Posted on 09/09/2010 8:23:41 PM PDT by KevinDavis
One character... and a few guests over the series. Acting was superb... writing was superb and the effects were amazing for the money that they spent. It was also a great love story at its center.
LLS
Is that the one with the most famous comedic acting trio ever "Charles Nelson Reilly"? ;-)
You betcha!
It's my understanding that the DVD set actually places the episodes in the order they were supposed to appear on television, but that Fox originally changed the line-up.
Here's some Space:1999 trivia...there was a third season ready to produce; scripts were ready for the first five episodes. It was canceled when ITV decided it want to make a blockbuster movie that would cost more than a whole season of 1999.
It was a huge bomb. Remember "Raise The Titanic?"
Which is kind of funny considering how little dialogue was written for it. (Yes, a story is much more than its dialogue. Absolutely.)
Last line of that episode: "We have to talk."
Followed by complete silence, as neither knew what to say.
Ha! I don ‘t remember that movie. But I really did enjoy Space 1999. I loved Maya’s transformation into a beast and it was nice for Barry Morse to play a character where he wasn’t one of the most hated men in America.The blue ray is coming out in November and I’m thinking about getting it.
You folks don’t really appreciate the best of the best. Come on get real, Buster Crab, Priscilla Lawson, Jean Rogers, and Charles Middleton = Flash Gordon 1936!! Space ships that land in one place and take off in another, ray guns, rocket ship guns that go “Ponk”, great special effects combined with stellar acting, what a serial. Well that was my review of it when I was about 8-9 yrs old. Who knew what would follow over the next 60+ years?
Look at those special effects and great sets and costumes, its all here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B707Ava4wrY
LOL!!!
I think I’ll have to fire that one up on the Netflix instant que. Haven’t seen it in a couple of years, but it is my favorite.
Agreed.
Their TNG pick was good, but hands down the best episode of that show was "The Inner Light."
The X-Files ep that really creeped me out was "The Host," the earlier episode with the Flukeman. Otherwise, put me down for another vote for "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" or "The Postmodern Prometheus." I loved the creepy stuff, but there were times when I felt The X-Files was at its best when it refused to take itself too bleeping seriously.
What, no Babylon 5? Plotwise, the "War Without End" two-parter was like a brickbat to the head.
I LOVE the SG-1 episode that was like Groundhog Day! LOL
I definitely agree with LOST The Constant and Doctor Who Blink.
I love David Tennant’s Doctor Who and yet he was barely in Blink, but still a perfect episode.
While I think “Blink” was a great episode (”Love & Monsters” was another clever episode with very little of The Doctor in it), I think “Father’s Day” was a better episode and the one I’d pick if I had to pick a favorite Doctor Who episode (old or new).
The title of the SG-1 time loop episode is “Window of Opportunity” and I agree that it’s a great episode.
My favorite moment of that episode is when O’Neil gets his kiss... finally.
I’m not much of a watcher of sci-fi anymore, but I suffered through the entire seven year run of Deep Space Nine; that show had just enough shootin’ and humor in it to keep me coming back. It had a couple of episodes I’d enjoy having around to watch once in a while, such as “Second Sight” and “The Magnificent Ferengi” and for that matter “Little Green Men”. Eventually, if I live long enough to have some cash to waste, I’ll have all the ST series on, uh, disk? hard drive? flash drive? SSD? holographic storage media? and watch ‘em when I feel like. TNG was overall the best of the series, yet they managed to produce some of the biggest howlers of all, and their soapbox episodes were dreadful. DS9 surpassed the other series (speaking from a perspective of someone who couldn’t take Voyager much of the time, and couldn’t stand Enterprise from the very beginning) in its production of soapbox episodes, and every last one of them stank to high heaven. Anyway, I’m blah-blah-blahing...
“the Anne Francis episode in the Dept Store”
That was a hot one, one of the few I remember.
-PJ
-PJ
For TV in 1967, that was probably strong stuff, and the only time I recall hearing that word on the series.
-PJ
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