On this day in television history - Naked City (1958 - 1963)

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.

Born on this day – James Franciscus:

James Franciscus

Actor

January 31, 1934 – July 8, 1991

On this day in movie history - Four Boys and a Gun (1957)

Four Boys and a Gun

directed by William Berke,

written by Leo Townsend and Philip Yordan,

based on the novel by Willard Wiener,

was released in the United States on January 11, 1957.

Music by Marie Montague and Everett Sutherland.

Cast:

Frank Sutton, Tarry Green, James Franciscus, William Hinnant, Otto Hulett, Robert Dryden, J. Pat O'Malley, Diana Herbert, Patricia Sloan, Nancy Devlin, Patricia Bosworth, David Burns, Anne Seymour, Frank Gero, Ned Glass, Karl Swenson, Lisa Osten, Sid Raymond, George McIver, Frank Campanella, Joseph Campanella, Crahan Denton, Frank Marth, Diana Sands.