Albert Einstein, on imagination:

Imagination is everything.

It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

- Albert Einstein.

On this day in television history - Justified (2013):

Justified

Season 4. Episode 10.

Episode entitled: Get Drew.

Released March 12, 2013.

Directed by Billy Gierhart.

Written by Graham Yost, Dave Andron, Ingrid Escajeda, VJ Boyd, Leonard Chang.

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, Walton Goggins, Jim Beaver, Jere Burns, Ron Eldard, Daniel Buran, David Meunier, Abby Miller, Mike O’Malley, Jesse Luken, Mykelti Williamson, Cathy Baron, Don Creech, Jonathan Kowalsky, William Gregory Lee, Cleavon R. McClendon III, Louis Fasanaro.

On this day in movie history - Fire in the Sky (1993 movie & book):

Fire in the Sky

directed by Robert Lieberman,

written by Tracy Tormé,

based on the book The Walton Experience by Travis Walton,

was released in the United States on March 12, 1993.
Music by Mark Isham.

Cast:

D.B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, Craig Sheffer, Peter Berg, Henry Thomas, Bradley Gregg, Noble Willingham, Kathleen Wilhoite, James Garner, Georgia Emelin, Scott MacDonald, Wayne Grace, Kenneth White, Robert Covarrubias, Bruce Wright, Robert Biheller, Tom McGranahan Sr., Julie Ariola, Peter Vasquez, Gordon Scott, Mical Shannon Lewis, Courtney Esler, Holly Hoffman, Marcia MacLaine, Glen Lee, Vernon Barkhurst, Jerry Basham, Teresa Fox, Travis Walton, Susan Castillo, Jane Ferguson, Nancy Neifert, Charley Lang, Lynn Marie Sager, Mari Padron, John Breedlove, Frank Chavez, Louis A. Lotorto, Ronald Lee Marriott, Shinichi Mine, Scott M. Seekins, Eric Wilsey, Dana Walton, Natasha Henry.

Recommended reading:

The Walton Experience

By Travis Walton.

Filmed as Fire in the Sky (1993), directed by Robert Lieberman.

Published by A BERKLEY/MEDALLION BOOK.

First Edition.

Published 1978.

Mass Market Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0425036758

ISBN-13: 978-0425036754

Description:

The Walton Experience.

Seven no-nonsense men. They had just finished a day's work cutting trees in Arizona's Apache Sitgreaves National Forest. As the old pickup maneuvered the dark mountain road, they all saw the brilliant glow suspended in the trees.

Travis Walton got out to investigate. But when the other six went to look for him … he was gone.

Now Travis Walton reveals what happened during the 5 harrowing days of his disappearance.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988)

Star Trek: Picard (2020)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 1. Episode 18.

Episode entitled: Coming of Age.

Released March 12, 1988.

Directed by Michael Vejar.

Written by Sandy Fries.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Ward Costello, Robert Schenkkan, John Putch, Robert Ito, Stephen Gregory, Tasia Valenza, Estee Chandler, Brendan McKane, Wyatt Knight, Daniel Riordan, James G. Becker, Darrell Burris, Dexter Clay, Jeffrey Deacon, Nora Leonhardt, Tim McCormack, Lorine Mendell, Richard Sarstedt, Guy Vardaman.

Star Trek: Picard

Season 1. Episode 8.

Episode entitled: Broken Pieces.

Released March 12, 2020.

Directed by Maja Vrvilo.

Created by Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Kirsten Beyer, Alex Kurtzman.

Written by Michael Chabon, Nick Zayas.

Based on Star Trek: The Next Generation, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Jeff Russo.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jeri Ryan, Alison Pill, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Evan Evagora, Isa Briones, Peyton List, Tamlyn Tomita, Rebecca Wisocky, Ann Magnuson, Derek Webster, Jane Hae Kim, Vincent Teixeira, Kendra Munger, Ernesto Chaverri, Jimmy Chimarios, Natalie Diaz, Alyma Dorsey, Akihiro Haga, Morgan Eliza Hill, Cort Rogers.

On this day in movie history - The Andromeda Strain (1971 movie & novel):

The Andromeda Strain

directed by Robert Wise,

written by Nelson Gidding and Robert Wise,

based on the novel by Michael Crichton,

was released in the United States on March 12, 1971.
Music by Gil Mellé.

Cast:

Arthur Hill, James Olson, David Wayne, Kate Reid, Paula Kelly, George Mitchell, Mark Jenkins, Peter Helm, Joe Di Reda, Ramon Bieri, Carl Reindel, Frances Reid, Peter Hobbs, Kermit Murdock, Richard O'Brien, Eric Christmas, Ken Swofford, John Carter, Richard Bull, James W. Gavin, Garry Walberg, Emory Parnell, Georgia Schmidt, Victoria Paige Meyerink, Don Messick, Michael Crichton.

Recommended reading:

The Andromeda Strain

By Michael Crichton.

First published 1969.

ISBN-10: 1101974494

ISBN-13: 978-1101974490

Description:

A military space probe, sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms from the upper atmosphere, is knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. Twelve miles from the crash site, an inexplicable and deadly phenomenon terrorizes the residents of a sleepy desert town in Arizona, leaving only two survivors: an elderly addict and a newborn infant.

The United States government is forced to mobilize Project Wildfire, a top-secret emergency response protocol. Four of the nation’s most elite biophysicists are summoned to a clandestine underground laboratory located five stories beneath the desert and fitted with an automated atomic self-destruction mechanism for cases of irremediable contamination. Under conditions of total news blackout and the utmost urgency, the scientists race to understand and contain the crisis. But the Andromeda Strain proves different from anything they’ve ever seen—and what they don’t know could not only hurt them, but lead to unprecedented worldwide catastrophe.

Born on this day – Katherine Woodville:

Katherine Woodville

Actress

March 12, 1938 – June 5, 2013

Credits:

A Chance of Thunder (1961); Armchair Mystery Theatre (1960); Black Gunn (1972); Boyd Q.C. (1960–1961); Clue of the New Pin (1961); Days of Our Lives (1977); Eight Is Enough (1979); Ellery Queen (1976); Extreme Close-Up (1973); Fear No Evil (1969); Gemini Man (1976); Ghost Squad (1964); Gibbsville (1976); Harry O (1974); Inside Story (1960); Intertect (1973); It Takes a Thief (1968–1970); ITV Play of the Week (1961); Keefer (1978); Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1975); Kung Fu (1974); Little House on the Prairie (1978); Mannix (1968–1971); Mission: Impossible (1968); No Hiding Place (1961–1965); Posse (1975); Salvage 1 (1979); Secret Agent (1964); Sergeant Cork (1964); Sir Francis Drake (1962); Star Trek / episode entitled: For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky, originally aired November 8 (1968); The Aquarians (1970); The Avengers (1961–1962); The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1970); The Brigand of Kandahar (1965); The Crooked Road (1965); The Debbie Reynolds Show (1970); The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1961); The Greatest Mother of Them All (1969); The Healers (1974); The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976); The Madhouse on Castle Street / BBC Sunday-Night Play (1963); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1960); The Outsider (1968); The Party's Over (1965); The Psychiatrist (1971); The Rhinemann Exchange (1977); The Rockford Files (1975–1976); The Saint (1964); The Spies (1966); The Third Man (1962); The Virginian (1970); The Wednesday Play (1964); Underworld Informers (1963); Where's Willie? (1978); Widow (1976); Wonder Woman (1979); Young and Willing (1962); Z Cars (1964).

Born on this day – Virginia Hamilton:

Virginia Hamilton

Writer

March 12, 1936 – February 19, 2002

Credits:

Books:

A Little Love (1984); A Newbery Halloween (1993); A Ring of Tricksters (1997); A White Romance (1987); Anthony Burns (1988); Arilla Sun Down (1976); Bluish (1999); Cousins (1990); Drylongso (1992); Dustland (1980); Her Stories (1995); In the Beginning (1988); Jaguarundi (1994); Jahdu (1980); Junius Over Far (1992); Justice and Her Brothers (1978); M.C. Higgins, the Great (1974); Many Thousand Gone (1993); Out of the Mold (1997); Paul Robeson (1974); Plain City (1993); Second Cousins (1998); Speeches, Essays, and Conversations (2010); Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush (1982); The All Jahdu Storybook (1991); The Bells of Christmas (1989); The Dark Way (1990); The Gathering (1981); The Girl Who Spun Gold (2000); The House of Dies Drear (1968); The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl (1983); The Mystery of Drear House (1987); The People Could Fly (1985); The Planet of Junior Brown (1971); The Time-Ago Tales of Jahdu (1969); The Writings of W. E. B. Dubois (1975); Time Pieces (2002); Time-Ago Lost (1973); Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels (2021); W.E.B. Du Bois (1972); Wee Winnie Witch's Skinny (2004); When Birds Could Talk and Bats Could Sing (1996); Willie Bea and the Time the Martians Landed (1983); Zeely (1967).

Movies:

The House of Dies Drear (1984); The Planet of Junior Brown (1997).