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  Topic: DESTINATION SPACE — 1959 Unsold Sci-Fi Pilot Film
Maurice

Replies: 10
Views: 6302

PostForum: Sci-Fi Movies and Serials from 1950 to 1969   Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:41 pm   Subject: DESTINATION SPACE — 1959 Unsold Sci-Fi Pilot Film
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My goodness. What an unusual poster. Most promotional material says things like —

"An incredible adventure!"

"The supreme ex ...
  Topic: Conquest of Space (1955)
Maurice

Replies: 37
Views: 37601

PostForum: Sci-Fi Movies and Serials from 1950 to 1969   Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:35 pm   Subject: Conquest of Space (1955)
Respectfully, you put your thumb on the scales there, Bud. Laughing

Taking Alltare at his own words, he was talking about Bonstell paintings and made a general comment that producers in the fifties h ...
  Topic: DESTINATION SPACE — 1959 Unsold Sci-Fi Pilot Film
Maurice

Replies: 10
Views: 6302

PostForum: Sci-Fi Movies and Serials from 1950 to 1969   Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 4:06 pm   Subject: DESTINATION SPACE — 1959 Unsold Sci-Fi Pilot Film
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  Topic: DESTINATION SPACE — 1959 Unsold Sci-Fi Pilot Film
Maurice

Replies: 10
Views: 6302

PostForum: Sci-Fi Movies and Serials from 1950 to 1969   Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:50 am   Subject: DESTINATION SPACE — 1959 Unsold Sci-Fi Pilot Film
Although I enjoyed it, I think the pilot is a little weak, and not so compelling that CBS would fight to keep it on its sked (schedule in Variety-speak).

In the first 9 minutes it's not entirely cl ...
  Topic: Battlestar Galactica (1978 - 1979)
Maurice

Replies: 67
Views: 66087

PostForum: Sci-Fi on Television from 1970 to 2000   Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 3:24 am   Subject: Battlestar Galactica (1978 - 1979)
Terry Carter, ‘Battlestar Galactica’ and ‘McCloud’ Actor, Dies at 95



By Lexi Carson

Terry Carter, who played sergeant Joe Broadhurst on the TV series “McCloud” and detective Colo ...
  Topic: DESTINATION SPACE — 1959 Unsold Sci-Fi Pilot Film
Maurice

Replies: 10
Views: 6302

PostForum: Sci-Fi Movies and Serials from 1950 to 1969   Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 2:27 am   Subject: DESTINATION SPACE — 1959 Unsold Sci-Fi Pilot Film
'Space Conquest' As Paramount's First TV Series

Hollywood, May 20.

"Conquest of Space" will be the first property to be filmed by Paramount Sunset in its projected slate of tv series ...
  Topic: Forbidden Planet (1956)
Maurice

Replies: 2138
Views: 1007448

PostForum: Sci-Fi Movies and Serials from 1950 to 1969   Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:11 pm   Subject: Forbidden Planet (1956)
Robby's brief (and potentially disastrous) cameo made me realize just how carefully all his scenes were done in Forbidden Planet.

For example, he always had plenty of room to move around — never ...
  Topic: DESTINATION SPACE — 1959 Unsold Sci-Fi Pilot Film
Maurice

Replies: 10
Views: 6302

PostForum: Sci-Fi Movies and Serials from 1950 to 1969   Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2024 2:33 am   Subject: DESTINATION SPACE — 1959 Unsold Sci-Fi Pilot Film
That was pretty good. If it had gone to series I wonder how quickly they have had to start generating their own effects, as there were a limited number of them in Conquest of Space they'd have been ab ...
  Topic: Forbidden Planet (1956)
Maurice

Replies: 2138
Views: 1007448

PostForum: Sci-Fi Movies and Serials from 1950 to 1969   Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:34 am   Subject: Forbidden Planet (1956)
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One of Robby's lesser-known cameos was a nightmare which Shirley Booth had in the series Hazel, when she was worried about being replaced by automatio ...
  Topic: The Outer Limits (ABC 1963 - 1965)
Maurice

Replies: 74
Views: 78918

PostForum: The Outer Limits (1963 to 1965)   Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:54 pm   Subject: The Outer Limits (ABC 1963 - 1965)
I found this interesting chapter in The Outer Limits: The Official Companion book.
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  Topic: The Outer Limits (ABC 1963 - 1965)
Maurice

Replies: 74
Views: 78918

PostForum: The Outer Limits (1963 to 1965)   Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:40 pm   Subject: The Outer Limits (ABC 1963 - 1965)
Sidebar: What an intriguing concept for a television series. It really could be rebooted today. Contact RandCorp, if it still exists, and sit with their experts and have them project outward what the ...
  Topic: FUN SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES!
Maurice

Replies: 8
Views: 240

PostForum: Sci-Fi Movies from 1970 to 2000   Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:21 pm   Subject: FUN SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES!
Of this era specifically...

—The first three Star Wars films
—Flash Gordon
—Parts (pun intended) of Flesh Gordon
—Wizards tho it's really more fantasy
—All three Back to the Future f ...
  Topic: Space: 1999 (1975 - 1977)
Maurice

Replies: 95
Views: 116089

PostForum: Sci-Fi on Television from 1970 to 2000   Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2024 4:25 am   Subject: Space: 1999 (1975 - 1977)
I rewatched S1's "War Games", which is one of my fave episodes, but even it illustrates some of the problems I've always had with the show and what I previously called out as the incurious n ...
  Topic: The Invaders (1967 - 1968)
Maurice

Replies: 107
Views: 106942

PostForum: Sci-Fi on Television from 1950 to 1969   Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:56 pm   Subject: The Invaders (1967 - 1968)
As to the saucer design: All art is not just about what it is but when it was made.

Maybe discussed above, but The Invaders ship is clearly based on the Venusian "scout ship" popularized ...
  Topic: Space: 1999 (1975 - 1977)
Maurice

Replies: 95
Views: 116089

PostForum: Sci-Fi on Television from 1970 to 2000   Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:01 pm   Subject: Space: 1999 (1975 - 1977)
I just went to the link posted and it says its unavailable.
Sad.
Try the following link or search for
It may be possible the previous link (I edited it) points at the specific episode running.
 
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