On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek (1968)

Star Trek: Voyager (2000)

Star Trek

Season 3. Episode 5.

Episode entitled: Is There in Truth No Beauty?

Released October 18, 1968.

Directed by Ralph Senensky.

Written by Jean Lisette Aroeste, Arthur H. Singer.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage.

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Majel Barrett, Walter Koenig, Diana Muldaur, David Frankham, Bill Blackburn, Bob Bralver, Frank da Vinci, Vince Deadrick Sr., Louie Elias, Dick Geary, Alan Gibbs, Roger Holloway, Jeannie Malone, Robert Metz, Eddie Paskey, Frieda Rentie.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 7. Episode 3.

Episode entitled: Drive.

Released October 18, 2000.

Directed by Winrich Kolbe.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by 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, Cyia Batten, Brian George, Patrick Kilpatrick, Robert Tyler, Chris Covics, Majel Barrett, John Lee Ames, Michael Bailous, Faith Burton, Steve Chvany, Tarik Ergin, Michael N. Fujimoto, Bill Hacket, Matt Hanson, Peter Scott Harmyk, Grace Harrell, Susan Henley, Kerry Hoyt, Rubin Knight, Alicia Lewis, Brock Lumarque, Tom Miller, Stephen Pisani, Charles Poynter, Dominic Rambaran, Keith Rayve, Joey Sakata, Richard Sarstedt, Linnea Soohoo, Pablo Soriano, Phoenix Wong.

On this day in movie history - Bullitt (1968 movie & novel):

Bullitt

directed by Peter Yates,

written by Alan R. Trustman and Harry Kleiner,

based on the novel Mute Witness, by Robert L. Pike,

was released in the United States on October 17, 1968.
Music by Lalo Schifrin.

Cast:

Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, Simon Oakland, Norman Fell, Georg Stanford Brown, Justin Tarr, Carl Reindel, Felice Orlandi, Vic Tayback, Robert Lipton, Ed Peck, Pat Renella, Paul Genge, John Aprea, Al Checco, Bill Hickman, Mal Alberts, Scott Beach, Mary Benoit, Barbara Bosson, Roger Bowen, Joy Carlin, Brandy Carroll, Joanna Cassidy, Julie Christy, Robert Cleaves, Tony Dario, Michael L. Davis, Jim Demarest, Chuck Dorsett, Thomas Duncan, Marjorie Eaton, Walker Edmiston, Sam Edwards, Mimi Fariña, Shirley Fitzgerald, Dick Geary, Frank Gerstle, Dennis Gribbon, Bob Harks, Stacy Harris, Bill Jones, Stu Klitsner, Jean Le Bouvier, Margo Lungreen, Larry D. Mann, Claire Merrill, Kathleen Morrissey, Ned Moss, Vic Perrin, Charlene Polite, Angel Sanchez Jr., Suzanne Somers, Eron Tabor, Liz Treadwell, John Vick, Erick Vinther, Regina Waldon.

Recommended reading:

Mute Witness

By Robert L. Pike.

Filmed as Bullitt (1968), directed by Peter Yates.

Paperback.

First published 1963.

Published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks

ISBN 13: 9780747578628

ISBN 10: 0747578621

ASIN: 0747578621

Description:

'Rossi isn't dead yet. And from what I hear, the Rossi brothers are pretty tough monkeys.' Clancy's knuckles whitened on the steering wheel. 'Yeah,' he said. 'They're all tough monkeys. Until they lose those precious ten pints...' Lieutenant Clancy, a tough cop from New York's 52nd Precinct, has been handpicked for an assignment. Assistant District Attorney Chalmers needs him to protect a witness whose testimony is vital. That man is Johnny Rossi, an infamous gangster involved in every West Coast racket from prostitution to gambling, who has turned into a whistle-blower. Shacked up in a fleabag hotel, Rossi should be safe. But when a hood with a shotgun breaks past the police guard and blasts Rossi into a critical condition, Clancy has just seventy-two hours to find out why Chalmers can't keep his mouth shut about his so-called secret case, why Rossi came to New York in the first place, who else knows where he is and when they are coming to finish the job off.

On this day in Star Trek history:

Star Trek (1968)

Star Trek: Voyager (2000)

Star Trek

Season 3. Episode 4.

Episode entitled: The Paradise Syndrome.

Released October 4, 1968.

Directed by Jud Taylor.

Written by Margaret Armen, Arthur H. Singer.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage.

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Majel Barrett, Walter Koenig, Marj Dusay, Sabrina Scharf, Rudy Solari, Richard Hale, Vincent St. Cyr, Naomi Newman, John Lindesmith, Peter Virgo Jr., Lamont Laird, George American Horse, Bill Blackburn, Roger Holloway, Foster Hood, Jeannie Malone.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 7. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: Unimatrix Zero Part II.

Released October 4, 2000.

Directed by Michael/Mike Vejar.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Brannon Braga, Joe Menosky, Michael/Mike Sussman, 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, Mark Deakins, Jerome Butler, Joanna Heimbold, Susanna Thompson, Ryan Sparks, Andrew Palmer, Clay Storseth, Majel Barrett, Patrick Barnitt, Tarik Ergin, Susan Henley, Dieter Horneman, Irving E. Lewis, Brandon Nyte, Louis Ortiz, Stephen Pisani, Keith Rayve, Pablo Soriano, Phoenix Wong.

On this day in movie history - Coogan’s Bluff (1968):

Coogan’s Bluff

directed by Don Siegel,

written by Herman Miller, Dean Riesner and Howard Rodman,

based on the novel by Herman Miller,

was released in the United States on October 2, 1968.
Music by Lalo Schifrin.

Cast:

Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark, Tisha Sterling, Don Stroud, Betty Field, Tom Tully, Melodie Johnson, James Edwards, Rudy Diaz, David Doyle, Louis Zorich, Meg Myles, Marjorie Bennett, Seymour Cassel, John Coe, Skip Battyn, Albert Popwell, Conrad Bain, James Gavin, Albert Henderson, James McCallion, Syl Lamont, Jess Osuna, Jerry Summers, Antonia Rey, Marya Henriques.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek (1968)

Star Trek

Season 3. Episode 2.

Episode entitled: The Enterprise Incident.

Released September 27, 1968.

Directed by John Meredyth Lucas.

Written by D.C. Fontana, Arthur H. Singer.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage.

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Majel Barrett, Walter Koenig, Marj Dusay, Joanne Linville, Jack Donner, Richard Compton, Robert Gentile, Mike Howden, Gordon Coffey, Roger Holloway, Eddie Paskey, Robert Strong.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek (1968)

Star Trek
Season 3. Episode 1.
Episode entitled: Spock’s Brain.
Released September 20, 1968.
Directed by Marc Daniels.
Written by Gene L. Coon / Lee Cronin, Arthur H. Singer.
Created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by Alexander Courage.
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Majel Barrett, Walter Koenig, Marj Dusay, James Daris, Sheila Leighton, Bill Blackburn, Frank da Vinci, Roger Holloway, Pete Kellett, Jeannie Malone, Eddie Paskey, Frieda Rentie.

Born on this day – Iris Junik:

Iris Junik

Actress

August 26, 1968 – March 29, 2009

Born on this day – Julian McMahon:

Julian McMahon

Actor

July 27, 1968 – July 2, 2025

Credits:

2005 MTV Movie Awards (2005); ABC News Breakfast (2025); Another Day (2001); Another World (1993–1994); Australian Classics: Volume 2 / Segment: This Is It! (2003); Bait (2012); Bizarre Foods America (2012); Casting Session (2005); Celebrity Page (2021); Charmed (2000–2006); Charmed: Behind the Magic (2003); Chasing Sleep (2000); Chelsea Lately (2010); Childhood's End (2015); Comedy Central Roasts (2009); Conan (2016); Dannii Minogue: This Is It (1993); Dannii Minogue: This Is the Way (1993); Deep Inside (2007); Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016); Endless Summer: 30 Years of Home and Away (2018); Entertainment Tonight (2006–2020); Faces in the Crowd (2011); Family Bonds: The Making of Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007); Fantastic Four (2005); Fantastic Four Video Diary Tour (2005); Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007); Fast Forward (1989); FBI (2019–2021); FBI: International (2021); FBI: Most Wanted (2020–2022); Fire with Fire (2012); For the Love of Fandoms 2: Cérémonie d'ouverture (2023); Full Circle (2013); G.P. (1992); Giving Drama a Facelift (2004); Glimpses of the Future: Making 'Premonition' (2007); Heroes Are Born: Making 'the Fantastic Four' (2005); Hollywood Insider (2020); Home and Away (1990–1991); Home and Away: The Official Summer Bay Special (1996); Home and Away: Weddings (2005); Hunters (2016); I Love New York (2007); In Quiet Night (1998); Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2007); Just Jack & Will with Sean Hayes and Eric McCormack (2023); Late Show with David Letterman (2005); Live with Kelly and Mark (2005–2020); Long Shot: The Kevin Laue Story (2012); Lorraine (2018); Magenta (1997); Making of Fantastic Four: The Video Game (2005); Meet Market (2004); Monster Party (2018); Mornings (2016); Nip/Tuck (2003–2010); Nip/Tuck: Flashing Lights (2008); Paranoia (2013); Planet Voice (2007); Premonition (2007); Prisoner (2007); Profiler (1996–2000); Rafferty's Rules (1989); Really Famous with Kara Mayer Robinson (2020–2022); Red (2010); Revealed with Jules Asner (2002); Richard & Judy (2003–2007); Robot Chicken (2008); Rogue (2012); Runaways (2017–2018); Sexo en serie (2008); Space Top 10 Countdown (2007); Sunday Brunch (2018); Swinging Safari (2018); Swinging Safari: Behind the Scenes (2018); The 16th Annual Soap Opera Awards (2000); The 2007 World Music Awards (2007); The 49th Annual TV Week Logie Awards (2007); The 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards 2005 (2005); The 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards 2006 (2006); The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2004–2007); The Graham Norton Show (2007); The Last Laugh (2019); The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005); The Making of Exchange Lifeguards (1993); The Power, the Passion (1989); The Residence (2025); The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat (2024); The Surfer (2024); The Talk (2016–2021); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2005–2007); The View (2006); This Is Your Life (2022); Today (2005–2018); Unite for Japan (2011); Wet and Wild Summer! (1993); Wild On... (1997–2009); Will & Grace (1998); You're Not You (2014).

Recommended reading - The Third Figure, by Collin Wilcox (1968):

The Third Figure

By Collin Wilcox.

Published by Dodd, Mead.

First published 1968.

ASIN: B0006BUJVS

Description:

A mob boss is dead, and his widow wants Drake to help him rest in peace. Dominic Vennezio is found on the floor of his beachside love nest, murdered on a Sunday night. It looks like an ordinary mob hit, part of a routine power struggle with the East Coast Outfit, but Vennezio's widow has other suspicions. Her marriage to the kingpin had been strained ever since he began taking his secretary for weekends at the beach house, but even now, she feels a devotion to him. She wants justice for her husband – not just legal, but cosmic – and for cosmic justice, San Francisco can offer no better sleuth than Stephen Drake. A crime reporter with a clairvoyant streak, Drake's apprehensions about working for the mob are overcome by his sympathy for the noble widow. He starts his investigation in Los Angeles, talking to Vennezio's replacement, and sees immediately that it doesn't take a psychic to figure out that this job could be deadly.

On this day in movie history - The Thomas Crown Affair (1968):

The Thomas Crown Affair

directed by Norman Jewison,

written by Alan R. Trustman,

was released in the United States on June 19, 1968.

Music by Michel Legrand.

Cast:

Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston, Biff McGuire, Addison Powell, Astrid Heeren, Gordon Pinsent, Yaphet Kotto, Sidney Armus, Richard Bull, Peg Shirley, Patrick Horgan, Carol Corbett, Tom Rosqui, Michael Shillo, Nora Marlowe, Sam Melville, Ted Gehring, Paul Verdier, Judy Pace, Leonard Caron, Harry Cooper, Victor Creatore, Allen Emerson, Bruce Glover, Ralph Grosh, Nikita Knatz, Charles Lampkin, Todd Martin, Ed T. McDonnell, John Orchard, James Rawley, Patty Regan, Paul Rhone, Jon Shank, Johnny Silver.

Born on this day – Taylor Wily:

Taylor Wily

Actor

Sumo wrestler

Mixed martial artist

June 14, 1968 – June 20, 2024

Credits:

Magnum P.I. (2018–2020); Hawaii Five-0 (2010–2020); Be Water (2020); UFC 1: Origins (2020); 30 for 30 (2019); Radical (2017); MacGyver (2017); Where I Come From (2014); The Amazing Race (2012); Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008); North Shore (2004); One West Waikiki (1996); Marker (1995); Magnum, P.I. (1982); Gut Instinct (date?); UFC 1: The Beginning (1993).

Born on this day – Brett James:

Brett James

Singer

Songwriter

Producer

June 5, 1968 – September 18, 2025

Credits:

Songs:

Chasing Amy; Dark Side of the Moon; Enjoy the Ride; Female Bonding; Gone but Not Forgotten; I Am Now; I Hold On; If I Could See Love; Just Like We Never Happened; Just Tell Me; Like You Found Me; Lonely Ain’t So Lonely; Love Me to Death; Many Tears Ago; Mozart: Laudate Dominum; Once Again; Petty Fool; Ready to Roll; Right on Time; She's Killin' Me; Sing My Song; Southern Soul; Still On My Mind; Tell the People; The Way That You Love; Then Came You; Thrill of the Chase; True Believer; Villa-Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras No. 5: Aria; Wait; Wake Up and Smell the Whiskey; Whiskey and Wine; Worth the Fall.

Albums:

Brett James (1995); I Am Now (2020 / EP); Tell the People (2020 / EP); Then Came You / Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2020).

Movies and television:

2014 Billboard Music Awards (2014); 39th Annual Country Music Association Awards (2005); 40th Annual Country Music Association Awards (2006); American Idol (2009–2011); Backstreet Boys: Helpless When She Smiles (2007); Beat Shazam (2017); Bon Jovi: Scars on This Guitar (2016); Breakthrough (2019); Britain's Got Talent (2013); Canadian Idol (2007); Carrie Underwood: An All-Star Holiday Special (2009); Carrie Underwood: Church Bells (2016); Carrie Underwood: Cowboy Casanova (2009); Carrie Underwood: Drinking Alone (2019); Carrie Underwood: Jesus, Take the Wheel (2005); Carrie Underwood: Love Wins (2018); Carrie Underwood: Something in the Water (2014); CMT Hot 20 Countdown (2007); CMT Insider (2006); CMT Presents: Karaoke Revolution Country (2006); CMT Stacked (2006); CMT: The Greatest - 40 Days That Shaped Country Music (2006); Cold Case (2006); Conan (2016); Dancing with the Stars (2010–2014); David's Vlog (2020); Death of a Pizzaman (2018); Deutschland sucht den Superstar (2008); For the Love of Music: The Story of Nashville (2013); Front and Center (2014); GCB (2012); Girls (2012); Headline Country (2006 / 2014); Home Before Dark (2020); Idols (2004); It All Begins with a Song (2018); Jessica Andrews: Who I Am (2001); Jimmie Van Zant's: Feels Like Freedom (2012); Kellie Coffey: Texas Plates (2004); Late Show with David Letterman (2009–2010); Lizzie McGuire (2001); Martina McBride: Blessed (2001); Miranda Lambert Feat. Carrie Underwood: Somethin' Bad (2014); Saturday Night Live (2008–2024); So Random! (2011); Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye (2002–2005); Tähdet, tähdet (2025); The 4th Annual CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute (2010); The Heart of Country: How Nashville Became Music City USA (2014); The Marty Stuart Show (2010); The Masked Singer (2025); The Ranch (2019); The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2011–2013); The Voice (2012); The X Factor UK (2010); The X-Files (2016); Then Came You (2020); Where the Red Fern Grows (2003).

On this day in movie history - The Detective (1968):

The Detective

directed by Gordon Douglas,

written by Abby Mann,

based on the novel by Roderick Thorp,

was released in the United States on May 28, 1968.
Music by Jerry Goldsmith.

Cast:

Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Ralph Meeker, Jack Klugman, Horace McMahon, Lloyd Bochner, William Windom, Tony Musante, Al Freeman Jr., Robert Duvall, Pat Henry, Patrick McVey, Dixie Marquis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Renée Taylor, Jim Inman, Tom Atkins, Jacqueline Bisset, Mikel Angel, Ted Beniades, Mark Dawson, James Dukas, Jan Farrand, Don Fellows, Tom Gorman, Sharon Henesy, Richard Krisher, Lou Krugman, Paul Larson, Alan Manson, Bette Midler, Earl Montgomery, Peg Murray, Lou Nelson, George Plimpton, Frank Raiter, Jilly Rizzo, Jose Rodriguez, Joe Santos, Diane Sayer, Arnold Soboloff, Philip Sterling, Stephen Wright, Peter York.

On this day in music history:

Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison by Johnny Cash (1968)

Alcohol & Salvation by Carolyn Wonderland (2003)

Natalie Merchant by Natalie Merchant (2014)

Within Temptation: The Invisible Force (2025)

Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison

Album by Johnny Cash,

released May 6, 1968.

Track list: Folsom Prison Blues; Busted; Dark as the Dungeon; I Still Miss Someone; Cocaine Blues; 25 Minutes to Go; Orange Blossom Special; The Long Black Veil; Send a Picture of Mother; The Wall; Dirty Old Egg-Suckin’ Dog; Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart; Joe Bean; Jackson; Give My Love to Rose; I Got Stripes; The Legend of John Henry’s Hammer; Green, Green Grass of Home; Greystone Chapel (Reprise).

Alcohol & Salvation

Album by Carolyn Wonderland,

released May 6, 2003.

Track list: I’m Innocent; I’m Out Sick; How Many Crowes; Brick Wall; The Only Girl You Knew; Worst Day of My Life; Bad Girl; Beer; Pieces of a Postcard; Feed Me to the Lions; Sober; I’m the Man; Gospel Song; I Don’t Wanna Fall for You.

Natalie Merchant

Album by Natalie Merchant,

released May 6, 2014.

Track list: Ladybird; Maggie Said; Texas; Go Down Moses; Seven Deadly Sins; Giving up Everything; Black Sheep; It's A-Coming; Lulu (Introduction); Lulu; The End.

Within Temptation: The Invisible Force

Documentary directed by Arjen Sinninghe Damsté.

Released May 6, 2025.

Cast: Sharon den Adel, Robert Westerholt, Within Temptation.