On this day in television history - Pushing Daisies (2007 - 2009)

Pushing Daisies
Season 1. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: Pie-lette.

Released October 3, 2007.

Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld.

Written by Bryan Fuller.

Series created by Bryan Fuller.

Music by Jim Dooley.

Narrated by Jim Dale.

Cast:

Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Chi McBride, Jim Dale, Kristin Chenoweth, Ellen Greene, Swoosie Kurtz, Patrick Breen, Terry Anzur, Ed Brigadier, Field Cate, Ted Garcia, Murray Gershenz, Tina Gloss, Brad Grunberg, Samantha Hanratty, Geraud Moncure, Leyna Nguyen, Sy Richardson, Greg Suddeth, David Trice, Julie Wittner, Jeff Wolfe.

Katherine Paterson, on reading:

 

Reading has made such a profound difference to my life.

I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.
- Katherine Paterson.

Recommended reading - The Black Curtain

 

The Black Curtain

by Cornell Woolrich.

Filmed as Street of Chance (1942), directed by Jack Hively.
First published 1941.
Published by Centipede Press.
Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 1613471475
ISBN-13: 978-1613471470

Description:

A man is accused of a murder he cannot remember…

In a nightmare scenario, Frank Townsend has an apparently minor accident on his way home but he arrives to find his wife gone and doesn’t recognize his apartment. He had gone to work on a normal day but didn’t return for more than three years. Suffering from amnesia, he has to rediscover who he is, where he has been, and what he has done. A curtain has fallen to cut off all memories of his life.

First among the memories he wants to recover is whether he has committed the murder of which he has been accused. A mysterious stranger with a gun has been following him while he attempts to simultaneously understand what has happened in his past while doing all he can to extricate himself from a seemingly hopeless situation and regain his reputation. He does not yet know that he is in great jeopardy and there is no one he can trust to rescue him from the abyss.

The Black Curtain is the second of Cornell Woolrich’s celebrated “black” books, following The Bride Wore Black, which established his reputation as America’s greatest noir writer. It was adapted into film as the classic Street of Chance, starring Burgess Meredith and Claire Trevor.

Born on this day – Eleonora Duse:

Eleonora Duse

Actress

Writer

October 3, 1858 – April 21, 1924

Credit:

Stage actress who starred in only one movie during her entire career: Cenere (1917).

Born on this day – Wade Boteler:

 

Wade Boteler

Actor

Writer

October 3, 1888 – May 7, 1943

Credits:

23 1/2 Hours' Leave (1919); 24 Hours (1931); 3 Cheers for the Irish (1940); 52nd Street (1937); A Fight to the Finish (1937); A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941); A Man of Action (1923); A Man's Game (1934); A Poor Fish (1931); A Slight Case of Murder (1938); A Star Is Born (1937); A Very Good Young Man (1919); A Very Honorable Guy (1934); A Woman Against the World (1928); Adventure in Manhattan (1936); Advice to the Forlorn (1933); Afraid to Fight (1922); Against the Rules (1931); A-Haunting We Will Go (1942); Air Mail (1932); Alias the Night Wind (1923); Alibi for Murder (1936); Alibi Ike (1935); Ambush (1939); Among the Missing (1934); An Old Fashioned Boy (1920); And So They Were Married (1936); Are You Listening? (1932); Around the World in Eighteen Days (1923); At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern (1922); Baby Face Harrington (1935); Bad Company (1931); Bad Little Angel (1939); Bad Men of Missouri (1941); Bed of Roses (1933); Belle of the Nineties (1934); Between Us Girls (1942); Beyond Victory (1931); Big News (1929); Billy the Kid Returns (1938); Bird of Paradise (1932); Black Fury (1935); Black Sheep (1935); Blackmail (1939); Blackwell's Island (1939); Blind Hearts (1921); Blonde Crazy (1931); Blondie Takes a Vacation (1939); Blood Money (1933); Blue, White and Perfect (1942); Blues in the Night (1941); Bombay Clipper (1941); Border Cafe (1937); Bordertown (1935); Born to Be Bad (1934); Breezing Home (1937); Bright Eyes (1934); Brother Rat and a Baby (1940); Buck Rogers (1939); Bullets for O'Hara (1941); Butch Minds the Baby (1942); Call of the Wild (1935); Capital Punishment (1925); Captain Hurricane (1935); Captain Kidd's Treasure (1938); Captains Courageous (1937); Carnival (1935); Carnival Queen (1937); Castle on the Hudson (1940); Central Park (1932); Chained (1934); Change of Heart (1938); Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936); Charlie Chan's Courage (1934); Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940); Cheers of the Crowd (1935); Chicken Wagon Family (1939); City for Conquest (1940); City Girl (1938); Clancy at the Bat (1929); Close Harmony (1929); Code of the Streets (1939); Coffins on Wheels (1941); College Humor (1933); College Lovers (1930); Come on Danger! (1932); Counterfeit (1936); Country Gentlemen (1936); Crooked Straight (1919); Crooked Streets (1920); Dance, Girl, Dance (1940); Dangerous Holiday (1937); Dangerous to Know (1938); Days of Jesse James (1939); Dead End (1937); Derelict (1930); Deserted at the Altar (1922); Diamond Jim (1935); Dimples (1936); Divorced Sweethearts (1930); Dog Daze (1939); Don Winslow of the Navy (1942); Don't Shoot (1922); Double Alibi (1940); Down in San Diego (1941); Duck Soup (1933); Ducks and Drakes (1921); Ducky Dear (1933); Dust Be My Destiny (1939); Dynamite (1929); East Side of Heaven (1939); Emergency Squad (1940); Emma (1932); End of the Trail (1932); Escape from Crime (1942); Everything's on Ice (1939); Exclusive Story (1936); Ex-Sweeties (1931); Eyes of the Underworld (1942); Fifty Candles (1921); Fighting Youth (1935); Find the Blackmailer (1943); Find the Witness (1937); Fired Wife (1943); Fireman, Save My Child! (1932); Fly-By-Night (1942); Footsteps in the Dark (1941); For the Love of Ludwig (1932); Four's a Crowd (1938); Framed (1940); Freckles (1935); Frisco Kid (1935); Front Page Woman (1935); Fugitive Lady (1934); Fugitive Lovers (1934); Gambling Lady (1934); Gaucho Serenade (1940); Gentleman Jim (1942); Get Hep to Love (1942); Ginger (1935); Girl from Avenue A (1940); Girls on Probation (1938); Goin' to Town (1935); Going Up (1923); Good Dame (1934); Green Light (1937); Havoc (1925); Helldorado (1934); Hello, Everybody! (1933); Hello, Sister! (1933); Here Comes Trouble (1936); Hi, Buddy (1943); High School (1940); High School Hero (1927); High Sierra (1941); High Tension (1936); Highway West (1941); His Girl Friday (1940); Hit and Run (1924); Hit the Ice (1943); Hold 'Em Navy (1937); Hold That Lion! (1926); Hold Your Man (1933); Honeymoon Zeppelin (1930); Hot Steel (1940); Human Cargo (1936); Humanity (1933); Hurricane Smith (1941); I Give My Love (1934); I Married a Witch (1942); I Wake Up Screaming (1941); I Was Framed (1942); In Old Chicago (1938); Introduce Me (1925); Invisible Stripes (1939); It Ain't Hay (1943); It Can't Last Forever (1937); It Happened in Hollywood (1937); It Happened in New York (1935); It Started with Eve (1941); Jackass Mail (1942); Jim Hanvey, Detective (1937); Jimmie's Millions (1925); Just Married (1928); Kathleen (1941); Keep 'Em Slugging (1943); Kick In (1931); King for a Night (1933); Know Your Money (1940); Knute Rockne All American (1940); Ladies of the Big House (1931); Lady of Secrets (1936); Lahoma (1920); Laugh and Get Rich (1931); Lawyer Man (1932); Let 'Er Go Gallegher (1927); Let It Rain (1927); Let's Be Fashionable (1920); Little Miss Roughneck (1938); Living on Velvet (1935); Local Boy Makes Good (1931); Love Crazy (1941); Love in Bloom (1935); Love Is News (1937); Love Thy Neighbor (1940); Ma! He's Making Eyes at Me (1940); Made on Broadway (1933); Madison Square Garden (1932); Manhattan Melodrama (1934); Manhattan Tower (1932); Mannequin (1937); Marriage in Transit (1925); Married Before Breakfast (1937); Meet the Senator (1932); Melody in Spring (1934); Melody Trail (1935); Men Are Such Fools (1938); Men of Boys Town (1941); Midnight Daddies (1930); Mind Your Own Business (1936); Missing Daughters (1939); Mississippi Gambler (1942); Moonlight in Havana (1942); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); Murder on the Blackboard (1934); Music Is Magic (1935); My Favorite Blonde (1942); My Kingdom for a Cook (1943); My Little Chickadee (1940); Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933); Mystery Ship (1941); Navy Blues (1929); Never Say Die (1924); News Is Made at Night (1939); Night Class (1931); Night Life of the Gods (1935); Nobody's Fool (1936); Off the Record (1939); On Your Toes (1939); One Man in a Million (1921); One Wild Night (1938); Operator 13 (1934); O'Shaughnessy's Boy (1935); Pacific Blackout (1941); Parnell (1937); Passport Husband (1938); Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus (1938); Penrod and Sam (1931); Pepper (1936); Pittsburgh (1942); Planet Outlaws (1953); Poker Widows (1931); Pony Express Days (1940); Poppy (1936); Possessed (1931); Private Buckaroo (1942); Professor Beware (1938); Queen Christina (1933); Reckless (1935); Red Barry (1938); Red Hot Tires (1935); Remember Last Night? (1935); Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942); Ridin' Wild (1922); Riding High (1943); Riffraff (1935); Robin Hood of the Pecos (1941); Romance in Manhattan (1934); Rule 'Em and Weep (1932); Rulers of the Sea (1939); Sabotage (1939); Sadie McKee (1934); Scandal Street (1938); Second Hand Rose (1922); Second Honeymoon (1937); Secrets of a Nurse (1938); Sergeant Madden (1939); Seven Keys to Baldpate (1925); Shakedown (1936); She Couldn't Help It (1920); She Done Him Wrong (1933); She Made Her Bed (1934); She's No Lady (1937); Silence (1931); Silver Dollar (1932); Sing Your Worries Away (1942); Sinner Take All (1936); Sitting Pretty (1933); Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga (1941); Ski Patrol (1940); Slide, Speedy, Slide (1931); Slim (1937); So You Won't Talk (1940); Society Doctor (1935); Soft Cushions (1927); Soldiers and Women (1930); Southward Ho! (1939); Spawn of the North (1938); Speed Demon (1932); Speed Madness (1932); The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935); The Flirty Sleepwalker (1932); The Flying Fleet (1929); The Forest Rangers (1942); The Frame-Up (1937); The Gay Deception (1935); The Getaway (1941); The Ghost Patrol (1923); Sporting Goods (1928); Spring Parade (1940); St. Louis Blues (1939); Strange Alibi (1941); Stranger Than Fiction (1921); Streamline Express (1935); Street of Memories (1940); Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942); Television Spy (1939); That's My Baby (1926); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939); The Adventures of Jane Arden (1939); The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine (1942); The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938); The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943); The Baby Cyclone (1928); The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937); The Big Game (1936); The Body Disappears (1941); The Bride Walks Out (1936); The Crash (1928); The Crosby Case (1934); The Cup of Fury (1920); The Death Kiss (1932); The Devil's Holiday (1930); The Fainting Lover (1931); The False Road (1920); The Godless Girl (1928); The Good Fellows (1943); The Goose and the Gander (1935); The Gorgeous Hussy (1936); The Great Hospital Mystery (1937); The Great Night (1922); The Green Hornet (1940 / 1990); The Green Hornet Movie Edition (2011); The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1940); The Man Who Played God (1932); The Man with Two Faces (1934); The Mandarin Mystery (1936); The Marines Are Here (1938); The Headline Woman (1935); The Hidden Hand (1942); The Home Stretch (1921); The Howards of Virginia (1940); The Human Side (1934); The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939); The Iron Man (1931); The Jones Family in Borrowing Trouble (1937); The Kennel Murder Case (1933); The Kid from Kansas (1941); The Lady from Cheyenne (1941); The Last Edition (1925); The Last Gangster (1937); The Last Ride (1944); The Leather Necker (1935); The Leather Pushers (1940); The Leatherneck (1929); The Little Adventuress (1938); The Lone Avenger (1933); The Lying Truth (1922); Youth on Parole (1937); Youth Takes a Fling (1938); The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942); The Magnificent Brute (1936); The Man from Dakota (1940); The Man in the Trunk (1942); The Merry Frinks (1934); The Mysterious Miss X (1939); The New Half Back (1929); The Night Mayor (1932); The Oklahoma Kid (1939); The Painted Desert (1931); The Painted Woman (1932); The Phantom Horseman (1924); The President's Mystery (1936); The Rage of Paris (1938); The Return of Jimmy Valentine (1936); The Richest Girl in the World (1934); The Roaring Twenties (1939); The Secret Bride (1934); The Secret Code (1942); The Shopworn Angel (1938); The Singing Hill (1941); The Single Standard (1929); The Social Buccaneer (1923); The Son-Daughter (1932); The St. Louis Kid (1934); The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932); The Strawberry Blonde (1941); The Three Musketeers (1935); The Toilers (1928); The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932); The Unfoldment (1922); The Walking Dead (1936); The Way of All Flesh (1940); The Way of All Men (1930); The Westerner (1934); The Whipping Boss (1924); The Wide Open Spaces (1931); The Woman's Side (1922); There's Always a Woman (1938); They Shall Have Music (1939); This Day and Age (1933); Three Faces West (1940); Three Smart Girls (1936); Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939); Through a Glass Window (1922); Through the Dark (1924); Thunder Afloat (1939); 'Til We Meet Again (1940); Timber! (1942); Tip-Off Girls (1938); Top Sergeant Mulligan (1928); Top Speed (1930); Topper Takes a Trip (1938); Trapped by Television (1936); Two Alone (1934); Under Eighteen (1931); Under Texas Skies (1940); Undercover Doctor (1939); Unexpected Uncle (1941); Unknown Valley (1933); Vacation from Love (1938); Valley of the Giants (1938); Warming Up (1928); Water, Water, Everywhere (1920); Way Back Home (1931); We Who Are Young (1940); Wells Fargo (1937); When Tomorrow Comes (1939); Where Did You Get That Girl? (1941); While Satan Sleeps (1922); Whipsaw (1935); Wild Boys of the Road (1933); Winds of Chance (1925); Women in Hiding (1940); World Premiere (1941); You Only Live Once (1937); Young Buffalo Bill (1940); Young Tom Edison (1940); You're a Sweetheart (1937).

Born on this day – Leo McCarey:

Leo McCarey

Director

Writer

Producer

October 3, 1898 – July 5, 1969

Born on this day – Josephine Hill:

Josephine Hill

Actress

October 3, 1899 – December 17, 1989

Born on this day – Thomas Wolfe:

Thomas Wolfe

Writer

October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938

Credits:

Books:

Look Homeward, Angel (1929); Of Time and the River (1935); The Web and the Rock (1939); You Can't Go Home Again (1940) The Good Child's River (1991); The Web and the Root (2009); From Death to Morning (1935); The Hills Beyond (1941); A Stone, A Leaf, A Door (poems) (1945); The Story of a Novel (1936); The Face of a Nation (1939); Letters of Thomas Wolfe (1956).

Movies and television:

Camera Three (1976); Charles Laughton (1952); Crusade Report (1951); Days in the Yellow Leaf (1989); Die Herren von der Presse (1965); Erinnerung an einen Sommer in Berlin (1972); Herrenhaus (1966); Look Homeward, Angel (1972); Of Time and the River (1953); Of Time and the River (II);  (1953); Schau heimwärts, Engel (1961); Willkommen in Altamont (1965); You Can't Go Home Again (1979).

Born on this day – James Herriot:

 

James Herriot

Veterinary surgeon

Writer

October 3, 1916 – February 23, 1995

Credits:

Books:

If Only They Could Talk (1970); All Creatures Great and Small (1972); It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (1972); Vet in Harness (1974); All Things Bright and Beautiful (1974); Vets Might Fly (1976); All Things Wise and Wonderful (1976); The Lord God Made Them All (1981); The Best of James Herriot (1983); Vet in a Spin (1984); Smudge, The Little Lost Lamb (1991); Smudge's Day Out (1991); Horse & Pony Stories (1986); Bonny's Big Day (1972); Moses the Kitten (1984); Only One Woof (1985); The Christmas Day Kitten (1986); Blossom Comes Home (1988); The Market Square Dog (1989); Oscar, Cat-About-Town (1990); The Animals at Diamond Woods (2009); Animal Stories, Tame & Wild (1979); James Herriot's Yorkshire (1979); All Creatures Great and Small Annual 1982 (1981); James Herriot's Favorite Dog Stories (1986); James Herriot's Dog Stories (1986); Greatest Cat Stories (1989); James Herriot Story Book (1992); Every Living Thing (1992); James Herriot's Treasury for Children (1992); James Herriot's Cat Stories (1994); Seven Yorkshire tales (1995); James Herriot's Yorkshire Stories (1995); James Herriot's Yorkshire Village (1995); James Herriot's Animal Stories (1997); Yorkshire Stories (1998); James Herriot's Yorkshire Revisited (1999).

Movies and television:

All Creatures Great and Small (1975 / 2024); All Creatures Great and Small / TV Series (1978–1990); All Creatures Great and Small / TV Series (2020–2024); It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (1976); James Herriot's Yorkshire (1993); Pebble Mill at One (1975); Read All About It (1976); The Lively Arts (1976–1977); The Mike Douglas Show (1973); To Tell the Truth (1973); Young James Herriot (2011).

Born on this day – Madlyn Rhue:

Madlyn Rhue

Actress

Script and Continuity Department

October 3, 1935 – December 16, 2003

Credits:

10th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2004); 77 Sunset Strip (1963); A Majority of One (1961); A Man Called Shenandoah (1965); A Man Called Sledge (1970); A Mother's Justice (1991); Adventures in Paradise (1961); Arrest and Trial (1963); Banacek (1972); Baretta (1975); Barnaby Jones (1973); Black Saddle (1959); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Bonanza (1960); Bourbon Street Beat (1959–1960); Bracken's World (1969–1970); Bridges to Cross (1986); Burke's Law (1965); Bus Stop (1961); Cain's Hundred (1962); Cannon (1974–1976); Captain Nice (1967); Charlie's Angels (1979); Checkmate (1960); Cheyenne (1959); CHiPs (1979–1983); Circle of Fear (1972); Cowboy in Africa (1968); Daniel Boone (1965); Days of Our Lives (1982–1984); Diff'rent Strokes (1981); Dynasty (1981); Escape from Zahrain (1962); Espionage (1964); Executive Suite (1976–1977); Fame (1982–1985); Fame (1984); Fan Revisionism and the Greatness of The Empire Strikes Back (2023); Fantasies (1982); Fantasy Island (1982); Games Mother Never Taught You (1982); General Electric Theater (1960); Goldie and the Boxer (1979); Gunsmoke (1959); Gypsy (1966); Hart to Hart (1979); Have Gun - Will Travel (1958–1959); Hawaii Five-O (1970–1973); He Rides Tall (1964); Here's Hollywood (1962); Hollywood Connection (1977); Hong Kong (1960); Hotel de Paree (1960); Hour Magazine (1987); Houston Knights (1987–1988); I Spy (1965); Iron Horse (1966); Ironside (1967–1974); It Takes a Thief (1968); It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963); Kenner (1968); Kolchak: Crackle of Death / Segment: Firefall (1974); Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974); Kraft Mystery Theater (1963); L.A. Law (1987); Land of the Giants (1970); Laramie (1959); Laredo (1966); Longstreet (1971); M Squad (1959); Mannix (1969–1975); Match Game (1974–1975); Match Game PM (1975–1976); Medical Story (1975); Michael Shayne (1960); Mike Hammer (1959); Mission: Impossible (1972); Murder, She Wrote (1989–1996); Operation Petticoat (1959); Outlaws (1960); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1973); Perry Mason (1960); Petrocelli (1975); Police Story (1975); Pony Express (1960); Poor Devil (1973); Quincy, M.E. (1980); Rawhide (1963); Riverboat (1959); Route 66 (1962); Slattery's People (1965); Special Agent 7 (1959); Stagecoach West (1961); Stand Up and Be Counted (1972); Star Trek (1967); Starsky and Hutch (1976); Stranger on the Run (1967); Sugarfoot (1960); Switch (1975–1977); Tales of Wells Fargo (1959); Tempo (1970); The Alan Hamel Show (1977); The Alaskans (1960); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963); The Best Place to Be (1979); The Court of Last Resort (1958); The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1971); The Defenders (1965); The Doctors and the Nurses (1963); The Fugitive (1964–1966); The Guns of Will Sonnett (1968); The Jerry Lewis Show (1963); The Kiss (1958); The Ladies Man (1961); The Lieutenant (1963); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964–1967); The Manhunter (1972); The Mike Douglas Show (1972); The Miracle (1959); The Rebel (1959); The Roaring 20's (1960); The Sex Symbol (1974); The Streets of San Francisco (1976); The Third Man (1959); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1974–1984); The Tony Randall Show (1978); The Untouchables (1960); The Virginian (1963–1971); The Westerner (1960); The Wild Wild West (1967); This Is Your Life (1972); Tightrope (1959); Trial by Jury (1989); Troubleshooters (1960); We've Got Each Other (1977); Whirlybirds (1958).

Born on this day – Alan Rachins:

Alan Rachins

Actor

Writer

Director

October 3, 1942 – November 2, 2024

Credits:

20 Years of Must See TV (2002); 3 Musketeers (2011); 30 Nights (2018); 70th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade (2001); A Family in Crisis: The Elian Gonzales Story (2000); Always (1985); American Dad! (2012); An Evening at the Improv (1988); Angels on Tap (2018); Answers to Nothing (2011); Any Day Now (2012); Barnaby Jones (1979); Batman: The Animated Series (1992–1994); Brothers (1984); Circus of the Stars #14 (1989); Close to Home (2006); Commencement (2012); Courthouse (1995); CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2005); D.C. Follies (1988); Dallas (1979); Dharma & Greg (1997–2002); Diagnosis Murder (1996); Donahue (1989); Eli Stone (2008); Enough About Me (2005); Entertainment Tonight Presents: L.A. Law - Secrets of the Firm (2000); Fear on Trial (1975); Ferris Bueller (1990); General Hospital (2016–2018); Good Luck Charlie (2011); Grey's Anatomy (2018); Happy Endings (2011); Hart to Hart (1982); Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart (1994); Heart Condition (1990); Hill Street Blues (1981); Hollywood Squares (2001); Hour Magazine (1987); In-Laws (2002); J.J. Starbuck (1988); Jeopardy! (1992); Just Shoot Me! (2003); Justice League Unlimited (2005); L.A. Law (1986–1994); L.A. Law 100th Episode Celebration (1991); L.A. Law: The Movie (2002); Lady Boss (1992); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1994); Leave It to Beaver (1997); Live with Kelly and Mark (1989); Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1996); Love Boat: The Next Wave (1998); Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1989); Meet Wally Sparks (1997); Mickey's 60th Birthday (1988); Mistress (1987); Mom (2015); Momentum (2018); Monster Night (2006); NCIS (2023); North (1994); One on One with John Tesh (1991); Paris (1979 / 1980); Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer (1990); Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996); Rizzoli & Isles (2011–2013); Rugrats (1996); Scooby-Doo! Mecha Mutt Menace (2013); She Says She's Innocent (1991); Showgirls (1995); Single Women Married Men (1989); Spider-Man: Re-Animated (2009); Stargate SG-1 (1997); Stars in the House (2020); Super Bloopers and Practical Jokes (1992); Surviving Suburbia (2009); Taken (1997); Tales from the Crypt (1991); Terminal Voyage (1995); The 13th Annual People's Choice Awards (1987); The 14th Annual Genesis Awards (2000); The 14th Annual People's Choice Awards (1988); The 15th Annual Genesis Awards (2001); The 15th Annual People's Choice Awards (1989); The 16th Annual People's Choice Awards (1990); The 17th Annual People's Choice Awards (1991); The 18th Annual People's Choice Awards (1992); The 19th Annual People's Choice Awards (1993); The 24th Annual People's Choice Awards (1998); The 40th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1988); The 43rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1991); The 45th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1988); The Chuck Woolery Show (1991); The Crazy Ones (2013); The Fall Guy (1983); The Golden Girls (1991); The History of Hill Street (2011); The Hospital Window (2012); The LA Law Story (2014); The Lights Above (2023); The Middle (2017); The Needs of Kim Stanley (2024); The New Hollywood Squares (1987–1988); The Outer Limits (1996); The Paley Center Salutes NBC's 90th Anniversary (2017); The Pat Sajak Show (1989); The Retrievers (2001); The Spectacular Spider-Man (2008–2009); The Spectacular Spider-Man: Attack of the Lizard (2008); The Stepsister (1997); The Talk (2018); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1991); The White Shadow (1978); This Is Your Life (1993); Thunder Run (1985); Time Walker (1982); To Tell the Truth (2000–2002); Unwed Father (1997); Vicki! (1993); Wheel of Fortune (1997); Young Sheldon (2021).

 

Born on this day – Deborah Coleman:

Deborah Coleman

Blues singer

Guitarist

October 3, 1956 – April 12, 2018

On this day in movie history - The Temptress (movie & novel):

The Temptress: La Tierra de Todos

by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.

Published by Zinc Read.
First published 1922.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 9362346877
ISBN-13: 978-9362346872

Description:

"The Temptress" is a novel set in the early 20th century, dealing with themes of social conflict, personal ambition, and moral dilemmas. The story focuses on the character of a woman who is central to the plot’s exploration of human desires and societal pressures. The narrative examines the effects of personal ambitions and temptations on individuals and their relationships. It delves into issues of social inequality, the impact of wealth and power, and the moral consequences of one's actions.

On this day in movie history - Street of Chance (1942)

Street of Chance

directed by Jack Hively,

written by Garrett Fort,

based on the novel The Black Curtain by Cornell Woolrich,

was released in the United States on October 3, 1942.

Music by David Buttolph.

Cast:
Burgess Meredith, Claire Trevor, Louise Platt, Sheldon Leonard, Frieda Inescort, Jerome Cowan, Adeline De Walt Reynolds, Arthur Loft, Clancy Cooper, Paul Phillips, Keith Richards, Ann Doran, Cliff Clark, Edwin Maxwell, Kenneth Chryst, Kernan Cripps, Ralph Dunn, Ruth Gillette, Gladden James, Milton Kibbee, Helen MacKellar, James C. Morton, Reed Porter, Harry Tyler, Dorothy Vernon, Bess Wade, George Watts, Gloria Williams, Sonny Boy Williams.

On this day in movie history - Split Image (1982)

Split Image

a.k.a. Captured,

directed by Ted Kotcheff,

written by Scott Spencer, Robert Kaufman and Robert Mark Kamen,

based on a story by Scott Spencer,

was released in the United States on October 3, 1982.

Music by Bill Conti.

Cast:

Michael O'Keefe, Karen Allen, Peter Fonda, James Woods, Elizabeth Ashley, Brian Dennehy, Ronnie Scribner, Pamela Ludwig, John Dukakis, Lee Montgomery, Michael Sacks, Deborah Rush, Peter Horton, Ken Farmer, Cliff Stephens, Brian Henson, David Wysocki, Kenneth Barry, Robert A. Cowan, Herbert Kirkpatrick, Chris McCarty, Lee Ritchey, Lynette Walden, Robert Hibbard, Scott Campbell, Melanie Strange, Dave Tanner, Tom Rayhall, Jeanne Evans, Irma P. Hall, Bill Engvall, Peter Hans Sprague, John Carroll, Haley McLane, Kelly Wimberly, James Healy Jr., Charles Assiff, Tad Black, Julie Elizabeth Knell, Michael Minton, Tom Romero, David Sawyer, Mark-Brian Sonna, Ben Stephenson.

On this day in movie history - Armed Response (1986)

Armed Response

directed by Fred Olen Ray,

written by T.L. Lankford,

based on a story by Fred Olen Ray, T.L. Lankford and Paul Hertzberg,

was released in the United States on October 3, 1986.

Music by Thomas Chase and Steve Rucker.

Cast:

David Carradine, Lee Van Cleef, Mako, Lois Hamilton, Ross Hagen, Brent Huff, Laurene Landon, Dick Miller, Burr DeBenning, Michael Berryman, David Goss, Dah-ve Chodan, Conan Lee, Sam Hiona, Bob Hevelone, Patrick Culliton, Richard Lee-Sung, Suzy Stokey, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Kai Baker, David O'Hara, Dawn Wildsmith, Bobbie Bresee, Brad Arrington, Fox Harris, Jimmy Williams, Fred Olen Ray, Michelle Bauer, Lisa Hayward, Lauren Hertzberg, Jordan Hertzberg, Hisako Mura, Maryann Zvoleff.

On this day in movie history - Out of Time (2003)

Out of Time

directed by Carl Franklin, and written by David Collard,

was released in the United States on October 3, 2003.

Music by Graeme Revell.

Cast:

Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes, Sanaa Lathan, Dean Cain, John Billingsley, Robert Baker, Alex Carter, Antoni Corone, Terry Loughlin, Nora Dunn, James Murtaugh, Peggy Sheffield, Evelyn Brooks, Eric Hissom, Tom Hillmann, Parris Buckner, Arian Ash, Mike Pniewski, Veryl Jones, Tim Ware, Jesse Beaton, Ed Amatrudo, Neil Brown Jr., Elena Maria Garcia, David J. Negron, O.L. Duke, Sharlene Garcia, Ron Madoff, Steve Raulerson, Suzanne Grant, Dottie Healy.

On this day in movie history - Red, White and Blues (2003)

Red, White and Blues

documentary directed by Mike Figgis,

part 6 of the documentary series The Blues,

produced by Martin Scorsese,

was released in the United States on October 3, 2003.

Additional music by Davis Coen and John McCullough.

Cast:

Ginger Baker, Chris Barber, Jeff Beck, Booker T. & the M.G.s, Big Bill Broonzy, Jack Bruce, Eric Burdon, Eric Clapton, Jon Cleary, Elvis Costello, James Cotton, Cream, Lonnie Donegan, Jack Elliott, Georgie Fame, Chris Farlowe, Mick Fleetwood, Davy Graham, Peter Green, Bert Jansch, Ian Jennings, Tom Jones, B.B. King, Pete King, Alexis Korner, Leadbelly, Albert Lee, John Lennon, Lulu, Humphrey Lyttelton, John Mayall, Brownie McGhee, Joe Meek, George Melly, Mark Mondesir, Van Morrison, The Plastic Ono Band, The Rolling Stones, Otis Spann, Sonny Terry, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Christine Tobin, Muddy Waters, Steve Winwood.

On this day in music history - The album Runaway Horses, by Belinda Carlisle (1989)

Runaway Horses

by Belinda Carlisle,

was released on October 3, 1989.

Track list:

Leave A Light On; Runaway Horses; Vision Of You; Summer Rain; La Luna; (We Want) The Same Thing; Deep Deep Ocean; Valentine; What Ever It Takes; Shades Of Michaelangelo.

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

M Squad
Season 2. Episode 3.

Episode entitled: The Missing Claimant.

Released October 3, 1958.

Directed by Allen H. Miner.

Written by Jack Laird and Wilton Schiller.

Music by Alexander Courage.

 Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Joan Vohs, Harry Lauter, Theodore Newton, Rebecca Welles, Sydney Smith, Dick Wilson, Robert Busch.