Showing posts with label 1993. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1993. Show all posts

Thursday, October 23, 2025

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1993)


Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 7. Episode 6.
Episode entitled: Phantasms.
Released October 23, 1993.
Directed by Patrick Stewart.
Written by Brannon Braga, René Echevarria, Naren Shankar.
Created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by Dennis McCarthy.
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Gina Ravera, Bernard Kates, Clyde Kusatsu, David L. Crowley, Joe Baumann, Michael Braveheart. Cameron, Tracee Cocco, Gerard David Jr., Debbie David, Grace Harrell, Clay Hodges, Rad Milo, K.J. Penthouse, Keith Rayve, Joyce Robinson, Dendrie Taylor, Oliver Theess.

Sunday, October 12, 2025

On this day in music history - Rossini: La Cenerentola, by Cecilia Bartoli (1993):


Rossini: La Cenerentola

Album by Cecilia Bartoli,
released October 12, 1993.

Track list:

La Cenerentola: Sinfonia - Teatro Comunale Bologna/Chailly; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: No, no, no: non v’e - Fernanda Costa; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Una volta c’era un re - Cecilia Bartoli; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Un tantin di carita - Michele Pertusi; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: O figlie amabili - Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Date lor mezzo scudo - Fernanda Costa; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Miei rampolli femminini - Enzo Dara; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Sappiate che fra poco - Fernanda Costa; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Tutto e deserto - William Matteuzzi; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Una volta c’era... Un soave non so che - Cecilia Bartoli/Enzo Dara; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Non so che dir - Enzo Dara; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Scegli la sposa... Come un’ape - Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna/Alessandro Corbelli; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Allegrissimamente - Alessandro Corbelli; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Signore, una parola - Cecilia Bartoli; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Si, tutto cangera - Cecilia Bartoli; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: La del ciel nell’arcano profondo - Cecilia Bartoli; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Ma bravo, bravo, bravo - Alessandro Corbelli; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Ora sono da voi - Alessandro Corbelli; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Conciossiacosacche - Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna; La Cenerentola: Atto primo: Noi Don Magnifico - Enzo Dara; La Cenerentola: Finale I: Zitto, zitto: piano, piano - Enzo Dara; La Cenerentola: Finale I: Principino, dove siete? - Fernanda Costa; La Cenerentola: Finale I: Venga, inoltri, avanzi il pie’ - Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna; La Cenerentola: Finale I: Ah! se velata ancor - Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna; La Cenerentola: Finale I: Signor... Altezza, e in tavola - Enzo Dara; La Cenerentola: Atto secondo: Mi par che quei birbanti - Enzo Dara; La Cenerentola: Atto secondo: Sia qualunque delle figlie - Enzo Dara; La Cenerentola: Atto secondo: Ah! questa bella incognita - Enzo Dara; La Cenerentola: Atto secondo: Si, ritrovarla io giuro - Enzo Dara; La Cenerentola: Atto secondo: Ma dunque io son un ex - Alessandro Corbelli; La Cenerentola: Atto secondo: Un segreto d’importanza - Alessandro Corbelli; La Cenerentola: Atto secondo: Una volta c’era un re - Cecilia Bartoli; La Cenerentola: Atto secondo: Ma ve l’avevo detto - Fernanda Costa; La Cenerentola: Atto secondo: Temporale. Storm music. Musique d’orage. Gewittermusik - Teatro Comunale Bologna/Chailly; La Cenerentola: Atto secondo: Scusate, amici - Alessandro Corbelli; La Cenerentola: Atto secondo: Siete voi? - Enzo Dara; La Cenerentola: Atto secondo: Ah, signor, s’e ver che in petto - Cecilia Bartoli; La Cenerentola: Atto secondo: Dunque noi siam burlate? - Gloria Banditelli; La Cenerentola: Finale II: Della Fortuna instabile - Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna; La Cenerentola: Finale II: Non piu mesta - Cecilia Bartoli.

Monday, September 29, 2025

On this day in music history - Real, by Belinda Carlisle (1993):


Real

Album by Belinda Carlisle,
released September 29, 1993.

Track list:

Goodbye Day; It’s Too Real (Big Scary Animal); Too Much Water; Lay Down Your Arms; Where Love Hides; One With You; Wrap My Arms; Tell Me; Windows Of The World; Here Comes My Baby.

Friday, September 26, 2025

On this day in television history - Fallen Angels (1993):


Fallen Angels

Season 1. Episode 6.
Episode entitled: Since I Don’t Have You.
Released September 26, 1993.
Directed by Jonathan Kaplan.
Written by Steven Katz.
Created by William Horberg.
Based on the story by James Ellroy.
Theme music by Peter Bernstein.


Cast:

Cindy Ambuehl, Dino Anello, Gary Busey, Al Evans, Aimee Graham, Gary Grossman, Elaine Hendrix, Ken Lerner, Tim Matheson, Bruce Meade, Michael Milgrom, Dick Miller, Bob Minor, George Rodriguez, Lynette Walden, James Woods, Simone Wright, Douglas W. Randall.

Thursday, September 25, 2025

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1993)
Star Trek: Voyager (1995 & 1996)
Star Trek: Enterprise (2002)


Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 7. Episode 2.
Episode entitled: Liaisons.
Released September 25, 1993.
Directed by Cliff Bole.
Written by Jeanne Carrigan Fauci, Lisa Rich, Roger Eschbacher, Jaq Greenspon, René Echevarria, Naren Shankar.
Created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by Dennis McCarthy.
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Barbara Williams, Eric Pierpoint, Paul Eiding, Michael Harris, Rickey D'Shon Collins, David Keith Anderson, Lena Banks, Michael Braveheart, Cameron, David Paul Christian, Tracee Cocco, Debbie David, Elliot Durant III, Gunnel Eriksson, Jack Gilroy, Linda Harcharic, Kerry Hoyt, Gary Hunter, Lorine Mendell, Christina Wegler Miles, Keith Rayve, John Alex Tampoya.


Star Trek: Voyager
Season 2. Episode 5.
Episode entitled: Non Sequitur.
Released September 25, 1995.
Directed by David Livingston.
Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.
Written by Brannon Braga, Kenneth Biller, Lisa Klink.
Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by Jay Chattaway.
Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Louis Giambalvo, Jennifer Gatti, Jack Shearer, Mark Kiely, Majel Barrett, Almayvonne, Thomas J. Booth, Tracee Cocco, Kevin Finister, Susan Henley, Kerry Hoyt, Julie Jiang, Trey King, Steve Kopy, Irving E. Lewis, Robert Lombardo, Tom Morga, Mary Newport, Louis Ortiz, Jim Portnoy, Lavelle Roby, Irving Ross, Louis C. Simon, John Alex Tampoya, Jeff Witzke, Catherine Wong.

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 3. Episode 4.
Episode entitled: The Swarm.
Released September 25, 1996.
Directed by Alexander Singer.
Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.
Written by Michael Sussman, 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, Carole Davis, Steven Houska, Majel Barrett, Johnetta Anderson, Chuck Borden, Damaris Cordelia, Christine Delgado, Tarik Ergin, John Alex Tampoya.


Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 2. Episode 2.
Episode entitled: Carbon Creek.
Released September 25, 2002.
Directed by James Contner.
Written by Chris Black, Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, Dan O'Shannon, André Bormanis.
Created by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga.
Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.
Opening theme song: Faith of the Heart, performed by Russell Watson.
Closing theme: Archer's Theme, by Dennis McCarthy.
Music by Jay Chattaway.
Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Ann Cusack, J. Paul Boehmer, Hank Harris, Michael Krawic, David Selburg, Clay Wilcox, Ron Marasco, Paul Hayes, Alexandrea Ortiz, Doug Wax, Brett Weir.

Sunday, September 21, 2025

On this day in television history - NYPD Blue (1993 - 2005):


NYPD Blue

was released on September 21, 1993,
and ran for twelve seasons until March 1, 2005.
Theme music by Mike Post.


Cast:

Dennis Franz, David Caruso, James McDaniel, Jimmy Smits, Sherry Stringfield, Amy Brenneman, Nicholas Turturro, Sharon Lawrence, Gordon Clapp, Gail O'Grady, Justine Miceli, Kim Delaney, Andrea Thompson, Ricky Schroder, Bill Brochtrup, Henry Simmons, Garcelle Beauvais, Charlotte Ross, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Jacqueline Obradors, John F. O'Donohue, Currie Graham, Bonnie Somerville.

Friday, September 19, 2025

On this day in television history - Fallen Angels (1993):


Fallen Angels

Season 1. Episode 5.
Episode entitled: Murder, Obliquely.
Released September 19, 1993.
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón.
Written by Amanda Silver.
Created by William Horberg.
Based on the story by Cornell Woolrich.
Theme music by Peter Bernstein.


Cast:

Laura Dern, Alan Rickman, Diane Lane, Robin Bartlett, Patrick Massett, John A. Zee, Michael Vartan, Lynette Walden.

Thursday, September 18, 2025

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1993)
Star Trek: Voyager (1995 & 1996)
Star Trek: Enterprise (2002)


Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 7. Episode 1.
Episode entitled: Descent, Part II.
Released September 18, 1993.
Directed by Alexander Singer.
Written by René Echevarria, Naren Shankar.
Created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by Jay Chattaway.
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Del Arco, Alex Datcher, James Horan, Brian Cousins, Benito Martinez, Michael Reilly Burke, David Keith Anderson, Majel Barrett, Pam Blackwell, Tracee Cocco, Debbie David, Gary Hunter, Rick Ryan Kiesau, Rad Milo, Ivonne Perez Montijo, Joe Murphy, Craig Reed, Joyce Robinson, Richard Sarstedt, Dee Giffin Scott, Adrian Tafoya, Oliver Thees, Rogan Wilde.


Star Trek: Voyager
Season 2. Episode 4.
Episode entitled: Elogium.
Released September 18, 1995.
Directed by Winrich Kolbe.
Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.
Written by Kenneth Biller, Jeri Taylor, Jimmy Diggs, Steve J. Kay.
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, Nancy Hower, Hudson (Gary) O'Brien, Terry Correll, Kimberly Auslander, Tarik Ergin, Ken Gruz, Susan Henley, Stan Ivar, Julie Jiang, Dennis Madalone, Jordan Monheim, Louis Ortiz, Richard Sarstedt, Simon Stotler, John Alex Tampoya.

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 3. Episode 3.
Episode entitled: The Chute.
Released September 18, 1996.
Directed by Les Landau.
Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.
Written by Kenneth Biller, Clayvon C. Harris, Lisa Klink.
Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by Jay Chattaway.
Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Don McManus, Robert Pine, James Parks, Ed Trotta, Beans Morocco, Rosemary Morgan, Derek Anthony, John Austin, Harry Boykoff, Terrell Clayton, Damaris Cordelia, Tarik Ergin, Kerry Hoyt, Donald R. Jankiewicz, Pat Jankiewicz, Julie Jiang, Jaehne Moebius, Tom Morga, Louis Ortiz, Irving Ross, Adrian Tafoya, John Alex Tampoya.


Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 2. Episode 1.
Episode entitled: Shockwave, Part II.
Released September 18, 2002.
Directed by Allan Kroeker.
Written by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, André Bormanis.
Created by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga.
Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.
Opening theme song: Faith of the Heart, performed by Russell Watson.
Closing theme: Archer's Theme, by Dennis McCarthy.
Music by Dennis McCarthy.
Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, John Fleck, Matt Winston, Vaughn Armstrong, Gary Graham, Keith Allan, Jim Fitzpatrick, Michael Kosik, Alexandrea Ortiz, Amy Kate Connolly, James Horan, Dieter Horneman, Bobby Pappas.

Sunday, September 14, 2025

On this day in music history - Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell, by Meat Loaf (1993)


Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell

Album by Meat Loaf,
released September 14, 1993.

Track list:

I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That); Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back; Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through; It Just Won’t Quit; Out of the Frying Pan (And Into the Fire); Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are; Wasted Youth; Everything Louder Than Everything Else; Good Girls Go to Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere); Back Into Hell; Lost Boys and Golden Girls.

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

On this day in movie history - The Real McCoy (1993):


The Real McCoy

directed by Russell Mulcahy,
written by William Davies and William Osborne,
was released in the United States on September 10, 1993.
Music by Brad Fiedel.


Cast:

Kim Basinger, Val Kilmer, Terence Stamp, Gailard Sartain, Zach English, Deborah Hobart, Pamela J. Hobart, Andy Stahl, Dean Rader-Duval, Norman Maxwell, Marc Macaulay, Nick Searcy.

On this day in movie history - True Romance (1993):


True Romance

directed by Tony Scott,
written by Quentin Tarantino,
was released in the United States on September 10, 1993.
Music by Hans Zimmer.


Cast:

Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, Christopher Walken, Bronson Pinchot, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Rapaport, Saul Rubinek, Conchata Ferrell, James Gandolfini, Anna Thomson, Victor Argo, Paul Bates, Chris Penn, Tom Sizemore, Gregory Sporleder, Maria Pitillo, Frank Adonis, Kevin Corrigan, Said Faraj, Paul Ben-Victor, Michael Beach, Joe D'Angerio, John Bower, John Cenatiempo, Eric Allan Kramer, Patrick John Hurley, Dennis Garber, Scott Evers, Hilary Klym, Steve Gonzales, Laurence Mason, Adam Boster, David Dean, Jonathan Fahn, April Freeman, Ed Lauter, Enzo Rossi, Nancy Young.

On this day in movie history - Money for Nothing (1993):


Money for Nothing

directed by Ramón Menéndez,
written by Ramón Menéndez, Tom Musca and Carol Sobieski,
based on the book Finders Keepers by Mark Bowden,
was released in the United States on September 10, 1993.
Inspired by the true 1981 Joey Coyle case.
Music by Craig Safan.


Cast:

John Cusack, Debi Mazar, Michael Madsen, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Rapaport, Maury Chaykin, James Gandolfini, Fionnula Flanagan, Elizabeth Bracco, Ashleigh Dejon, Lenny Venito, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Currie Graham, Frankie Faison, Ed Pansullo, Benji Schulman, Sam Coppola, Jeanne McCarthy, Don Brockett, Nicholas Giordano, Victoria Thomas, Lonzo Green, Bernard Canepari, Iva Jean Saraceni, Betsy Zajko, Hank Stratton, Thomas N. Levine, Scott Klace, Alice Drummond, Della Crews, Don Cannon, Lenora Nemetz, Harish Saluja, Kate Young, Joseph R. Gannascoli, Monty Cox, Joseph W. Bonacci, Robert Bella, Pete Ferry, Marty Kassab-Chaney, Pete Iole, David Norona, Bingo O'Malley, Ana Dela Cruz, Jeffrey Paul Johnson, Betsy Molina, Bill Dalzell, Barbara Russell, Tony Amen, Katina Forte, John W. Iwanonkiw, Angella Kaye, Frederick E. Kowalo, Joe Shelby.

Saturday, September 6, 2025

On this day in movie history - The Hidden II (1993):


The Hidden II

aka The Hidden 2,
directed by Seth Pinsker,
written by Jim Kouf and Seth Pinsker,
was released in the United States on September 6, 1993.
Music by David McHugh.


Cast:

Raphael Sbarge, Kate Hodge, Jovin Montanaro, Christopher Murphy, Michael Welden, Michael A. Nickles, Tony DiBenedetto, Tom Tayback, Dennis Bertsch, Cate Caplin, Edith Varon, Peter Gregory, Bobby J. Foxworth, Honey Lauren, Garvin Funches, Danny McBride, Michael Nouri, Ed O'Ross, Lin Shaye, Steve Eastin, Clu Gulager, Buckley Norris, Katherine Cannon, John McCann, Doug Collins, Marc Siegler, Ted White, Kristen Clayton, Mary Petrie, Steve Vandeman, Bob K. Cummings, Charlie Skeen, Alan Marcus, Rachel Todd, Kyle MacLachlan, Neil Summers.

Friday, September 5, 2025

On this day in television history - Fallen Angels (1993):


Fallen Angels

Season 1. Episode 4.
Episode entitled: The Frightening Frammis.
Released September 5, 1993.
Directed by Tom Cruise.
Written by Jon Robin Baitz, Howard A. Rodman.
Created by William Horberg.
Based on the story by Jim Thompson.
Theme music by Peter Bernstein.


Cast:

Bill Erwin, Peter Gallagher, Jean Speegle Howard, Gene Price, John Reilly, Isabella Rossellini, Nancy Travis, Joe Viterelli, Lynette Walden.

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

On this day in movie history: Kalifornia (1993):


Kalifornia

directed by Dominic Sena,
written by Tim Metcalfe,
based on a story by Stephen Levy and Tim Metcalfe,
was released in the United States on September 3, 1993.
Music by Carter Burwell.


Cast:

Brad Pitt, Kathy Larson, David Milford, David Duchovny, John Zarchen, David Rose, Michelle Forbes, Tommy Chappelle, Juliette Lewis, Judson Vaughn, James Michael McDougal, Patricia Sill, Brett Rice, Marisa Raper, Bill Crabb, Mary Ann Hagan, Jerry G. White, Sarah Sullivan, Eric Stenson, Mars Callahan, Patricia Hunte, Loanne Bishop, Ron Kuhlman, Sierra Pecheur, John Dullaghan, David Feigenbaum, Tom Hand, Shelby Hofer, Patricia Tallman.

Friday, August 29, 2025

On this day in television history - Fallen Angels (1993):


Fallen Angels

Season 1. Episode 3.
Episode entitled: The Quiet Room.
Released August 29, 1993.
Directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Written by Howard A. Rodman.
Created by William Horberg.
Based on the short story by Frank E. Smith/Jonathan Craig.
Theme music by Peter Bernstein.


Cast:

Joe Mantegna, Bonnie Bedelia, Vinessa Shaw, Patrick Breen, J.E. Freeman, Peter Gallagher, Wayne Grace, Kathy Kinney, Genia Michaela, Hank Stone, Norman Large, Lynette Walden.

Friday, August 15, 2025

On this day in television history - Fallen Angels (1993):


Fallen Angels

Season 1. Episode 2.
Episode entitled: I’ll Be Waiting.
Released August 15, 1993.
Directed by Tom Hanks.
Written by C. Gaby Mitchell.
Created by William Horberg.
Based on the short story by Raymond Chandler.
Theme music by Peter Bernstein.


Cast:

Bruno Kirby, Marg Helgenberger, Jon Polito, Dan Hedaya, Dick Miller, Peter Scolari, Tom Hanks, Manny Perry, Lynette Walden.

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

On this day in movie history - The Fugitive (1993):


The Fugitive

directed by Andrew Davis,
written by Jeb Stuart and David Twohy,
based on a story by David Twohy,
was released in the United States on August 6, 1993.
Music by James Newton Howard.
Also based on the TV series The Fugitive,
starring David Janssen and created by Roy Huggins,
that ran for four seasons from 1963 to 1967.


Cast:

Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward, Joe Pantoliano, Andreas Katsulas, Jeroen Krabbé, Daniel Roebuck, Tom Wood, L. Scott Caldwell, Johnny Lee Davenport, Julianne Moore, Ron Dean, Joseph Kosala, Jane Lynch, Dick Cusack, Andy Romano, Nick Searcy, Eddie Bo Smith, Neil Flynn, Richard Riehle, Kirsten Nelson, David Darlow, Frank Ray Perilli, Lester Holt.