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Topic: Them! (1954) |
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Forum: Sci-Fi Movies and Serials from 1950 to 1969 Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2025 9:33 pm Subject: Them! (1954) |
Some other actors who pop up in the film for brief moments are Richard Deacon & Dick York.
Dub Taylor who plays the train yard night watchman has a scene where he's interviewed by Jim Arness. ... |
Topic: Them! (1954) |
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Forum: Sci-Fi Movies and Serials from 1950 to 1969 Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2025 8:45 pm Subject: Them! (1954) |
Currently watching Them!, on MeTV this evening.
Here's a breakdown of all the scenes in this classic film of appearances by the mutated ants.
1.) Ant appears on a hill just above the female sci ... |
Topic: Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973-1975) |
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Forum: Star Trek on Television Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2025 3:38 pm Subject: Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973-1975) |
Currently watching reimagined proof-of-concept animation of the Star Trek: TAS on Youbube. And they are terrific!
The animation is sensational, the reimagining elements of the original plots is eq ... |
Topic: Mission: Impossible (1966 - 1973) |
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Forum: Sci-Fi on Television from 1950 to 1969 Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2025 4:03 pm Subject: Mission: Impossible (1966 - 1973) |
DYK that View-Master has an episode of Mission: Impossible for their product?
V-M featured the two-part episode "The Bunker" from March 2 & 9, 1969.
"Good afternoon, Mr. Phe ... |
Topic: The Time Tunnel (ABC 1966 - 1967) |
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Forum: Sci-Fi on Television from 1950 to 1969 Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2025 3:35 pm Subject: The Time Tunnel (ABC 1966 - 1967) |
Just watched the View-Master reel for The Time Tunnel today on Youtube.
V-M chose the pilot for the series which was also the first episode aired, "Rendezvous with Yesterday" September 9, ... |
Topic: The Green Hornet (1966 - 1967) |
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Forum: Sci-Fi on Television from 1950 to 1969 Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2025 7:44 pm Subject: The Green Hornet (1966 - 1967) |
View-Master featured the GH episode "Programmed for Death" from September 23, 1966.
The Green Hornet and Kato encounter phony diamonds and a deadly leopard as they investigate the death ... |
Topic: TOS: "The Omega Glory." |
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Forum: Star Trek on Television Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2025 3:06 pm Subject: TOS: "The Omega Glory." |
"TOG" March 1, 1968 is a second season episode of the series. I sincerely doubt this one has ever made any Trek fan's Top 10 List of great episodes.
The reason I am writing about it now i ... |
Topic: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964 - 1968) |
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Forum: Sci-Fi on Television from 1950 to 1969 Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2025 11:45 am Subject: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964 - 1968) |
Facebook (Meta) has a post on VTTBOTS of an updated Seaview class submarine, the Triton.
It's an awesome upgrade and has a cutaway diagram for a portion of the boat. It lists a number of sophisti ... |
Topic: The Thing from Another World (1951) |
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Forum: Sci-Fi Movies and Serials from 1950 to 1969 Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2025 6:04 pm Subject: The Thing from Another World (1951) |
Bud disagrees with me that the compositing scene of the stop-motion animated skeleton with the live Sinbad actor Kerwin Matthews is less than realistic looking with both the actor and the model in th ... |
Topic: Battlestar Galactica (1978 - 1979) |
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Forum: Sci-Fi on Television from 1970 to 2000 Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2025 9:36 pm Subject: Battlestar Galactica (1978 - 1979) |
An early title for BG was "Earth Star." In 1998, Disney produced a television movie/pilot called "Earth Star Voyager" which had nothing to do with BG.
The Cylons were originally ... |
Topic: 1984 (1956 England) |
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Forum: Sci-Fi Movies and Serials from 1950 to 1969 Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2025 12:23 pm Subject: 1984 (1956 England) |
DYK? The C.I.A. purchased the rights to George Orwell's 1984 & Animal Farm novels.
The goal was to alter the ending of the books for their film adaptations. In the book 1984, it has the protag ... |
Topic: The Night Strangler (1973) |
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Forum: Sci-Fi on Television from 1970 to 2000 Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2025 12:21 am Subject: The Night Strangler (1973) |
Director Dan Curtis & screenwriter Richard Matheson had planned for a third Kolchak 90-minute TV movie.
At the end of The Night Strangler we see Carl, Tony, and Louise Harper leaving Seattle ... |
Topic: Logan's Run (1977 - 1978) |
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Forum: Sci-Fi on Television from 1970 to 2000 Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2025 8:30 pm Subject: Logan's Run (1977 - 1978) |
I remember being quite impressed with the visual effects on LR for ray and energy beams of all kinds.
I read somewhere (Starlog?), that it was achieved by manipulating video imagery. Whatever that ... |
Topic: Logan's Run (1977 - 1978) |
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Forum: Sci-Fi on Television from 1970 to 2000 Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2025 8:19 pm Subject: Logan's Run (1977 - 1978) |
FALL Preview article on the LR series in TV Guide.
If you've been wondering what life is going to be like in the year 2319, this science-fiction series is here to tell you its not going to be any ... |
Topic: The Starlost (TV Series 1973) |
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Forum: Sci-Fi on Television from 1970 to 2000 Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2025 2:00 pm Subject: The Starlost (TV Series 1973) |
TV notice for the premiere of The Starlost.
DEBUT: A love triangle that incurs the wrath of the eleders sets the stage in the introduction to this futuristic drama set in the 2700s. Keir Dullea (& ... |
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