On this day in television history - M Squad (1958)

M Squad
Season 2. Episode 3.

Episode entitled: The Missing Claimant.

Released October 3, 1958.

Directed by Allen H. Miner.

Written by Jack Laird and Wilton Schiller.

Music by Alexander Courage.

 Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Joan Vohs, Harry Lauter, Theodore Newton, Rebecca Welles, Sydney Smith, Dick Wilson, Robert Busch.

On this day in television history - Space 1999 (1976)

 

Space 1999
Season 2. Episode 10.

Episode entitled: The Taybor.

Released October 3, 1976.

Directed by Bob Brooks.

Written by Thom Keyes.

Series created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson.

Music by Derek Wadsworth.
 
Cast:

Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt, Willoughby Goddard, Jeffery Kissoon, John Hug, Yasuko Nagazumi, Laraine Humphrys, Rita Webb, Mel Taylor, Glenda Allen, Sarah Bullen, Jenny Clare, Micky Clarke, Chai Lee, Vicki Michelle.

On this day in the Star Trek universe - The Next Generation, Enterprise (1987, 1992, 2001)

 

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 1. Episode 2.

Episode entitled: The Naked Now.

Released October 3, 1987.

Directed by Paul Lynch.

Written by D.C. Fontana, John D.F. Black, Johnny Dawkins.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Ron Jones.

Cast:

Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Brooke Bundy, Benjamin Lum, Michael Rider, David Renan, Skip Stellrecht, Kenny Koch, Michael Bailous, James G. Becker, Darrell Burris, Dexter Clay, Jeffrey Deacon, Nora Leonhardt, Tim McCormack, Lorine Mendell, Richard Sarstedt.

 

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 6. Episode 3.

Episode entitled: Man Of The People.

Released October 3, 1992.

Directed by Winrich Kolbe.

Written by Frank Abatemarco, Brannon Braga, René Echevarria, Naren Shankar.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast:

Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Charles/Chip Lucia, Patti Yasutake, George D. Wallace, Lucy Boryer, Susan French, Rick Scarry, Stephanie Erb, J.P. Hubbell, Majel Barrett, David Keith Anderson, Joe Baumann, Terrence Beasor, Michael Braveheart, Cameron, David Paul Christian, Tracee Cocco, John Copage, Gunnel Eriksson, Jack Gilroy, Eben Ham, Linda Harcharic, Grace Harrell, Christi Haydon, Clay Hodges, Kerry Hoyt, Mark Lentry, Ericka Bryce Poniewaz, Joyce Robinson, Nanci Rogers, Richard Sarstedt, Dee Giffin Scott.

Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 1. Episode 3.

Episode entitled: Fight or Flight.

Released October 3, 2001.

Directed by Allan Kroeker.

Written by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, Phyllis Strong, Michael/Mike Sussman, Stephen Beck, André Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, André Bormanis.

Created by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Opening theme song: Faith of the Heart, performed by Russell Watson.

Closing theme: Archer's Theme, by Dennis McCarthy.

Music by Jay Chattaway.

Cast:

Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Jeff Ricketts, Efrain Figueroa, Jef Ayres, Brett Baker, Jane Bordeaux, Solomon Burke Jr., Mario Carter, Amy Kate Connolly, Mark Correy, Evan English, Stacy Fouche, Lindley Gardner, Jack Guzman, Bobby Pappas, Gary Weeks.

Julia Alvarez, on writing:

 

A book does not discriminate against any reader.

All are welcome at the table of literature.
– Julia Alvarez.

Recommended reading: Glengarry Glen Ross: A Play

Glengarry Glen Ross: A Play

by David Mamet.
 
Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1984.
 
Published by Grove Press.
First published 1983.
Paperback.
 
ISBN-10: 0802130917
ISBN-13: 978-0802130914
 
Description:
 
Comic Drama Characters: 7 males.
 
2 interior sets.
 

“Who needs caffeine when you’ve got Glengarry Glen Ross? … David Mamet’s play about a dog-eat-dog real estate office in Chicago feels like having espresso pumped directly into your bloodstream…. Mr. Mamet hears American scheming with an exactitude and delight still surpassed by any other dramatist.” – New York Times.

 

Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as the New York Drama Critic’s Circle Award for Best American Play and the Drama Desk and Tony Awards for Best American Play and the Drama Desk and Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play, Glengarry Glen Ross is one of the most celebrated and widely performed plays of recent years. It is a scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat real estate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land onto reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their fair share of the American dream. Here, Mamet is at his very best, writing with brutal power about the tough life of tough people who cajole, connive, wheel and deal for a piece of the action an existence where closing a sale can mean a brand-new Cadillac, but losing one can mean losing it everything.

 

“Wonderfully funny … a play to see, remember and cherish.” – New York Post.

Recommended reading - The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

 

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

by John Godey.
 
First published 1973.
Published by Penguin Publishing Group.
Paperback.
 
ISBN-10: 0425253309
ISBN-13: 978-0425253304
 
Description:
 
"Chillingly real." – Houston Chronicle.
 
"A cliff-hanger." – The New Yorker.
 
"Harrowing, terrifying, and so, so good." – Business Week.
 
THIS AFTERNOON IN NEW YORK CITY, AFTER A SUBWAY TRAIN LEFT THE PELHAM STATION AT 1:23 P.M., THE EVENTS OF THE DAY TOOK A TERRIFYING DETOUR…
 
“You will all remain seated. Anyone who tries to get up, or even moves, will be shot. There will be no further warning. If you move you will be killed…”
 
Four men, armed with submachine guns, have seized a New York City subway train, holding all seventeen passengers – and the entire city – hostage.
 
The identities of the hijackers are unknown.
 
Their demands seem impossible.
 
Their threats are real.
 
Their escape seems inconceivable.
 
Only one thing is certain: they aren’t stopping for anything.

Born on this day – Wallace Stevens:

Wallace Stevens

Writer

October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955

Credits:
 
Books:
 

A High-Toned Old Christian Woman; Anecdote of the Jar; Collected poetry and prose; Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock; Earthy Anecdote; Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs; Gubbinal; Harmonium; How to Live, what to Do; Idées de l'ordre; Infanta Marina; Last Looks at the Lilacs; Letters of Wallace Stevens; Life Is Motion; Lunar Paraphrase; Nomad Exquisite; Of Modern Poetry; Opus posthumous; Palace of the Babies; Peter Quince at the Clavier; Ploughing on Sunday; Poems; Secretaries of the Moon: The Letters of Wallace Stevens & José Rodríguez Feo; Selected Poems; Souvenirs and Prophecies: The Young Wallace Stevens; Sunday Morning; The Auroras of Autumn; The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens; The Collected Poems: The Corrected Edition; The Comedian as the Letter C; The Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician; The Emperor of Ice-Cream; The emperor of ice-cream, and other poems; The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad; The man with the blue guitar; The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination; The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play; The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage; The Place of the Solitaires; The Plot Against the Giant; The Poetry of Wallace Stevens; The Revolutionists Stop for Orangeade; The Worms at Heaven's Gate; Theory; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird; Transport to summer; Wallace Stevens Reads; Wallace Stevens: Poems.

 

Movies and television:
 

The Emperor of Ice Cream (2015); The Extravagant Shadows (2012); Thirteen Ways... (2001).