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Juicy stuff in today’s Featured Threads! Very Happy

~ Gene Rodenberry’s Planet Earth was one of three attempts to sell the networks his idea for a new sci-fi series.

~ Plenet of Dinosaurs is a low-budget movie with amazing stop-motion animation. It’s a puzzling combination.

~ Probe / Search is a series that dazzled me in 1972 with it’s imaginative combination of suave agents and their cool gadgets.



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Planet Earth (1974 TV movie)



Executive producer Gene Rodenberry made three unsuccessful attempts to sell the networks this idea for a series. With a little encouragement, Rodenberry might have turned this into another "Star Trek".

"Planet Earth" is Rodenberry's second attempt to transport viewers into a post-holocaust future where civilization has collapsed and society has fragmented into strange little subcultures ("Genesis II" was the first try, "Strange New World" was the third).

John Saxon takes over the role of Dylan Hunt from "Genesis II" star Alex Cord. Hunt is a scientist who is revived from suspended animation in the year 2133 by a peaceful group of dedicated reconstructionist who labor to restore world order. Saxon leads a team of experts on a search for a missing surgeon who is needed to perform a life-saving operation on an injured leader of the reconstructionists.

Janet Margolin plays a fiesty female team member who secretly wants to get romantic with Saxon if the network will just buy the series and give her the time. Team member Ted (Lurch) Cassidy wears a long blond wig and a headband to give him a hippy/Indian look.

Saxon's team is captured by Diana Muldaur's female-dominated society. Saxon seduces Muldaur, helps organize a bloodless revolt against the slave-master women, and whips the menfolk into shape just in time to defeat an attacking band of renegade mutant soldiers.

All in all, "Planet Earth" is easy to like, a spirited sci-fi adventure whose only real fault is that it baby-talks its story to the viewer. Directed by Marc Daniels from a screenplay by Gene Rodenberry and Juanita Bartlette. Also starring Johana DeWinter, and Christopher Gary.

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Planet of Dinosaurs (1978)





From Wikipedia
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Planet of Dinosaurs (also known as Dinossauros: Planet of Dinosaurs) is a 1978 science fiction film.





Set in an unspecified future, the film follows the journey of Captain Lee and his crew after they crash land on a planet with similar life conditions as Earth, but millions of years behind in time.



Encountering a wide variety of dangerous dinosaurs, the crew decides that its best chance for survival lies on finding higher ground and setting up a defensive perimeter on a higher plateau for refuge to wait for when or if their rescuers arrive. They soon encounter a deadly Tyrannosaurus and must figure out a way to defeat the creature and survive on the planet.





The film was a low budget endeavor with no major stars; James Whitworth and Max Thayer have the most film experience amongst the actors.





Director James K. Shea instructed most of the budget to be spent on the special effects for the film, which included an array of award-winning stop motion dinosaurs, leaving little money for props or even to pay the main actors.





Modern reviews have generally been negative, although there is agreement that the stop motion dinosaurs were the most notable and enjoyable aspect of the film.





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Probe / Search (1972-1973)

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Pilot episode for a brief but exciting TV series called "Search", starring Hugh O'Brian, Angel Tompkins, and Burgess Meredith (Doug McClure and Anthoy Franciosa were added for the series).

The shows had a nifty gimmick; as a detective employed by a hi-tech investigative agency, O'Brian wears a miniature TV camera and microphone so that a group of technicians (lead by Meredith) can monitor his actions from a mission-control-type room.



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An implanted earpiece allows Merrideth and crew to talk to O'Brian without anyone else overhearing, and they used this to provide him with valuable information from a variety of sources (computer banks, satellite hook-up, you name it). O'Brian can dazzle the unsuspecting folks around him by seeming know everything — a walking library, thanks to the secret assistance of the technicians that support him through the audio-video link.

When O'Brian is captured by the bad guys, Merridith calls the cops to rescue him — unbeknownst to the bad guys!



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The pilot episode involves O'Brian's search for a missing jewel collection. Elke Sommer and John Gielgud co-star. Look for Jaclyn Smith in a small role. Directed by Russ Mayberry.

One odd thing about the series: in this pilot and the first dozen episodes, the control room occupied by Merrideth and crew was kept dark, which accented the big, bright screen on which they monitored O'Brian's mini-camera.

It also gave the viewer the eerie feeling that the control room and its occupants were inside O'Brian's head, a group of microscopic people who shared his eyes and ears. But later in the season the producers of "Search" decided to light up the control room.

When I watched the series during it initial airing, I thought the change in the control room's was a bad idea. But a few years ago I purchased the box set, and I realized that the control had been expanded and handsomely dressed up with more high-tech equipment.

More recently I became an ardent fan of "Person of Interest", and it took me a while to realize that it was in many ways a modern version of "Search". The main character, John Reese, wears an earpiece and stays in constant communication with his high-tech older partner, Harold Finch, who sits in a dimly lit abandoned library, using a bank of computers to instantly provide John with any info he needs to perform his missions.

If your a fan of "Person of Interest" I highly recommend you invest in the DVD of "Probe" and the box set of "Search".



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