Friday, January 3, 2025

On this day in television history - Medium (2005 - 2011)


Medium

was released on January 3, 2005,
and ran for seven seasons until January 21, 2011.
Narrated by Patricia Arquette.


Cast:

Patricia Arquette, Jake Weber, Miguel Sandoval, Sofia Vassilieva, Feodor Lark, David Cubitt, Madison Carabello, Miranda Carabello, Tina DiJoseph, Ryan Hurst, David Arquette, Arliss Howard, Holliston Coleman, Bruce Gray, Kathy Baker, Margo Martindale, Olivia Sandoval, Kurtwood Smith, Zak Lee Guarnaccia, Roxanne Hart, Kelly Preston, John Prosky, Anjelica Huston, Annamarie Kenoyer.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1958):


M Squad

Season 1. Episode 15.
Episode entitled: The Slow Trap.
Released January 3, 1958.
Directed by Earl Bellamy.
Written by Jack Laird and Wilton Schiller.
Music by Stanley Wilson.


Cast:

Lee Marvin, Lyle Talbot, Jacqueline Holt, Robert Roark, George Milan, Jean Willes, George E. Stone, Claire Carleton, Michael Masters.

Born on this day – Tom Bower:


Tom Bower

Actor

Producer

January 3, 1938 – May 30, 2024

Born on this day – Dabney Coleman:


Dabney Coleman


Actor

January 3, 1932 – May 17, 2024

Credits:

12 O'Clock High (1964–1966); 60 Minutes (1986); 9 to 5 (1980); A Better Man: The Making of Tootsie (2008); A Current Affair (2011); A Witch's Way of Love (1997); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies (2000); Alcoa Premiere (1963); Aly & AJ: Star Maps (2019); American Masters (2016); Amos & Andrew (1993); Apple Pie (1978); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1962); Arrest and Trial (1963); Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975); Baby M (1988); Bad Ronald (1974); Banyon (1972); Barnaby Jones (1973–1979); Ben Casey (1963); Bert D'Angelo / Superstar (1976); Biography (2001 / 2006); Bite the Bullet (1975); Black Fist (1975); Boardwalk Empire (2010–2011); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964–1965); Bonanza (1968–1969); Bravo Profiles (1999); Breaking Point (1963); Bright Promise (1969–1972); Brilliant But Cancelled (2002); Buffalo Bill (1983–1984); Callie & Son (1981); Cannon (1973–1976); Caribe (1975); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2019); Celebrating Laughter: The Life and Films of Colin Higgins (2022); Char·ac·ter (2009); Cinderella Liberty (1973); Clifford (1994); Cloak & Dagger (1984); CMT Greatest Moments: Dolly Parton (2006); CMT Insider (2008); Columbo (1973–1991); Courting Alex (2006); Dan August (1970); Dan August: The Jealousy Factor (1980); Dateline NBC (1994); Death Valley Days (1968); Devil's Food (1996); Diff'rent Strokes (1979); Directed by (1994); Dolly (1988); Dolly Parton Tour TV (2011); Dolly Parton: Here I Am (2019); Dolly Parton: Platinum Blonde (2003); Domino (2005); Downhill Racer (1969); Dr. Kildare (1964); Dragnet (1987); Drexell's Class (1991–1992); Dundee and the Culhane (1967); Dying Room Only (1973); E! True Hollywood Story (2001); Egan (1973); Exiled (1998); Feminists: What Were They Thinking? (2018); Fernwood Tonight (1977); For The People (2019); Forever Fernwood (1977–1978); Freedom: A History of US (2003); Fresno (1986); Getting There Is the Hard Part (2010); Giving It Up (1999); Go Tell the Spartans (1978); Good Morning America (2010); Gotham (1988); Griff (1973); Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story (1987); Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (2000); Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (1987); Hard Four (2007); Hazel (1965); Heartland (2007); Home & Family (2016); Hot to Trot (1988); House of Evil (1974); How to Beat the High Cost of Living (1980); How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale (2000); I Dream of Jeannie (1965–1967); I Love My Wife (1970); Idols of the Game (1995); Inspector Gadget (1999); Iron Horse (1967); Ironside (1973); It's Garry Shandling's Show (1989–1990); Judd for the Defense (1968); Judicial Consent (1995); Jumanji (1997); Kidnapped: In the Line of Duty (1995); Kiss Me, Kill Me (1976); Kiss My Act (2001); Kojak (1974); Kraft Mystery Theater (1963); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1991); Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2009); Lincoln (1992); Love Is Not Forever (1974); Madman of the People (1994–1995); Maneaters Are Loose! (1978); Mannix (1972–1975); Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976–1977); Maybe Baby (1988); McMillan & Wife (1974–1975); Medical Center (1975); Medical Story (1976); Meet the Applegates (1990); Melvin and Howard (1980); Midway (1976); Mod Squad (1968); Modern Problems (1981); Moonlight Mile (2002); More Than Friends (1978); Murrow (1986); Must Be Santa (1999); Naked City (1961); Nanny and the Professor (1970); NCIS (2019); Never Forget (1991); Night of 100 Stars II (1985); Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (2016); North Dallas Forty (1979); Not Such a Bad Guy: Conversations with Dabney Coleman (2017); Nothing Personal (1980); On Golden Pond (1981); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1972); Petrocelli (1976); Plaza Suite (1987); Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1966); Police Story (1976); Pound Puppies (2010–2011); Pray TV (1980); Quincy Coleman: It's All in the Song (2008); Quincy M.E. (1977); Ray Donovan (2016); Recess (1997–1999); Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street (2001); Recess: All Growed Down (2003); Recess: School's Out (2001); Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade (2003); Returning Home (1975); Rolling Thunder (1977); Room 222 (1970–1973); Rules Don't Apply (2016); Run for Your Life (1967); Saturday Night Live (1987); Savage (1973); Search (1973); Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen (1996); Short Time (1990); Sidekicks (1966); Sons and Daughters (1974); Still Working 9 to 5 (2022); Stuart Little (1999); Super Bloopers and Practical Jokes (1984); Switch (1976); Sworn to Silence (1987); Taken (1999); Target Earth (1998); Tattletales (1977); That Girl (1966–1967); The 18th Annual Satellite Awards (2014); The 22nd Annual Satellite Awards (2018); The 35th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1983); The 39th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1987); The 40th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1988); The 41st Annual Golden Globe Awards (1984); The 45th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1988); The 4th Annual Family Television Awards (2002); The 7th Annual People's Choice Awards (1981); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963–1964); The Art of Noise: Dragnet (1987); The Beverly Hillbillies (1993); The Big Interview with Dan Rather (2014); The Bob Braun Show (1984); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1972); The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970); The Case of the Baltimore Girls (1978); The Climb (2002); The Donna Reed Show (1965); The Dove (1974); The Early Show (2006); The F.B.I. (1965–1974); The Flying Nun (1967); The Fugitive (1964–1966); The Guardian (2001–2004); The Invaders (1967); The Love Boat (1978); The Magic School Bus (1997); The Making of 'Midway' (2001); The Man with One Red Shoe (1985); The Manhunter (1974); The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1976); The Movie Maker (1964); The Movies (2019); The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson (1990); The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984); The Other Side of the Mountain (1975); The Other Side of the Mountain: Part II (1978); The Outer Limits (1964); The Perfect Pitch (2002); The President's Plane Is Missing (1973); The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1986); The Scalphunters (1968); The Slap Maxwell Story (1987–1988); The Slender Thread (1965); The Streets of San Francisco (1974–1976); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1984–1991); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1994); The Towering Inferno (1974); The Trouble with Girls (1969); The Wide World of Mystery (1973); The Wonderful World of Disney (1998); The Zeta Project (2002); Then Came Bronson (1969); There Goes the Neighborhood (1992); This Property Is Condemned (1966); Tootsie (1982); Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (2000); Viva Knievel! (1977); WarGames (1983); When She Was Bad... (1979); Where the Heart Is (1990); Where the Red Fern Grows (2003); Yellowstone (2019); Young Doctors in Love (1982); You've Got Mail (1998).

Born on this day – Barbara Stuart:


Barbara Stuart


Actress

January 3, 1930 – May 15, 2011

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1963); 87th Precinct (1961); A Family Affair (2001); Adventures in Paradise (1960); Airplane! (1980); Alias Smith and Jones (1971); Arrest and Trial (1963); Bachelor Party (1984); Banacek (1973); Banyon (1972); Barnaby Jones (1973); Batman (1966); Cannon (1973); Captain Nice (1967); Circle of Fear (1973); Code Red (1982); Colt .45 (1959); Coronado 9 (1961); Damned If You Do (2000); December Bride (1957); Destry (1964); Doctor Dan (1974); Downtown (1986); Dr. Christian (1956); Dreamer (1979); Father of the Bride (1962); Four Star Playhouse (1955); Frontier Circus (1961); Game Show Moments Gone Bananas (2005); Get Christie Love! (1974); Gomer Pyle: USMC (1964–1969); Have I Got a Christmas for You (1977); Hawaiian Eye (1960); Hellfighters (1968); Highway to Heaven (1986); Hotel (1984); Huff (2004–2006); I Led 3 Lives (1954); Iron Horse (1967); It Takes Two (1969); It's Your Bet (1969); Jefferson Drum (1958); Kung Fu (1973); L.A. Law (1993); Lawman (1958); Leave Yesterday Behind (1978); Love, American Style / Segment: Love and the Television Weekend (1971); Lux Video Theatre (1957); M Squad (1959); Mama's Family (1983); Marines, Let's Go (1961); Markham (1960); Mason (1977); Match Game (1973); Mike Hammer (1959); Mister Roberts (1966); Mr. Lucky (1959); Mr. Terrific (1967); Nash Bridges (1999); New Love, American Style (1986); Not for Hire (1959–1960); One Step Beyond (1960); Otherworld (1985); Our Family Honor (1985–1986); Out of This World (1987); Outlaws (1961); Panic! (1957); Password (1974); Perry Mason (1961); Pete and Gladys (1960–1962); Peter Gunn (1958–1961); Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills (1996); Quincy, M.E. (1982); Rawhide (1963); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1959); Riverboat (1959–1960); Room for One More (1962); Sam Benedict (1963); Schlitz Playhouse (1959); Simon & Simon (1988); Starsky and Hutch (1979); State Trooper (1956–1959); Sugarfoot (1957); Surfside 6 (1961); T.H.E. Cat (1967); Tales of Wells Fargo (1960–1961); Target (1958); Tattletales (1974–1977); Taxi (1980); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1962–1965); The Andy Griffith Show (1965); The Ann Sothern Show (1959); The Bill Dana Show (1963); The Blue Angels (1961); The Cara Williams Show (1964); The Chevy Mystery Show (1960); The Danny Thomas Show (1963); The Deep Six (1958); The Dick Van Dyke Show (1964); The Eleventh Hour (1962); The Farmer's Daughter (1965); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1958); The George Burns Show (1958); The Great Gildersleeve (1955–1956); The Hat Squad (1993); The Home Team (1960); The Joey Bishop Show (1964–1965); The Lawless Years (1959–1961); The Mary Tyler Moore Hour (1979); The McLean Stevenson Show (1976–1977); The Queen and I (1969); The Rookies (1975); The Sheriff of Cochise (1956); The Texan (1960); The Twilight Zone (1960); The Untouchables (1959); The Woody Woodbury Show (1968); Three's Company (1980–1983); Thunder Alley (1994); Tom & Jerry Kids Show (1990–1992); Trapper John, M.D. (1979); Two Faces West (1960); Vacation Playhouse (1964); Valentine's Day (1965); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959); Wide Country (1962); You Don't Say (1969).

Born on this day – Robert Loggia:


Robert Loggia


Actor

January 3, 1930 – December 4, 2015

Credits:

The Savant (2019); Cries of the Unborn (2017); The Red Maple Leaf (2016); Independence Day: Resurgence (2016); Sicilian Vampire (2015); La Trattoria Sitcom (2015); No Deposit (2015); Bleeding Hearts (2015); The Big Fat Stone (2014); Before It's Too Late (2014); An Evergreen Christmas (2014); Scavenger Killers (2014); Snapshot (2014); Real Gangsters (2013); Family Guy (1999); Apostle Peter and the Last Supper (2012); Margarine Wars (2012); The Diary of Preston Plummer (2012); Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012); Men of a Certain Age (2009); The Life Zone (2011); The Great Fight (2011); The Grand Theft (2011); Fake (2011); Hawaii Five-0 (2010); Obituary of the Sun (2010); Harvest (2010); Shrink (2009); The Least of These (2008); The Boneyard Collection (2008); Monk (2002); Her Morbid Desires (2008); Scarface: The World Is Yours (2006); Wild Seven (2006); Tom Goes to the Mayor (2004); Forget About It (2006); Rain (2006); Funny Money (2006); The Deal (2005); Kojak (2005); The Sopranos (1999); Queens Supreme (2003); All Over Again (2001); The Shipment (2001); The Guardian (2001); Grand Theft Auto III (2001); Malcolm in the Middle (2000); Dodson's Journey (2001); The Fearing Mind (2000); Dharma & Greg (1997); Touched by an Angel (1994); The Outer Limits (1995); Frasier (1993); Return to Me (2000); FeeSpace 2 (1999); Bonanno: A Godfather's Story (1999); American Virgin (1999); Flypaper (1999); Joan of Arc (1999); The Suburbans (1999); Stories from My Childhood (1998); Hard Time (1998); Holy Man (1998); The Proposition (1998); Wide Awake (1998); Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way (1997); The Don's Analyst (1997); The Dog of Flanders (1997); Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997); Lost Highway (1997); Pandora's Clock (1996); Mistrial (1996); Independence Day (1996); The Right to Remain Silent (1996); Man with a Gun (1995); Picture Windows (1994); Between Love and Honor (1995); Coldblooded (1995); Jake Lassiter: Justice on the Bayou (1995); I Love Trouble (1994); White Mile (1994); The Last Tattoo (1994); Bad Girls (1994); Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771 (1993); Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7 (1993); Lifepod (1993); Wild Palms (1993); Innocent Blood (1992); Afterburn (1992); Gladiator (1992); The General Motors Playwrights Theater (1991); Necessary Roughness (1991); Sunday Dinner (1991); The Marrying Man (1991); Spies Inc. (1992); Mancuso, FBI (1989); Opportunity Knocks (1990); Triumph of the Spirit (1989); Relentless (1989); Running Away (1989); Dream Breakers (1989); Oliver & Company (1988); Favorite Son (1988); Intrigue (1988); Big (1988); Old Dogs (1987); Echoes in the Darkness (1987); Amazon Women on the Moon (1987); Gaby: A True Story (1987); The Believers (1987); Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 (1987); Hot Pursuit (1987); Over the Top (1987); Magnum, P.I. (1980); That's Life! (1986); Armed and Dangerous (1986); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985); Streets of Justice (1985); Jagged Edge (1985); Prizzi's Honor (1985); The Ferret (1984); Murder, She Wrote (1984); A Touch of Scandal (1984); Matt Houston (1982); Overnight Sensation (1984); Tales of the Unexpected (1979); Emerald Point N.A.S. (1983); Scarface (1983); Curse of the Pink Panther (1983); Psycho II (1983); Trail of the Pink Panther (1982); Falcon Crest (1981); Little House on the Prairie (1974); An Officer and a Gentleman (1982); A Woman Called Golda (1982); S.O.B. (1981); Nero Wolfe (1981); Fantasy Island (1977); Casino (1980); Charlie's Angels (1976); Vega$ (1978); Flatfoot in Egypt (1980); The Ninth Configuration (1980); Quincy M.E. (1976); Kaz (1978); No Other Love (1979); Hawaii Five-O (1968); Sword of Justice (1978); Starsky and Hutch (1975); The Eddie Capra Mysteries (1978); The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977); The Rockford Files (1974); Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978); First Love (1977); The Six Million Dollar Man (1973); Speedtrap (1977); The Bionic Woman (1976); Police Woman (1974); Switch (1975); Raid on Entebbe (1976); Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (1976); Wonder Woman (1975); Scott Free (1976); Street Killing (1976); S.W.A.T. (1975); Columbo (1971); Cannon (1971); Mallory: Circumstantial Evidence (1976); McMillan & Wife (1971); Doctors' Hospital (1975); Ellery Queen (1975); Harry O (1973); Caribe (1975); Mannix (1967); The Manhunter (1974); Kojak (1973); Turn the Other Cheek (1974); Young Dr. Kildare (1972); The F.B.I. (1965); The High Chaparral (1967); Then Came Bronson (1969); Che! (1969); The Big Valley (1965); The Name of the Game (1968); Tarzan (1966); Custer (1967); The Wild Wild West (1965); T.H.E. Cat (1966); The Three Sisters (1966); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964); A Man Called Shenandoah (1965); The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1965); The Trials of O'Brien (1965); Run for Your Life (1965); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962); Combat! (1962); The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965); Gunsmoke (1955); The Doctors and the Nurses (1962); Ben Casey (1961); Route 66 (1960); Breaking Point (1963); 330 Independence Avenue, SW (1963); The Eleventh Hour (1962); Cattle King (1963); Rawhide (1959); The Defenders (1961); The DuPont Show of the Week (1961); The Dick Powell Theatre (1961); The Untouchables (1959); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955); Alcoa Premiere (1961); Target: The Corruptors! (1961); Naked City (1958); Play of the Week (1959); Moment of Fear (1960); An Arabian Night (1960); Overland Trail (1960); Kraft Theatre (1947); The Magical World of Disney (1954); Strindberg on Love (1960); One Step Beyond (1959); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958); Wagon Train (1957); The Lost Missile (1958); Cop Hater (1958); The Eighty Yard Run (Playhouse 90) (1958); Matinee Theatre (1955); Studio One (1948); The Garment Jungle (1957); Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956); The Secret Storm (1954); Search for Tomorrow (1951).

Born on this day – Sergio Leone:


Sergio Leone


Director

Producer

Writer

January 3, 1929 – April 30, 1989

Credits:

The King of Ads (1991); Once Upon a Time in America (1984); Duck, You Sucker! (1971); Once Upon a Time in the West (1968); The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966); For a Few Dollars More (1965); A Fistful of Dollars (1964); Sodom and Gomorrah (1962); The Colossus of Rhodes (1961).