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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2023 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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Pow wrote: | Reminds me of what Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski said when he was creating his B5 TV show, "No funny robots, no cute kids." |
Okay, so how 'bout cute robots and funny kids? (No, that's no good either . . . )
Ah-ha, I've got it! A cute, funny robot kid! ![Very Happy](images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif) _________________ ____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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Pow Galactic Ambassador
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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2023 1:46 am Post subject: |
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Just read an interview with the late Richard Hatch discussing plans about BSG had it been renewed for another year (not that BSG 1980 mess). According to Richard, none other then famed author Isaac Asimov was to have come on board the production as head story editor. If true, he might well have been able to take a mediocre series and transform it into something quite remarkable. |
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Krel Space Ranger
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Joined: 19 Feb 2023 Posts: 190
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Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2023 12:44 pm Post subject: |
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BSG had a problem, in that it was never intended to be a TV series. ABC looked at the mini series and ordered a TV show for the fall season. There was no lead time, and they were working on the story-line as the show was being broadcast.
The show did okay in the ratings, but it cost around a million dollars per episode. A great amount for a TV series back wen TV episodes had a budget of around 45,000 dollars. Even with the huge budget, they still had to rely on stock footage. The show did well, just not a million dollars per episode well. If the episodes hadn't cost that much, the show probably would have gotten a second season. That would have given the production staff time to work out the kinks.
I like the show and have the DVDs, it was a fun Space Opera with likeable actors and characters.
Richard Hatch was left-handed and had to used a right hand holster mounted on the left side of the belt.
When the miniseries came out the Daget handler came on "The Tonight Show". He walked onto the stage, layed the Daget on it's side. He started operating a remote control and the Daget stood up, it's ears and mouth moving. He put the Daget through it paces, then revealed the truth. The robot Daget was a chimpanzee in a costume with remote controlled mouth and ears. He took the head and front paws off the costume, and had the chimp sit next to him. The chimp was given a mug to drink from.
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orzel-w Galactic Ambassador
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Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2023 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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I thought it was rather obvious the Daget was a chimp in costume. _________________ ...or not...
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Krel Space Ranger
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Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2023 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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It wasn't a secret, I remember a TV Guide article on the Daget costume with several photos. But this was done in front of a live audience that probably hadn't see the TVG article.
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Maurice Mission Specialist
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2023 7:24 am Post subject: |
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Krel wrote: | BSG [...]The show did okay in the ratings, but it cost around a million dollars per episode. A great amount for a TV series back wen TV episodes had a budget of around 45,000 dollars. |
I think you dropped a zero there.
Most US hour-long network shows in that era cost about $400K (see this). Long running ones, over $500K. BSG (beyond the first five hours) averaged about $750K, as did Buck Rogers the following year.
BSG didn't rely on stock footage only because of budget. Dykstra's group was signed up to do the VFX for the miniseries, and when ABC put in a full series older there was a scramble to set up a VFX plant to do the work. Stock footage was standard procedure on TV (hell, the leads on Bonanza always wore the same clothes so that stock footage could be used all over the place). The problem with Galactica's VFX repetition was that they had so many space battles that the re-use was super apparent, especially week after week.
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Pow Galactic Ambassador
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Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2024 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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Richard Hatch who played Captain Apollo was passionate about reviving BG.
His plan was to bring it back to television with what was called "The Second Coming." He produced a video for it.
"The time has come to stop running and take back our sacred homeland." Apollo.
In the video we see the survivors of the Cylon attack are now on some unknown planet with newly constructed pyramids.
Civilization has recovered but there is a new Cylon threat. A Cylon Civil War has taken place and a brand new species of Cylon has evolved.
There are images of the long-dead reptilian race who first created the Cylon robots.
A new generation of characters appear such as Apollo's son & Starbuck's daughter.
Starbuck is M.I.A., and presumed deceased. Yet a rescue mission is being planned.
Colonel Tigh (Terry Carter) is now the commander. John Colicos returns as Balter (with facial scars) offering to help defeat the new Cylon threat.
It is shown that the late Commander Adama possessed E.S.P. So does Apollo & Athena. The new show would have a darker tone to it.
Richard Hatch presented this new continuation to Universal Pictures. In order to create a demo-reel of his proposed project, Hatch re-mortgaged his home to make the film short. |
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Maurice Mission Specialist
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Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 3:24 am Post subject: |
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Quote: | Terry Carter, ‘Battlestar Galactica’ and ‘McCloud’ Actor, Dies at 95
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By Lexi Carson
Terry Carter, who played sergeant Joe Broadhurst on the TV series “McCloud” and detective Colonel Tigh on the original “Battlestar Galactica,” died at his home in New York, N.Y., Tuesday morning. He was 95.
Born John Everett DeCoste in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Dec. 16, 1928, to parents of Dominican, Argentine and African American descent, Carter would go on to become the first Black TV news anchor for Boston’s WBZ-TV Eyewitness News, where he also became their first opening night drama and movie critic. He was also one of the first Black regulars on the 1956 TV sitcom series “The Phil Silvers Show,” in which he played Private Sugarman.
Carter’s other credits include the 1970 TV movie “Company of Killers,” in which he starred alongside Van Johnson and Ray Milland, and the 1974 film “Foxy Brown” with Pam Grier.
In 1979 Carter formed the Council for Positive Images, a nonprofit dedicated to enhancing intercultural and interethnic understanding through media. Under the organization, he produced and directed several documentary programs for PBS focusing on cultural and historical topics.
In 1988, Carter produced and directed the Emmy-nominated TV musical documentary “A Duke Named Ellington,” about the jazz titan.
Carter served two terms on the board of Governors of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He was inducted in 1983 into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and he served on the documentary committee and the foreign films committee for the Oscars. In 1985, Carter was awarded a Los Angeles Emmy for “K*I*D*S,” a TV miniseries he created, directed and produced about a diverse group of teenagers who struggle to navigate the intense conflicts confronting American youth at the time.
Carter was twice widowed and is survived by his wife Etaferhu Zenebe-DeCoste, and his two children Miguel and Melinda.
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