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 at Moonbase Alpha:

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)

Paradise: American Acoustic by Eric Tingstad & Nancy Rumbel (2000)

Back to the Blues by Sue Foley (2000)

Heavy Rotation by Anastacia (2008)

Secret World by Doug Hammer & Amethyste (2014)

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).

Paradise: American Acoustic

Album by Eric Tingstad & Nancy Rumbel,

released October 24, 2000.

Track list: Sailing; Paradise; Mansfield Park; The Wanderer; As You Wish; The Man From Stratford; The Lowcountry; Fields Of Gold; Zelda's Dance; Eleganza; Ofra; Village Square; Rokeby; The Lawnmower Song.

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.

Heavy Rotation

Album by Anastacia,

released October 24, 2008.

Track list: I Can Feel You; The Way I See It; Absolutely Positively; Defeated; In Summer; Heavy Rotation; Same Song; I Call It Love; All Fall Down; Never Gonna Love Again; You’ll Be Fine; Beautiful Messed Up World.

Secret World

Album by Doug Hammer & Amethyste,

released October 24, 2014.

Track list: The Ones We Leave Behind; Winter’s Last Goodbye; Crimson Sky; Raindrops; Desert Bloom; Crystal Water; El Dorado Wind; Moonflower; The Road Behind; Redemption; Wrapped in Hope; I Will Wait.

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.

On this day in movie history - Detective Story (1951 movie & play):

Detective Story

directed by William Wyler,

written by Robert Wyler and Philip Yordan,

based on the play by Sidney Kingsley,

was released in the United States on October 24, 1951.
Music composed by Miklós Rózsa and Victor Young.

Cast:

Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell, George Macready, Horace McMahon, Gladys George, Joseph Wiseman, Lee Grant, Gerald Mohr, Frank Faylen, Craig Hill, Michael Strong, Luis Van Rooten, Bert Freed, Warner Anderson, Grandon Rhodes, William 'Bill' Phillips, Russell Evans, Charles Campbell, Edmund Cobb, Ann Codee, Catherine Doucet, Pat Flaherty, Harper Goff, Howard Joslin, Donald Kerr, George Magrill, Mike Mahoney, James Maloney, Lee Miller, Ralph Montgomery, Burt Mustin, Jack Perry, Robert S. Scott, Jack Shea, Kay Wiley.

Recommended reading:

Detective Story

A play in three acts

By Sidney Kingsley.

First published 1949.

Published by Legare Street Press.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1022892851

ISBN-13: 978-1022892859

Description:

Sidney Kingsley's classic play, first performed on Broadway in 1949, is a gripping and intense drama that explores the seedy underbelly of crime and punishment in New York City. The play's intricate plot, complex characters, and dark themes make it a timeless classic of American theater.

The scene is the squad room and office in a New York police station. The playwright presents a fascinatingly realistic picture of routine cases brought into a metropolitan police station in the course of a day. Out of the welter of human misery, vice and stupidity there emerges the tragic and moving case of a decent young fellow who has stolen money from his employer. Though a woman who is in love with him comes to his help and the employer is offered everything that has been taken from him, the case has fallen into the hands of McLeod, a hardworking detective whose experience in police work has developed in him a mania for punishing all law breakers, whom he regards as incorrigibles. Nothing will satisfy him but brutal punishment. He is at work at the same time on a case involving an abortionist whose attorney, failing to move him by other means, forces McLeod's wife to confess to her husband that she had herself some years before made use of the services of the abortionist in question. Since McLeod worships his wife and finds in her the only happiness of his existence, his world collapses about him. The climax comes when McLeod gets involved with another prisoner who attempts to escape from the squad room with the aid of a revolver taken from one of the detectives. McLeod is shot and killed. This climax is a fitting end to McLeod's career. To the last, he had been bent upon doing what he considered his duty in seeing that criminals obeyed the letter of the law at no matter what cost."