On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek (1966 & 1967)

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1990)

Star Trek: Voyager (1999)

Star Trek

Season 1. Episode 4.

Episode entitled: The Naked Time.

Released September 29, 1966.

Directed by Marc Daniels.

Written by John D.F. Black.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage.

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Stewart Moss, Majel Barrett, Bruce Hyde, DeForest Kelley, Grace Lee Whitney, George Takei, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, William Knight, John Bellah, Tom Anfinsen, Bill Blackburn, Frank da Vinci, Andrea Dromm, Eddie Paskey, Woody Talbert, Ron Veto.

Star Trek

Season 2. Episode 3.

Episode entitled: The Changeling.

Released September 29, 1967.

Directed by Marc Daniels.

Written by John Meredyth Lucas.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage.

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Majel Barrett, Makee K. Blaisdell / Blaisdel Makee, Barbara Gates, Meade Martin, Arnold Lessing, Vic Perrin, Bill Blackburn, Frank da Vinci, Marc Daniels, Roger Holloway, Jeannie Malone, Robert Metz, Eddie Paskey, Frieda Rentie.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 4. Episode 2.

Episode entitled: Family.

Released September 29, 1990.

Directed by Les Landau.

Written by Ronald D. Moore, Susanne Lambdin, Bryan Stewart, Joe Menosky.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Jeremy Kemp, Samantha Eggar, Theodore Bikel, Georgia Brown, Dennis Creaghan, Colm Meaney, Whoopi Goldberg, David Birkin, Doug Wert, Majel Barrett, Nyra Crenshaw, Debbie David, Elliot Durant III, Margaret Rose Flores, Denise Lynne Roberts.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 6. Episode 2.

Episode entitled: Survival Instinct.

Released September 29, 1999.

Directed by Terry Windell.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Ronald D. Moore, Bryan Fuller, Michael Taylor, Robert Doherty.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Vaughn Armstrong, Bertila Damas, Tim Kelleher, Scarlett Pomers, Jonathan Breck, Majel Barrett, John Austin, Marvin De Baca, Tarik Ergin, Nichole McAuley, Erin Leigh Price, Christina Rydell, Joey Sakata, James Lee Stanley, Susie Stillwell.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek (1966 & 1967)

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1990)

Star Trek: Voyager (1999)

Star Trek

Season 1. Episode 3.

Episode entitled: Where No Man Has Gone Before.

Released September 22, 1966.

Directed by James Goldstone.

Written by Samuel A. Peeples.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage.

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Gary Lockwood, Sally Kellerman, George Takei, James Doohan, Lloyd Haynes, Andrea Dromm, Paul Carr, Paul Fix, Bill Blackburn, John Burnside, Darren Dublin, Robert Metz, Eddie Paskey.

Star Trek

Season 2. Episode 2.

Episode entitled: Who Mourns for Adonais?

Released September 22, 1967.

Directed by Marc Daniels.

Written by Gilbert Ralston.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage, Fred Steiner.

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Michael Forest, Leslie Parrish, John Winston, Bill Blackburn, Roger Holloway, Eddie Paskey.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 4. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: The Best of Both Worlds Part II.

Released September 22, 1990.

Directed by Cliff Bole.

Written by Michael Piller, Ronald D. Moore, Joe Menosky.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Ron Jones.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Elizabeth Dennehy, George Murdock, Colm Meaney, Whoopi Goldberg, Todd Merrill, Rachen Assapiomonwait, Majel Barrett, Nyra Crenshaw, Robert Daniels, Debbie David, Eben Ham, Randy James, Mark Lentry, Tim McCormack, Kip Reynolds, Lincoln Simonds, Adrian Tafoya, Natalie Wood.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 6. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: Equinox, Part II.

Released September 22, 1999.

Directed by David Livingston.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Brannon Braga, Joe Menosky, Rick Berman, Bryan Fuller, Michael Taylor, Robert Doherty.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, John Savage, Titus Welliver, Olivia Birkelund, Rick Worthy, Eric Steinberg, Steven Dennis, Majel Barrett, Tarik Ergin, Sylvester Foster, Matt Hanson, Nichole McAuley, Mark Rogerson, Brian Simpson.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek (1966 & 1967)

Star Trek
Season 1. Episode 2.
Episode entitled: Charlie X.
Released September 15, 1966.
Directed by Lawrence Dobkin.
Written by D.C. Fontana, Gene Roddenberry.
Created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by Alexander Courage, Fred Steiner.

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Grace Lee Whitney, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Robert Walker Jr., Charles Stewart, Dallas Mitchell, Don Eitner, Pat McNulty, John Bellah, Garland Thompson, Abraham Sofaer, Bill Blackburn, Frank da Vinci, Bob Herron, John Lindesmith, Robert Metz, Eddie Paskey, Gene Roddenberry, Ron Veto, Laura Wood.

Star Trek
Season 2. Episode 1.
Episode entitled: Amok Time.
Released September 15, 1967.
Directed by Joseph Pevney.
Written by Theodore Sturgeon.
Created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by Alexander Courage, Gerald Fried.

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Majel Barrett, Walter Koenig, Celia Lovsky, Arlene Martel, Lawrence Montaigne, Byron Morrow, Bill Blackburn, Frank da Vinci, Walker Edmiston, Charles Palmer, Eddie Paskey, Joseph Paz, Russ Peek, Mary Rice, Mauri Russell, Gary Wright.

On this day in television history – The Felony Squad (1966-1969):

The Felony Squad

created by Richard Murphy,

was released in the United States on September 12, 1966,

and ran for three seasons until January 31, 1969.
Theme music by Pete Rugolo.

Cast:

Barney Phillips, Ben Alexander, Dennis Cole, Frank Maxwell, Howard Duff, Len Wayland, Robert DoQui.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek (1966)

Star Trek

Season 1. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: The Man Trap.

Released September 8, 1966.

Directed by Marc Daniels.

Written by George Clayton Johnson.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage.

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Jeanne Bal, Alfred Ryder, DeForest Kelley, Grace Lee Whitney, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Bruce Watson, Michael Zaslow, Vince Howard, Francine Pyne, Budd Albright, Tom Anfinsen, John Arndt, Bob Baker, Bill Blackburn, Frank da Vinci, James Doohan, Sandra Lee Gimpel, Jeannie Malone, Eddie Paskey, Anthony Larry Paul, Walter Soo Hoo, Garrison True, Ron Veto.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek (1966)
Star Trek: Voyager (1995 & 1996)

Star Trek

Season 1. Pilot episode.

Episode entitled: The Cage.

Released at the Cleveland, Ohio, World Science Fiction Convention on September 4, 1966.

Directed by Robert Butler.

Written by Gene Roddenberry.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage.

Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, Susan Oliver, Leonard Nimoy, Majel Barrett / M. Leigh Hudec, John Hoyt, Peter Duryea, Laurel Goodwin, John Burnside, Carol Daniels, Michael Dugan, Joe Evans, Sandra Lee Gimpel, Clegg Hoyt, Anthony Jochim, Bob Johnson, Jon Lormer, Ed Madden, William McCarter, Joseph Mell, Leonard Mudie, William H. O'Brien, Robert Phillips, Janos Prohaska, Adam Roarke, Gene Roddenberry, Serena Sande, Rube Schaffer, Georgia Schmidt, Felix Silla, Malachi Throne, Meg Wyllie.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 2. Episode 2.

Episode entitled: Initiations.

Released September 4, 1995.

Directed by Winrich Kolbe.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Kenneth Biller, Lisa Klink.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Aron Eisenberg, Patrick Kilpatrick, Tim de Zarn, Majel Barrett, Tarik Ergin, Heather Ferguson, Norman Alexander Gibbs, Julie Jiang, Jordan Monheim, Louis Ortiz, Rob Plaza, Daunette Saunders, Jeff Witzke.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 3. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: Basics, Part II.

Released September 4, 1996.

Directed by Winrich Kolbe.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Michael Piller, Lisa Klink.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Brad Dourif, Anthony De Longis, Martha Hackett, Nancy Hower, Simon Billig, Scott Haven, David Cowgill, Michael Bailey Smith, John K. Shull, Russ Fega, Majel Barrett, Tarik Ergin, Heather Ferguson, Jennifer Gundy, Susan Henley, Kerry Hoyt, Donald R. Jankiewicz, Pat Jankiewicz, Emily Leibovitch, Susan Lewis, Dennis Madalone, Linda L.C. Madalone, Mark Major, Lorin McCraley, Tom Morga, Louis Ortiz, Shepard Ross, Charles Spector, John Alex Tampoya.

On this day in movie history - El Dorado (1966 movie & novel):

El Dorado

directed by Howard Hawks,

written by Leigh Brackett,

based on the novel The Stars in Their Courses by Harry Brown,

was released in the United States on June 30, 1967.
Music by Nelson Riddle.

Cast:

John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Charlene Holt, Paul Fix, Arthur Hunnicutt, Michele Carey, R.G. Armstrong, Edward Asner, Christopher George, Marina Ghane, Robert Donner, John Gabriel, Johnny Crawford, Robert Rothwell, Adam Roarke, Victoria George, Jim Davis, Anne Newman Bacal, Diane Strom, Olaf Wieghorst, Richard Andrade, Danny Borzage, Charlita, Don Collier, Enrique Contreras, Chuck Courtney, Linda Dangcil, Alphonso DuBois, Nacho Galindo, Joe Garcio, Betty Jane Graham, Robert 'Buzz' Henry, William Henry, Lars Hensen, Riley Hill, Chuck Horne, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Bonnie Charyl Josephson, Joe King, Mike Letz, Frank Leyva, Myra MacMurray, John Mitchum, Ruben Moreno, Deen Pettinger, Jose Portugal, Lee Powell, Chuck Roberson, Anthony Rogers, Danny Sands, Robert Shelton, Dean Smith, John Strachen, Rosa Turich, Ralph Volkie, Christopher West.

Recommended reading:

The Stars in Their Courses

By Harry Brown.

Filmed as El Dorado (1966), directed by Howard Hawks.

ASIN: B0011N3WI2
Published by Jonathan Cape.
Published 1960.

Description:

The epic novel of the old west, a living legend of lust, doom, death, of tall strong men, golden women and towering passions!

Born on this day – Adrienne Shelly:

Adrienne Shelly

Actress

Director

Writer

June 24, 1966 – November 1, 2006

Credits:

Adrienne (2021); Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even (1991); Dead Dog (2001); Disc-Functional (2011); Downtown Film Fest (2006); Early Edition (1997); Factotum (2005); Four Tales of Two Cities / Urban Legend (1996); Grind (1997); Hexed (1993); Hexed: Featurette (1993); Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me (1992); Homicide: Life on the Street (1994); I'll Take You There (1999); Kalamazoo (1994); Law & Order (2000); Like Plastic (2013); Lois Lives a Little (1997); Lonely in America (1990); Opera No. 1 (1994); Oz (1998); Pretty (2011); Revolution #9 (2001); Searching for Debra Winger (2002); Serious Moonlight (2009); Sleep with Me (1994); Sleeping with Strangers (1994); Spin (2011); Sudden Manhattan (1996); Teresa's Tattoo (1994); The Atlantis Conspiracy (2001); The Regulars (1997); The Road Killers (1994); The Shadows of Bob and Zelda (2000); The Unbelievable Truth (1989); The Vibrator (2007); Tiger: His Fall & Rise (2004); Trust (1990); Urban Legend (1994); Waitress (2007); Waitress: The Musical (2023); Who the Hell Is Brian D'Arcy? (2008); Why Am I in a Box? (2010); Wrestling with Alligators (1998).

On this day in movie history - The Glass Bottom Boat (1966):

The Glass Bottom Boat

directed by Frank Tashlin,

written by Everett Freeman,

was released in the United States on June 9, 1966.
Music by Frank De Vol.

Cast:

Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Arthur Godfrey, John McGiver, Paul Lynde, Edward Andrews, Eric Fleming, Dom DeLuise, Elisabeth Fraser, Dick Martin, George Tobias, Alice Pearce, Ellen Corby, Dee J. Thompson, Robert Vaughn, Richard Alden, Don Anderson, Tom Anfinsen, Shirley Anthony, Ellen Atterbury, Bella Bruck, William Burnside, Boyd Cabeen, George Carlin, Regina Carrol, Pat Casella, Jerry Catron, Spencer Chan, George Cisar, Robert Cole, Bill Cord, John Dennis, Dick Dial, Dan Dowling, Ken DuMain, Roy Eason, Joe Evans, George Ford, James Gonzalez, M. Hakim, Florence Halop, Joe Haworth, Kathryn Janssen, Maurice Kelly, Richard Kindelon, Paul King, Jeff Lawrence, James Macklin, Mike Mahoney, Theodore Marcuse, Gregg Martell, Hans Moebus, Frank Parker, Joe Ploski, Murray Pollack, Christopher Riordan, Michael Romanoff, Rachel Romen, Jeffrey Sayre, Bernard Sell, George Simmons, Norman Stevans, Charles Stewart, Larry Strong, Blaine Turner, Leslie Vallen, Charles Victor, Carolyn Williamson.

Recommended reading - After Midnight, by Helen Nielsen (1966):

After Midnight

by Helen Nielsen.

ASIN: B0007E0IM4

Published by Morrow.

First published 1966.

First Edition.

Hardcover.

Description:

A beautiful suspect with an intense desire to kill. The murder of Roger Warren seemed like an open-and-shut case.The evening before, Roger and his dazzling wife Wanda had moved from one bar to another, fighting loudly and publicly. The next morning, the dead figure of Roger was slumped in a living room chair … while Wanda lay sleeping in bed, a bloodied knife on the pillow beside her. At the District Attorney’s office, the bereaved beauty could remember nothing . . . except an intense desire to kill.

Recommended reading - Black Money, by Ross Macdonald (1966):

Black Money

By Ross Macdonald.

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard.

Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

First published 1966.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0679768106

ISBN-13: 978-0679768104

Description:

“A Beautiful job … rich in plot and character…. The denouement is both surprising and shocking and the whole is up to Mr. Macdonald’s extraordinarily high standards.” – The New York Time Book Review.

When Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspiciously suave Frenchman who's run off with his client's girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affections. Things look different when the mysterious foreigner turns out to be connected to a seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of gambling debts. Black Money is Ross Macdonald at his finest, baring the skull beneath the untanned skin of Southern California's high society.

“It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught is how to write; he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe in some small but mannered way, how to live.” – Robert B. Parker.

If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it was Ross Macdonald. Between the late 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his predecessors had only hinted at. And in the character of Lew Archer, Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin.

On this day in movie history – Harper a.k.a. The Moving Target (1966 movie & novel):

Harper

directed by Jack Smight,

written by William Goldman,

based on the novel The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald,

was released in the United States on February 23, 1966.

Music by Johnny Mandel.

Cast:

Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh, Pamela Tiffin, Robert Wagner, Robert Webber, Shelley Winters, Harold Gould, Roy Jenson, Strother Martin.

Recommended reading:

The Moving Target

aka Harper.

By Ross MacDonald.

ISBN-10: 037570146X

ISBN-13: 978-0375701467

Published 1949.

Back cover description:

CRIME FICTION

“Ross Macdonald remains the grandmaster, taking the crime novel to new heights by imbuing it with psychological resonance, complexity of story, and richness of style that remain awe-inspiring. Those of us in his wake owe a debt that can never be paid. – Jonathan Kellerman.

Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There’s the sun-worshipping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain; the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S&M. Now one of Sampson’s friends may have arranged his kidnapping. And as Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries of the megarich to jazz joints where you get beaten up between sets, The Moving Target blends sex, greed, and family hatred into an explosively readable crime novel.

“Macdonald is one of a handful of writers in the [mystery] genre whose worth and quality surpass the limitations of the form.” – Los Angeles Times.

If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it was Ross Macdonald. Between the later 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his predecessors had only hinted at. And in the character of Lew Archer, Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience whop walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin.

VINTAGE CRIME / BLACK LIZARD