Thursday, March 5, 2026

Born on this day – James B. Sikking:

 

James B. Sikking


Actor

March 5, 1934 – July 13, 2024

Credits:
12 O'Clock High (1966); 20 Years of Must See TV (2002); A Woman Called Moses (1978); Aaahh!!! Real Monsters (1997); Adam-12 (1968); An Evening at the Improv (1981); Around the World in 80 Days (1989); Assignment: Underwater (1961); Banyon (1972); Batman Beyond (1999–2000); Battle of the Network Stars XVII (1984); Bay Cove (1987); Bonanza (1967–1968); Brooklyn South (1997–1998); Brother on the Run (1973); Brotherhood of the Rose (1989); Cade's County (1971); Calling Doctor Storm, M. D. (1977); Cannon (1972–1974); Capricorn One (1977); CBS Summer Playhouse (1988); Chandler (1971); Charlie's Angels (1977–1979); Charro! (1969); Coffee, Tea or Me? (1973); Columbo (1974); Combat! (1963); Cop Rock (1990); Curb Your Enthusiasm (2004); Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969); Dare to Love (1995); Dead Badge (1995); Desperado: Badlands Justice (1989); Doing Time on Maple Drive (1992); Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989–1993); Dress Gray (1986); Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man (1996); Eight Is Enough (1977); Ellery Queen (1976); Encore with John Palmer (2006–2010); Entertainment Tonight Presents: Hill Street Blues - Behind the Badge (2000); Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971); Family Flight (1972); Fever Pitch (2005); Final Approach (1991); First Steps (1985); Five Guns West (1955); General Hospital (1963); Gidget Gets Married (1972); Gomer Pyle: USMC (1967); Hawaii Five-O (1978); Here Come the Brides (1969–1970); Hill Street Blues (1982–1987); Hogan's Heroes (1968–1970); Honey West (1965); Hunter (1989); Imps* / Segment: Lite Blood (1983); In Like Flint (1967); In Pursuit of Honor (1995); Inside O.U.T. (1971); Invasion America (1998); Ironside (1967); Jake Lassiter: Justice on the Bayou (1995); Johnny Staccato (1977); Just an American (2012); Kill Me If You Can (1977); L.A. Law (1986); Little House on the Prairie (1977); Longstreet (1971); Love, American Style / Segment: Love and the Intruder (1970); Lucan (1978); M*A*S*H (1973); Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1984); Made of Honor (2008); Man from Atlantis (1977); Man on a String (1972); Mannix (1970–1973); Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour (1984); Mission: Impossible (1970–1972); Mod Squad (1970–1973); Morons from Outer Space (1985); Mutiny (1999); My Favorite Martian (1965); My Mother the Car (1965–1966); Narrow Margin (1990); Narrow Margin: Featurette (1990); Never Con a Killer (1977); Night Gallery / Segments: Death in the Family; The Nature of the Enemy (1970–1971); Nowhere to Land (2000); O.K. Crackerby! (1965); Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss (1988); On Guard - Bunco! (1974); One on One with John Tesh (1992); Operation Petticoat (1978); Ordinary People (1980); Outland (1981); Outrage (1973); Paris (1979); Password Plus (1981); Perry Mason (1961); Point Blank (1967); Point Blank the Documentary (2024); Police Story (1977); Police Story: The Freeway Killings (1987); Rafferty (1977); Rawhide (1963); Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II (1976); Rocket Power (2000); Room 222 (1972–1973); Run for Your Life (1966–1967); Sail to Glory (1967); Scorpio (1973); Search (1973); Seduced by Evil (1994); Soul Man (1986); Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984); Starsky and Hutch (1978); Stay Tuned (1992); Submerged (2001); Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Golden Land (1988); The 10th Annual People's Choice Awards (1984); The 16th Annual People's Choice Awards (1990); The 24th Annual People's Choice Awards (1998); The 36th Primetime Emmy Awards (1984); The 50 Greatest Television Dramas (2007); The 8th Annual People's Choice Awards (1982); The 9th Annual People's Choice Awards (1983); The Alpha Caper (1973); The Astronaut (1972); The Barn Theatre: Tomorrow's Stars Today (2017); The Bionic Woman (1978); The Bob Newhart Show (1972); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1971); The Carpetbaggers (1964); The Closer (2012); The Competition (1980); The Doris Day Show (1970–1973); The Electric Horseman (1979); The F.B.I. (1965–1974); The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One (1974); The Feather and Father Gang (1976–1977); The Final Days (1989); The Fugitive (1964–1966); The Guardian (2001–2002); The History of Hill Street (2011); The Immortal (1971); The Incredible Hulk (1978); The Invaders (1967); The Jesse Owens Story (1984); The Last Hurrah (1977); The Loner (1965); The Long, Hot Summer (1965); The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972); The Making of 'Up the Creek' (1984); The Marsha Warfield Show (1990); The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (1979); The Name of the Game (1971); The New Centurions (1972); The Night God Screamed (1971); The Outer Limits (1963–1964); The Pelican Brief (1993); The President's Plane Is Missing (1973); The Ring (1996); The Rockford Files (1977–1978); The Rookies (1972–1973); The Six Million Dollar Man: The Solid Gold Kidnapping (1973); The Star Chamber (1983); The Strangler (1964); The Streets of San Francisco (1973); The Survivors (1969); The Terminal Man (1974); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1983); The Virginian (1965); The Young Lawyers (1970); Too Good to Be True (1988); Trouble in High Timber Country (1980); Turnabout (1979); Tyson (1995); Up the Creek (1984); Vicki! (1992); Von Ryan's Express (1965); Whisper of the Heart (1995); Who's the Boss? (1987); Wild About Harry (2009); World War II: Breadlines to Boomtimes (1994); Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy (1977).

Born on this day – Dean Stockwell:

 

Dean Stockwell


Actor

March 5, 1936 – November 7, 2021

Credits:
The Timekeepers of Eternity (2021); Entertainment (2015); NCIS: New Orleans (2014); Rusty Steel (2014); Persecuted (2014); Deep in the Darkness (2014); Enlisted (2014); Max Rose (2013); C.O.G. (2013); Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009); Battlestar Galactica (2006–2009); Crash (2008); The Nanny Express (2008); The Dunwich Horror (2008); Al's Beef (2008); The Deal (2007); Gnarls Barkley: Smiley Faces, Version 2 (2006); American Black Beauty (2005); JAG (2002–2004); The Manchurian Candidate (2004); Stargate SG-1 (2002); Star Trek: Enterprise (2002); First Monday (2002); Inferno (2002); Buffalo Soldiers (2001); The Quickie (2001); CQ (2001); Italian Ties (2001); Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000); In Pursuit (2000); They Nest (2000); The Flunky (2000); Cold Feet (1999); What Katy Did (1999); Rites of Passage (1999); The Drew Carey Show (1999); The Venice Project (1999); Water Damage (1999); Restraining Order (1999); It's True! (1998); The Tony Danza Show (1997–1998); Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights (1998); Popular Science (1997); The Rainmaker (1997); The Shadow Men (1997); Air Force One (1997); Ink (1997); Midnight Blue (1997); McHale's Navy (1997); Living in Peril (1997); Close to Danger (1997); Unabomber: The True Story (1996); Last Resort (1996); Twilight Man (1996); Naked Souls (1996); Can't Hurry Love (1996); Mr. Wrong (1996); The Commish (1995); Nowhere Man (1995); Snowy River: The McGregor Saga (1995); Street Gear (1995); Chicago Hope (1995); The Langoliers (1995); Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan (1995); Madonna: Innocence Lost (1994); The Innocent (1994); Justice in a Small Town (1994); Vanishing Son II (1994); Chasers (1994); Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1994); Burke's Law (1994); In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance (1994); Bonanza: The Return (1993); Caught in the Act (1993); Quantum Leap (1989–1993); Fatal Memories (1992); Friends and Enemies (1992); Shame (1992); The Player (1992); Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990–1992); Son of the Morning Star (1991); Sandino (1990); Catchfire (1990); Limit Up (1989); The Twilight Zone (1989); The Long Haul (1989); Buying Time (1988); Smokescreen (1988); Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988); Married to the Mob (1988); Murder, She Wrote (1988); The Blue Iguana (1988); The Time Guardian (1987); Kenny Rogers as The Gambler, Part III: The Legend Continues (1987); Banzai Runner (1987); Beverly Hills Cop II (1987); Gardens of Stone (1987); Hunter (1987); Blue Velvet (1986); Miami Vice (1985); Papa Was a Preacher (1985); Once Bitten (1985); To Live and Die in L.A. (1985); The Legend of Billie Jean (1985); To Kill a Stranger (1984); Dune (1984); Fox Mystery Theater (1984); Paris, Texas (1984); Simon & Simon (1983); The A-Team (1983); Citizen Soldier (1982); Hart to Hart (1982); Alsino and the Condor (1982); Human Highway (1982); Wrong Is Right (1982); Born to Be Sold (1981); She Came to the Valley (1979); Greatest Heroes of the Bible (1978); A Killing Affair (1977); Tales of the Unexpected (1977); McCloud (1976); Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976); Tracks (1976); Police Story (1973–1976); One Away (1976); Ellery Queen (1975); Cannon (1975); Three for the Road (1975); Joe Forrester (1975); Cop on the Beat (1975); Columbo (1972–1975); The Streets of San Francisco (1973–1975); Win, Place or Steal (1974); The Pacific Connection (1974); Police Surgeon (1974); Eye of Streaming (1973); The Werewolf of Washington (1973); Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (1973); Night Gallery (1973); Mission: Impossible (1973); The F.B.I. (1968–1972); The Loners (1972); Adventures of Nick Carter (1972); The Failing of Raymond (1971); Paper Man (1971); Mannix (1971); The Last Movie (1971); Egg of Nite – Epilogue (1970); The Dunwich Horror (1970); Game of the Week (1969); Bonanza (1969); The Ping-Pong Match (1968); Thirty-Minute Theatre (1968); Psych-Out (1968); The Danny Thomas Hour (1968); Aleph (1966); Dr. Kildare (1965); Rapture (1965); Burke's Law (1964); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); The Eleventh Hour (1964); Pas de Trois (1964); Moonstone (1963); The Defenders (1963); The Greatest Show on Earth (1963); Combat! (1963); The Dick Powell Theatre (1961–1962); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962); Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962); Alcoa Premiere (1962); The Twilight Zone (1961); Bus Stop (1961); The Joke and the Valley (1961); Wagon Train (1957–1961); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1961); Outlaws (1961); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); Checkmate (1960); Sons and Lovers (1960); Buick-Electra Playhouse (1959); Johnny Staccato (1959); Compulsion (1959); Playhouse 90 (1959); General Electric Theater (1958–1959); For Crazy Horse (1958); Cimarron City (1958); Men of Annapolis (1957); The Careless Years (1957); Climax! (1957); Kraft Theatre (1957); Gun for a Coward (1956); Schlitz Playhouse (1956); Matinee Theatre (1956); Front Row Center (1956); Cattle Drive (1951); Kim (1950); The Happy Years (1950); Stars in My Crown (1950); The Secret Garden (1949); Down to the Sea in Ships (1949); The Boy with Green Hair (1948); Deep Waters (1948); Gentleman's Agreement (1947); Song of the Thin Man (1947); The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947); The Arnelo Affair (1947); A Really Important Person (1947); The Mighty McGurk (1947); Home, Sweet Homicide (1946); The Green Years (1946); Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945); Anchors Aweigh (1945); The Valley of Decision (1945).

Born on this day – Samantha Eggar:


Samantha Eggar


Actress

March 5, 1939 – October 15, 2025

Credits:
007: Nightfire (2002); 1st & Ten (1988); A Case for Murder (1993); A Ghost in Monte Carlo (1990); A Name for Evil (1973); ABC Weekend Specials (1994); About Napoli (2009); AFI Life Achievement Award (1976); Age of the Psychics (2006); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1987); All My Children (2000); All the Kind Strangers (1974); Aloha Paradise (1981); American Masters (1986–2004); Anna and the King (1972); Baretta (1976); BBC Sunday-Night Play (1962); Birth Pains (2015); Burke's Law (1995); Cinema mil (2005); Cold Case (2004); Columbo (1977); Come to Silence with Samatha Eggar (2019); Commander in Chief (2005–2006); Confessions of a Horror Baby (2011); Corwin (1996); Curtains (1983); Dark Horse (1992); Darkroom (1982); Daytime's Greatest Weddings (2004); De película (1988); Demonoid (1981); Doctor Dolittle (1967); Doctor in Distress (1963); Dors: The Other Diana (1990); Double Indemnity (1973); Dr. Crippen (1963); Everything to Gain (1996); Falcon Crest (1981); Family (1977); Fantasy Island (1978–1979); Finder of Lost Loves (1985); For the Term of His Natural Life (1983); Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned (1999); George Burns Half-Hour Comedy Hour (1985); Ghost Squad (1963); Hagen (1980); Hart to Hart (1983); Hawaii Five-O (1978); Heartbeat (1989); Hercules (1997–1999); Hotel (1985); Inevitable Grace (1994); ITV Play of the Week (1963); ITV Television Playhouse (1963); James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing (2003); L.A. Law (1993); Loss of Faith (1998); Love Among Thieves (1987); Love Story (1973); Lucas Tanner (1975); Mag magazine (1988); Magnum, P.I. (1984); Mann & Machine (1992); Matlock (1990); Mental (2009); Metalocalypse (2012); Muchachada nui / Segment: Mundo viejuno: Pasa tiempo con tus hijos (2010); Murder, She Wrote (1984); New Release (1965); Nothing But Death (2018); Outlaws (1987); P.J. Sparkles (1992); Pop Culture Beast's Halloween Horror Picks (2015); Psyche 59 (1964); Ragin' Cajun (1990); Rendezvous (1961); Return from the Ashes (1965); Rob Roy (1961); Round Numbers (1992); She Spies (2003); Siegfried & Roy: Masters of the Impossible (1996); Star Trek: The Next Generation (1990); Starsky and Hutch (1977); Stingray (1987); Tales of the Unexpected (1985); Tax Shelter Terrors (2017); The 100 Greatest Family Films (2005); The 23rd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1966); The 24th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1967); The 38th Annual Academy Awards (1966); The 5th Annual American Cinema Awards (1988); The American Nightmare (2000); The Astronaut's Wife (1999); The Biggest Battle (1978); The Brood (1979); The Collector (1965); The Dead Are Alive (1972); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Exterminator (1980); The Hemingway Play (1976); The Hot Touch (1981); The Joey Bishop Show (1967); The Killer Who Wouldn't Die (1976); The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (1970); The Legend of Prince Valiant (1991–1993); The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond (1975); The Light at the Edge of the World (1971); The Look of Stardom (2018); The Love Boat (1979–1981); The Magic Voyage (1992); The Magical World of Disney (1988); The Man of Destiny (1973); The Merv Griffin Show (1968–1973); The Molly Maguires (1970); The Nine Lives of Chloe King (2011); The Phantom (1996); The Princess and the Pea (1961); The Saint (1963); The Secrets of Lake Success (1993); The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976); The Time of Your Life (1985); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1966–1967); The Uncanny / Segment: Hollywood 1936 (1977); The Walking Stick (1970); This Is Joan Collins (2022); This Is Your Life (1983); Unknown Powers (1978); Valentines. A Bouquet of Letters and Poetry of Lovers (1994); Vicki! (1993); Walk Don't Run (1966); Welcome to Blood City (1977); Whicker's World (1980); Why Shoot the Teacher (1977); Young and Willing (1962); Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women (1978).

On this day in the Star Trek universe - Picard

Star Trek: Picard (2020)
 

Star Trek: Picard
Season 1. Episode 7.

Episode entitled: Nepenthe.

Released March 5, 2020.

Directed by Doug Aarniokoski.

Created by Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Kirsten Beyer, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Samantha Humphrey, Michael Chabon and Nick Zayas.

Based on Star Trek: The Next Generation, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jeri Ryan, Alison Pill, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Evan Evagora, Isa Briones, Evan Evagora, Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, Jonathan Del Arco, Peyton List, Tamlyn Tomita, Lulu Wilson, Derek Webster, Kay Bess, Guy Fernandez Jr., Harry Treadaway.

On this day in television history - Justified (2013)

Justified
Season 4. Episode 9.

Episode entitled: The Hatchet Tour.

Released March 5, 2013.

Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter.

Written by Graham Yost, Taylor Elmore, Leonard Chang, Ingrid Escajeda, VJ Boyd, 

Leonard Chang.

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, Jim Beaver, Jere Burns, Ron Eldard, Sam Anderson, Ned Bellamy, Mel Fair, Brian Howe, David Meunier, Lindsay Pulsipher, Brent Sexton, Patton Oswalt, Jonathan Kowalsky, Ryan McCann, Cathy Baron, Kathleen M. Darcy, Mino Mackic.

On this day in music history - Dúlamán by Clannad and Chakra Sound Meditation by Tryshe Dhevney

Dúlamán by Clannad (1976)

Chakra Sound Meditation by Tryshe Dhevney (2008)


Dúlamán

Album by Clannad,

released March 5, 1976.

Track list: Dulaman; Cumha Eoghain Rua Ui Neill; Two Sisters; Eirigh Suas a Stoirin; The Galtee Hunt; Eirigh Is Cuir Ort Do Chuid Eadaigh Coiriu; Siuil a Run; Mo Mhaire; Dtigeas a Damhsa; Cucanandy/The Jug of Brown Ale.

 

Chakra Sound Meditation

Album by Tryshe Dhevney,

released March 5, 2008.

Track list: Introduction to the Chakra Sound Meditation; Chakra Sound Meditation Instructions; Chakra One – I have; Chakra Two – I Feel; Chakra Three – I Act; Chakra Four – I Love; Chakra Five – I Speak, I Am Heard; Chakra Six – I See; Chakra Seven – I Know – Harmonic Blessing With Crystal Singing Bowls.

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Christina Baldwin, on writing:


Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.
- Christina Baldwin.