On this day in television history - Justified (2010 & 2011):

Justified

Season 1. Episode 3.

Episode entitled: Fixer.

Released March 30, 2010.

Directed by Fred Keller.

Written by Graham Yost, Benjamin Cavell and Wendy Calhoun.

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, David Eigenberg, Greg Cromer, Page Kennedy, Erin Cardillo, Jessica Camacho, Kiersten Lyons, Todd Cattell, Sam Ayers, Trey Carter, Shannon Garnett, David Hill.

Justified

Season 2. Episode 8.

Episode entitled: The Spoil.

Released March 30, 2011.

Directed by Michael Watkins.

Written by Graham Yost, Elmore Leonard, Dave Andron, Benjamin Cavell and VJ Boyd.

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, Rebecca Creskoff, Margo Martindale, Jeremy Davies, Tara Buck, Kaitlyn Dever, Linda Gehringer, Brad William Henke, Peter Murnik, Joseph Lyle Taylor, Raymond J. Barry, Rolando Boyce, Timothy Brennen, Allen Cutler, William Gregory Lee, Penny L. Moore, Darin Toonder, Trevor Trout, Tim Scanlon.

On this day in movie history - The Lookout (2007):

The Lookout

directed and written by Scott Frank,

was released in the United States on March 30, 2007.
Music by James Newton Howard.

Cast:

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Isla Fisher, Carla Gugino, Bruce McGill, Alberta Watson, Alex Borstein, Sergio Di Zio, David Huband, Laura Vandervoort, Greg Dunham, Morgan Kelly, Aaron Berg, Tinsel Korey, Suzanne Kelly, Brian Edward Roach, Martin Roach, Ofield Williams, Julie Pederson, Stephen Eric McIntyre, Janaya Stephens, Marc Devigne, Courtney-Jane White, Thanya Romero, Paul Christie, Tracy Beemer, Gordie Farrell, Toni Reimer, Ted Felbel, Charles Crossin, Chuck Robinson, Kalyn Bomback, John Bluethner, Leslie Bais, Harry Nelken, Andrew Degryse, Shailee Ferguson, Kevin Michayluk.

On this day in movie history - Dark Star (1974 movie & novel):

Dark Star

directed by John Carpenter,

written by John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon,

was released in the United States on March 30, 1974.
Music by John Carpenter.
Title song Benson, Arizona performed by John Yager.
Lyrics by Bill Taylor.

Cast:

Brian Narelle, Dan O'Bannon, Cal Kuniholm, Andreijah "Dre" Pahich, John Carpenter, Joe Saunders, Barbara "Cookie" Knapp, Miles Watkins, Nick Castle.

Recommended reading:

Dark Star

By Alan Dean Foster.

Published by Del Rey.

First published 1974.

ISBN-10: 0708880487

ISBN-13: 9780708880487

Description:

Bombed out in space -- with a spaced-out bomb!

ALL SYSTEMS -- SNAFU!

If anything could possibly go wrong aboard the scout ship Dark Star, sooner or later it would. Now, in the twentieth year of their mission -- destroying unstable planets -- the ship and its crew were slowly and steadily falling apart.

After 20 years in space, isolation and loneliness had left their mark. The four surviving crew members were bored beyond relief. Only an occasional bomb run or another of the inevitable malfunctions aboard ship upset the monotony.

Then, one day, Bomb #20 was primed, armed, and set to detonate ... and suddenly life on the Dark Star became frantic ...