Born on this day – Mara Corday:

 

Mara Corday

Actress

January 3, 1930 – February 9, 2025

Credits:

A Day of Fury (1956); Adventures in Paradise (1960); Allen in Movieland (1955); Cabana 54 (1961); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2009); Combat Sergeant (1956); Coming Soon (1982); Craig Kennedy, Criminologist (1952–1953); Dawn at Socorro (1954); Drums Across the River (1954); Foxfire (1955); Francis Joins the WACS (1954); Girls on the Loose (1958); Here's Hollywood (1962); Hollywood Exclusive (1954); I'll Bet (1965); It Takes Two (1969); Joe Forrester (1976); Laramie (1960); Man Without a Star (1955); Matinee Theatre (1955); Money from Home (1953); Mr. & Mrs. North (1953); Naked Gun (1956); Peter Gunn (1959); Pink Cadillac (1989); Playgirl (1954); Problem Girls (1953); Raw Edge (1956); Sea Tiger (1952); So This Is Paris (1954); Son of Ali Baba (1952); Sudden Impact (1983); Surfside 6 (1961); Sweethearts on Parade (1953); Tales of Wells Fargo (1957); Tarantula (1955); Tarzan and the She-Devil (1953); The Adventures of Kit Carson (1951–1953); The Black Scorpion (1957); The Bob Hope Show (1955); The Colgate Comedy Hour (1954); The Gauntlet (1977); The George Gobel Show (1955); The Giant Claw (1957); The Lady Wants Mink (1953); The Man from Bitter Ridge (1955); The Man from Blackhawk (1959); The Quiet Gun (1957); The Restless Gun (1959); The Rookie (1990); Toughest Man in Arizona (1952); Two Tickets to Broadway (1951); Undersea Girl (1957); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1960); Yankee Pasha (1954).

Born on this day – Dabney Coleman:

Dabney Coleman

Actor

January 3, 1932 – May 17, 2024

Credits:

12 O'Clock High (1964–1966); 60 Minutes (1986); 9 to 5 (1980); A Better Man: The Making of Tootsie (2008); A Current Affair (2011); A Witch's Way of Love (1997); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies (2000); Alcoa Premiere (1963); Aly & AJ: Star Maps (2019); American Masters (2016); Amos & Andrew (1993); Apple Pie (1978); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1962); Arrest and Trial (1963); Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975); Baby M (1988); Bad Ronald (1974); Banyon (1972); Barnaby Jones (1973–1979); Ben Casey (1963); Bert D'Angelo / Superstar (1976); Biography (2001 / 2006); Bite the Bullet (1975); Black Fist (1975); Boardwalk Empire (2010–2011); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964–1965); Bonanza (1968–1969); Bravo Profiles (1999); Breaking Point (1963); Bright Promise (1969–1972); Brilliant But Cancelled (2002); Buffalo Bill (1983–1984); Callie & Son (1981); Cannon (1973–1976); Caribe (1975); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2019); Celebrating Laughter: The Life and Films of Colin Higgins (2022); Char·ac·ter (2009); Cinderella Liberty (1973); Clifford (1994); Cloak & Dagger (1984); CMT Greatest Moments: Dolly Parton (2006); CMT Insider (2008); Columbo (1973–1991); Courting Alex (2006); Dan August (1970); Dan August: The Jealousy Factor (1980); Dateline NBC (1994); Death Valley Days (1968); Devil's Food (1996); Diff'rent Strokes (1979); Directed by (1994); Dolly (1988); Dolly Parton Tour TV (2011); Dolly Parton: Here I Am (2019); Dolly Parton: Platinum Blonde (2003); Domino (2005); Downhill Racer (1969); Dr. Kildare (1964); Dragnet (1987); Drexell's Class (1991–1992); Dundee and the Culhane (1967); Dying Room Only (1973); E! True Hollywood Story (2001); Egan (1973); Exiled (1998); Feminists: What Were They Thinking? (2018); Fernwood Tonight (1977); For The People (2019); Forever Fernwood (1977–1978); Freedom: A History of US (2003); Fresno (1986); Getting There Is the Hard Part (2010); Giving It Up (1999); Go Tell the Spartans (1978); Good Morning America (2010); Gotham (1988); Griff (1973); Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story (1987); Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (2000); Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (1987); Hard Four (2007); Hazel (1965); Heartland (2007); Home & Family (2016); Hot to Trot (1988); House of Evil (1974); How to Beat the High Cost of Living (1980); How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale (2000); I Dream of Jeannie (1965–1967); I Love My Wife (1970); Idols of the Game (1995); Inspector Gadget (1999); Iron Horse (1967); Ironside (1973); It's Garry Shandling's Show (1989–1990); Judd for the Defense (1968); Judicial Consent (1995); Jumanji (1997); Kidnapped: In the Line of Duty (1995); Kiss Me, Kill Me (1976); Kiss My Act (2001); Kojak (1974); Kraft Mystery Theater (1963); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1991); Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2009); Lincoln (1992); Love Is Not Forever (1974); Madman of the People (1994–1995); Maneaters Are Loose! (1978); Mannix (1972–1975); Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976–1977); Maybe Baby (1988); McMillan & Wife (1974–1975); Medical Center (1975); Medical Story (1976); Meet the Applegates (1990); Melvin and Howard (1980); Midway (1976); Mod Squad (1968); Modern Problems (1981); Moonlight Mile (2002); More Than Friends (1978); Murrow (1986); Must Be Santa (1999); Naked City (1961); Nanny and the Professor (1970); NCIS (2019); Never Forget (1991); Night of 100 Stars II (1985); Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (2016); North Dallas Forty (1979); Not Such a Bad Guy: Conversations with Dabney Coleman (2017); Nothing Personal (1980); On Golden Pond (1981); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1972); Petrocelli (1976); Plaza Suite (1987); Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1966); Police Story (1976); Pound Puppies (2010–2011); Pray TV (1980); Quincy Coleman: It's All in the Song (2008); Quincy M.E. (1977); Ray Donovan (2016); Recess (1997–1999); Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street (2001); Recess: All Growed Down (2003); Recess: School's Out (2001); Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade (2003); Returning Home (1975); Rolling Thunder (1977); Room 222 (1970–1973); Rules Don't Apply (2016); Run for Your Life (1967); Saturday Night Live (1987); Savage (1973); Search (1973); Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen (1996); Short Time (1990); Sidekicks (1966); Sons and Daughters (1974); Still Working 9 to 5 (2022); Stuart Little (1999); Super Bloopers and Practical Jokes (1984); Switch (1976); Sworn to Silence (1987); Taken (1999); Target Earth (1998); Tattletales (1977); That Girl (1966–1967); The 18th Annual Satellite Awards (2014); The 22nd Annual Satellite Awards (2018); The 35th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1983); The 39th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1987); The 40th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1988); The 41st Annual Golden Globe Awards (1984); The 45th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1988); The 4th Annual Family Television Awards (2002); The 7th Annual People's Choice Awards (1981); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963–1964); The Art of Noise: Dragnet (1987); The Beverly Hillbillies (1993); The Big Interview with Dan Rather (2014); The Bob Braun Show (1984); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1972); The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970); The Case of the Baltimore Girls (1978); The Climb (2002); The Donna Reed Show (1965); The Dove (1974); The Early Show (2006); The F.B.I. (1965–1974); The Flying Nun (1967); The Fugitive (1964–1966); The Guardian (2001–2004); The Invaders (1967); The Love Boat (1978); The Magic School Bus (1997); The Making of 'Midway' (2001); The Man with One Red Shoe (1985); The Manhunter (1974); The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1976); The Movie Maker (1964); The Movies (2019); The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson (1990); The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984); The Other Side of the Mountain (1975); The Other Side of the Mountain: Part II (1978); The Outer Limits (1964); The Perfect Pitch (2002); The President's Plane Is Missing (1973); The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1986); The Scalphunters (1968); The Slap Maxwell Story (1987–1988); The Slender Thread (1965); The Streets of San Francisco (1974–1976); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1984–1991); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1994); The Towering Inferno (1974); The Trouble with Girls (1969); The Wide World of Mystery (1973); The Wonderful World of Disney (1998); The Zeta Project (2002); Then Came Bronson (1969); There Goes the Neighborhood (1992); This Property Is Condemned (1966); Tootsie (1982); Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (2000); Viva Knievel! (1977); WarGames (1983); When She Was Bad... (1979); Where the Heart Is (1990); Where the Red Fern Grows (2003); Yellowstone (2019); Young Doctors in Love (1982); You've Got Mail (1998).

Born on this day – Yolanda Montes, a.k.a. Tongolele:

 

Yolanda Montes

a.k.a. Tongolele

Actress

Dancer

Vedette

January 3, 1932 – February 16, 2025

Credits:

70 Aniversario de la Televisión Dominicana (2022); Ahí vienen los gorrones (1953); Amor a ritmo de go go (1966); Amor de locura (1953); Chucho el remendado (1952); Con todo (2004); Conversando con Cristina Pacheco (1997); De fin de siglo (1998); Detective (1954); El amor no es ciego (1950); El crepúsculo de un dios (1969); El fantástico mundo de Juan Orol (2012); El mensaje de la muerte (1953); El misterio del carro express (1953); Había una vez un marido (1953); Han matado a Tongolele (1948); Isle of the Snake People (1971); La muerte es puntual (1967); La mujer del otro (1948); La pasión de Isabela (1984); Las fabulosas del Reventón (1982); Las fabulosas del Reventón 2 (1983); Las noches del Blanquita (1981); Los que hicieron nuestro cine (1983–1985); Mátenme porque me muero (1951); Memoria del cine mexicano (1993); Música de siempre (1958); Ni muy, muy... ni tan, tan... simplemente Tin Tan (2005); Nocturno de amor (1948); Pensión de artistas (1956); Salomé (2001–2002); Sí, mi vida (1953); Teatro Follies (1983); The King of the Neighborhood (1950); The Panther Women (1967); Tin Tan (2010); Universo proibito (1965).

Born on this day – Tom Bower:

Tom Bower

Actor

Producer

January 3, 1938 – May 30, 2024

Born on this day – Alex Wheatle:

Alex Wheatle

Writer

January 3, 1963 – March 16, 2025

Credits:

Books:

A Crongton Christmas Party (2025); Brenton Brown (2011); Brixton Rock (1999); Cane Warriors (2020); Checkers (2003); Crongton Knights (2016); East of Acre Lane (2001); Home Boys (2018); Home Girl (2019); In the Ends (2023); Island Songs (2005); Kemosha of the Caribbean (2022); Kerb-Stain Boys (2018); Liccle Bit (2015); Straight Outta Crongton (2017); Sufferah (2023); The Dirty South (2008); The Girl with the Red Boots (2025); The Humiliations of Welton Blake (2021); The Seven Sisters (2002); Uprising (2017); Witness (2022).

 

Movies and television:

BBC London News (2021); Channel 4 News (2023); Crongton (2025); Danny Dyer's Deadliest Men (2008); Liccle Bit (2019); Sky News at 10 (2021); Sky News at 9 (2020); Sky News with Sarah Hewson (2021); Small Axe (2020); Uprising (2021).

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

M Squad

Season 1. Episode 15.

Episode entitled: The Slow Trap.

Released January 3, 1958.

Directed by Earl Bellamy.

Written by Jack Laird and Wilton Schiller.

Music by Stanley Wilson.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Lyle Talbot, Jacqueline Holt, Robert Roark, George Milan, Jean Willes, George E. Stone, Claire Carleton, Michael Masters.

On this day in the Star Trek universe - Star Trek (1969)

Star Trek
Season 3. Episode 14.

Episode entitled: Whom Gods Destroy.

Released January 3, 1969.

Directed by Herb Wallerstein.

Written by Lee Erwin, Jerry Sohl, Arthur H. Singer.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage.

Cast:

William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Majel Barrett, Steve Ihnat, Yvonne Craig, Dick Geary, Gary Downey, Keye Luke, Bill Blackburn, Frank da Vinci, Lars Hensen, Roger Holloway, Jeannie Malone.