Showing posts with label 1966. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1966. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek (1966 & 1967)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1990)


Star Trek
Season 1. Episode 8.
Episode entitled: Miri.
Released October 27, 1966.
Directed by Vincent McEveety.
Written by Adrian Spies.
Created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by Alexander Courage.
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, DeForest Kelley, Grace Lee Whitney, Kim Darby, Michael J. Pollard, Ed McCready, Kellie Flanagan, Stephen McEveety, David L. Ross, Jim Goodwin, John Megna, Tom Anfinsen, John Arndt, Jon Dweck, Iona Morris, Phil Morris, Eddie Paskey, Darleen Anita Roddenberry, Dawn Roddenberry, Irene Sale, Leslie Carol Shatner, Lisabeth Shatner, Scott Whitney.

Star Trek
Season 2. Episode 7.
Episode entitled: Catspaw.
Released October 27, 1967.
Directed by Joseph Pevney.
Written by Robert Bloch, D.C. Fontana.
Created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by Alexander Courage, Gerald Fried.
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Antoinette Bower, Theodore Marcuse, Michael Barrier, John Winston, Rhodie Cogan, Gail Bonney, Maryesther Denver, Jay D. Jones / Jimmy Jones, Bill Blackburn, Jeannie Malone, Eddie Paskey, Frieda Rentie.


Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 4. Episode 6.
Episode entitled: Legacy.
Released October 27, 1990.
Directed by Robert Scheerer.
Written by Joe Menosky, Ronald D. Moore.
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, Beth Toussaint, Don Mirault, Colm Meaney, Vladimir Velasco, Christopher Michael, Michael Braveheart, Cullen G. Chambers, Debbie David, BJ Davis, Christopher Doyle, Margaret Rose Flores, Goldie Gareza, Tim McCormack.

Saturday, October 24, 2026

On this day in music history:

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme by Simon & Garfunkel (1966)
Paradise: American Acoustic by Eric Tingstad & Nancy Rumbel (2000)
Back to the Blues by Sue Foley (2000)
Heavy Rotation by Anastacia (2008)
Secret World by Doug Hammer & Amethyste (2014)


Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
Album by Simon & Garfunkel,
released October 24, 1966.
Track list: Scarborough Fair / Canticle; Patterns; Cloudy; Homeward Bound; The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine; The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy); The Dangling Conversation; Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall; A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara’d into Submission); For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her; A Poem on the Underground Wall; 7 O’Clock News / Silent Night; Patterns (Demo); A Poem on the Underground Wall (Demo).


Paradise: American Acoustic
Album by Eric Tingstad & Nancy Rumbel,
released October 24, 2000.
Track list: Sailing; Paradise; Mansfield Park; The Wanderer; As You Wish; The Man From Stratford; The Lowcountry; Fields Of Gold; Zelda's Dance; Eleganza; Ofra; Village Square; Rokeby; The Lawnmower Song.


Back to the Blues
Album by Sue Foley,
released October 24, 2000.
Track list: Lightin’ Boogie; Come On; Positively 4th Street; If You Think I’ve Lost You; I Feel So Good; Tanya; Me & My Chauffeur Blues; Come Play With Me; Can’t Afford to Do It; Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor; Guitar Rumba; The Leading Brand; Gone Blind.


Heavy Rotation
Album by Anastacia,
released October 24, 2008.
Track list: I Can Feel You; The Way I See It; Absolutely Positively; Defeated; In Summer; Heavy Rotation; Same Song; I Call It Love; All Fall Down; Never Gonna Love Again; You’ll Be Fine; Beautiful Messed Up World.


Secret World
Album by Doug Hammer & Amethyste,
released October 24, 2014.
Track list: The Ones We Leave Behind; Winter’s Last Goodbye; Crimson Sky; Raindrops; Desert Bloom; Crystal Water; El Dorado Wind; Moonflower; The Road Behind; Redemption; Wrapped in Hope; I Will Wait.

Friday, October 23, 2026

On this day in movie history - The Shooting (1966):


The Shooting

directed by Monte Hellman,
written by Carole Eastman (writing as Adrien Joyce),
was released at the San Francisco Film Festival in the United States on October 23, 1966.
Music by Richard Markowitz.


Cast:

Will Hutchins, Millie Perkins, Jack Nicholson, Warren Oates, Charles Eastman, Guy El Tsosie, Brandon Carroll, B.J. Merholz, Wally K. Berns, William Mackleprang, James Campbell.

Thursday, October 22, 2026

On this day in movie history - Ride in the Whirlwind (1966):


Ride in the Whirlwind

directed by Monte Hellman,
written by Jack Nicholson,
was released at the San Francisco Film Festival in the United States on October 22, 1966.
Music by Robert Drasnin.


Cast:

Cameron Mitchell, Millie Perkins, Jack Nicholson, Katherine Squire, George Mitchell, Rupert Crosse, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hackett, Tom Filer, B.J. Merholz, Brandon Carroll, Peter Cannon, William A. Keller, Neil Summers, James Campbell, Walter Phelps, Charles Eastman, Gary Kent, Bill Keller.