It starred James Darren years and years before he showed up in Quark's holosuite.
Oh. My. Goodness. I've never ever made that connection, and his face from "The Time Tunnel" is burned into my scary visual place. Wow. And Vic Fontain was always sort of familiar to me, but I've always assumed it was because he was supposed to look like somebody. I've never even thought to IMDB it. Huh.
I guess I've just assumed that none of the people who participated in this has ever done anything else. Because they were stuck in time or something.
But I've never watched "Lost in Space" or "Stargate", so at least there are more things these (or other) people did that I don't know of, and can still think that they're stuck in time.
Anyone remember a '70s show called UFO? It took place in the '80s and was about some elite guys who fought evil aliens in spinning UFOs.
I watched Time Tunnel when it first ran, but I don't remember anything about it except for the psychedelic time tunnel and an overwhelming impression of cheesiness.
Was The Tripods based on the John Christopher books?
I've never seen Time Tunnel, but a friend used to say that going down the escalators to the DC Metro (esp Rosslyn or Wheaton stops) reminded him of the Time Tunnel image.
Anyone remember a '70s show called UFO? It took place in the '80s and was about some elite guys who fought evil aliens in spinning UFOs.
Yup. It was Gerry Anderson's first attempt at a show using human actors instead of marionettes. Truth be told, the marionettes were better actors.
Was The Tripods based on the John Christopher books?
Yup, but only the first two.
I first knew about the tv show, as a kid. There were two separate shows, one for each of the first books. I had no idea there is a book. The second show ended when the second part of the book did, all in the middle. We were crashed. When we discovered that not only there's a book, but also that it was translated into Hebrew so that we can actually read it, and finally find out how everything ends, we were so happy, that had we been a wee version of Angel, we would have immediately become a wee version of Angelus. Um, not unlike his puppet in "Smile Time", probably. But our noses wouldn't come off.
Oh, I got Holocausted out during the 50th anniversary stuff while I was in Jr Hi. I think the current parallel would be the Vietnam era. Kids learn next to nothing about it in school
Kind of OT, but DebetEsse, you were IB, right? What did you guys have to focus on for 20th century world history? (We did a lot on WW1, a bit on the events leading to WW2, and then a lot on the Cold War and Vietnam. We had The End of the European Era and Where the Domino Fell as our main texts senior year.)
Yup. It was Gerry Anderson's first attempt at a show using human actors instead of marionettes. Truth be told, the marionettes were better actors.
Damn, DX beat me to it. They did learn their lesson on the casting for Space: 1999. Pity that the writing didn't improve, though.
Truth be told, the marionettes were better actors.
I dunno, the marionettes were pretty wooden.
