ALL SCI-FI

"In Dino Veritas" April 26, 1996.

The Sliders land in a San Francisco which has been turned into a huge living dinosaurs preserve. After losing the timer because of an attacking allosau ...

This is from the report that Starbase 11 Commodore Jose Mendez allows Captain Kirk to read about the planet Talos IV.

Subject: TALOS IV in third quadrant of vernal galaxy.

Known facts: Detailed ...

From a recent interview with series star Roy Thinnes at a convention.

"No, I wasn't interested at all when offered the pilot for The Invaders. I wasn't a science fiction fan at all and was af ...

The concept of the "Gill-man" was based upon Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa attending a dinner party at Orson Wells home. He told of the myth about a half-man/half-fish creature t ...

Having written for Star Trek: The Next Generation, Tracy Torme became friends with Gene Roddenberry and said that Gene encouraged him with the idea of Sliders.

Some unused ideas by Tracy Torme for Sliders episodes.

The sliders land in a field and see a group cloaked in KKK hoods and outfits. Arturo quickly suggests that Rembrandt hide. The leader of the ...

TV Guide Review by Cleveland Amory.

This is a show about the little guys against the big guys. The big guys, it says in the releases, are 12 times the size of the little guys, but frankly we don't ...

The Dell comic book adaptation of the 1961 film was scripted by Paul S. Newman, Frank Bolle provided the interior art.

Although 3 gigantic bees are seen terrorizing Herbert Brown & Elena Fairchild, there was actually only one model constructed as a budget saving measure for the production.

The single bee was s ...

Thanks so much, Maurice, for these fun reviews of this film. Had no idea that Goodyear Playhouse produced a TV version of it. Be interesting to see it because it's much closer to Gore Vidal's play th ...

The writers and science consultants established for the viewing audience the concepts of faster-than-light space travel. Nowadays SF fans just refer to it as FTL travel. We've come a ways since those ...

While certainly far from a marvelous film, I have to say, the Condor Car is fun and the chase scene is exciting.

Imposing William Smith (Rich Man, Poor Man, Any Which Way You Can) would have made an imposing Sinbad. Smith was a weightlifter, boxer, martial artist, etc, so he'd have had the physical stunts naile ...

Just read that Yvonne Craig (Batman) & Pat Priest (The Munsters) both auditioned for the role of yeoman J. M. Colt who was played by Laurel Goodwin.

I meant to also add that the Sinbad films should have also included more action scenes with Sinbad the way Burt & Nick were in their swashbuckling movies.

Burt & Nick were former circus ac ...