey, David McMahon.

On this day in movie history – Pillow Talk (movie & novel):

Pillow Talk

directed by Michael Gordon,

written by Russell Rouse, Maurice Richlin, Stanley Shapiro and Clarence Greene,

was released in the United States on October 6, 1959.
Music by Frank De Vol.

Cast:

Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter, Nick Adams, Karen Norris, Julia Meade, Allen Jenkins, Marcel Dalio, Lee Patrick, Mary McCarty, Alex Gerry, Hayden Rorke, Valerie Allen, Jacqueline Beer, Arlen Stuart.

Recommended reading:

Pillow Talk

By Marvin H. Albert.

Published by Gold Medal.

Published 1959.

ASIN: B000ARHC90

Vintage paperback

Filmed as Pillow Talk (1959), directed by Michael Gordon.

Back cover description:

Good connections.

Doris Day plays the interior decorator who has designs on men.

Rock Hudson and Tony Randall are the men who fall for her, hook, line and sinker.

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

M Squad

Season 3. Episode 3.
Episode entitled: Sunday Punch.
Released October 2, 1959.
Directed by Don Taylor.
Written by Joel Murcott.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Barry Kelley, Robert Knapp, Jo Kaiser, Hugh Lawrence, Smoki Whitfield, Phil Phillips, Rita Duncan, Fred Graham, Jack Perry.

On this day in television history - Johnny Staccato (1959):

Johnny Staccato

Season 1. Episode 4.

Episode entitled: The Shop of the Four Winds.

Released October 1, 1959.

Directed by Boris Sagal.

Written by Sidney Michaels.

Music by Elmer Bernstein.

Cast:

John Cassavetes, Eduardo Ciannelli, Nobu McCarthy, Don Gordon, Fuji, Robert Kino, Bob Okazaki, Pete Candoli, Barney Kessel, Shelly Manne, Red Mitchell, John Williams, Edwin Rochelle, Victor Romito, Chalky Williams.

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

M Squad

Season 3. Episode 2.
Episode entitled: The European Plan.
Released September 25, 1959.
Directed by Francis D. Lyon.
Written by Robert C. Dennis.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Lili Kardell, Paul Burke, Frank Albertson, Gail Bonney.

On this day in television history - Johnny Staccato (1959):

Johnny Staccato

Season 1. Episode 3.
Episode entitled: The Parents.
Released September 24, 1959.
Directed by Robert B. Sinclair.
Written by Douglas Taylor.
Music by Elmer Bernstein.

Cast:

John Cassavetes, Eduardo Ciannelli, Shirley Knight, Frank Dana, John Hoyt, Vic Perrin, Steve Gravers, Frank London, Lisa Davis / Lisa Davis Waltz, Nora Evans, Milt Holland, Ronny / Ronnie Lang.

Born on this day – Elizabeth Peña:

Elizabeth Peña

Actress

Writer

Musician

September 23, 1959 – October 14, 2014

Credits:

15 Minutes (1987); 2002 ALMA Awards (2002); A Piece of the Action: Behind the Scenes of 'Rush Hour' (1999); A Single Woman (2008); Across the Moon (1994); Adio Kerida (2002); Adrift in Manhattan (2007); Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within (1998); American Dad! (2007); Ana Maria in Novela Land (2015); *batteries not included (1987); Becoming Eduardo (2009); Blaze You Out (2013); Blue Steel (1990); Border Line (1999); Boston Public (2002–2003); Building 'Jacob's Ladder' (1990); Cagney & Lacey (1985); Charlie's Angels (2011); Common Law (2012); Contagious (1997); Crossover Dreams (1985); CSI: Miami (2003); Dead Funny (1994); Dead Man's Gun (1997); Dellaventura (1997); Dennis Miller (2004); Disney Infinity (2013); Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986); Down for Life (2009); Down in the Valley (2005); Dragon Wars: D-War (2007); Dream On (1993); Drug Wars: The Camarena Story (1990); El Super (1979); Entertainment Tonight (1991); Entertainment Tonight (2014); Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (1995); Fugitive Among Us (1992); Funny or Die Presents... / Segment: United States Police Department (2011); Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville (1987); Ghost Whisperer (2009); Girl on the Edge (2015); Goal II: Living the Dream (2007); Grandma (2015); Gridlock'd (1997); Hill Street Blues (1986); Hollywood Mom's Mystery (2004); How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer (2005); I Married Dora (1987–1988); Impostor (2001); In the Dark (2013); It Came from Outer Space II (1996); Jacob's Ladder (1990); Justice League (2004); Justice League Unlimited (2005); Keep Your Distance (2005); Kinect Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure (2012); King John (2013); L.A. Law (1993–1994); La Bamba (1987); La noche desesperada (2007); Lone Star (1996); Love Comes Lately (2007); Major Crimes (2013); Matador (2014); Maya & Miguel (2004–2009); Minoriteam (2006); Modern Family (2013); Mother and Child (2009); NCIS (2004); Nothing Like the Holidays (2008); Numb3rs (2005); Off the Map (2011); Old Love (2001); On the Borderline (2001); Outlaw (2010); Plush (2013); Prime Suspect (2012); Prototype (2009); Racing for Time (2008); Recon (1996); Resurrection Blvd. (2000–2002); Roommates (1994); Rush Hour (1998); Seven Girlfriends (1999); Shannon's Deal (1989–1991); Special Collector's Edition (2014); Speechless (2008); Strangeland (1998); Suburban Madness (2004); Sueño (2005); T.J. Hooker (1985); Ten Tiny Love Stories (2002); The 100 Scariest Movie Moments (2004); The 15th Annual IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards (2000); The 1995 NCLR Bravo Awards (1995); The 2003 IFP Independent Spirit Awards (2003); The 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2015); The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards (2015); The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema (2001); The Brothers Garcia (2003); The Eddie Files (1998); The Incredibles (2004); The Incredibles: The Video Game (2004); The Incredibles: When Danger Calls (2004); The Insider (2004); The Invaders (1995); The Lost City (2005); The Oscars (2015); The Outer Limits (1995); The Pass (1998); The Perfect Family (2011); The Second Civil War (1997); The Song of Sway Lake (2018); The Waterdance (1992); They All Laughed (1981); Things Behind the Sun (2001); Times Square (1980); Tortilla Soup (2001); Tough Cookies (1986); Transamerica (2005); Two (1996–1997); Up Close with Carrie Keagan (2008); Vibes (1988); Without a Trace (2005); Ylse (2010); Zig Zag (2002).

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

M Squad

Season 3. Episode 1.
Episode entitled: Ten Minutes to Doomsday.
Released September 18, 1959.
Directed by Don Medford.
Written by Stuart Jerome.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, James Bell, Ross Elliott, Ann Morrison, Francis De Sales, Jeanne Bates, Lois De Banzie.

On this day in television history - Johnny Staccato (1959):

Johnny Staccato

Season 1. Episode 2.
Episode entitled: Murder for Credit.
Released September 17, 1959.
Directed by John Cassavetes.
Written by Richard Carr, Laurence E. Mascott.
Music by Elmer Bernstein.

Cast: 

John Cassavetes, Eduardo Ciannelli, Charles McGraw, Martin Landau, Marilyn Clark, Mel Berger, Bara/Bobbi Byrnes, Jimmy Joyce, Pete Candoli, Red Mitchell, Robert/Bob Bain, John/Johnny Williams, Mel Lewis.

On this day in television history – Johnny Staccato (TV show & book):

Johnny Staccato

Season 1. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: The Naked Truth.

Released September 10, 1959.

Directed by Joseph Pevney.

Written by Richard Berg.

Music by Elmer Bernstein.

Cast: John Cassavetes, Eduardo Ciannelli, Chick Chandler, Michael Landon, Stacy Harris, Nick Cravat, Ruta Lee, Robert H. Harris, Frank Sully, Shelly Manne, Pete Candoli, Red Norvo, Red Mitchell, John / Johnny Williams, Barney Kessel, Monica Lewis, Joe Ploski.

Recommended reading:

Johnny Staccato

By Frank Boyd.

Published by Gold Medal Books.

Published 1960.

ASIN: B0DSZXQGML

Description:

A smooth man on the ivories, hot on the trigger, and cool in a jam – he’s the toughest private eye to hit America in a decade.