ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

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Butch, I bought the Roku stick, plugged it up, and received loads of movies and shows . . . FREE, including CometTV, which is what started this discussion.

As I mentioned earlier, I got mine because Bulldogtrekker got one and recommended it. He was a VERY frugal guy, and he refused to get Netlix because he didn't want to pay the small monthly cost.

But he liked Roku because it was free.

I don't know where you're getting your info, but if you've got DirectTV, read this.

Get a free Roku® Streaming Stick® when you prepay 1 month of DIRECTV NOW (min. $35/mo.)*

And read this too.

Will I be charged a monthly subscription or rental fees?

No.

Roku does not charge a monthly service subscription or monthly equipment rental fees for owning a Roku® streaming player or Roku TV™; nor does it charge for creating a Roku account. However, you may be charged a monthly subscription for services, or channels, available via the Roku Channel Store.

And then read this.

Watch Free TV on Roku with Comet TV. Comet TV is a free sci-fi channel that is now available for Roku. The channel is a live feed of the Comet TV OTA channel that is found via an antenna in many markets.

Now you can watch it without one!

So, buy the channels you want. Don't buy the channels you don't want. But you do NOT need an antennae to watch CometTV, and you don't need to pay one red cent for it either if you get a Roku stick.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

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LOTG Trivia } Costing around $250,000, the pilot ''The Crash''
(September 22,1968) was one of the most expensive pilots ever made up to that time.

Episodes took from 6 to 9 days to shoot at around $210,000.

Many of the cast did their own stunt work.

Props were made out of balsa wood or fiberglass.

A number of props were bought from the I Dream of Jeannie TV sitcom.

In a cost saving measure, Irwin Allen was going to remodel the Jupiter 2 space ship from his sci~fi TV show Lost in Space & turn it into the Spindrift ship for LOTG.

He would also revamp the interior of the saucer in order to become the interior for the Spindrift. These ideas were dropped.

Ghost Town, September 29,1968, was one of the few episodes filmed on one of the outdoor backlots of the 20th Century Fox Studio.

It was called the Vermont street & is no longer standing.

Framed, from October 06, 1968 was the highest rated episode of the series.

[Bud Brewster]

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Bulldogtrekker and I shared a few episodes while chatting on Facebook (something we did almost daily for six years until he passed away), and we enjoyed them. He was a bit more impressed than I was, but our taste often differed.

Despite this, it was still fun watching the movies and shows we shared that way, even when one of us was much more fond of a given feature than the other.

By the way, I talked with Bulldogtrekker's wife, Kay, on the phone recently and she seemed quite happy, despite the loss of her husband several months back. I told her that he was missed by his friends on All Sci-Fi.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Pow]

LOTG Episode Fun Facts } ''Underground'' October 20,1968.
It is in this episode that establishes the government of the LOTG as a dictatorial one.

''Weird World,'' December 22,1968.
Considered by many as the finest episode of the entire series.

The episode indicates that the giant's technology is at least 5 decades behind Earth.

"On a Clear Night You Can See Earth,'' January 26,1969.
Supposedly this episode was based upon the 40s classic sci~fi movie "Dr. Cyclops.''

"Shell Game," April 13,1969.
The shells are props originally created for the movie ''Dr. Doolittle.''

"The Mechanical Man, "September 21,1969.
2 nifty looking props we see for the first time are created by the castaways. A periscope which can extend upwards in great height. And a laser cutting tool.
Unfortunately, we never again see the periscope after this episode.

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''A Place Called Earth,'' December 07, 1969.

In the earth year 5477, a pair of time travelers arrive in the LOTG.

Their time machine is the Lost In Space Space Pod.

Another example of Irwin Allen reusing sets, props, & costumes on all of his sci~fi TV series.

"Secret City of Limbo," January 18,1970.

The set for the underground city was the set used in Beneath the Planet of the Apes.

[Krel]

[Bud Brewster]

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Sit back, relax, and enjoy this YouTube video!
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________ Land of the Giants, promo film (1967)


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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Pow]

The Giants Are Coming by Jeanette Georgala, Carole Lewin, William E. Anchors, Jr., and Cynthia Liljeblad.

Beautiful Deanna Lund who played the spoiled, swinging, fun-loving socialite, jet-set brat Valerie Ames Scott was a top equestrian in real life and performed on the rodeo circuit.

Deanna and her fellow co-star Don Matheson (Mark Wilson) married in 1970, and in 1971 had a baby daughter, Michele. Deanna and Don sadly divorced in the late seventies, but remained good friends.

Gary Conway (born Gareth Monello Carmody on February 4, 1938) is also a fine artist, and skilled architect and builder. He has designed many fine homes and vineyards in California.

Gary and his wife are devotees of great wines, they developed one of the premier vineyards in California: Silver Canyon Vineyards.

Don Matheson joined the USMC, and later served in the Army Airborne division. Don was transferred to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). He acted as an agent for the United Nations Command, posted in South Korea.
While in Korea, Don was awarded the Bronze Star for valorous leadership and a Purple heart for injuries suffered in an explosion. His CID work included investigations into the use of narcotics among Army troops.

Don served in the Army for six and a half years, before moving on to join the Detroit Police Department. His experience in investigating narcotics trafficking was soon recognized and he continued with undercover narcotics work for the police.

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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 believe it. The other day we took a little guy and measured, on our own home screen, against a big guy. And after 12, we weren't even up to the knees of the big guy. It's true, we had one of the little guy-girls, but still.

Anyway, no matter how much bigger the big guys are, the little guys are all heart. And they didn't all start out that way either. The idea was that they were, on June 12, 1983, on a sub-orbital flight on a rocket ship for London, when they ran into solar turbulence. Then, before you could say boo, a huge sun-like thing drew them in like a magnet; and before you could say boom, they had crash-landed on a strange planet. Here, everything was not just a silly millimeter longer, but really enormous. Unfortunately, however, there was still some littleness among the little guys.

Tycoon Mark Wilson (Don Matheson), for example, was furious because he wasn't going to be in London when the banks opened to consummate a 50-million dollar deal. A mysterious stranger, Alexander Fitzhugh (Kurt Kasznar), was pretty upset too, because he had just stolen a million dollars and felt he had to keep moving.

Then there was this jet setter, Valerie Scott (Deanna Lund). She was angry too. She was game for a party anywhere, apparently, but this was ridiculous --- and furthermore the service was poor. In no time at all, she was nothing but trouble to poor Captain Steve Burton (Gary Conway). First she led him right into a trap set by a mean giant entomologist and then, just when they were about to escape, she put her little foot down on a giant test tube and got them recaptured. Fortunately, just when they were about to be experimented on, they were rescued by co-pilot Dan Erickson (Don Marshall) and tycoon Wilson, who by now was a good little guy. "Am I glad to see you two!" says Steve, whose dialogue is always straight from the shoulder.

Soon even Fitzhugh proves he has some bigness underneath all his littleness when he not only admits to young Barry Lockridge (Stefan Arngrim) and Barry's dog that he's a big nothing but also shoots the entomologist --- in the toe and twice in the finger.

The other regular member of the castaways is stewardess Betty Hamilton (Heather Young). She's a terrific morale booster in spite of the fact that in addition to sharing all of the troubles the others have, she also is almost constantly strangled by her size-1 sweater.

All and all, if you're under 11, you're bound to enjoy this show. If you're over 11, lots of luck.

There are some nice-guy giants, it is true, but most of the plots revolve around things like a giant carnival operator or a giant convict who gets trapped in quicksand. On one recent show even the giant police turn critics. "Ever since the Government posted a reward," one of them says, "we've been doing nothing but running down bad tips on little people."

Well, ole' Cleve didn't totally massacre the series in his review as I thought he might do. My impression from reading his reviews is that science fiction was never a genre he warmed up to much.