Saturday, November 15, 2025

On this day in music history - The Silent Force, by Within Temptation (2004):


The Silent Force

Album by Within Temptation,
released November 15, 2004.

Track list:

Intro; See Who I Am; Jillian (I'd Give My Heart); Stand My Ground; Pale; Forsaken; Angels; Memories; Aquarius; It's the Fear (Demo Version); Somewhere; A Dangerous Mind; The Swan Song; Destroyed (Demo Version).

On this day in movie history - Cape Fear (movie & novel):


Cape Fear

directed by Martin Scorsese,
written by Wesley Strick,
based on the novel The Executioners by John D. MacDonald,
was released in the United States on November 15, 1991.
Music by Bernard Herrmann and Elmer Bernstein.


Cast:

Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Joe Don Baker, Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, Martin Balsam, Illeana Douglas, Fred Thompson, Zully Montero, Craig Henne, Forest Burton, Edgar Allan Poe IV, Rod Ball, W. Paul Bodie, Joel Kolker, Antoni Corone, Tamara Jones, Roger Pretto, Parris Buckner, Margot Moreland, Will Knickerbocker, Robert L. Gerlach, Bruce E. Holdstein, Richard Wasserman, Paul Nagle Jr., Paul Froehler, Mary Ellen O'Brien, Jody Wilson, C.C. Costigan, Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, Gar Stephen, Billy D. Lucas, Ken Collins, Linda Perri, Libby Moyer, Catherine Scorsese, Charles Scorsese, Jackie Davis, George Grafas, Esther Rolle, Ken Waters.

Recommended reading:


The Executioners

By John D. MacDonald.

Filmed as:
Cape Fear (1962), directed by J. Lee Thompson,
Cape Fear (1991), directed by Martin Scorsese.

Mass Market Paperback.
First published 1957.
Published by Magnum Books.
ISBN 13: 9780417043708
ISBN 10: 0417043708
ASIN: 0417043708

Description:

For 14 years Max Cady had sworn vengeance against the man who convicted him, becoming fired by an insane obsession for revenge. Released from his years of hard Labour he made his plans for Sam Bowden's slow death.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek (1968)
Star Trek: Voyager (2000)


Star Trek
Season 3. Episode 9.
Episode entitled: The Tholian Web.
Released November 15, 1968.
Directed by Herb Wallerstein, Ralph Senensky.
Written by Judy Burns, Chet Richards, Arthur H. Singer.
Created by Gene Roddenberry.
Music by Alexander Courage.
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Majel Barrett, Sean Morgan, Barbara Babcock, Paul Baxley, Bill Blackburn, Bob Bralver, Frank da Vinci, Louie Elias, Jimmy Fields, Roger Holloway, Jay D. Jones, Jeannie Malone, Robert Metz, Gary Wright.


Star Trek: Voyager
Season 7. Episode 7.
Episode entitled: Body and Soul.
Released November 15, 2000.
Directed by Robert Duncan McNeill.
Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.
Written by Eric Morris, Phyllis Strong, Michael/Mike Sussman, Michael Taylor, Robert Doherty, Michael Ferdie.
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, Fritz Sperberg, Marva Hicks, Megan Gallagher, David Starwalt, Majel Barrett, Tarik Ergin, Robin Morselli.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1957):


M Squad

Season 1. Episode 8.
Episode entitled: The Hard Case.
Released November 15, 1957.
Directed by Bernard Girard.
Written by Paul David and Irving Rubine.
Based on a story by Irving Rubine.
Music by Stanley Wilson.


Cast:

Lee Marvin, George Mathews, Ray Foster, Howard Negley, Paul Newlan, Walter Reed, Mack Williams, William Murphy, Danny Davenport, Michael Bachus, Jack Reynolds, Chris Randall, Joseph DeVictoria, Chet Brandenburg, Russell Custer, Leonard P. Geer, Mathew McCue.

Born on this day – Susanne Lothar:


Susanne Lothar

Actress

November 15, 1960 – July 21, 2021

Born on this day – Yaphet Kotto:


Yaphet Kotto

Actor

November 15, 1939 – March 15, 2021

Born on this day – Joanna Barnes:


Joanna Barnes


Actress

Writer

November 15, 1934 – April 29, 2022

Credits:

Books:

From Floor to Ceiling: Decorating and Furnishing a Home (1970); Pastora (1980); Silverwood (1985); Starting from Scratch (date?); The Deceivers (1970); The Dissemblers (1971); Who Is Carla Hart? (1973).

Movies and television:

21 Beacon Street (1959); 25th Annual Family Film Awards (2022); 77 Sunset Strip (1963); Adventures in Paradise (1960); Alcoa Premiere (1962–1963); Alcoa Theatre (1960); Alias Smith and Jones (1971); Arrest and Trial (1964); Auntie Mame (1958); B.S. I Love You (1971); Bachelor Father (1962); Barney Miller (1982); Beach Patrol (1959); Benson (1986); Biography (1996); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1965); Bringing Up Buddy (1961); Cain's Hundred (1961); Charlie's Angels (1979); Cheers (1989); Cheyenne (1957–1958); Classified X (2007); Colt .45 (1958); Conflict (1957); Cool Million (1972); Copycat (1963–1964); Dante (1960); Dateline: Hollywood (1967); Dolly (1987); Don't Make Waves (1967); Dr. Kildare (1965); Eddie (1971); Ellery Queen (1975); Empire (1963); Executive Suite (1976); Fantasy Island (1978–1979); Farewell to the Planet of the Apes (1980); Follow the Sun (1961); General Electric Theater (1960); Girl Talk (1968); Goodbye Charlie (1964); Guess My Sign (1968); Gypsy (1966); Hart to Hart (1982); Have Gun - Will Travel (1962); Hawaii Five-O (1972); Hawaiian Eye (1959); Here's Hollywood (1961–1962); Home Before Dark (1958); I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now? (1975); I'll Bet (1965); Judd for the Defense (1969); Laramie (1962); Love, American Style / Segment: Love and the Legend (1973); M Squad (1960); Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away (1986); Mannix (1968); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1973); Matt Helm (1975); Maverick (1957–1960); McCloud (1973); Michael Shayne (1961); Mr. Lucky (1960); Murder, She Wrote (1987); Nanny and the Professor (1970); No Time to Be Young (1957); Off to See the Wizard (1968); O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (1971); Onionhead (1958); Password (1965–1974); Pat Boone in Hollywood (1968); Philbert (Three's a Crowd) (1963); Philip Marlowe (1960); Planet of the Apes (1974); Playhouse 90 (1957); Quincy, M.E. (1976); Remington Steele (1983); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1960); Rio (1961); S.W.A.T. (1975); Sam Benedict (1962); Secrets of a Mother and Daughter (1983); Snap Judgment (1967–1969); Spartacus (1960); Stagecoach West (1961); Steve Canyon (1958); Stumpers! (1976); Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers (1956); Target: The Corruptors (1961); Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959); Tempo (1970); The Betty White Show (1978); The Beverly Hillbillies (1963); The Bob Braun Show (1974); The Bob Cummings Show (1961); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The Farmer's Daughter (1964); The Ford Television Theatre (1957); The Garment Jungle (1957); The Investigators (1961); The Jack Barry Show (1963); The Jim Backus Show (1960); The Last Resort (1980); The Legacy of the Parent Trap (2024); The Magical World of Disney (1976); The Man from Blackhawk (1960); The Merv Griffin Show (1967–1971); The Mike Douglas Show (1971); The Millionaire (1960); The Name of the Game (1969); The New Perry Mason (1973); The Parent Trap (1961 / 1998); The Parent Trap: Caught in the Act (2002); The Purple Hills (1961); The Tab Hunter Show (1961); The Trials of O'Brien (1965–1966); The Untouchables (1961); The Virginia Graham Show (1971); The War Wagon (1967); The Young Set (1965); Then Came You (2000); To Tell the Truth (1967–1969); Too Many Thieves (1966); Too Much, Too Soon (1958); Trapper John, M.D. (1980–1985); Violent Road (1958); What's My Line? (1965–1973); When the Whistle Blows (1980); You Don't Say (1963).