Saturday, March 7, 2026

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

M Squad
Season 1. Episode 24.

Episode entitled: The Man in Hiding.

Released March 7, 1958.

Directed by Don Taylor.

Written by Harry W. Junkin.

Music by Stanley Wilson.

 
Cast:
Lee Marvin, Alan Baxter, John Hoyt, Paul Newlan, Edwin Reimers, June Vincent, Ralph Neff, Willard Thompson.

On this day in the Star Trek universe - Star Trek, Voyager, Discovery

Star Trek (1969)

Star Trek: Voyager (2001)

Star Trek: Discovery (2019)

Star Trek
Season 3. Episode 22.

Episode entitled: The Savage Curtain.

Released March 7, 1969.

Directed by Herschel Daugherty.

Written by Gene Roddenberry, Arthur Heinemann, 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, Lee Bergere, Barry Atwater, Phillip Pine, Arell Blanton, Carol Daniels, Bob Herron, Nathan Jung, Bill Blackburn, Roger Holloway, Bart La Rue, Janos Prohaska.

 

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 7. Episode 17.

Episode entitled: Human Error.

Released March 7, 2001.

Directed by Allan Kroeker.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Brannon Braga, André Bormanis, Kenneth Biller, Michael Taylor, Robert Doherty, Phyllis Strong, Michael/Mike Sussman.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Manu Intiraymi, Majel Barrett, Louis Ortiz, Pablo Soriano.

 

Star Trek: Discovery
Season 2. Episode 8.

Episode entitled: If Memory Serves.

Released March 7, 2019.

Directed by T.J. Scott.

Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Dan Dworkin, Jay Beattie, Kirsten Beyer, Sean Cochran.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, Wilson Cruz, Shazad Latif, Anson Mount, Michelle Yeoh, Melissa George, Ethan Peck, Alan Van Sprang, Rachael Ancheril, Dee Pelletier, Rob Brownstein, Alisen Richmond-Peck/Alisen Down, Hannah Cheesman, Emily Coutts, Patrick Kwok-Choon, Oyin Oladejo, Ronnie Rowe, Julianne Grossman, Arista Arhin, Riley Gilchrist, Liam Hughes, Harry Judge, Jon De Leon, Sara Mitich, Tara Nicodemo, Avaah Blackwell, Nicole Dickinson.

On this day in music history - Heavy on My Heart, by Anastacia (2005)


Heavy on My Heart


by Anastacia

was released on March 7, 2005.


Friday, March 6, 2026

Marianne Wiggins, on writing:

 

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence.
I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.
- Marianne Wiggins.

Born on this day – Ring Lardner:

 

Ring Lardner


Writer

March 6, 1885 – September 27, 1933
Credits:
 
Bib Ballads (1915); The Golden Honeymoon And Haircut (1926); First and Last (1934); Gullible's Travels, Etc (1917); How to Write Short Stories – With Samples (1924); June Moon (1929); Letters from Ring (1979); Letters of Ring Lardner (1995); My Four Weeks in France (1918); Own Your Own Home (1919); Regular Fellows I Have Met (1919); Ring Around Max: The Correspondence of Ring Lardner and Max Perkins (1973); Ring Around the Bases: The Complete Baseball Stories of Ring Lardner (1992); Ring Lardner's You Know Me Al: The Comic Strip Adventures of Jack Keefe (1979); Round Up: The Stories of Ring W. Lardner (1929); Say It With Oil / Say It With Bricks: A Few Remarks about Wives (1923); Selected Stories (1997); Shut Up, He Explained (1962); Stop Me – If You’ve Heard This One (1929); Symptoms of Being 35 (1921); The Annotated Baseball Stories of Ring W. Lardner (1914-1919); The Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner (1957 / 1959); The Big Town: How I and the Mrs. Go to New York to See Life and Get Katie a Husband (1921); The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner (2017); The Love Nest: And Other Stories. Charles Scribner's Sons (1926); The Real Dope (1919); The Story of a Wonder Man: Being the Autobiography of Ring Lardner (1927); The Young Immigrunts (1920); Treat 'em Rough: Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer (1918); What of It? (1925); You Know Me Al – A Busher’s Letters (1916); Zanzibar: A Comic Opera in Two Acts (1903).
 
Movies and television:
 
A Day with Conrad Green (1980); Actor's Studio (1949); Al You Know Me (1915); Alibi Ike (1935); An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon (1972); And She Smiled (1996); Blonde Trouble (1937); Champion (1949); Climax! (1955); Elmer, the Great (1933); Fast Company (1929); Fore! (1922); Glorifying the American Girl (1929); Go and Get It (1920); Great Performances (1974); June Moon (1931); June Moon (1931); Kraft Theatre (1948); Letters from Bugs to Gus, No. 10 (1915); Letters from Bugs to Gus, No. 11 (1915); Letters from Bugs to Gus, No. 12 (1915); Letters from Bugs to Gus, No. 2 (1915); Letters from Bugs to Gus, No. 3 (1915); Letters from Bugs to Gus, No. 4 (1915); Letters from Bugs to Gus, No. 5 (1915); Letters from Bugs to Gus, No. 6 (1915); Letters from Bugs to Gus, No. 7 (1915); Letters from Bugs to Gus, No. 8 (1915); Letters from Bugs to Gus, No. 9 (1915); Mr. Carlis und seine abenteuerlichen Geschichten (1977); Oh, Baby! (1926); Ring Lardner's Harmony (2014); Ring Lardner's Horseshoes (2014); Ring Lardner's My Roomy (2014); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950); So This Is New York (1948); Star Tonight (1955); Studio One (1948); The Busher (1923); The Cowboy Quarterback (1939); The Fight (1930); The Golden Honeymoon (1980); The New Klondike (1926); Who Dealt? (1993).

Born on this day – Lidia Quaranta:


Lidia Quaranta


Actress

March 6, 1891 – March 5, 1928

Credits:
A drama among the beasts (1915); A Living Tomb (1912); A woman passed by (1922); Among roars of beasts (1913); An athlete's novel (1915); Auspicious Venus (1919); Baron Lagarde (1910); Buridano's donkey (1917); Cabiria (1914); Cheerful husbands (1914); Clio and Phyletes (1911); Diamonds and documents (1915); Fatal resemblance (1916); Flame in the flames (1917); Flame! (1920); Goodbye youth! (1913); I segreti dell'anima (1912); I want to cheat on my husband (1925); In the hands of destiny (1916); In the vortex of sin (1916); Iwna, the pearl of the Ganges (1914); Like a sister (1912); Margot (1914); Maria Bricca (1910); Mockery of Satan (1915); Mother's pity (1911); On the field of honor (1915); Pauline (1915); Pleasure train (1924); Severed from the World (1911); The avenging tiger (1918); The best revenge (1912); The Dagger Dance (1919); The dance of the veil (1918); The dangers of disguises (1914); The Dread of Doom (1913); The factory of the unexpected (1920); The Knights of Death (1910); The left jewel (1917); The Lost Daughter (1912); The Mad Mask (1915); The Man-Parrot (1917); The memories of the devil (1915); The Mysteries of Souls (1912); The Palace of Flames (1912); The Prince Adventurer (1916); The Race to Death (1917); The Romance of Death (1916); The smiles of a sunset (1913); The Solemn Hour (1912); The sweetest crown (1917); The Three Sentimentals (1921); The torn veil (1917); The treasure chest of millions (1914); The two orphans of Turin (1917); The unknown (1910); The Vampire (1914); The Vortex of Fate (1913); Tigris (1913); To like you more (1923); Treasure of the Louzate (1914); Unmasked (1913); When the hero returned (1918).

Born on this day – Furry Lewis:


Furry Lewis


Blues singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

March 6, 1895 – September 14, 1981

Credits:

Albums:

ABC Of The Blues Vol 26 (2010); All Kinds of Blues (2024); Back On My Feet Again (1961); Blues Magician (1999); Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order: 1927–1929 (1990); Done Changed My Mind (1961); Essential Blues Masters (2010); Fourth and Beale (1992); Furry Lewis (1960); Furry Lewis 1927–1929 (2005); Furry Lewis 1927-28 (2007); Furry's Blues Live (2017); Good Morning Judge (2003); In His Prime 1927-1928 (1975); Kassie Jones (2008); Live At The Gaslight At The Au Go Go (2023); Masters Of Memphis Blues / CD A (2006); Memphis (2024); Memphis Blues Masters One (2013); Mistreatin Mama (2016); Mr Furry's Blues (2015); On the Road Again (1969); Party! At Home (2001); Presenting Furry Lewis (1927); Presenting the Country Blues (1969); Shake 'em on Down (1972); Take Your Time (2000); The Blues Collection 61: Beale Street Blues (1995); The Bluesville Years, Vol. 3: Beale Street Get-Down (1995); The Classic Years (2021); The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions (2007); The Legend of Furry Lewis (2022); Worried Blues (2017).

Songs:

Baby You Don’t Want Me; Big Chief Blues; Billy Lyons and Stack O'lee; Black Gypsy Blues; Blues Around My Bed; Cannon Ball Blues; Creeper's Blues; Don't You Wish Your Mama; Dry Land Blues; Early Recording Career; Falling Down Blues; Farewell I'm Growing Old; Furry Lewis Rag; Furry's Blues; Going To Brownsville; Good Morning Judge; I Will Turn Your Money Green; John Henry, Part 1; Judge Boushay Blues; Judge Harsh Blues; Kassie Jones; Kassie Jones, Parts 1 & 2; Lay My Burden Down; Mistreatin' Mama; Old Blue; Old Hobo; Roll and Tumble Blues; Shake ’em On Down; The Medicine Shows; White Lightnin’; Why Don't You Come Home Blues; Worried Blues.

Movies and television:

All You Need Is Love (1977); Blues America (2013); En remontant le Mississippi (1973); Good Mornin' Blues (1978); Greenleaf (2020); Killer Diller (2004); Leon Russell - Homewood Session (1970); Masters of Country Blues: John Lee Hooker & Furry Lewis (1995); Memphis '69 (2019); Mississippi Grind (2015); Stranded in Canton (2005); The Blues (1962 / 2003); The Blues Under the Skin (1973); The Soul of a Man (2003); This Is Elvis (1981); W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975).