On this day in television history - Naked City (1958):

Naked City

Season 1. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: Meridian.

Released September 30, 1958.

Directed by Jerry Hopper.

Written by Stirling Silliphant.

Inspired by the movie The Naked City, a.k.a. Naked City (1948), directed by Jules Dassin, written by Albert Maltz and Malvin Wald.

Narrated by Herbert (Bert) B. Leonard.

Theme music: This is the Naked City by George Duning, Somewhere in the Night by Billy May, and The Naked City Theme by Nelson Riddle.

There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.

– Narrator.

Cast:

John McIntire, James Franciscus, Suzanne Storrs, Alison Marshall, Joseph Walsh, Pat DeSimone, Harry Kadison, Bill Zuckert, Al Hodge, Frank Downing, Barbara Banks, Miriam Acevedo, Herbert B. Leonard.

On this day in movie history - Between Midnight and Dawn (1950):

Between Midnight and Dawn

a.k.a. Prowl Car,

directed by Gordon Douglas,

written by Eugene Ling,

based on a story by Gerald Drayson Adams and Leo Katcher,

was released in the United States on September 30, 1950.

Music by George Duning.

Cast:

Mark Stevens, Edmond O'Brien, Gale Storm, Donald Buka, Gale Robbins, Anthony Ross, Roland Winters, Tito Vuolo, Grazia Narciso, Madge Blake, Lora Lee Michel, John Butler, Dudley Dickerson, Cliff Bailey, Tony Barr, Robert Bice, Symona Boniface, Chet Brandenburg, John Breen, Ralph Brooks, James Brown, Wheaton Chambers, Tom Daly, Sayre Dearing, Jack Del Rio, George DeNormand, Douglas Evans, Janey Fay, Charles Ferguson, George Ford, Robert Foulk, Lee Frederick, Jack Gargan, Alex Gerry, James Gonzalez, Billy Gray, William E. Green, Chuck Hamilton, Harry Harvey, Myron Healey, Mary Alan Hokanson, Ted Jordan, Louise Kane, Richard Karlan, Johnny Kascier, Mary Ellen Kay, Don Kohler, Marc Krah, Mike Lally, Richard LaMarr, Harry Lauter, Nolan Leary, Robert Locke Lorraine, Eric Mack, Peter Mamakos, Tommy Mann, Charles Marsh, Sydney Mason, Harry Mayo, Frances Morris, William H. O'Brien, Frank O'Connor, Paul Palmer, Steve Pendleton, Frank Pharr, Maudie Prickett, Tom Quinn, Joe Recht, Robert Robinson, Ric Roman, Cosmo Sardo, Fred Shellac, Ted Stanhope, Bert Stevens, Brick Sullivan, Tony Taylor, Carlo Tricoli, Philip Van Zandt, Ruth Warren, Guy Way, Gayne Whitman.

Born on this day – Jan Schwieterman:

Jan Schwieterman

Actor

September 30, 1972 – February 28, 2025

Credits:

Along the Way (2007); American Intellectuals (1999); Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction / Segment: Rock & Roll Ears (1998); ER (1994); Fallen Arches (1998); Felicity (1998–1999); Forever (1996); Good Burger (1997); Good Burger 2: Good Burger 1 Movie Recap (2024); McKenna (1994); NightMan (1998); Undressed (1999); Warlock III: The End of Innocence (1999); Wasted (1996).

Born on this day – Dan O'Bannon:

Dan O'Bannon

Actor

Writer

Director

September 30, 1946 – December 17, 2009

Credits:

A Conversation with Dan O'Bannon: The Final Interview (2011); A Little Bit Zombie (2012); Alien (1979); Alien Encounters: Superior Fan Power Since 1979 (2014); Alien Evolution (2001); Alien vs. Predator (1994 / 2004); Alien: Alone (2019); Alien: Containment (2019); Alien: Covenant (2017); Alien: Earth (2025); Alien: Enhancement Pods (2010); Alien: Harvest (2019); Alien: Isolation (2014); Alien: Night Shift (2019); Alien: Ore (2019); Alien: Resurrection (1997); Alien: Romulus (2024); Alien: Specimen (2019); Alien³ (1992); Aliens (1986); Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007); Aliens: Colonial Marines (2013); Area 51: The Alien Interview (1997); ASMR Xenomorph Attack (2019); Bird of Steel! (2024); Bleeders (1997); Blood Bath (1969); Bloodmyth (2006); Blue Thunder (1983 / 1984); Brave New Worlds: The Science Fiction Phenomenon (1993); Circus Maximus (2009); Cult Connections / Podcast Series (2021); Dan O'Bannon: Crafting Fear (2003); Dark Star (1974); Dead & Buried (1981); Delivering Milo (2001); Eli Roth's History of Horror (2020); Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors (1986); Film Genre (2002); Foster's Release (1971); Heavy Metal / Segment: Soft Landing (1981); Het loon van de angst (1983); I'm Gonna Eat Your Brains (2013); Invaders from Mars (1986); Jodorowsky's Dune (2013); Kill Her Goats (2023); L'antre du Mea (2017); Last Breath (2001); Let There Be Light: The Odyssey of Dark Star (2010); Lifeforce (1985); Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019); Moebius Redux: A Life in Pictures (2007); More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead (2011); Movie Night Extravaganza (2022); Phobia (1980); Prometheus (2012); Return of the Living Dead: Designing the Dead (2002); Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder' (2006); Screamers (1995); Special Collector's Edition (2014); Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 (2007); Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977); The AckerMonster Chronicles! (2012); The Alien Legacy (1999); The 'Alien' Saga (2002); The Beast Within: The Making of 'Alien' (2003); The Horror Hall of Fame (1990); The Resurrected (1991); The Return of the Living Dead (1985); Total Recall (1990 / 2012); Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 (2007); Welcome to the Basement (2013–2014); When Muscles Ruled the World (2002); Zaum - Andare a parare (2011).

Born on this day – Antoinette Bower:

Antoinette Bower

Actress

September 30, 1932 – April 30, 2026

Credits:

12 O'Clock High (1964–1966); A Death of Innocence (1971); A Man Called Shenandoah (1966); Adventures in Paradise (1960–1961); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1961–1962); Archer (1975); Ben Casey (1965); Blood Song (1982); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1966); Bonanza (1968); Bring 'Em Back Alive (1982); Burke's Law (1965); Cannon (1976); Club Paradise (1986); Columbo (1974); Combat! (1963); Convoy (1965); Cowboy in Africa (1967–1968); Die Sister, Die! (1978); Explorations (1957 / 1959); First, You Cry (1978); Get Smart (1969); Halloween Monster Bash (1991); Hart to Hart (1982); Have Gun - Will Travel (1961); Hawaii Five-O (1969); Hawaiian Eye (1962); Hawkins (1973); Heritage (1960); Hogan's Heroes (1967–1969); Hong Kong (1961); Hudson's Bay (1959); I Spy (1966); Insight (1968); Iron Horse (1966); Ironside (1967–1972); Jericho (1966); Kojak (1978); Kraft Mystery Theater (1962); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1965); Lancer (1969); Mannix (1968–1969); Mission: Impossible (1967–1971); Murder, She Wrote (1987); Mutiny on the Bounty (1962); Neon Rider (1989–1992); Perry Mason (1962–1963); Prom Night (1980); Search (1973); See the Man Run (1971); Star Trek (1967); Stoney Burke (1963); Superbeast (1972); T.H.E. Cat (1967); Tarzan (1967); The Aquanauts (1961); The Big Valley (1968); The Collaborators (1973); The Cowboy and the Ballerina (1984); The Evil That Men Do (1984); The F.B.I. (1967–1973); The Felony Squad (1967); The Fugitive (1966–1967); The Great Adventure (1964); The Invaders (1967); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1965); The Mephisto Waltz (1971); The Name of the Game (1969); The Scorpio Letters (1967); The Six Million Dollar Man (1976); The Starlost (1973); The Sunshine Patriot (1968); The Tab Hunter Show (1961); The Telltale Heart (1958); The Thorn Birds (1983); The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964); The Twilight Zone (1963); The Unforeseen (1958); The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1965–1966); The Whiteoaks of Jalna (1972); The Wide World of Mystery (1974); The Wild Wild West (1965); The Young Lawyers (1970); Thriller (1961–1962); Time Walker (1982); Wagon Train (1961).

Born on this day – Sondra Lee:

Sondra Lee

Actress

Dancer

September 30, 1930 – February 24, 2026

Stage:

Hello Dolly (1964); High Button Shoes (1947); Hotel Paradiso (1957); Jerome Robbins' Ballet: U.S.A. (1958); Peter Pan (1954); Sunday in New York (1961); The Audiience (2005).

Movies and television:

A Dry White Season (1989); American Masters (2009); Backstage Babble (2020); Biography (2005); Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021); Hansel and Gretel (1958); La Dolce Vita (1960); Lamp Unto My Feet (1962); Light of Day (1987); Lincoln Center / Stage 5 (1967); Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire (2014); My Fair Mother: A Dancer Named Maxine Berke (2024); Nadie escuchaba (1987); New York Television Theatre (1969); Nobody's Fool (1994); Peter Pan (1955 / 1960); Pinocchio (1957); Places in the Heart (1984); Play of the Week (1960); Producers' Showcase (1955–1956); Tactic (1959); The Annual Anglo-American Cultural Gala Awards (2010); The Ed Sullivan Show (1958 / 1961); The Last of the Mohicans (1992); The Robert Herridge Theater (1960); Theater Talk (2014); Vibes (1988); You Might Know Her From / Podcast Series (2020).

Born on this day – Elie Wiesel:

Elie Wiesel

Writer

Professor

Nobel laureate

Holocaust survivor

September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016

Books:

Night Trilogy: Night (1960); Dawn (1961); Day / aka The Accident (1962). The Town Beyond the Wall (1964); The Gates of the Forest (1966); A Beggar in Jerusalem (1970); The Oath (1970); The Testament (1981); The Golem (1983); The Fifth Son (1985); Twilight (1988); Forgotten (1990); The Judges (2002); The Time of the Uprooted (2005); A Mad Desire to Dance (2009); The Sonderberg Case (2010); Hostage (2012); One for Each Night (2023); Zalmen, or the Madness of God (1975); The Trial of God (1979); The Jews of Silence (1966); Legends of Our Time (1968); One Generation After (1970); Souls On Fire (1972); Messengers of God (1976); A Jew Today (1978); Four Hasidic Masters (1978); Five Biblical Portraits (1981); Somewhere a Master (1982); Splinters (1983); The Six Days of Destruction (1988); Against Silence (1988); A Journey of Faith (1990); Evil and Exile (1990); From the Kingdom of Memory (1990); Sages and Dreamers (1991); In Dialog and Dilemma With Elie Wiesel (1991); Passover Haggadah (1993); Telling the Tale (1993); All Rivers Run to the Sea (1995); Memoir in Two Voices (1996); And the Sea Is Never Full (1999); Conversations with Elie Wiesel (2001); After the Darkness (2002); Wise Men and Their Tales (2003); Rashi (2009); Open Heart (2012).

Movies and television:

1986 World Series (1986); 20 heures le journal (1994–2001); 20/20 (2007); 2016: We Remember Part Two (2016); 7 sur 7 (1985–1989); 9-11 Memories (2011); A Passover Seder (1994); A Sculpture of Love and Anguish: The Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial (1998); American Tribute to Vaclav Havel and a Celebration of Democracy in Czechoslovakia (1990); Antenne 2 - Le journal de 20H (1987–1988); Apostrophes (1980–1983); Bearing Witness: Fighting the Rise of Antisemitism (2022); Beyond Hate (1991); C à vous (2010); Café littéraire (2008); Chazak (2003); Chez F.O.G. (2008); Cities (1979); Culture et dépendances (2003–2006); Das Sonntagsinterview (1994); Dawn (2014 / 2019); Dawn Breakers Film Festival Spotlights (2009); Duels (2016); Elie Wiesel Goes Home (1996); Elie Wiesel in Concert: Memories and Melodies of My Childhood (2012); Elie Wiesel ou La ferveur hassidique (1982); Empreintes (2009); Facing Hate (1991); Familiar Voices (2008); FOLCS Conversations (2012); Françoise Hardy at an event for Vivement dimanche (2006); Great Conversations (1999); Histoire de l’antisémitisme (2022); Italiques (1972); Kaddish (1984); King Juan Carlos (2008); La grande librairie (2008–2011); La marche du siècle (1987–1997); L’aube (1986); Le cercle de minuit (1994–1996); Le procès de Shamgorod (1982); Le testament d’un poète juif assassiné (1987); Lectures pour tous (1958–1964); Les 4 vérités (1998); Les dossiers de l’écran (1969); L’invité (2002–2016); L’invité du jeudi (1980); Madoff (2016); Matin Bonheur (1994–1996); Mots croisés (2005); Nicky’s Family (2011); Nightline Up Close (2003); Ost und West (1970); Overheard (2012); Petra: A Quest for Hope (2006); Prix Galien USA 2022 (2022); Protocols of Zion (2005); Qu’avez vous fait de vos vingt ans? (1994); Sand and Sorrow (2007); Sighet, Sighet (1967); Television (1988); The 10 Commandments of Creativity (2001); The Death of Yugoslavia (1995); The Genocide Factor (2000); The Holocaust: In Memory of Millions (1994); The Hunt for Adolf Eichmann (1994); The Jewish People (2008); The Oprah Winfrey Show (2006); Thé ou café (2006–2012); The World of Elie Wiesel (1997); To Bear Witness (1983); Tout le monde en parle (2006); Un temps pour la mémoire (1970); Une Voix Du Timor Oriental (1999); USA the Movie (2005); Visionen zum Millennium (1999–2000); Weapons of the Spirit (1987); West Wing Week (2012); Zalmen: or, the Madness of God (1975).