Under Cover of Night, by Manning Lee Stokes , 1958, Cover art by Ernest Chiriaka (“Darcy”)
Tag: 1958
Death Watch
Don’t forget to set your clocks back
Music To Be Murdered By
Album cover of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Music To Be Murdered By, 1958
Murder in Room 13, 1958
Zorro on the Cover of TV Guide
Guy Williams as Zorro on the cover of the April 26-May 2rd, 1958 issue of the TV Guide.
Other Worlds Other Sounds
Esquivel & his Orchestra – Other Worlds Other Sounds
Discogs classifies this as “Space-Age, Latin Jazz, Easy Listening, Big Band” but he calls it “space-age bachelor pad music”… I’m kinda fond of “It had to be you”
Man with a Camera
SETS LENS AND FOCUSES ON ADVENTURE….. Charles Bronson stars as Mike Kovac, ex-combat photographer now freelancing in ABC-TV’s “Man With a Camera,”
adventure-mystery series premiering Monday, October 19 (10:30-11PM, PST).
Kovac, a warm hearted but tough New Yorker, is as expert with his camera as his fists, and his freelance assignments give him plenty of practice in both fields. (ABC promotional copy)
Continue reading “Man with a Camera”
Peter Gunn, 1958-1961
Peter Gunn was a smartly done detective show created by Blake Edwards that ran from 1958-1961. Craig Stevens starred as the titular role of Peter Gunn, Lola Albright played the part of his girlfriend Edie Hart, and Herschel Bernardi was Lieutenant Jacoby. All 114 episodes aired within a 30 minute time-slot, and yet every case was wrapped up without feeling rushed, in some cases there was even enough time for Ms. Albright to sing a jazzy little number in Peter’s favorite hangout “Mothers” (later changed to Edie’s at the beginning of the 3rd season)
One of the most enjoyable things about the series, besides the bantering between Gunn and Jacoby, was the wide array of stool pigeons that Peter had the confidence of. Continue reading “Peter Gunn, 1958-1961”
She-gods of Shark Reef, 1958
Two brothers, one wanted for murder, are shipwrecked on an island inhabited by nubile young women who have amassed a valuable cache of pearls. (IMDb.com)
The Mask of Cthulhu, 1958
The Mask of Cthulhu is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by American writer August Derleth. It was released in 1958 by Arkham House in an edition of 2,051 copies.
The stories are part of the Cthulhu Mythos and most had appeared in the magazine Weird Tales between 1939 and 1953 (Wikipedia)
