On this day in television history - Justified (2014):

Justified

Season 5. Episode 12.

Episode entitled: Starvation.

Released April 1, 2014.

Directed by Michael Pressman.

Written by Graham Yost, Chris Provenzano, Leonard Chang.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Jere Burns, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Walton Goggins, Michael Rapaport, Rick Gomez, Damon Herriman, Jesse Luken, Danielle Panabaker, Stephen Root, Alicia Witt, Jeannetta Arnette, Justin Welborn, Brenda Ballard, Kaitlin Ferrell, Kareem Grimes, Justin Huen, Jonathan Kowalsky, James Logan, Lisa Lynch, Casey McCarthy, Daniel Moncada, Heather Olt, Emiliano Torres, Aubrey Wood, Russell Bertolino, Nicole Bosworth, Scarlet LaVey, Lisa Pevc.

On this day in movie history - Sin City (2005):

Sin City

directed by Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino,

written by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller,

based on the graphic novels by Frank Miller,

was released in the United States on April 1, 2005.
Music by John Debney, Graeme Revell and Robert Rodriguez.

Cast:

Jessica Alba, Devon Aoki, Alexis Bledel, Powers Boothe, Cara D. Briggs, Jude Ciccolella, Jeff Dashnaw, Rosario Dawson, Jesse De Luna, Benicio Del Toro, Jason Douglas, Michael Clarke Duncan, Tommy Flanagan, Christina Frankenfield, Rick Gomez, Carla Gugino, Josh Hartnett, Rutger Hauer, David Hickey, Evelyn Hurley, Greg Ingram, Nicky Katt, Jaime King, Helen Kirk, Michael Madsen, Ethan Maniquis, Jason McDonald, John McLeod, Clark Middleton, Frank Miller, Brittany Murphy, Iman Nazemzadeh, Lisa Marie Newmyer, Tommy Nix, Nick Offerman, Clive Owen, Marco Perella, Sam Ray, Randal Reeder, Mickey Rourke, David Alex Ruiz, Ryan Rutledge, Marley Shelton, Jeff Schwan, Korey Simeone, Nick Stahl, Paul T. Taylor, Scott Teeters, Ken Thomas, Rico Torres, Makenzie Vega, Arie Verveen, Patricia Vonne, Shaun Wainwright-Branigan, Chris Warner, Bruce Willis, Elijah Wood, Danny Wynands, J.D. Young, Charissa Allen, Joe Basquez, Sabrina Davi, Jessica Hale, Samantha Inoue Harte, Michael Lambert, Ashley Moore, Amanda Phillips, Lauren-Elaine Powell, Texas Presley, Emmy Robbin, Kelley Robins, Robert Rodriguez, Monika Spruch, Penny Vital, Katherine Willis.

On this day in music history:

Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads (1992)

Shallow Life by Lacuna Coil (2009)

Head or Heart by Christina Perri (2014)

All The Time by Csillagköd (2016)

Into The Mist by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2017)

Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads

Documentary directed by Robert Mugge.

Written by Robert Palmer.

Released in the United States on April 1, 1992.

Cast: Robert Palmer, David A. Stewart, Abraham Schwab, Booker T. Laury, R.L. Burnside, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Abe Young, Napoleon Strickland, Junior Kimbrough, Joe Ayers, Calvin Jackson, Roosevelt Barnes, Frank Self, Wade Walton, Big Jack Johnson, Jack Owens, Early Wright, Bud Spires, Lonnie Pitchford.

Shallow Life

Album by Lacuna Coil,

Released April 1, 2009.

Track list: Survive; I Won't Tell You; Not Enough; I'm Not Afraid; I Like It; Underdog; The Pain; Spellbound; Wide Awake; The Maze; Unchained; Shallow Life; The Last Goodbye (unreleased B-Side); Leaving Alone (unreleased B-Side); Oblivion (unreleased B-Side); Spellbound (Acoustic recorded at WBYR, Ft. Wayne, IN); Closer (Acoustic recorded at The Mancow Show, Chicago); Within Me (Acoustic recorded at The Mancow Show); Survive (live at The House Of Blues in Hollywood); I'm Not Afraid (live at The House Of Blues in Hollywood); I Won't Tell You (live at The House Of Blues in Hollywood); Tightrope (live in St. Petersburg, FL); Fragments Of Faith (live in St. Petersburg, FL); The Game (live in St. Petersburg, FL).

Head or Heart

Album by Christina Perri,

released April 1, 2014.

Track list: Trust; burning gold; be my forever (feat. Ed Sheeran); human; one night; i dont wanna break; sea of lovers; the words; lonely child; run; butterfly; shot me in the heart; i believe.

All The Time

Album by Csillagköd,

released April 1, 2016.

Track list: All Directions (Brainshaped Universe); Spheres (Part 2); Everything Is Happening; Only Matter; Vy Canis Majoris; Long Far Distant; Cosmic Ocean; Merging of Substances; Outside This World; Transexistential Perspectives.

Into The Mist

Album by Fiona Joy Hawkins,

released April 1, 2017.

Track list: A Walk In The Park; Moon Over The Lotus Pond; Opus: Into The Mist (Part 1); Opus: Mist Rising (Part 2); Opus: Mist Before Dawn (Part 3); Through Cloud; Feeling Sunshine; Grey Sky Morning; Galloping; The Void.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989)

Star Trek: Voyager (1998)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 2. Episode 13.

Episode entitled: Time Squared.

Released April 1, 1989.

Directed by Joseph L. Scanlan.

Written by Maurice Hurley, Kurt Michael Bensmiller, Melinda M. Snodgrass.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Colm Meaney, Diana Muldaur, Rachen Assapiomonwait, Dexter Clay.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 4. Episode 20.

Episode entitled: Vis À Vis.

Released April 1, 1998.

Directed by Jesús Salvador Treviño.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Robert J. Doherty, Bryan Fuller, Lisa Klink.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Dan Butler, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Majel Barrett.

On this day in movie history - Machine Gun McCain (1969 movie & novel):

Machine Gun McCain

Italian title: Gli intoccabili,

English translation: The Untouchables,

directed by Giuliano Montaldo,

written by Mino Roli, Israel Horovitz and Giuliano Montaldo,

based on the novel Candyleg by Ovid Demaris,

was released in Italy on April 1, 1969.
Music by Ennio Morricone.

Cast:

John Cassavetes, Britt Ekland, Peter Falk, Gabriele Ferzetti, Pierluigi Aprà, Luigi Pistilli, Margherita Guzzinati, Claudio Biava, Steffen Zacharias, James Morrison, Florinda Bolkan, Tony Kendall, Salvo Randone, Gena Rowlands, Maria Mizar, Euplio Moscusu, Mirella Pamphili, Raffaele Triggia, Gaetano Imbró, Silvana Bacci, Franco Riti, Jack Ackerman, Annabella Andreoli, Val Avery, Carla Brait, Nat Bush, Ennanno Consolazione, Carol Doda, Dan Gregory, Tery Hare, Werner Hasselmann, Billy Lee, Giuseppina Quinn, Dennis Sallas, Karen Valenti, Bill Vanders.

Recommended reading:

Candyleg

By Ovid Demaris.

Filmed as Machine Gun McCain (1969), directed by Giuliano Montaldo.

Published by Gold Medal Books.

First published 1961.

ASIN: B002M39644

Mass Market Paperback.

Description:

Irene was damaged goods, passed along by the gang and used according to its whims. No one took her seriously, and her life story read like one long dirty joke. She was blonde dynamite, so they gave her the job of warming up Hank McCain, the master thief who'd just spent 20 years cooling his heels in Alcatraz.

On this day in movie history - Impact (1949):

Impact

directed by Arthur Lubin,

written by Jay Dratler and Dorothy Davenport,

based on a story by Jay Dratler,

was released in the United States on April 1, 1949.
Music by Michel Michelet.

Cast:

Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn, Helen Walker, Anna May Wong, Robert Warwick, Clarence Kolb, Art Baker, William Wright, Mae Marsh, Sheilah Graham, Tony Barrett, Philip Ahn, Glen Vernon, Linda Leighton, Jason Robards, Erskine Sanford, Ruth Robinson, Lucius Cooke, Tom Greenway, Ben Welden, Joel Friedkin, Joe Kirk, William Ruhl, Mary Landa, Harry Cheshire.

Born on this day – Jennifer Runyon:

Jennifer Runyon

Actress

Producer

April 1, 1960 – March 6, 2026

Credits:

Spectral Squad: The Haunting of Sophie Lawson (2025); The South Jersey Horror Podcast (2023); Gunfight at Silver Creek (2020); 88th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade (2019); Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters (2019); Terror Tales / segment: Epidemic (2019); Bloodsucka Jones vs. The Creeping Death (2017); Ghostheads (2016); Silent Night, Bloody Night 2: Revival (2015); To All a Goodnight: Interview with Jennifer Runyon (2014); F.L.U.I.D. (2014); Carnosaur (1993); Vinnie & Bobby (1992); Till Death Us Do Part (1992); Beverly Hills, 90210 (1991); Killing Streets (1991); Murder, She Wrote (1989–1991); Tagteam (1991); A Man Called Sarge (1990); Booker (1990); Quantum Leap (1989); A Very Brady Christmas (1988); Valerie (1988); Dear John (1988); 18 Again! (1988); The in Crowd (1988); Who's the Boss? (1987); Charles in Charge (1984–1987); The Highwayman (1987); Magnum, P.I. (1987); Blue de Ville (1986); Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story (1986); Pros & Cons (1986); Flight of the Spruce Goose (1985); Space (1985); The Falcon and the Snowman (1985); Ghostbusters (1984); The Making of 'Up the Creek' (1984); Up the Creek (1984); The Master (1984); The Fall Guy (1983); Boone (1983); Six Pack (1983); Another World (1981–1983); To All a Goodnight (1980).