On this day in television history - The Untouchables (1959 - 1963)

The Untouchables

based on the book by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley,

was released in the United States on October 15, 1959,

and ran for four seasons until May 21, 1963.

The pilot episode was released on January 22, 1959.

Narrated by Walter Winchell.

Music by Bill Loose, Jack Cookerly and Nelson Riddle.

Cast:

Robert Stack, Nicholas Georgiade, Paul Picerni, Abel Fernandez, Steve London, Jerry Paris, Chuck Hicks, Anthony George, Keenan Wynn, Eddie Firestone, Robert Osterloh, Frank Wilcox, Robert Bice, Jason Wingreen, Raymond Bailey, Barbara Nichols, Dane Clark, John Gabriel, Barbara Stanwyck, Ed Asner, Virginia Capers, Bruce Gordon, Oscar Beregi, Jr., Lawrence Dobkin, Robert J. Wilke, Warren J. Kemmerling, Bern Hoffman, Nehemiah Persoff, Lloyd Nolan, Robert J. Wilke, Harry Morgan, Gene Roth, Robert Carricart, Joseph Ruskin, Robert Carricart, Carl Milletaire, Grant Richards, Neville Brand, Frank de Kova, John Beradino, Henry Silva, Joe De Santis, George N. Neise, John Kellogg, H. M. Wynant, Wally Cassell, Richard Benedict, Herman Rudin, Les Lampson, Walter Winchell, Paul Picerni, Nicholas Georgiade.

Born on this day – Keenan Wynn:

 

Actor

July 27, 1916 – October 14, 1986

Credits:

20 Shades of Pink (1976); 77 Sunset Strip (1963); 80 Steps to Jonah (1969); A Hole in the Head (1959); A Piano for Mrs. Cimino (1982); A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958); A Touch of the Sun (1979); A Woman for All Men (1975); ABC Late Night (1974); AFI Life Achievement Award (1982); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1958–1961); Alias Smith and Jones (1971–1972); All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); American Masters (1995–2002); Angels in the Outfield (1951); Annie Get Your Gun (1950); Annie Get Your Gun Intro with Susan Lucci (2000); Around the World Under the Sea (1966); Assault on the Wayne (1971); Assignment: Munich (1972); B.F.'s Daughter (1948); Baretta (1976); Battle Circus (1953); Bearcats! (1971); Behind the Scenes with Blake Edwards' 'The Great Race' (1965); Ben Casey (1962); Best Friends (1982); Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and Dr. Strangelove (2004); Between Two Women (1945); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Bikini Beach (1964); Black Jack (1972); Black Moon Rising (1986); Black Saddle (1959–1960); Bloopermania (1987); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Bonanza (1964); Burke's Law (1963–1964); Bus Stop (1961); Call to Glory (1984–1985); Cancel My Reservation (1972); Cannon (1971 / 1972); Chained (1934); Checkmate (1961); Coach (1978); Code of Vengeance (1985); Code Two (1953); Colorshopping Vol. 2 (2011); Combat! (1962–1966); Compression (2023–2024); Dallas (1979–1980); Damon Runyon Theater (1956); Death Valley Days (1962); Desperate Search (1952); Don't Go Near the Water (1957); Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964); Easy to Wed (1946); Emergency! (1975); Family Feud (1985); Fantasy Island (1981); Fearless Fagan (1952); Finian's Rainbow (1968); Follow the Sun (1962); For Me and My Gal (1942); Ford Star Jubilee (1956); Frame Up (1968); General Electric Theater (1955–1957); George Jessel Show (1958); George Jessel's Here Come the Stars (1968); Gomer Pyle: USMC (1966); Goodyear Theatre (1959); Hard Knocks (1979); Hardcastle and McCormick (1983); Hawaii Five-O (1972); He Is My Brother (1975); Hec Ramsey (1973); Herbie Day at Disneyland (1974); Herbie Rides Again (1974); Here's Hollywood (1962); High Velocity (1976); Highway to Heaven (1985); Hijack! (1973); Hit Lady (1974); Hitler (1962); Holiday for Sinners (1952); Hollywood and the Stars (1963); Hollywood Remembers Lee Marvin (2000); Honeymoon Hotel (1964); Honeymoon Suite (1973); House on Greenapple Road (1970); Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star (1986); Hysterical (1982); Il re di Poggioreale (1961); I'll Bet (1965); Imps* / Segment: Man on the Moon (1983); Insight (1981); It's a Big Country: An American Anthology (1951); It's Your Bet (1970–1971); I've Got a Secret (1955–1961); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1955); Jeremiah of Jacob's Neck (1976); Joe Butterfly (1957); Johnny Concho (1956); Just Tell Me What You Want (1980); Kind Lady (1951); King of the Roaring 20's: The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961); Kiss Me Kate (1953); Kolchak: Demon and the Mummy / Segment: Demon in Lace (1975); Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974–1975); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1955); Lancer (1970); Laserblast (1978); Lost Angel (1943); Love That Brute (1950); Love, American Style (1970); Loving (1970); Mackenna's Gold (1969); Manimal (1983); Mansfield 66/67 (2017); Marriage Is a Private Affair (1944); Matt and Jenny (1979); McMillan & Wife (1973); Medical Center (1970–1975); Men of the Fighting Lady (1954); MGM Parade (1956); Mirrors (1985); Mission to Glory: A True Story (1976); Mobile One (1975); Mod Squad (1971); Mom, the Wolfman and Me (1980); Movies That Shook the World (2005); Movin' On (1975); Musical Merry-Go-Round #1 (1948); My Dear Secretary (1948); Naked City (1961–1962); Naples '44 (2016); Nashville (1975); Neptune's Daughter (1949); Nightmare in the Sun (1965); No Leave, No Love (1946); Northwest Rangers (1942); Off to See the Wizard (1968); Omnibus (1959); Once Upon a Time in the West (1968); One Day at a Time (1981); Operation Mermaid (1963); Orca (1977); Outlaw Motorcycles (1966); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1972); Palmerstown, U.S.A. (1981); Panhandle 38 (1972); Password (1963); Pastor Mike Online (2011); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1956); Phone Call from a Stranger (1952); Piranha (1978); Playhouse 90 (1956–1958); Point Blank (1967); Point Blank the Documentary (2024); Police Surgeon (1973); Police Woman (1978); Popcorn (1974); Pretend It's a City (2021); Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971); Prime Risk (1985); Producers' Showcase (1955); Promise Her Anything (1966); Pursuit (1958); Quincy, M.E. (1983); Rawhide (1962); Rendezvous (1958); Rich Hall's Red Menace (2019); Route 66 (1961); Royal Wedding (1951); Run Like a Thief (1967); Running Wild (1955); Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970); Schlitz Playhouse (1955–1958); Screen Directors Playhouse (1955); Screen Snapshots 1856: The Mocambo Party (1957); Screen Snapshots Series 27, No. 3: Out of This World Series (1947); Screen Snapshots: Playtime in Hollywood (1956); See Here, Private Hargrove (1944); Sex and the Married Woman (1977); Shack Out on 101 (1955); Since You Went Away (1944); Skirts Ahoy! (1952); Sky Full of Moon (1952); Smith! (1969); Snowball Express (1972); Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949); Somewhere I'll Find You (1942); Son of Flubber (1962); Song of the Thin Man (1947); Special Collector's Edition (2013); St. Elsewhere (1983); Stage to Thunder Rock (1964); Stagecoach (1966); Studio 57 (1956); Studio One (1955–1956); Summer Fun (1966); Sunburn (1979); Supertrain (1979); Tales from the Darkside (1984); Target Risk (1975); Target: The Corruptors (1962); Taxi (1983); Tennessee Champ (1954); Terror in the Sky (1971); Texas Carnival (1951); That Kind of Woman (1959); That Midnight Kiss (1949); That Regis Philbin Show (1965); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 30th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1978); The 32nd Annual Academy Awards (1960); The 36th Primetime Emmy Awards (1984); The Absent Minded Professor (1961); The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics (2008); The Alcoa Hour (1956); The Americanization of Emily (1964); The Animals (1970); The Aquanauts (1960); The Bastard (1978); The Belle of New York (1952); The Ben Hecht Show (1959); The Best of Broadway (1955); The Best of Hollywood (2017); The Billion Dollar Threat (1979); The Bionic Woman (1978); The Bob Newhart Show (1975); The Capture of Grizzly Adams (1982); The Clock (1945); The Clonus Horror (1979); The Cockeyed Miracle (1946); The Cop and the Kid (1976); The Crowded Sky (1960); The Dark (1979); The Deep Six (1958); The Devil's Rain (1975); The Dick Cavett Show (1971–1972); The Dick Powell Theatre (1962–1963); The Doctors and the Nurses (1963); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The Ed Sullivan Show (1954); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The Fall Guy (1986); The Ford Television Theatre (1957); The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1957); The Girl with Something Extra (1974); The Glass Slipper (1955); The Glove (1979); The Goonies (1985); The Great Man (1956); The Great Race (1965); The Greatest American Hero (1982); The Hucksters (1947); The Internecine Project (1974); The Islanders (1960); The Joke and the Valley (1961); The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (1956); The Killer Inside Me (1976); The Last Precinct (1986); The Last Unicorn (1982); The Legend of Earl Durand (1974); The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1978); The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976); The Littlest Hobo (1963 / 1980); The Long, Long Trailer (1954); The Longest Hunt (1968); The Love Boat (1982); The Lucifer Complex (1978); The Magic Pear Tree (1968); The Magical World of Disney (1978–1981); The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956); The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1975); The Man with Icy Eyes (1971); The Manipulator (1971); The Marauders (1955); The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't (2008); The Mechanic (1972); The Merv Griffin Show (1965–1971); The Mississippi (1983); The Monitors (1969); The Monkey Mission (1981); The Naked Hills (1956); The Name of the Game (1969–1970); The Name's the Same (1955); The New Breed (1961); The New Perry Mason (1973); The New Steve Allen Show (1962); The Night of the Grizzly (1966); The Patsy (1964); The Perfect Furlough (1958); The Power and the Glory (1961); The Quest (1976); The Quest: The Longest Drive (1976); The Red Rowe Show (1960); The Red Skelton Hour (1962); The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair (1983); The Road West (1967); The Roaring 20's (1961); The Rock (1967); The Rookies (1976); The Scarface Mob (1959); The Shaggy D.A. (1976); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1958–1960); The Steve Allen Show (1969); The Steve Lawrence-Eydie Gorme Show (1958); The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (1958–1960); The Three Musketeers (1948); The Thrill of Brazil (1946); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1961); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1964); The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1964); The Treasure Seekers (1980); The Twilight Zone (1960); The Untouchables (1959–1961); The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942); The War Wagon (1967); The Wide World of Mystery (1973); The Wild Wild West (1966); The Winston Affair (1964); The Young Lawyers (1969); Then Came Bronson (1969); They Are Eating the Guests! Interview Mit Regisseur Joe Dante (2015); This Is Your Life (1953); Three Little Words (1950); To Tell the Truth (1958); Touch of Evil (1958); Transcending Time: Symbols and Strangelove (2016); Troubleshooters (1959–1960); Twenty Years After (1944); Valentine's Day (1965); VD Attack Plan (1973); Viva Max (1969); Wagon Train (1958); Warning Shot (1966); Wavelength (1983); Week-End at the Waldorf (1945); Welcome to Hard Times (1967); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959 / 1960); What About Linda? (1961); What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (1945); What's My Line? (1958–1959); What's My Line? At 25 (1975); When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion (1979); Without Love (1945); You Don't Say (1963–1964); Ziegfeld Follies (1945); Zoo Ship (1985).

On this day in movie history - Black Moon Rising (1986)

Black Moon Rising

directed by Harley Cokliss,

written by John Carpenter, William Gray and Desmond Nakano,

based on a story by John Carpenter,

was released in the United States on January 10, 1986.

Music by Lalo Schifrin.

Cast:

Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton, Robert Vaughn, Richard Jaeckel, Lee Ving, Bubba Smith, Dan Shor, William Sanderson, Keenan Wynn, Nick Cassavetes, Richard Angarola, Don Keith Opper, William Marquez, David Pressman, Stanley
DeSantis, Edward Parone, Al White, Bill Moody, Townsend Coleman, Dalton Cathey, Frank Dent, Steve Fifield, Dave Adams, Lana Lancaster, Enrique Castillo, Peterson Banks, Rudy Daniels, Carl Ciarfalio, Don Pulford, Vincent Pandoliano, Lisa London, Doug MacHugh, Eric Trules.