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581.0. "THE BEST OF SF TV" by DICKNS::KLAES (The President of what?) Fri Feb 19 1988 09:38
Path: muscat!decwrl!decvax!ucbvax!agate!ig!uwmcsd1!bbn!rochester!cornell!
From: [email protected] (Mike Trout)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.sf-lovers
Subject: THE BEST OF SCIENCE FICTION TV
Keywords: Thumbnail review
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: 17 Feb 88 19:05:01 GMT
Organization: BRS Info Technologies, Latham NY
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I recently received a great book for a birthday present: THE BEST
OF SCIENCE FICTION TV, by John Javna (1987, Harmony Books, New York).
I highly recommend it. I'm not a real SF fanatic, but this book
entertained and fascinated me. There's lots of interesting info and
photos from great shows like "Star Trek", "The Twilight Zone", "The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", and "Quark"; bombs like "Space:
1999", "Lost in Space", and "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"; and
cult favorites like "The Invisible Man", "Fireball XL-5", and "UFO".
I was especially pleased to see short write-ups on "Men Into Space" and
"Rocky Jones: Space Ranger", two of the very earliest TV shows I can
remember. I was quite amazed to read the story of "Space Patrol", a
show slightly before my time. "Space Patrol" apparently was one of
the most popular TV shows of all time, yet is little known today. This
book has me quite interested in the story of "Space Patrol" - does
anybody remember this show, or is it available on video?
The book is an $8.95 trade paperback, and should be available in
most Waldenbooks-type bookstores. If you're at all interested in old
TV or SF TV, you'll enjoy it.
Michael Trout (miket@brspyr1) =-=-=-=-=-=-= UUCP:brspyr1!miket
BRS Information Technologies, 1200 Rt. 7, Latham, N.Y. 12110 (518) 783-1161
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"By and large, I was only trying to fool Mr. Trout." -Dan Rather
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| 581.1 | some data | ERASER::KALLIS | A Dhole isn't a political animal. | Fri Feb 19 1988 15:05 | 26 |
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> .....I was quite amazed to read the story of "Space Patrol", a
>show slightly before my time. "Space Patrol" apparently was one of
>the most popular TV shows of all time, yet is little known today. This
>book has me quite interested in the story of "Space Patrol" - does
>anybody remember this show, or is it available on video?
_Space Patrol_ was a mid-1950s show. It had competition, _Tom Corbett,
Space Cadet_. Both were Saturday morning TV shows; as I recall,
_Space Patrol_ had slightly better special effects, and _Tom Corbett_
had slightly more believable characters.
A show preceding both of them was _Captain Video and his Video
Rangers_. It was a sort of transition-from-radio television show,
run daily, and even offering premiums like the old radio-drama
shows did. Great "space battles" were "shown" by having a character
go to a porthole and _describe_ it to the crew. Since the special
effects on an effectively "live" show were pretty bad, this was
the best compromise they could come up with. It was parodied in
_Mad_ as "Captain Tvideo," and I think it might be in one of bthe
early-strip paperback _Mad_ collections.
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 581.2 | From the Museum of Radio and Television | SMURF::PETERT | rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty | Wed Dec 14 1994 14:01 | 8 |
| Anybody happen to tape the Fox special on the History of Science
Fiction last night? I forgot about it unitil I happened to catch
the end of it surfing through the channels. Sigh....
Thanks,
PeterT
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| 581.3 | | CSOA1::LENNIG | Dave (N8JCX), MIG, @CYO | Wed Dec 14 1994 17:18 | 9 |
| Other than tickling some 'ah yes, I remember that' reactions, it wasn't
anything to write home about...
BTW, it wasn't 'History of Science Fiction'; it was done my the Museaum
of Television and Radio, and other than mentioning the War of the Worlds
radio broadcast, was solely about Sci-fi series on television (and they
missed a few at that)
Dave
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