On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1993)

Star Trek: Voyager (1995 & 1996)

Star Trek: Enterprise (2002)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 7. Episode 11.

Episode entitled: Parallels.

Released November 27, 1993.

Directed by Robert Wiemer.

Written by Brannon Braga, René Echevarria, Naren Shankar.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Patti Yasutake, Mark Bramhall, Majel Barrett, David Keith Anderson, Michael Braveheart, Cameron, Tracee Cocco, Debbie David, Elliot Durant III, Gunnel Eriksson, Holiday Freeman, Kevin Grover, Bill Hagy, Gary Hunter, Lorine Mendell, Christina Wegler Miles, Joyce Robinson, John Alex Tampoya, Oliver Theess, Mikki Val, Guy Vardaman.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 2. Episode 12.

Episode entitled: Resistance.

Released November 27, 1995.

Directed by Winrich Kolbe.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Lisa Klink, Michael Jan Friedman, Kevin J. Ryan, 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, Alan Scarfe, Tom Todoroff, Glenn Morshower, Joel Grey, Andre Campbell, Tracee Cocco, Debbie David, Icilda Davis, Lou Degrado, Gunnel Eriksson, Norman Alexander Gibbs, Ken Gruz, Julie Jiang, Irving E. Lewis, Dennis Madalone, Mark Major, Louis Ortiz, Tami Peterson, Shepard Ross, Scott Strozier, Katy Summerland, Leland Sun.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 3. Episode 11.

Episode entitled: The Q and the Grey.

Released November 27, 1996.

Directed by Cliff Bole.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Kenneth Biller, Shawn Piller, Lisa Klink.

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, Suzie Plakson, Harve Presnell, John de Lancie, Adriana del Pomar, Michele Edison, Traci Murray, Heather Rattray, Richard Sarstedt, Martin Squires.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Season 2. Episode 10.

Episode entitled: Vanishing Point.

Released November 27, 2002.

Directed by David Straiton.

Written by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, 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 Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Keone Young, Gary Riotto, Ric Sarabia, Morgan H. Margolis, Carly Thomas Smith, Alexandrea Ortiz, Mark Correy, Hilde Garcia, Glen Hambly, Bryan Heiberg, John Jurgens, Marnie Martin, Lidia Sabljic.

On this day in movie history - Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991):

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

directed by Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper and Eleanor Coppola,

written by Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper,

was released in the United States on November 27, 1991.
Music by Todd Boekelheide.
Documentary on the making of Apocalypse Now (1979), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Cast:

Francis Ford Coppola, Eleanor Coppola, Orson Welles, John Milius, George Lucas, Tom Sternberg, Sam Bottoms, Albert Hall, Frederic Forrest, Laurence Fishburne, Gian-Carlo Coppola, Roman Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Dean Tavoularis, Fred Roos, Martin Sheen, Vittorio Storaro, Robert Duvall, Rona Barrett, Tom Snyder, Monty Cox, Doug Claybourne, Dennis Hopper, Marlon Brando, Randy Carter, Robert De Niro, J. David Jones.

On this day in movie history – Network (movie & book):

Network

directed by Sidney Lumet,

written by Paddy Chayefsky,

was released in the United States on November 27, 1976.
Music by Elliot Lawrence.

Cast:

Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty, Arthur Burghardt, Bill Burrows, John Carpenter, Jordan Charney, Kathy Cronkite, Ed Crowley, Jerome Dempsey, Conchata Ferrell, Gene Gross, Stanley Grover, Cindy Grover, Darryl Hickman, Mitchell Jason, Paul Jenkins, Ken Kercheval, Kenneth Kimmins, Lynn Klugman, Carolyn Krigbaum, Zane Lasky, Michael Lipton, Michael Lombard, Pirie MacDonald, Russ Petranto, Bernard Pollock, Roy Poole, William Prince, Sasha von Scherler, Lane Smith, Ted Sorel, Beatrice Straight, Fred Stuthman, Cameron Thomas, Marlene Warfield, Lydia Wilen, Lee Richardson, Robert P. Cohen, Andrew Duncan, Todd Everett, John Gabriel, Tom Gibney, Lance Henriksen, Raymond Martino, John Pashley, Michael Tucker.

Recommended reading:

Mad as Hell:

The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies

By Dave Itzkoff.

Published by Picador.

Published 2015.

ISBN-10: 1250062241

ISBN-13: 9781250062246

Description:

"Dave Itzkoff takes us on an extraordinary journey, and in the process reveals Chayefsky's prognosis for TV, a prognosis we've chosen to ignore even as it's come true before our eyes." – Forbes.

"I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

Those words, spoken by an unhinged anchorman named Howard Beale, "the mad prophet of the airwaves," took America by storm in 1976, when Network became a sensation. With a superb cast (including Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, and Robert Duvall) directed by Sidney Lumet, the film won four Oscars and indelibly shaped how we think about corporate and media power.

In Mad As Hell, Dave Itzkoff of The New York Times recounts the surprising and dramatic story of how Network made it to the screen, and of Paddy Chayefsky, the tough, driven, Oscar-winning screenwriter who envisioned a world – outlandish for its time – that is all too real today. Itzkoff vividly re-creates the action behind the camera at a time of swirling cultural turmoil. The result is a riveting account that enriches our appreciation of this prophetic and still-startling film.

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

M Squad

Season 3. Episode 10.

Episode entitled: Another Face, Another Life.

Released November 27, 1959.

Directed by Sidney Lanfield.

Written by Stuart Jerome, Irwin Winehouse and A. Sanford Wolfe.

Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, James Douglas, Barbara Stuart, Jay Novello, John Archer, Ethel Shutta, Will J. White, John Bryant, Charles J. Conrad, Wally Rose.

Born on this day – Gail Sheehy:

Gail Sheehy

Writer

November 27, 1936 – August 24, 2020

Credits:

Books:

Character: America's Search for Leadership (1991); Daring: My Passages: A Memoir (2014); Hillary's Choice (1999); Hustling: Prostitution in Our Wide Open Society (1973); Lovesounds (1970); Middletown, America: One Town's Passage from Trauma to Hope (2003); New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time (1995); Panthermania: The Clash of Black Against Black in One American City (1971); Passages in Caregiving: Turning Chaos into Confidence (2010); Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life (1976); Pathfinders: Overcoming the Crises of Adult Life (1983); Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life (2007); Speed is of the Essence (1971); Spirit of Survival (1987); The Man Who Changed the World: The Lives of Mikhail S. Gorbachev (1991); The Silent Passage: Menopause (1993); Understanding Men's Passages: Discovering the New Map of Men's Lives (1998).

Movies and television:

Delorean: Back from the Future (2021); First Ladies (2020); Frontline (2016); Good Morning America (1976–2016); Hustling (1975); IFC News: 2008 Uncut (2008); Myth & Mogul: John DeLorean (2021); New Passages (1996); Radical Wolfe (2023); Slow Burn (2018); Tavis Smiley (2014); The Bob Braun Show (1977); The Factor (2007); The Last Editor (2002); The Mike Douglas Show (1976); Traveling Hopefully (1982).

Born on this day – Les Blank:

Les Blank

Cinematographer

Director

Editor

Documentary filmmaker

November 27, 1935 – April 7, 2013

Born on this day – John Alcott:

John Alcott

Cinematographer

November 27, 1930 – July 28, 1986

John Alcott, with Stanley Kubrick and Shelley Duvall, on the set of The Shining (1980).

Credits:

No Way Out (1987); White Water Summer (1987); Miracles (1986); Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985); Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984); Under Fire (1983); Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1983); The Beastmaster (1982); Vice Squad (1982); Fort Apache the Bronx (1981); Terror Train (1980); The Shining (1980); Fangio: Una vita a 300 all'ora (1980); Fiat Strada: Figaro (1979); Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978); The Disappearance (1977); March or Die (1977); Barry Lyndon (1975); Overlord (1975); Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (1974); A Clockwork Orange (1971); 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); Othello (1965); Tamahine (1963); The Main Attraction (1962); Whistle Down the Wind (1961); The Singer Not the Song (1961); An heiligen Wassern (1960); North West Frontier (1959); A Night to Remember (1958); Violent Playground (1958); Checkpoint (1956); Tiger in the Smoke (1956); A Town Like Alice (1956); An Alligator Named Daisy (1955); Value for Money (1955); Simba (1955); Land of Fury (1954); Man with a Million (1954); Desperate Moment (1953); The Long Memory (1953); The Assassin (1952); The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952); Easy Money (1948).