On this day in music history - Poèmes, by Renée Fleming (2012):

Poèmes

Album by Renée Fleming,

released February 20, 2012.

Track list:

Messiaen: Poemes pour mi - 7. Les deux guerriers; Messiaen: Poemes pour mi - 8. Le collier; Messiaen: Poemes pour mi - 9. Prière exaucée; Dutilleux: Deux Sonnets de Jean Cassou - Il n'y avait que des troncs dechirés...; Dutilleux: Deux Sonnets de Jean Cassou - J'ai revé que je vous portais entre mes bras...; Dutilleux: Le temps l'horloge - Le temps l'horloge; Dutilleux: Le temps l'horloge - Le masque; Dutilleux: Le temps l'horloge - Le dernier poème; Dutilleux: Le temps l'horloge – Interlude; Dutilleux: Le temps l'horloge - Envirez-vous; Renée Fleming - Poèmes - Ravel, Messiaen, Dutilleux.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988 & 1993)

Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

Star Trek: Picard (2020)

The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek (2022)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 1. Episode 17.

Episode entitled: Home Soil.

Released February 20, 1988.

Directed by Corey Allen.

Written by Robert Sabaroff, Karl Geurs, Ralph Sanchez, Tracy Tormé.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Walter Gotell, Elizabeth Lindsey, Gerard Prendergast, Mario Roccuzzo, Carolyne Barry, Majel Barrett, James G. Becker, Darrell Burris, Dexter Clay, Susan Duchow, Nora Leonhardt, Tim McCormack, James McElroy, Lorine Mendell, Susan Raborn.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 6. Episode 16.

Episode entitled: Birthright, Part I.

Released February 20, 1993.

Directed by Winrich Kolbe.

Written by Brannon Braga, 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, Alexander Siddig, James Cromwell, Cristine Rose, Jennifer Gatti, Richard Herd, Lena Banks, Michael Braveheart, Debbie David, Brian Demonbreun, Steve Diamond, Inez Edwards, Kevin Grevioux, Gary Hunter, Arvo Katajisto, David B. Levinson, Lorine Mendell, Rad Milo, Robin Morselli, Mary Newport, Irving Ross, Dee Giffin Scott, Mark Allen Shepherd, John Alex Tampoya, Natalie Wood.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 1. Episode 6.

Episode entitled: Eye of the Needle.

Released February 20, 1995.

Directed by Winrich Kolbe.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Bill Dial, Jeri Taylor, Hilary J. Bader, Kenneth Biller.

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, Tom Virtue, Derek Anthony, Tarik Ergin, Heather Ferguson, Norman Alexander Gibbs, Stan Ivar, Coleman McClary, Jordan Monheim, Louis Ortiz, Simon Stotler.

Star Trek: Picard

Season 1. Episode 5.

Episode entitled: Stardust City Rag.

Released February 20, 2020.

Directed by Jonathan Frakes.

Created by Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Kirsten Beyer, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Kirsten Beyer, Nick Zayas.

Based on Star Trek: The Next Generation, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jeri Ryan, Alison Pill, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Evan Evagora, Dominic Burgess, Necar Zadegan, John Ales, Mason Gooding, Landry Allbright, Kay Bess, Ayushi Chhabra, Casey Childs, Casey King, Sam Marra, Jessie Graff, Linda Kessler, Destiney Richardson.

The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek

Season 1. Episode 8.

Episode entitled: Voyage(r) to the Delta Quadrant.

Released February 20, 2022.

Directed by Brian Volk-Weiss.

Visual Effects and animation by Jeremy Samples.

Cast: Mark A. Altman, Robert Beltran, Rick Berman, André Bormanis, Brannon Braga, Roxann Dawson, Merri D. Howard, Lisa Klink, Gates McFadden, Kate Mulgrew, Larry Nemecek, Wendy Neuss, Denise Okuda, Michael Okuda, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Lucie Salhany, Maria Jose Tenuto, Wesley G. Willison.

On this day in television history - Space 1999 (1977):

Space 1999

Season 2. Episode 19.

Episode entitled: The Bringers of Wonder: Part 2.

Released February 20, 1977.

Directed by Tom Clegg.

Written by Terence Feely.

Series created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson.

Music by Derek Wadsworth.

Cast: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt, Nick Tate, Zienia Merton, Jeffery Kissoon, Toby Robins, Stuart Damon, Jeremy Young, Drewe Henley, Patrick Westwood, Cher Cameron, Al Lampert, Billy J. Mitchell, Earl Robinson, Robert Sheedy, Nicholas Young, Albin Pahernik, Glenda Allen, Peter Brayham, Sarah Bullen, Jenny Cresswell, Joe Dunne, Roy Everson, Nick Hobbs, David Jackson, Quentin Pierre.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1959):

M Squad

Season 2. Episode 21.

Episode entitled: The Star Witness.

Released February 20, 1959.

Directed by David Lowell Rich.

Written by Leonard Kantor.

Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Virginia Vincent, Paul Picerni, Terry Becker, Abbey Shelton, Sidney Clute, Mary Gregory, John Perri.

On this day in movie history - The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947 movie & novel):

The Devil Thumbs a Ride

directed and written by Felix E. Feist,

based on the novel by Robert C. Du Soe,

was released in the United States on February 20, 1947.
Music by Paul Sawtell and Roy Webb.

Cast:

Lawrence Tierney, Ted North, Nan Leslie, Betty Lawford, Andrew Tombes, Harry Shannon, Glen Vernon, Marian Carr, William Gould, Josephine Whittell, Phil Warren, Robert Malcolm, Arthur Q. Bryan, Roger Creed, Harry Depp, George Dockstader, Dick Edwards, Sarah Edwards, Dick Elliott, Carl Faulkner, Lee Frederick, Raoul Freeman, Dorothy Granger, Chuck Hamilton, William Joy, Perc Launders, Bert LeBaron, Lee Phelps, Tom Pilkington, Victor Potel, Harry Raven, John Roy, Dick Rush, Cy Slocum, Tex Swan, Minerva Urecal.

Recommended reading:

The Devil Thumbs a Ride

By Robert C. Du Soe.

First published 1938.

Published by Avon Books

ASIN: B00730V9GY

Description:

Screenwriter Du Soe's only novel, about an innocuous fellar name of Steve who gets in a car with the simple, corpulent Furgison. The pair pick up a couple of girls, and only after the bodies pile up does Furgison start to wonder who it is he's riding along with.

On this day in movie history - The Spiral Staircase (1946 movie & novel):

The Spiral Staircase

directed by Robert Siodmak,

written by Mel Dinelli,

based on the novel Some Must Watch by Ethel Lina White,

was released in the United States on February 20, 1946.

Music by Roy Webb.

Cast:

Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith, Rhonda Fleming, Gordon Oliver, Elsa Lanchester, Sara Allgood, Rhys Williams, James Bell, Erville Alderson, Ellen Corby, Myrna Dell, George Holmes, Stanley Price, Robert Siodmak, Richard Tyler, Charles Wagenheim, Larry Wheat.

Recommended reading:

Some Must Watch

By Ethel Lina White.

Filmed as The Spiral Staircase (1946), directed by Robert Siodmak.

Paperback.

Published by Hinkler Books.

First published 1933.

ISBN 13: 9781743081167

ISBN10: 1743081162

ASIN: 1743081162

Description:

Film director Robert Siodmak took Some Must Watch as the inspiration for his classic, bone-chilling thriller, The Spiral Staircase. In this novel Helen Capel takes the position of lady-help in a remote country house owned by the Warren family. She learns that a murderer is on the loose. All four of his victims were young girls, and the last of these was strangled in a lonely house just five miles away. Helen feels safe inside the house, protected, but the maniac is closer than she fears.

Born on this day – Kurt Cobain:

Kurt Cobain

Musician

Singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994