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

Space 1999
Season 2. Episode 23.

Episode entitled: The Immunity Syndrome.

Released March 6, 1977.

Directed by Bob Brooks.

Written by Johnny Byrne.

Series created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson.

Music by Derek Wadsworth.

Cast: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt, Nick Tate, Nadim Sawalha, Karl Held, Sam Dastor, John Hug, Hal Galili, Alibe Parsons, Walter McMonagle, Roy Boyd, Jenny Cresswell, Harry Fielder, Jack Klaff, Quentin Pierre, Robert Reeves.

On this day in television history - Justified (2012)

Justified
Season 3. Episode 8.

Episode entitled: Watching the Detectives.

Released March 6, 2012.

Directed by Peter Werner.

Written by Graham Yost, Nichelle Tramble Spellman, Ingrid Escajeda, Ryan Farley and Jon Worley.

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, Mykelti Williamson, Jere Burns, David Andrews, Rick Gomez, Max Perlich, William Ragsdale, Stephen Root, Stephen Tobolowsky, Stoney Westmoreland, Tim DeZarn, Demetrius Grosse, Cleavon McClendon, Neal McDonough, David Atkinson, Elena Evangelo, Lynda Kay Parker, Jonathan Kowalsky, William Gregory Lee, Brendan McCarthy, Joe Stevens, Allen Eckhouse.

On this day in music history: Baby Blue by Badfinger, Tri-State by Above & Beyond, Beyond the Horizon by Lauren Scott

Baby Blue by Badfinger (1972)

Tri-State by Above & Beyond (2006)

Beyond the Horizon by Lauren Scott (2020)

 

Baby Blue

Song by Badfinger,

released March 6, 1972.

Since learning the band and bandmates' journey, after their most famous songs were released, hearing the song makes me sad, but I am also so thankful that Baby Blue, Without You, Day After Day, No Matter What, Come and Get It, and others are forever ours as reminders of great songwriters and songwriting from years past.

Tri-State

Album by Above & Beyond,

released March 6, 2006.

Track list: Tri State; Stealing Time; World on Fire; Liquid Love; In the Past; Alone Tonight; Good for Me.

Beyond the Horizon

Album by Lauren Scott,

released March 6, 2020.

Track list: Adventures for Lever Harp, Book 2: Free Running; Adventures for Lever Harp, Book 2: Blue Moon Rising; Adventures for Lever Harp, Book 1: First Flight of Spring; For Mattia; New Shoots – Old Roots: Away for a While; Adventures for Lever Harp, Book 2: Gypsy Dance; In a Landscape; The Yellow Cake Review: Farewell To Stromness (arr. for lever harp by Lauren Scott); Beyond the Horizon; Celestial Spirals; Across the Universe (arr. for lever harp by Lauren Scott); Adventures for Lever Harp: Crepuscule.

Raymond Chandler, on writing:

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

- Raymond Chandler.

Recommended reading – The Owl: Justice Never Sleeps & The Owl: Scarlet Serenade

The Owl: Justice Never Sleeps

by Bob Forward.

First published in 1984.
Republished in 2014.
Published by Brash Books.
Paperback.
 
ISBN-10: 1941298052
ISBN-13: 978-1941298053
 
Description:
 
Justic never sleeps.
 
Alexander L’Hiboux is a man who lives on the streets, who never sleeps, who never stops hunting his lawless prey… he is The Owl.
 
The most daring and original hero in crime fiction… in a debut novel that’s a relentless, pure-adrenaline rush.
 

It’s the mid-1980s. Crime in Los Angeles is running rampant. When the law can’t help you, there is one man who can: Alexander L’Hiboux, whose ability to sleep was destroyed in the ghastly tragedy that cost him his family. Now he’s justice-for-hire, prowling the streets and solving crimes with deadly finality. A desperate, grief-stricken shipping magnate hires The Owl to find the scum who brutalized his daughter…a quest that uncovers a shocking conspiracy that will rock the city.

 

“Mike Hammer is a wimp compared to The Owl,” – Bill Crider, author of Outrage at Blanco and the bestselling Sheriff Dan Rhoades mysteries.

 

The Owl: Scarlet Serenade

by Bob Forward.

First published in 1990.
Republished in 2014.
Published by Brash Books.
Paperback.
 
ISBN-10: 1941298214
ISBN-13: 978-1941298213
 
Description:
 
Alexander L’Hiboux is a man who lives on the streets, who never sleeps, who never stops hunting his lawless prey. He is…
 
THE OWL
 
Haunted. Lethal. Unstoppable. Justice incarnate.
 
The most daring and original hero in crime fiction in a scorching, action-packed adventure.
 
SCARLET SERENADE
 

It’s the mean-streets of L.A. in the mid-1980s. When The Owl rescues a young punk-rock starlet from being kidnapped, he considered it just a minor good deed with a few dead bodies left scattered around. But he soon discovers that she’s the target of a gangland conspiracy that has half of the city’s underworld after her. Now the only thing between her and certain death is The Owl.

 

“Exhilarating! A pure action high unlike anything I’ve ever read before. The Owl is a cross between Batman and The Terminator…but he’s even more deadly and relentless,” –  Lee Goldberg, New York Times bestselling author of The Chase.

 

“It starts off over the top and builds from there. There’s action aplenty. The Owl absorbs more punishment than any two or three or four people in other novels,” – Bill Crider, author of Outrage at Blanco.

Born on this day – Jules Furthman:

 

Jules Furthman

Writer

March 5, 1888 – September 22, 1966

Credits:

Rio Bravo (1959); Jet Pilot (1957); Lux Video Theatre (1957); Cheyenne (1956); Peking Express (1951); Pretty Baby (1950); Nightmare Alley (1947); Moss Rose (1947); The Big Sleep (1946); To Have and Have Not (1944); The Outlaw (1943); The Shanghai Gesture (1941); The Way of All Flesh (1940); Northwest Passage (1940); Only Angels Have Wings (1939); Zaza (1938); Spawn of the North (1938); They Gave Him a Gun (1937); The Good Earth (1937); Come and Get It (1936); Mutiny on the Bounty (1935); China Seas (1935); Bombshell (1933); 6 Hours to Live (1932); Blonde Venus (1932); Shanghai Express (1932); Over the Hill (1931); The Yellow Ticket (1931); Merely Mary Ann (1931); Cuerpo y alma (1931); Body and Soul (1931); Morocco (1930); Renegades (1930); Common Clay (1930); New York Nights (1929); Thunderbolt (1929); The Case of Lena Smith (1929); The Docks of New York (1928); The Dragnet (1928); Abie's Irish Rose (1928); The City Gone Wild (1927); The Way of All Flesh (1927); Barbed Wire (1927); Fashions for Women (1927); Casey at the Bat (1927); The Love Wager (1927); Hotel Imperial (1927); You'd Be Surprised (1926); The Wise Guy (1926); Big Pal (1925); Before Midnight (1925); Any Woman (1925); Sackcloth and Scarlet (1925); Romola (1924); Call of the Mate (1924); Try and Get It (1924); Condemned (1923); The Acquittal (1923); North of Hudson Bay (1923); High Gear Jeffrey (1923); St. Elmo (1923); Lovebound (1923); Pawn Ticket 210 (1922); A California Romance (1922); The Love Gambler (1922); Calvert's Valley (1922); Strange Idols (1922); The Yellow Stain (1922); Arabian Love (1922); The Ragged Heiress (1922); Gleam O'Dawn (1922); The Roof Tree (1921); The Last Trail (1921); Colorado Pluck (1921); The Blushing Bride (1921); The Big Punch (1921); The Cheater Reformed (1921); The Land of Jazz (1920); Singing River (1920); The Iron Rider (1920); The Texan (1920); The Skywayman (1920); The Man Who Dared (1920); The White Circle (1920); The Great Redeemer (1920); A Sister to Salome (1920); Twins of Suffering Creek (1920); Leave It to Me (1920); Would You Forgive? (1920); Treasure Island (1920); The Valley of Tomorrow (1920); The Beloved Cheater (1919); The Lincoln Highwayman (1919); Victory (1919); Six Feet Four (1919); This Hero Stuff (1919); A Sporting Chance (1919); Some Liar (1919); Brass Buttons (1919); Where the West Begins (1919); When a Man Rides Alone (1919); The Mantle of Charity (1918); Wives and Other Wives (1918); All the World to Nothing (1918); Hobbs in a Hurry (1918); A Japanese Nightingale (1918); Up Romance Road (1918); Hearts or Diamonds? (1918); A Camouflage Kiss (1918); Souls in Pawn (1917); The Masked Heart (1917); The Shackles of Truth (1917); The Frame-Up (1917); High Play (1917); The Little Blonde in Black (1915); A Fiery Introduction (1915); Quits / The Sheriff of Long Butte (1915); Mountain Justice (1915); Chasing the Limited (1915); Bound on the Wheel (1915); Steady Company (1915).

Born on this day – Dorothy Green:

 

Dorothy Green

Actress

March 5, 1892 – November 16, 1963

Credits:

A Parisian Romance (1916); After Dark (1915); Forest Rivals (1919); Her Mother's Secret (1915); My Favorite Husband (1953); Patria (1917); The A.B.C. of Love (1919); The American Way (1919); The Country Boy (1915); The Dark Star (1919); The Devil at His Elbow (1916); The Good-Bad Wife (1920); The Grouch (1918); The Lesson (1917); The Model (1915); The Praise Agent (1919); The Spirit of the Poppy (1914); The Wonderful Adventure (1915); Your Favorite Story (1954).