On this day in television history - Space 1999 (1977):

Space 1999

Season 2. Episode 22.

Episode entitled: Devil’s Planet.

Released May 1, 1977.

Directed by Tom Clegg.

Written by Michael Winder.

Series created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson.

Music by Derek Wadsworth.

Cast: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt, Hildegard Neil, Roy Marsden, Dora Reisser, Cassandra Harris, Angus MacInnes, Arthur White, Michael Dickinson, John Hug, Alibe Parsons, Sam Dastor, Del Baker, Peter Brayham, Jenny Cresswell, Geoffrey Greenhill, Alan Harris, Rikki Howard, Beulah Hughes, Robert Reeves, Vida Taylor, Katya Wyeth, Felicity York.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1959):

M Squad

Season 2. Episode 31.
Episode entitled: Robber’s Roost.
Released May 1, 1959.
Directed by Sidney Lanfield.
Written by Jack Jacobs.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Stanley Dyrector, Robert E. Griffin, Evelyn Scott, Jim Hayward, Howard McLeod, Paul E. Burns.

On this day in movie history - Citizen Kane (1941 movie & book):

Citizen Kane

directed by Orson Welles,

written by Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles,

John Houseman, Roger Q. Denny and Mollie Kent,

was released in the United States on May 1, 1941.
Music by Bernard Herrmann.

Cast:

Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris, Fortunio Bonanova, Gus Schilling, Philip Van Zandt, Georgia Backus, Harry Shannon, Sonny Bupp, Buddy Swan, Don Ackerman, Loretta Agar, John Alban, Demetrius Alexis, Peter Allen, William Alston, Baudelio Alva, T. Lockwood Arbright, Sam Ash, Michael Audley, Walter Bacon, Harry A. Bailey, Richard Barr, Alva Baudena, Brandon Beach, Charles Bennett, Joan Blair, William A. Boardway, Danny Borzage, Robert Brent, James Brought, Morgan Brown, Harry Burkhardt, William Calkins, Porter Chase, Gene Chervow, J.J. Clark, Dorothy Cleveland, Edmund Cobb, Eddie Coke, Nat 'King' Cole, Tom Coleman, Gene Coogan, Sally Corner, Gino Corrado, Herbert Corthell, Maurice Costello, Irene Crosby, Charles Cross, Thomas A. Curran, Louise Currie, Jack Curtis, Ed Dahlen, Ernie Daniels, Coy Danz, Margaret Davis, Tim Davis, Dona Dax, Marie Day, Petra R. de Silva, Gayle DeCamp, Frances Deets, Carl Deloro, George DeNormand, Eddie Dew, John Dilson, Robert Dudley, Lou Duello, Suzanne Dulier, Art Dupuis, Pauline Easterday, Al Eben, Johnny Eckert, Jack Egan, Carl Ekberg, Richard Elmore, Edith Evanson, Carl Faulkner, Juanita Fields, Bess Flowers, Jack Floyd, Ray Flynn, Monty Ford, Jean Forward, Olin Francis, Louise Franklin, Al Frazier, Guy Gada, Gloria Gale, Captain Garcia, Jack Gargan, Bud Geary, Rudy Germane, Bob Gladman, Renee Godfrey, Jerry Gordon, Peter Gowland, Jimmy Grant, Jesse Graves, Ernest Grooney, Jack Gwynne, Robert Haines, Frank Haney, Harry Harris, Sam Harris, Lew Harvey, Henry Hebert, Edward L. Hemmer, Cliff Herd, Bryan 'Slim' Hightower, Harlan Hoagland, John Huettner, Mitchell Ingraham, Jack Itay, Jack Jahries, Walter James, George W. Jimenez, CeePee Johnson, Clayton Jones, Edna Mae Jones, Harry Jones, Alexander Julian, William Kane, Arthur Kay, Ivy Keene, Kenneth Kendall, E. Kerry, Milton Kibbee, Laura Knight, Alan Ladd, Mike Lally, Carmen Laroux, Perc Launders, Walter Lawrence, Robert Lawson, Bert LeBaron, David Ledner, Adam Linke, J.D. Lockhart, Mary Lorraine, Ellen Lowe, Ludwig Lowry, Buck Mack, James T. Mack, Evelyn Mackert, Teddy Mangean, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Jack Manolas, Joe Manz, Loretta Marsh, Mickey Martin, Clyde McAtee, Major McBride, Lee McCluskey, John McCormack, Frank McLure, Charles Meakin, Hercules Mendez, Jim Merritt, Buddy Messinger, E.G. Miller, Irving Mitchell, Bert Moorhouse, Philip Morris, Jack Morton, Louis Natheaux, Frances E. Neal, Lillian Nicholson, Leda Nicova, George Noisom, Joseph North, John Northpole, Field Norton, William H. O'Brien, Arthur O'Connell, Frank O'Connor, Paddy O'Flynn, Lillian O'Malley, Edward Peil Jr., Gerald Pierce, Thomas Pogue, Russ Powell, J.R. Ralston, Terrance Ray, Jack Raymond, Alton Redd, William Reed, Guy Repp, Jolane Reynolds, Sam Rice, Verne Richards, Suzanne Ridgway, Cyril Ring, Myrtle Rishell, Jack Robbins, Don Roberts, George Rogers, Victor Romito, Benny Rubin, Shimen Ruskin, Edward Ryan, Jack Ryan, Robert Samven, Walter Sande, Jack Santoro, Francis Sayles, Dick Scott, Ruth Seeley, George Sherwood, Brent Shugar, Bruce Sidney, Guy Smith, Roy Smith, Vince Speaker, George Sperry, Sam Steele, Tom Steele, Ralph Stein, Bert Stevens, Landers Stevens, Dimas Sutteno, Jack Taylor, Norman Taylor, Bob Terry, Karl Thomas, Robert B. Tobin, Gregg Toland, Kathryn Trosper, Fred Trowbridge, Glen Turnbull, Gohr Van Vleck, Harry J. Vejar, Tim Wallace, Ken Weaver, Charles West, Larry Wheat, Patrick Whitney, Jan Wiley, Bill Wilkens, Larry Williams, Tudor Williams, Richard Wilson, Vivian Wilson, Roland Winters, Vera Winters, Arthur Yeoman, Louis Young.

Recommended reading:

Citizen Kane

By Orson Welles & Herman J. Mankiewicz.

Published by Methuen Drama.

Published 2002.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0413771873

ISBN-13: 978-0413771872

Description:

"A definitive chronicle of the making of the film" – Sheridan Morley, Films & Filming.

"Citizen Kane revolutionised film-making, and the question of its authorship is as important to the cinema as that of Hamlet to the theatre ... Pauline Kael explains how the picture came to be made and concludes that the man most responsible for its creation was not Welles but Herman J. Mankiewicz" – Kenneth Tynan, Observer.

The complete screenplay of one of the world's most famous and controversial films.

This is the complete companion to Citizen Kane - the film that was "designed to shock" (Kenneth Tynan) - one of the best-loved and best-known movies in the history of Hollywood and still the most staggering film debut ever. Not only was this Orson Welles's first film as actor and director but most of the cast were also new to the cinema. Yet so controversial was the subject matter that an $842,000 bribe and the concentrated wrath of the Hearst newspaper empire combined in an attempt to strangle its distribution. And the authorship of the film is still a subject of conflict.

Pauline Kael's long essay, "Raising Kane", dissects a maze of Hollywood lore to re-evaluate these and many other fascinating stories about the making of this remarkable film. Her account is followed by the original screenplay, illustrated with stills and frame enlargements.

Born on this day – Joy Harmon:

Joy Harmon

Actress

Baker

May 1, 1940 – April 14, 2026

Credits:

20 to 1 (2007); A Guide for the Married Man (1967); A Natural Born World-Shaker: Making 'Cool Hand Luke' (2008); Angel in My Pocket (1969); Batman (1966); Bewitched (1966); Burke's Law (1964–1965); Cool Hand Luke (1967); Dr. Giggles (1992); From Cheesecake to Cheesecake: The Joy Harmon Story (2013); Gidget (1965); Gomer Pyle: USMC (1966); Hey, Landlord (1966); Let's Rock (1958); Love, American Style / Segment: Love and the Secret Habit (1972); Mad Dog Coll (1961); My Three Sons (1964); Never Too Young (1965); Norwood (1970); Occasional Wife (1966); One Way Wahine (1965); Roustabout (1964); Run for Your Life (1967); Tell It to Groucho (1962); That Girl (1967); The ABC Comedy Hour (1972); The Beverly Hillbillies (1963); The Joey Bishop Show (1967); The Loved One (1965); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1965); The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956); The Monkees (1967); The Odd Couple (1972); The Rounders (1966); The Tonight Show (1962); Thicker Than Water (1973); Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963); Valentine's Day (1964); Village of the Giants (1965); You Bet Your Life (1960); Young Dillinger (1965).

Born on this day – Cora Mae Bryant:

Cora Mae Bryant

Blues singer

Guitarist

May 1, 1926 – October 30, 2008

Credits:

Albums:

Born with the Blues (2001); Born in Newton County (2003).

Born on this day – Ralph Senensky:

Ralph Senensky

Director

Production Manager

May 1, 1923 – November 1, 2025

Credits:

12 O'Clock High (1965); A Dream for Christmas (1973); Arrest and Trial (1963–1964); Banyon (1972); Barnaby Jones (1973–1975); Big Bend Country (1981); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1965); Breaking Point (1963–1964); Casablanca (1983); Casting By (2012); Channing (1963); Checkmate (1962); City of Angels (1976); Dan August (1971); Dan August: Murder, My Friend (1980); Dan August: Once Is Never Enough (1980); Death Cruise (1974); Dr. Kildare (1961–1965); Dynasty (1981); East Side / West Side (1963); Eight Is Enough (1977); Family (1977); Full Circle (1960–1961); Getting Together (1971); Harper Valley P.T.A. (1978); Hart to Hart (1979–1984); How the West Was Won (1979); I Spy (1968); Inglorious Treksperts (2020–2024); Insight (1969–1982); Ironside (1967–1968); James at 16 (1978); Jeremiah of Jacob's Neck (1976); Judd for the Defense (1967); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963–1965); Lou Grant (1980); Mannix (1968); Matt Lincoln (1970); Medical Story (1975); Mission: Impossible (1967); Naked City (1963); Nanny and the Professor (1970–1971); Night Gallery (1972); Paper Dolls (1984); Planet of the Apes (1974); Playhouse 90 (1958–1960); Ripley's Believe It or Not! (1984); Route 66 (1963); Search (1973); Slattery's People (1965); Star Trek (1967–1968); Star Trek: Inside the Roddenberry Vault (2016); The Big Valley (1966); The Blue Knight (1975); The Cliff (1970); The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969–1970); The Doctors and the Nurses (1963–1964); The F.B.I. (1966–1972); The Family Holvak (1975); The Family Kovack (1974); The Family Nobody Wanted (1975); The Fugitive (1964–1965); The High Chaparral (1967); The Interns (1970); The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (2011); The Long, Hot Summer (1965); The Name of the Game (1968); The New Adventures of Heidi (1978); The Paper Chase (1985–1986); The Partridge Family (1970–1971); The Right Regrets (2013); The Rookies (1972–1973); The Trek Files: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast (2021–2022); The Twilight Zone (1963); The Waltons (1973–1978); The Wild Wild West (1966); Then Came Bronson (1969); Three for the Road (1975); Trapper John, M.D. (1979); Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes (1980); Westside Medical (1977); Winesburg, Ohio (1973); Young Maverick (1980).

Born on this day – Joseph Heller:

Joseph Heller

Writer

May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999

Credits:

Books:

Catch-22 (1961); Closing Time (1994); God Knows (1984); Good as Gold (1979); No Laughing Matter (1986); Now and Then (1998); Picture This (1988); Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man (2000); Something Happened (1974); The Best American Mystery Stories 2014 (2014).

Movies and television:

Bombardovanje Nju Hejvna (1973); Camera Three (1962); Casino Royale (1967); Catch Five: Joseph Heller and Rembrandt (1992); Catch-22 (1970); Catch-22 (1973); Catch-22 (2019); Charlie Rose (1994); Dirty Dingus Magee (1970); Good Morning America (1985); Hier is... Adriaan van Dis (1985); James Jones: Reveille to Taps (1985); Late Night with David Letterman (1986); McHale's Navy (1962); McLean and Company (1971); Pommitamme Pasilasta (1970); Sex and the Single Girl (1964); Something Happened; The Book Programme (1974–1980); The Merv Griffin Show (1968); The South Bank Show (1979–1984); Theatre of the Absurd: Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author (1976); Today (1968–1974); Wogan (1986).