On this day in movie history - Beware! The Blob (1972)

 

Beware! The Blob,

a.k.a. Beware the Blob, Son of Blob, The Blob II and The Blob Returns,

directed by Larry Hagman,

written by Jack Woods and Anthony Harris,

based on the story A Chip Off the Old Blob by Richard Clair and Jack H. Harris,

was released in the United States on June 21, 1972.

Music by Mort Garson.

Cast:

Robert Walker Jr, Gwynne Gilford, Richard Stahl, Richard Webb, Shelley Berman, Godfrey Cambridge, Larry Hagman, Carol Lynley, Marlene Clark, Gerrit Graham, J.J. Johnston, Danny Goldman, Rockne Tarkington, Dick Van Patten, Tiger Joe Marsh, Tim Baar, Fred Smoot, Randy Stonehill, Del Close, Cindy Williams, Preston Hagman, John Houser, Larry Norman, Robert N. Goodman, Patrick McAllister, Bill Coontz, Byron Keith, Margie Adleman, William Foster, Judy Graubart, Sid Haig, Jack H. Harris, Burgess Meredith, Conrad Rothmann.

On this day in movie history - THX 1138 (1971)

THX 1138

directed by George Lucas,

written by George Lucas and Walter Murch,

based the 1967 short film Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB by George Lucas,

was released in the United States on March 11, 1971.

Music by Lalo Schifrin.

Painting shown on the Unit Chapel booth screens:

Christ Giving His Blessing, by Hans Memling (1478).

 

Cast:

Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Maggie McOmie, Don Pedro Colley, Ian Wolfe, Marshall Efron, Sid Haig, John Pearce, James Wheaton, Irene Cagen, Gary Alan Marsh, John Seaton, Eugene I. Stillman, Jack Walsh, Mark Lawhead, Robert Feero, Johnny Weissmuller Jr., Claudette Bessing, Susan Stroh, Henry Jacobs, Bill Love, Doc Scortt, Gary Austin, Scott L. Menges, Toby L. Stearns, Paul K. Haje, Ralph Chesse, Dion M. Chesse, Bruce Chesse, Mello Alexandria, Brandyn Barbara

Artis, Morris D. Erby, Willie C. Barnes, Richard Quinnell, Jean M. Durand, Scott Beach, Neva Beach, Terence McGovern, Julie Payne, James Cranna, Ruth Silveira, Bruce Mackey, David Ogden Stiers, Bart Patton, Dennis Falt, Jack Rigg, Matthew Robbins.

On this day in television history - Mannix (1967 - 1975)

Mannix

was released in the United States on September 16, 1967,

and ran for eight seasons until April 13, 1975.

Cast:

Mike Connors, Joseph Campanella, Gail Fisher, Julie Adams, Charles Aidman, Claude Akins, Lew Alcindor, Anne Archer, Barry Atwater, Val Avery, Richard Bakalyan, Hugh Beaumont, Vincent Beck, Henry Beckman, Ed Begley Jr., Pamela Bellwood, Lee Bergere, Oscar Beregi Jr., Milton Berle, Whit Bissell, Bill Bixby, Lloyd Bochner, Frank Bonner, Antoinette Bower, Eric Braeden, Geraldine Brooks, Kathie Browne, Richard Bull, Brooke Bundy, Victor Buono, Frank Campanella, Joseph Campanella, Anthony Caruso, Ted Cassidy, Robert Colbert, John Colicos, Robert Conrad, Yvonne Craig, John Dehner, Neil Diamond, John Doucette, Don Dubbins, Howard Duff, Anthony Eisley, Dana Elcar, Robert Ellenstein, Roy Engel, Erik Estrada, Linda Evans, Shelley Fabares, Norman Fell, Pamelyn Ferdin, Gail Fisher, Paul Fix, Victor French, Beverly Garland, Don Gordon, Harold Gould, Gloria Grahame, Kevin Hagen, Sid Haig, Mariette Hartley, Katherine Helmond, Douglas Henderson, Howard Hesseman, John Hillerman, Kim Hunter, Diana Hyland, Jill Ireland, Robert Ito, Mako Iwamatsu, Russell Johnson, Victor Jory, Gordon Jump, Katherine Justice, Diane Keaton, Sally Kellerman, Sandy Kenyon, Christopher Knight, Walter Koenig, Nancy Kovack, Frank Langella, Marta Kristen, Cloris Leachman, Robert Loggia, Ronald Long, Perry Lopez, Barbara Luna, Dawn Lyn, Ken Lynch, Carol Lynley, Larry Manetti, Paul Mantee, Scott Marlowe, John Marley, Arlene Martel, Marianne McAndrew, Darren McGavin, Katherine MacGregor, Gerald McRaney, Burgess Meredith, Judi Meredith, Lee Meriwether, Vera Miles, Del Monroe, Priscilla Morrill, Diana Muldaur, Richard Mulligan, Lloyd Nolan, Sheree North, Mel Novak, Gerald S. O’Loughlin, David Opatoshu, Alan Oppenheimer, Leslie Parrish, Michael Pataki, Felton Perry, Nehemiah Persoff, Joanna Pettet, Barney Phillips, Paul Picerni, Slim Pickens, Phillip Pine, Eve Plumb, Ann Prentiss, Ford Rainey, Logan Ramsey, John Randolph, Lou Rawls, Stafford Repp, Barbara Rhoades, John Ritter, Pernell Roberts, Percy Rodriguez, Marion Ross, Barbara Rush, Alfred Ryder, George Savalas, Tom Selleck, William Shatner, Martin Sheen, Tom Skerritt, Warren Stevens, Dean Stockwell, Loretta Swit, Nita Talbot, Vic Tayback, Berlinda Tolbert, Malachi Throne, Harry Townes, Joyce Van Patten, Elena Verdugo, John Vernon, Garry Walberg, Jessica Walter, David Wayne, Fritz Weaver, Adam West, William Windom, Paul Winfield, H. M. Wynant, Anthony Zerbe.