On this day in movie history - The Captive City (1952)

The Captive City

directed by Robert Wise,

written by Karl Kamb and Alvin M. Josephy,

based on a story by Alvin M. Josephy,

was released in the United States on April 11, 1952.

Music by Jerome Moross.

Cast:

John Forsythe, Joan Camden, Harold J. Kennedy, Marjorie Crossland, Victor Sutherland, Ray Teal, Martin Milner, Geraldine Hall, Hal K. Dawson, Ian Wolfe, Gladys Hurlbut, Jess Kirkpatrick, Paul Newlan, Frances Morris, Paul Brinegar, Patricia Goldwater, Robert Gorell, Glenn Judd, William C. Miller, Estes Kefauver, Charles Regan, Victor Romito, Charles Wagenheim.

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

M Squad
Season 1. Episode 29.

Episode entitled: The Twenty-Six Girl.

Released April 11, 1958.

Directed by Don Taylor.

Written by Jack Laird and Wilton Schiller.

Music by Stanley Wilson.

 
Cast:

Lee Marvin, Diane Brewster, Simon Scott, Paul Newlan, Ellen Parker, Ward Wood, Betty Edwards.

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

Star Trek: Voyager (2001)
Star Trek: Discovery (2019 & 2024)
 

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 7. Episode 18.

Episode entitled: Q2.

Released April 11, 2001.

Directed by LeVar Burton.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Robert Doherty, Kenneth Biller, Michael Taylor, Phyllis Strong, 

Michael/Mike Sussman.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Paul Baillargeon.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Keegan de Lancie, Manu Intiraymi, Michael Kagan, Lorna Raver, John de Lancie, Anthony Holiday, Scott Davidson, Majel Barrett, Michael Bailous, David Campagna, Tarik Ergin, Alicia Lewis, Louis Ortiz, Stephen Pisani, Keith Rayve, Richard Sarstedt, Pablo Soriano.

 

Star Trek: Discovery
Season 2. Episode 13.

Episode entitled: Such Sweet Sorrow.

Released April 11, 2019.

Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi.

Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Michelle Paradise, Jenny Lumet, Alex Kurtzman, 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, Jayne Brook, James Frain, Yadira Guevara-Prip, Mia Kirshner, Tig Notaro, Ethan Peck, Rebecca Romijn, Sonja Sohn, Alan Van Sprang, Rachael Ancheril, Emily Coutts, Patrick Kwok-Choon, Oyin Oladejo, Ronnie Rowe, Sara Mitich, Julianne Grossman, Samora Smallwood, Hanneke Talbot, Chai Valladares, Nicole Dickinson, Avaah Blackwell, Ante Dekovic.

 

Star Trek: Discovery
Season 5. Episode 3.

Episode entitled: Jinaal.

Released April 11, 2024.

Directed by Andi Armaganian.

Created by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Kyle Jarrow, Lauren Wilkinson, Brandon Schultz, Carlos Cisco, Eric J. Robbins.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, Wilson Cruz, Blu del Barrio, Callum Keith Rennie, Tig Notaro, David Ajala, Annabelle Wallis, Tara Rosling, Eve Harlow, Ian Alexander, Patrick Kwok-Choon, Orville Cummings, David Benjamin Tomlinson, Victoria Sawal, Natalie Liconti, Christina Dixon, Raven Dauda, Andreas Apergis, Clare Coulter, Ingrid Rae Doucet, Glen Michael Grant, Victor Andres Turgeon-Trelles.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, on imagination:

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Born on this day – Harry Segall:

Harry Segall

Writer

April 10, 1892 – November 25, 1975

Credits:

Movies and television:

6 Hours to Live (1932); Angel on My Shoulder (1946 / 1980); Beautiful Accident (2017); Blind Alibi (1938); Blond Cheat (1938); Breakfast for Two (1937); Chandu the Magician (1932); Coast Guard (1939); Don't Turn 'em Loose (1936); Down to Earth (1947); Everybody's Doing It (1938); Fatal Lady (1936); Fight for Your Lady (1937); For Heaven's Sake (1950); Four Jills in a Jeep (1944); Heaven Can Wait (1978); Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941); Monkey Business (1952); She Knew All the Answers (1941); She's Got Everything (1937); Super-Sleuth (1937); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1956); The Bride Wore Boots (1946); The Lone Wolf Strikes (1940); The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1937); The Powers Girl (1943); The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942); There Goes My Girl (1937); Two Yanks in Trinidad (1942); Uncertain Lady (1934); Wonderful Nightmare (2015).

Born on this day – Harry Morgan:

 

Harry Morgan

Actor

Director

April 10, 1915 – December 7, 2011

Credits:

3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–1997); A Bell for Adano (1945); A Scrap of Paper (1943); About Mrs. Leslie (1954); Adam-12 (1969); AfterMASH (1983–1985); Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (1992); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959); All My Sons (1948); Apache War Smoke (1952); Appointment with Danger (1950); Arena (1953); Backlash (1956); Backstairs at the White House (1979); Belle Le Grand (1951); Bend of the River (1952); Better Late Than Never (1979); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Big Jim McLain (1952); Blacke's Magic (1986); Boots Malone (1952); But I Don't Want to Get Married! (1970); Cat Ballou (1971); Cavalcade of America (1953–1956); Champ for a Day (1953); Charley and the Angel (1973); Cimarron (1960); Confessions of the D.A. Man (1978); Crash Dive (1943); Crime Doctor's Man Hunt (1946); Crosswalk (1999); Dark City (1950); Dinah Shore in Dinah! (1975); Down to the Sea in Ships (1949); Dr. Kildare (1965); Dragnet (1987); Dragnet 1966 (1969); Dragnet 1967 (1967–1970); Dragonwyck (1946); December Bride (1954–1959); Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You (1971); Ensign O'Toole (1962); Entertainment Tonight / M*A*S*H (1983); Exo-Man (1977); Family Plan (1997); 14 Going on 30 (1988); Frankie and Johnny (1966); From This Day Forward (1946); Gentle Annie (1944); Going My Way (1962); Grace Under Fire (1996); Gunsmoke (1970–1975); Happy Land (1943); Have Gun - Will Travel (1958–1963); Hec Ramsey (1972–1974); Hello Out There (1949); Here's Hollywood (1961); High Noon (1952); Holiday Affair (1949); How the West Was Won (1962); Incident in a Small Town (1994); Inherit the Wind (1960); It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (1946); It Started with a Kiss (1959); Jack Benny's Second Farewell Special (1974); John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965); Johnny Comes Flying Home (1946); Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid (1978); Kelly's Kingdom (1966); Kentucky Jones (1964–1965); Love & Money (1999); Love, American Style / Love and the Motel (1970); M*A*S*H (1974–1983); 'M*A*S*H': 30th Anniversary Reunion (2002); Madame Bovary (1949); Making 'M*A*S*H' (1981); Maneaters Are Loose! (1978); Matinee Theatre (1958); McLaren's Riders (1977); Memories of M*A*S*H (1991); Moonrise (1948); More Wild Wild West (1980); Murder at the Mardi Gras (1978); Murder, She Wrote (1987); My Six Convicts (1952); Night Gallery / The Late Mr. Peddington (1972); Not as a Stranger (1955); Operation Teahouse (1956); Orchestra Wives (1942); Outside the Wall (1950); Pete and Gladys (1960–1962); Prisoner of War (1954); Race Street (1948); Red Light (1949); Rivkin: Bounty Hunter (1981); Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944); Roots: The Next Generations (1979); Roughnecks (1980); Scandal Sheet (1952); Scandalous John (1971); Scout's Honor (1980); Sidekicks (1974); Snowball Express (1972); Somewhere in the Night (1946); Sparkling Cyanide (1983); Star in the Dust (1956); Star Spangled Salesman (1968); State Fair (1945); Stop, You're Killing Me (1952); Strange Bargain (1949); Strategic Air Command (1955); Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971); Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969); Talking Film (1984); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1957); The 30th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1978); The 31st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1979); The 32nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1980); The 33rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1981); The 34th Annual Directors Guild Awards (1982); The 34th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1982); The 35th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1983); The 6th People's Choice Awards (1980); The 8th Annual People's Choice Awards (1982); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964–1965); The Amazing Mr. Malone (1950–1951); The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975); The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979); The Barefoot Executive (1971); The Bastard (1978); The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949); The Big Clock (1948); The Blue Veil (1951); The Bottom of the Bottle (1956); The Cat from Outer Space (1978); The D.A. (1971); The Devil and John Q (1952); The Doctor (1952); The Eve of St. Mark (1944); The Far Country (1954); The Feminist and the Fuzz (1971); The Flight of Dragons (1982); The Flim-Flam Man (1967); The Forty-Niners (1954); The Gangster (1947); The Glenn Miller Story (1954); The Highwayman (1951); The Incident (1990); The Jeff Foxworthy Show (1995); The Jerry Lewis Show (1967–1968); The Last Day (1975); The Lone Wolf (1954); The Love Boat (1978–1985); The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942); The Magnificent Magical Magnet of Santa Mesa (1977); The Merv Griffin Show (1968); The Mountain Road (1960); The Mouse Factory (1972); The Moviemakers (1984); The Omaha Trail (1942); The Ox-Bow Incident (1942); The Partridge Family (1970–1972); The Paul Lynde Comedy Hour (1978); The Richard Boone Show (1963–1964); The Saxon Charm (1948); The Shootist (1976); The Showdown (1950); The Simpsons (1995); The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956); The Twilight Zone (1988); The Untouchables (1962); The Virginian (1963); The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1965); The Wall to Wall War (1963); The Well (1951); The Wild Wild West Revisited (1979); Thunder Bay (1953); To the Shores of Tripoli (1942); Today (1967); Torch Song (1953); Toughest Man in Arizona (1952); Under Fire (1957); Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers (1956); Viva Max (1969); What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966); What Price Glory (1952); When I Grow Up (1951); Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1995); Wing and a Prayer (1944); Yellow Sky (1948); You Can't Take It with You (1979–1988).

Born on this day – Lee Weaver:

 

Lee Weaver

Actor

April 10, 1930 – September 22, 2025

Credits:

227 (1986–1987); A Different World (1990); A Hobo's Christmas (1987); A Season of Hope (1995); A.U.S.A. (2003); Adam-12 (1975); AfterMASH (1983); Al Capone (1959); Amen (1988); Any Day Now (2002); Beverly Hills, 90210 (1995); Brown's Requiem (1998); Bulworth (1998); Cade's County (1971); Chicago Hope (1997); City of Angels (2000); Cleopatra Jones (1973); Community (2010); Crossing Jordan (2003); CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2008); Daddy, I Don't Like It Like This (1978); Dear John (1990); Diagnosis Murder (2000); Diff'rent Strokes (1985); Donnie Darko (2001); Dragnet (1991); Easy Street (1986–1987); Family Tools (2013); Fathers' Day (1997); Flamingo Road (1980–1981); For Your Love (1999); G.I. Joe (1985–1986); G.I. Joe: Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (1986); G.I. Joe: The Movie (1987); Gideon Oliver (1989); Godzilla (1998); Good Morning World (1967); Good Times (1976); Goodbye Lover (1998); Grace and Frankie (2017–2020); Grave Images (1991); Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1975); Heaven Can Wait (1978); Heavy Traffic (1973); Hill Street Blues (1982–1984); Homefront (1991); House Calls (1978); How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998); Hugo the Hippo (1975); I Spy (1967–1968); In Name Only (1969); Insight (1969); It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2007); Julia (1969); Just Your Luck (1996); Kate Brasher (2001); Kiss Me Goodbye (1982); Kojak (1975); L.A.P.D.: To Protect and to Serve (2001); Line of Fire (2005); Little Fish, Strange Pond (2009); Living Single (1993); Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993); Love, American Style / Segment: Love and the Hustler (1969); Love, Inc. (2006); Lush Life (1993); MacGyver (1991); Mannix (1969); Martin (1992–1995); Max Rose (2013); Mean Dog Blues (1978); Men, Women & Dogs (2001–2002); Mork & Mindy (1981); Mr. Fix It (2006); Mr. President (1987); Music from Another Room (1998); My Brother's Wife (1989); My Name Is Earl (2008); My Wife and Kids (2002); Nanny and the Professor (1971); Night Court (1992); Nurses (1992); NYPD Blue (1994); O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000); One World (2000); Our Family Honor (1985); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1973); Palmerstown, U.S.A. (1981); Party Down (2010); Planters Deluxe Mixed Nuts: A Delicious Debate (2022); Providence (2002); Quincy, M.E. (1977); Reasonable Doubts (1991); Roc (1994); Sanford and Son (1976); Serpico (1976); Shannon (1981); Sheena: Queen of the Jungle (1955–1956); Sister, Sister (1994); Six Feet Under (2004); Sliders (1996); Soap (1978); Sparks (1996); Starsky and Hutch (1979); Step by Step (1993); Suddenly Susan (1999); Swedish Auto (2006); Temporarily Yours (1997); That's My Mama (1975); That's So Raven (2006); The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005); The Bernie Mac Show (2004); The Blue Knight (1973 / 1976); The Box (2003); The Buddy System (1984); The Company We Keep (2010); The Cosby Show (1987–1991); The District (2000); The Edge (1989); The Failures (2003); The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1991); The Good News (1998); The Jamie Foxx Show (1996); The Jeffersons (1977); The Lost Man (1969); The Magical World of Disney (1988); The Man in the Family (1991); The New Hollywood Squares (1987); The Onion Field (1979); The Parkers (2003); The Scout (1994); The Soul Man (2016); The Thirteenth Floor (1999); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1967); The Trials of Cate McCall (2013); The Two Jakes (1990); The Wild Wild West (1968); Touched by an Angel (2001); Vanishing Point (1971); Veronica Mars (2006); Voyagers! (1983); Webster (1987); Weird Loners (2015); What's Happening Now! (1985); Wildcats (1986); Workaholics (2011).