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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 ...

Wikipedia: The concept of an atomic-powered cruise-missile doomsday weapon as seen in this film was similar to the U.S.A.F. Supersonic Low Altitude Missile under development at the time.

IMDB: Ori ...

From Wikipedia we have potential story ideas if G II had been picked up as a weekly show.

"Company B" --- A "Trojan Horse" suicide squad from the days of the great conflict com ...

Bruce, you found it less troubling that the absence of the moon would wreak havoc upon the Earth and humankind. Yet you were troubled with the premise of Genesis II/Planet Earth, even though in those ...

Since Gene Roddenberry created Genesis II, we can see he brought into it similar ideas as his Star Trek television series.

Dylan Hunt is revived from suspended animation 150 years after he was fir ...

Belgian Clement Vidal has put forth in a paper the idea of alien civilizations being able to control hypervelocity stars (stars that move at extraordinarily high speeds).

In theory, such civilizati ...

The Secret Service was a science fiction/espionage television series created by Gerry & Sylvia Anderson that ran for 13 episode from September 21, 1969 until December 14, 1969.

Premise: Father ...

A few more observations.

The remastered version of BOT is marvelous. The comet with its tail is splendidly done as it sails along in outer space. Problem: Comets tails occur when they are passing b ...

Ironically, it has been suggested that since the Marvel Universe films are being continually produced by the Disney Company and are generally a smash hit; Disney's chances of ever rebooting Sky High o ...

This fourth, and final, season of Superman & Lois has been nothing short of sensational. The writing, cast, visuals and directing have been all splendid. I'm so sorry that Nexstar purchased the CW ...