Sunday, February 9, 2025

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960)

 

M Squad

Season 3. Episode 21.


Episode entitled: The Man with Frank’s Face.

Released February 9, 1960.

Directed by Don Taylor.

Written by Stuart Jerome.

Music by Benny Carter.


Cast:
Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Robert Bailey, Herbert Ellis, John Harmon, Wolfe Barzell, Tom Reese, Greta Thyssen, Jim Hayward.


On this day in television history - Justified (2011)


Justified
Season 2. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: The Moonshine War.

Released February 9, 2011.

Directed by Adam Arkin.

Written by Graham Yost, Elmore Leonard, Benjamin Cavell and VJ Boyd.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.


Cast:
Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Walton Goggins, Margo Martindale, Jeremy Davies, Alexandra Barreto, Jordi Caballero, Matt Craven, Kaitlyn Dever, Brad William Henke, Chris Mulkey, Joseph Lyle Taylor, Billy Miller, Peter Murnik, Mark Irvingsen, John Kelly, Michelle Dunker, Reggie Jordan, Omar Avila, M.C. Gainey.


On this day in television history – James Ellroy's L.A.: City of Demons (2011)

 

James Ellroy's L.A.: City of Demons


Documentary.


Season 1. 
Episode 4.
Episode entitled: Dames and Delinquents.
Released: February 9, 2011.
Series directors: Brian Coughlin, Gabe Torres, Brian Coughlin and Robert Kirk.
 
Cast:
James Ellroy, Anna Bazarkina, Deanna Morris.


Saturday, February 8, 2025

Rachel Carson, on writing:


Writing is largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible.

For me, that usually means many, many revisions.

- Rachel Carson.


Recommended reading - TCM Underground

 

TCM Underground

50 Must-See Films from the World of Classic Cult and Late-Night Cinema

by Millie De Chirico & Quatoyiah Murry.

Foreword by Patton Oswalt.

Turner Classic Movies (TCM).
 
Published by Running Press Adult.
Published 2022.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0762480009
ISBN-13: 978-0762480005

Description:

With knowledge, humor and an appropriately twisted perspective, [the authors] give readers a fuller realization of what late-night cinema offers. With a foreword by Patton Oswalt, this celebration of strangeness is well worth exploring. – Pop Culture Classics.

Based on the Turner Classic Movies series, TCM Underground is the movie-lover's guide to 50 of the most campy, kitschy, shocking, and weirdly wonderful cult films you need to see.

In the pages of this book, you'll explore this unique order of films – primarily from the 1960s, '70s, and '80s – with insightful reviews, behind-the-scenes stories, subgenre sidebars, and full-color and black-and-white photography throughout. Go along for the ride with new takes on crime films, including The Honeymoon Killers and The Harder They Come. Witness one-of-a-kind horror in Bill Gunn's landmark vampire film Ganja and Hess and Nobuhiko Obayashi’s infamous and indescribable Hausu. Absorb the boundary-pushing documentary-style trilogy The Decline of Western Civilization, which throws you into indelible moments in the punk and metal music scenes. And marvel at pure '80s oddities like Mac and Me and The Garbage Pail Kids.
 
From Possession to Polyester and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls to Xanadu, no two films are alike in this compendium. Just sit back and prepare to be surprised, amused, and entertained by this celebration of the stars, filmmakers, and stories behind fifty of the most beguiling and unforgettable movies ever to hit the screen.


Born on this day – Jules Verne:

 

Jules Verne


Writer

February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905

Credits:

Books:

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1869); A Fantasy of Dr. Ox (1872); A Floating City (1871); Adrift in the Pacific (1888); Among the Cannibals (1867); Around the World in Eighty Days (1873); Beach Books Anthology (2023); Beneath the Waves: Tales from the Deep (2018); Caesar Cascabel (1890); Captain Antifer (1894); Captain Grant’s Children (1867); Carpathian Castle (2018); Child of the Cavern (1877); Classic Sea Stories (1996); Claudius Bombarnac (1892); Clovis Dardentor (1896); Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen (1878); Doctor Ox And Other Stories (1874); Drama In Livonia (1904); Eight Hundred Leagues On The Amazon (1881); Facing The Flag (1896); Family Without A Name (1889); Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863); Foundling Mick (1893); From the Earth to the Moon (1865); Godfrey Morgan (1882); In Search Of The Castaways (1867); In the Year 2889 (1889); Invasion of the Sea (1905); Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864); Jules Verne Collection, 33 Works (2004); Keraban the Inflexible (1883); Master of the World (1904); Mathias Sandorf (1885); Mistress Branican (1891); Mysterious Document (1867); North Against South (1887); Off On A Comet (1877); On the Track (1867); Paris in the Twentieth Century (1863); Propeller Island (1895); Robur the Conqueror (1886); Round The Moon (1869); Science Fiction Stories (1988); Sea Serpent (1901); Second Year Ashore (1940); Tales of the Restless Sea - Adventure Anthology (2023); The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (1864); The Archipelago On Fire (1884); The Arctic: an anthology of the finest writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic (2007); The Begum’s Fortune (1879); The Castaways of the Flag (1900); The Castaways of the Flag (1900); The Castle of the Carpathians (1892); The Chase of the Golden Meteor (1908); The City in the Sahara (1905); The Demon of Cawnpore (2008); The Desert of Ice (1866); The English at the North Pole (1866); The Exploration of the World (1879); The Flight To France (1887); The Fur Country (1873); The Great Sea Adventure (2019); The Green Ray (1882); The Kip Brothers (1902); The Lighthouse at the End of the World (1905); The Lottery Ticket (1885); The Mighty Orinoco (1898); The Mysterious Island (1874); The Mysterious Island (1874); The Purchase of the North Pole: Topsy-Turvy (1889); The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz (1910); The Sphinx of the Ice / An Antarctic Mystery (1897); The Steam House (1880); The Survivors of the Chancellor (1875); The Survivors of the Jonathan (1897); The Tribulations of a Chinaman (1879); The Vanished Diamond: The Star of the South (1884); The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010); Their Island Home (1924); Tigers and Traitors (1976); Travel Scholarships (1903); Two Years’ Vacation (1888); Underground City (1877); Village in the Treetops (1901); Will Of An Eccentric (1899); Yesterday And Tomorrow (1910).

Movies and television:

1888: The Extraordinary Voyage of The Santa Isabel (2005); 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1905 / 1907 / 1916 / 1954 / 1972 / 1985 / 1991 / 1997 / 2004); 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea / Video Game (1995); 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2007); 5 Weeks in a Balloon (1977); 80 Days (2005 / 2014); 800 Leagues Over the Amazon (1959); A dunai hajós (1974); A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1977); À la conquête du pôle (1912); A Sequence from Round the World in 80 Days (1955); A Trip to the Moon (1902); Adventure at the Center of the Earth (2008); An Impossible Voyage (1904); Ancient Aliens (2010); Around the World in 80 Days (1919 / 1956 / 1988 / 1989 / 1990 / 1999 / 2004 / 2021); Around the World in Eighty Days (1972–1973); Around the World with Bolek and Lolek (1977); Around the World with Willy Fog (1983); Capt. Grant's Family (1936); Captain Nemo (1975 / 1976); Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969); Cesta kolem sveta za 80 dní (1964); Chroniques de France (1967); Cinci saptamîni în balon (1966); Crayola Kids Adventures: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997); Dante's Inferno (2025); Das U-Boot (2021); De la tierra a la luna (1969); De reis om de wereld in 80 dagen (1957); Der Meister der Welt (1927); Die Reise um die Erde (1964); Die Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen (1963); Dino Adventure Jurassic Tripper (1995); Donauschiffer (1940); Dos años de vacaciones (1962); Drama in the Air (1904); Dvacet tisic mil pod morem / TV Movie (1980); Eight Hundred Leagues Down the Amazon (1993); El Faro del Fin del Mundo (2025); Festival of Family Classics (1972); Fifteen Boys Adrift (1982); Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962); From the Earth to the Moon (1958 / 1979 / 2013); Ginga hyôryû Vifam: Kieta 12-nin (1985); Have Gun - Will Travel (1960); History's Mysteries (1999); I riassuntini (2018); Iki sene mektep tatili (1964); In Search of the Castaways (1914 / 1962); Inside the Earth (1910); Insula comorilor (1975); Invention for Destruction (1958); Invitation au voyage (2021–2022); Jam (2009); Jorden runt på 80 dagar (1975); Josie and the Pussycats (1970); Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012); Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 / 1967–1969 / 1993 / 1996 / 1997 / 1999 / 2003 / 2008 / 2004 / 2017); Jules Verne's Mysterious Island (2010); La chasse au météore (1966); La Destinée de Jean Morénas (1916); Le château des Carpathes (1976); Le docteur Ox (2004); Le fabuleux voyage de l'Oncle Ernest (1999); Le théâtre de la jeunesse (1963); Le théâtre de la jeunesse: Le secret de Wilhelm Storitz (1967); Le tour du monde en 80 jours (1955 / 1979 / 1980); Le Tour du monde en 80 jours (1975); Le triomphe de Michel Strogoff (1961); Le voyage dans la lune (1986); Les aventures extraordinaires de Michel Strogoff (2004); Les Indes noires (1917); Les Naufragés du Fol Espoir (2014); Les voyages extraordinaires de Jules Verne (2000–2001); L'île mystérieuse (1973); L'Île mystérieuse de l'Oncle Ernest (2000); Lolita from Interstellar Space (2014); L'orgue fantastique (1968); Los diablos del mar (1982); Los sobrinos del Capitán Grant (2012); Maître Zaccharius (1973); Manga sekai mukashi banashi (1978); Master of the World (1961 / 1976); Mathias Sandorf (1921 / 1955 / 1963 / 1979–1980); Michael Strogoff (1908 / 1910 / 1914 / 1956 / 1926 / 1936 / 1944 / 1975–1977 / 1997); Michele Strogoff - Il corriere dello zar (1999); Morfi, todos a la mesa (2017); Mysterious Island (1951 / 1961 / 1995 / 1996 / 2005); Mysterious Planet (1982); Mystery on Monster Island (1981); Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story I (1991); Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story II (1991); Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story III (1991); Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - The Motion Picture (1991); Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990–1991); Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water Specials (1991); Nautilus (2024); Nemo (1970); Novela (1966–1974); Off on a Comet (date?); On the Comet (1970); Pilgrim's Captain (1987); Piratii din Pacific (1975); Pyatnadtsatiletniy kapitan (1946); Robur, luftens erobrer (1967); 'Round the World in 80 Days (1914); Round Vernian Vifam (1983–1984); Round Vernian Vifam 13 (1998); Round Vernian Vifam: 13 Meet Again (1984); Round Vernian Vifam: A Letter from Katue (1984); Round Vernian Vifam: Memory of Ms. Kate (1985); Shao ye de mo nan (1987); Shirley Temple's Storybook (1961); Siesta Z (2017); Slomannaya podkova (1973); Strange Holiday (1970); Strogoff (1970); Tainstvennyy ostrov (1941); Tajomstvo alchymistu Storitza (1991); Tales of Adventure (1952); The Black Indies (1964); The Carpathian Castle (1981); The Children of Captain Grant (1997); The Czar's Courier (1936); The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003); The Light at the Edge of the World (1971); The Lost 15 Boys: The Big Adventure on Pirates' Island (2013); The Magical World of Disney (1976–1978); The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931); The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981); The Mysterious Island (1929 / 1975); The Mysterious Island of Captain Nemo (1973); The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1968); The Return of Captain Nemo (1978); The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (2000); The Secret of Steel City (1979); The Soldier and the Lady (1937); The Southern Star (1969); The Story of Fifteen Boys (1987); The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze (1963); The UnXplained (2020); Those Fantastic Flying Fools (1967); Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1973); Two Years' Vacation (1974); Ukradená vzducholod (1967); Un capitán de quince años (1973); Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez (2004); Up to His Ears (1965); Utazás a Holdba (1974); V poiskakh kapitana Granta (1986); Valley of the Dragons (1961); Verne World / Video Game (1995); Viaje fantástico en globo (1975); Where Time Began (1977); Willy Fog 2 (1993–1994); Willy Fog en 20.000 leguas de viaje submarino (1995); Willy Fog en viaje al centro de la Tierra (1995); Wishbone (1995); Zacharius (1984).

Born on this day – Lonnie Johnson:


Lonnie Johnson


Blues singer

Guitarist

Violinist

Songwriter

February 8, 1899 – June 16, 1970