Friday, October 24, 2025

On this day in music history - Back to the Blues, by Sue Foley (2000):


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.

On this day in movie history - John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1988):


John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

documentary directed by Frank Martin,
written by Frank Martin and Charles Degelman,
was released at the Chicago International Film Festival in the United States on October 24, 1988.
Festival held from October 24, 1988 – November 6, 1988.
Music by Steve Goldstein.

Cast:

John Huston, Robert Mitchum, Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Evelyn Keyes, Lesley Black, Arthur Miller, Marietta Tree, Michael Fitzgerald, Tom Shaw, Walter Huston, Anjelica Huston, Michael Caine, Oswald “Ossie” Morris, Danny Huston, Zoe Sallis, Jennifer Jones, Humphrey Bogart, Lady Hemphill, Lord Hemphill, Darryl F. Zanuck, Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor, Sue Lyon, Deborah Kerr, Assi Dayan, Marlon Brando, Robert Forster, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Burgess Meredith.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987 & 1992)
Star Trek: Enterprise (2001)


Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 1. Episode 5.
Episode entitled: Where No One Has Gone Before.
Released October 24, 1987.
Directed by Rob Bowman.
Written by Diane Duane, Michael Reaves, Johnny Dawkins.
Created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by Ron Jones.
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Stanley Kamel, Eric Menyuk, Herta Ware, Biff Yeager, Charles Dayton, Victoria Dillard, James G. Becker, Byron Berline, Darrell Burris, Dexter Clay, Jeffrey Deacon, Nora Leonhardt, Dennis Madalone, Tim McCormack, Lorine Mendell, Natalia Silverwood.

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 6. Episode 6.
Episode entitled: True Q.
Released October 24, 1992.
Directed by Robert Scheerer.
Written by René Echevarria, Matthew Corey, Brannon Braga, 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, Olivia d'Abo, John P. Connolly, John de Lancie, David Keith Anderson, Lena Banks, Joe Baumann, Michael Braveheart, Cullen G. Chambers, Tracee Cocco, Debbie David, Shannon Fox, Goldie Gareza, Arvo Katajisto, Mark Lentry, Christina Wegler Miles, Ivonne Perez Montijo, Kim Max Pemberton, Joyce Robinson, Victor Sein, John Alex Tampoya, Mikki Val.


Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 1. Episode 6.
Episode entitled: Terra Nova.
Released October 24, 2001.
Directed by LeVar Burton.
Written by Antoinette Stella, Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, Phyllis Strong, Michael/Mike Sussman, Stephen Beck, André Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, 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 David Bell.
Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Erick Avari, Mary Carver, Brian Jacobs, Greville Henwood, Steve Blalock, Jane Bordeaux, Solomon Burke Jr., Mark Correy, Evan English, Stacy Fouche, Bryan Heiberg, Dieter Horneman, Moses Storm, Michael Westmore.

On this day in television history - Space 1999 (1976):


Space 1999

Season 2. Episode 5.
Episode entitled: Brian the Brain.
Released October 24, 1976.
Directed by Kevin Connor.
Written by Jack Ronder.
Series created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson.
Music by Derek Wadsworth.

Cast:

Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt, Bernard Cribbins, John Hug, Marc Zuber, Michael Sharvell-Martin, Annie Lambert, Yasuko Nagazumi, Glenda Allen, David Clare, John Ketteringham, Quentin Pierre, Robert Reeves, Pam Rose.

On this day in music history - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, by Simon & Garfunkel (1966):


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).

On this day in movie history - Tower of London (1962):


Tower of London

directed by Roger Corman,
written by Leo Gordon, F. Amos Powell and James B. Gordon,
based on a story by Leo Gordon and F. Amos Powell,
was released in the United States on October 24, 1962.
Music by Michael Andersen.


Cast:

Vincent Price, Michael Pate, Joan Freeman, Robert Brown, Bruce Gordon, Joan Camden, Richard Hale, Sandra Knight, Charles Macaulay, Justice Watson, Sarah Selby, Donald Losby, Sara Taft, Eugene Mazzola, Morris Ankrum, Paul Frees, Gene Roth, Jack Tornek.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1958):


M Squad

Season 2. Episode 5.
Episode entitled: The Trap.
Released October 24, 1958.
Directed by Don Medford.
Written by Don Sanford.
Music by John Williams.


Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Betty Lynn, Robert Fuller, Virginia Gregg, Harry Landers, Percy Helton, Edwin Jerome.