On this day in television history - Space 1999 (1975):

Space 1999

Season 1. Episode 11.

Episode entitled: Guardian of Piri.

Released October 22, 1975.

Directed by Charles Crichton.

Written by Christopher Penfold.

Series created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson.

Music by Barry Gray.

Cast:

Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Catherine Schell, Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate, Michael Culver, Trevor Ainsley, Tony Allyn, Emily Bolton, Loftus Burton, Maxwell Craig, Andy Dempsey, Christine Donna, Joe Dunne, Roy Everson, James Fagan, John Gleeson, Alan Harris, Raymond Harris, Gareth Hunt, Barbara Kelly, Juliet King, John Lee Barber, Quentin Pierre, Suzanne Roquette, Michael Stevens.

On this day in movie history - The UFO Incident (movie & book):

The UFO Incident

directed by Richard A. Colla,

written by Hesper Anderson, S. Lee Pogostin/Jake Justiz, S. Lee Pogostin,

based on the book The Interrupted Journey: Two Lost Hours Aboard a Flying Saucer by John G. Fuller,

released in the United States on October 20, 1975.

Music by Billy Goldenberg.

Cast: James Earl Jones, Estelle Parsons, Barnard Hughes, Dick O'Neill, Beeson Carroll, Terrence O'Connor, Jeanne Joe, Lou Wagner, Vic Perrin, Joey Stefano.

Recommended reading:

The Interrupted Journey:

Two Lost Hours Aboard a UFO – The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill

By John G. Fuller.

Filmed as The UFO Incident (1975), directed by Richard A. Colla.

Published by Vintage.

First published 1966.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0593468236

ISBN-13: 978-0593468234

Description:

"True believers will see this as further evidence of the reality of UFOs." – The New York Times.

One of the most extraordinary UFO tales of our time – a thrilling, otherworldly, and wildly entertaining adventure that enraptured America and stands as the quintessential extraterrestrial encounter.

On a summer night in 1961, Betty and Barney Hill were driving home through New Hampshire when a bright object appeared in the sky and began following them. When the couple finally pulled over to get a better look, the object vanished before their eyes. With nothing else to do, Betty and Barney returned to their car and kept driving into the night. The encounter left them rattled, but what came next was even more the following day, the Hills realized they couldn’t remember anything from almost two hours of their drive. Time itself had disappeared, so the couple began looking for help, hoping to uncover what happened that mysterious night.

Captivating and unputdownable, The Interrupted Journey is the complete story of those missing hours and the Hills’ nearly identical accounts, as revealed to doctors under psychotherapy and hypnosis. It stands as one of the most extraordinary UFO tales of our time. Thrilling, otherworldly, and wildly entertaining, The Interrupted Journey is an adventure that enraptured America and stands as the quintessential extraterrestrial encounter.

On this day in television history - Space 1999 (1975):

Space 1999

Season 1. Episode 7.

Episode entitled: Alpha Child.

Released October 13, 1975.

Directed by Ray Austin.

Written by Christopher Penfold.

Series created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson.

Music by Barry Gray.

Cast:

Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Julian Glover, Cyd Hayman, Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate, Wayne Brooks, Tony Allyn, Sarah Bullen, Loftus Burton, Gerry Crampton, Andy Dempsey, Vincent Wong, James Fagan, Raymond Harris, Alf Joint, Rula Lenska, Quentin Pierre, Suzanne Roquette, Michael Stevens, Maureen Tan.

On this day in television history - Space 1999 (1975):

Space 1999

Season 1. Episode 2.

Episode entitled: Force of Life.

Released October 6, 1975.

Directed by David Tomblin.

Written by Johnny Byrne.

Series created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson.

Music by Barry Gray.

Cast:

Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Ian McShane, Gay Hamilton, Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate, John Hamill, Eva Reuber-Staier, Tony Allyn, Emily Bolton, Lea Brodie, Sarah Bullen, Loftus Burton, Maxwell Craig, Andy Dempsey, Alan Harris, Vincent Wong, Raymond Harris, Barbara Kelly, Robert Phillips, Quentin Pierre, Suzanne Roquette, Maureen Tan.

On this day in television history - Space 1999 (1975):

Space 1999

Season 1. Episode 3.

Episode entitled: Collision Course.

Released September 30, 1975.

Directed by Ray Austin.

Written by Anthony Terpiloff.

Series created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson.

Music by Barry Gray.

Cast:

Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Margaret Leighton, Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate, Glenda Allen, Tony Allyn, Vic Armstrong, Sarah Bullen, Loftus Burton, Andy Dempsey, Alan Harris, Alf Joint, Annie Lambert, Quentin Pierre, Suzanne Roquette, Michael Stevens.

On this day in television history - Space 1999 (1975):

Space 1999

Season 1. Episode 5.

Episode entitled: Death’s Other Dominion.

Released September 23, 1975.

Directed by Charles Crichton.

Written by Anthony Terpiloff, Elizabeth Barrows.

Series created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson.

Music by Barry Gray.

Cast: 

Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Brian Blessed, John Shrapnel, Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate, Mary Miller, Glenda Allen, Barbara Bermel, Sarah Bullen, Adrienne Burgess, Loftus Burton, Andy Dempsey, Jenny Devenish, Robert Driscoll, Joe Dunne, David Ellison, Carolyn Hudson, Annie Lambert, Margaret Lawley, John Lee Barber, Valerie Leon, Dave Murphy, Eddy Nedari, Terry Pendle, Suzanne Roquette, Ian Ruskin, Ellen Sheean, Jack Shephard, Suzette St. Clair.

On this day in movie history - Dog Day Afternoon (1975):

Dog Day Afternoon

directed by Sidney Lumet,

written by Frank Pierson,

based on the article The Boys in the Bank by P. F. Kluge and Thomas Moore,

published in the September 1972 edition of Life magazine,

was released in the United States on September 21, 1975.

Cast:

Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon, Penelope Allen, Sully Boyar, Susan Peretz, James Broderick, Lance Henriksen, Carol Kane, Beulah Garrick, Sandra Kazan, Estelle Omens, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Amy Levitt, Gary Springer, John Marriott, Philip Charles MacKenzie, Dick Anthony Williams, Judith Malina, Dominic Chianese, Edwin "Chu Chu" Malave, Lionel Pina.

On this day in television history - Space 1999 (1975):

Space 1999

Season 1. Episode 4.

Episode entitled: War Games.

Released September 16, 1975.

Directed by Charles Crichton.

Written by Christopher Penfold.

Series created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson.

Music by Barry Gray.

Cast:

Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Anthony Valentine, Isla Blair, Prentis Hancock, Clifton Jones, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate, Robert Atiko, Binu Balani, Sarah Bullen, Maxwell Craig, Andy Dempsey, James Fagan, Alan Harris, Raymond Harris, Judith Hepburn, Paul Kirby, Kathy Mallory, Jan Rennison, Suzanne Roquette, Paul Weston, Chris Williams.

On this day in television history - Space 1999 (1975):

Space 1999

Season 1. Episode 1.

Episode entitled: Breakaway.

Released September 9, 1975.

Directed by Lee H. Katzin.

Written by George Bellak, Christopher Penfold, Edward Di Lorenzo.

Series created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson.

Music by Barry Gray.

Cast:

Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Roy Dotrice, Prentis Hancock, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Nick Tate, Philip Madoc, Lon Satton, Eric Carte, Tony Allyn, David Rhys Anderson, Lea Brodie, Loftus Burton, John Clifford, Maxwell Craig, Laurie Davis, Joe Dunne, Steve Emerson, Don Fellows, Alan Harris, Janice Hills, Lew Hooper, Alf Joint, Barbara Kelly, Milos Kirek, Chai Lee, Christopher Matthews, Jack McKenzie, Fran Miller, Quentin Pierre, Shane Rimmer, Suzanne Roquette, Roy Scammell, Robin Scott, Colin Skeaping, Lesley Stamps, Valerie Van Ost, Norma West, Paul Weston, Nik Zaran, Michael Zorba.

On this day in movie history - Hotel Monterey (1972):

Hotel Monterey

silent documentary directed and written by Chantal Akerman,

released at the Venice Biennale in Italy on September 4, 1975.
Filmed in 1972.

On this day in movie history - Hard Times (1975):

Hard Times

aka The Streetfighter,

directed by Walter Hill,

written by Walter Hill, Bryan Gindoff and Bruce Henstell,

based on a story by Bryan Gindoff and Bruce Henstell,

was released in France on August 13, 1975.
Music by Barry De Vorzon.

Cast:

Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Jill Ireland, Strother Martin, Margaret Blye, Michael McGuire, Felice Orlandi, Edward Walsh, Bruce Glover, Robert Tessier, Nick Dimitri, Frank McRae, Maurice Kowalewski, Naomi Stevens, Lyla Hay Owen, John Creamer, Robert Castleberry, Becky Allen, Joan Kleven, Anne Welsch, Fred Lerner, Jimmy Nickerson, Chuck Hicks, Walter Scott, Max Kleven, Valerian Smith, Bob Minor, Larry Martindale, Charles W. Schaefer Jr., Leslie Bonano, Ronnie Philips, Greater Liberty Baptist Church Choir and Congregation, Ron Centanni, M.C. Gainey, Brion James, Laura Misch Owens.

Recommended reading - Andre Dubus: Selected Stories (1975):

Andre Dubus: Selected Stories

By Andre Dubus.

Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

First published 1975.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0679767304

ISBN-13: 9780679767305

Description:

"Stunning…a fine, deeply rewarding collection from one of this country’s ablest writers." – Anne Tyler.

"Dubus’s characters resemble those of Raymond Carver...but the stories stand alone in their idiosyncratic spiritual cast, occasionally religious, more often expressive of devotion to the people he lives among." – New York Times Book Review.

A breaved father stalks his son’s killer. A woman cries alone by her television screen. A devout teenager wrestles with his faith and sexuality. Here, in these twenty-three stories, Andre Dubus turns fiction into an act of compassion. For readers new to Dubus, this is the perfect starting point. For fans of his, this is an essential, must-have collection.

On this day in movie history - Farewell, My Lovely (1975):

Farewell, My Lovely

directed by Dick Richards,

written by David Zelag Goodman,

based on the novel by Raymond Chandler,

was released in the United States on August 8, 1975.
Music by David Shire.

Cast:

Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles, Anthony Zerbe, Harry Dean Stanton, Jack O'Halloran, Joe Spinell, Sylvester Stallone, Rainbeaux Smith, Kate Murtagh, John O'Leary, Walter McGinn, Burton Gilliam, Jim Thompson, Jimmie Archer, Ted Gehring.

Born on this day – Kara Hamilton:

Kara Hamilton

Actress

July 31, 1975 – July 3, 2017

Credits:

The Awakened (2012); Secret Millionaires (2011); The Last Request (2006); Just Like Heaven (2005); Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (2003); Late Show with David Letterman (2003); Fighting Irish (2003); Smoking Herb (2002); So, What Do You Think? (2000); Forces of Nature (1999).

Recommended reading - The Shootist, by Glendon Swarthout (1975):

The Shootist

By Glendon Swarthout.

Introduction by Miles Swarthout.

Filmed as The Shootist (1976), directed by Don Siegel.

Published by Bison Books.

First published 1975.

ISBN-10: 0803238231

ISBN-13: 9780803238237

Description:

"Such style...such a strong central idea...the showdown is an unremitting as the build-up." – Sunday Times of London.

"This is an extremely well-written Western and gives the reader vivid insight into the workings of the mind of a wanderer and gunman." – Baton Rouge, Louisiana Sunday Advocate.

"The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout is the taleof the Old West's version of the modern 'hit man'. It is a splendid story, well-told and with a really satisfying ending." – Charleston, South Carolina Evening Post.

The Shootist is John Bernard Books, a man of principle and the only surviving gunfighter in a vanishing American West. He rides into El Paso in the year 1901, on the day Queen Victoria died, there to be told by a doctor that he must soon confront the greatest shootist of all: Death. In such a showdown, against such an antagonist, he cannot win. Most men may end their days in bed or take their own lives, but a man-killer has a 3rd option, one which Books decides to exercise. He may choose his own executioner.

As word spreads that the famous assassin has reached the end of his rope, an assortment of vultures gathers to feast upon his corpse--among them a gambler, a rustler, an undertaker, an old love, a reporter, even a boy. Books outwits them, however, by selecting the where, when, who, and why of his death, and writing in fire from a pair of Remingtons the last courageous act of his own legend. The climatic gunfight itself is an incredible performance by an incredible man, and by his creator, Glendon Swarthout.

The Shootist will rank with such classics as Shane and The Ox-Bow Incident, but it is much more than a Western. When, in the final afternoon of his life, J. B. Books crosses a street and enters a saloon to make something of his death, we cross, we enter, with him. He is us.

From a corner of the south window Gillom Rogers spied on the new lodger. The man unpacked his valise and put things in a drawer of the chiffonier, then hung his Price Albert coat in the closet. When he turned from the closet he was in shirt and vest. The boy's eyes rounded. Sewn to each side of the vest was a holster, reversed, and in each holster was a pistol, butt forward. As he watched, sucking in his breath, the man took the weapons out, revolved the cylinders, filled a chamber in one he had evidently fired, and replaced them before hanging the vest, too, in the closet. The pistols were a pair of nickel-plated, short-barreled, unsighted, single-action .44 Remingtons, obviously manufactured to order. The handle of one was black gutta-percha, the other pearl.

Gillom slipped away to take the horse to the livery, letting the breath of revelation out of his lungs. He was seventeen, and spent much of his time in saloons. He was not yet served, but he enjoyed himself and picked up a great deal of miscellaneous information, some of it true, some of it of doubtful authenticity. But the man in corner room was no stranger to him now. He had heard enough scalp-itch, blood-freeze tales to know that only one man carried a similar pair of guns in a similar manner...

On this day in movie history - The Drowning Pool (1975):

The Drowning Pool

directed by Stuart Rosenberg,

written by Tracy Keenan Wynn, Lorenzo Semple Jr. and Walter Hill,

based on the novel by Ross Macdonald,

was released in the United States on July 10, 1975.
Music by Michael Small.

Cast:

Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Richard Derr, Anthony Franciosa, Murray Hamilton, Gail Strickland, Melanie Griffith, Linda Haynes, Andre Trottier, Richard Jaeckel, Paul Koslo, Joe Canutt, Andrew Robinson, Coral Browne, Helena Kallianiotes.