For all that I love sci-fi, I'm not really a special effects guy. I'm all about the story and the acting. But I must pay tribute to Brian Johnson, who, apart from all his other special fx work, created one of the most beautiful spacecraft ever to grace a TV screen: the Eagle from Space: 1999. R.I.P.
Remembering the wonderful James Darren on what would have been his 90th birthday. For many fans, he's DS9's lounge-singing hologram Vic Fontaine. But to this 1960s kid, he’ll forever be my childhood hero, Dr Tony Newman, lost in the infinite corridors of The Time Tunnel.
#JamesDarren #TheTimeTunnel
Sorry to hear that Anne Schedeen has passed away. She played Kate Tanner on ALF from 1986 to 1990.
I haven't watched ALF in decades. It was one of those shows that seemed to be everywhere for a few years, then quietly shuffled off into television's attic.
R.I.P., Anne Schedeen.
#AnneSchedeen #ALF
Not a good year for legacy Sci-Fi.
#DoctorWho #StarTrek #StarGate #SaveTheGate
Remembering Irwin Allen, who was born 110 years ago today. Here he is directing Don Marshall and Gary Conway on the set of the very first episode of Land of the Giants. The fact that the Spindrift crash-landed on the giant world on 12 June was a deliberate in-joke.
#IrwinAllen #LandOfTheGiants
It's another beautiful day in The Village.
#ThePrisoner #PatrickMcGoohan #Portmeirion #RetroSciFi
It's another beautiful day in The Village.
#ThePrisoner #PatrickMcGoohan #Portmeirion #RetroSciFi
There's an expression I keep hearing these days: "Does it stick the landing?" Well, to jump on that particular bandwagon, I'd say that, yes, unlike Taylor and Brent's spaceships, Planet of the Apes versus Fantastic Four does indeed stick its landing.
#FantasticFour #PlanetOfTheApes #Marvel
Several decades ago, in the 1990s, a friend in the States sent me a badge. Well, here in the UK we'd call it a badge; in the States, it's a button or a pin. As you can see from the image above, the badge is a promotional item intended to publicise Land of the Giants back in the 1960s. My friend spotted the badge (pin, button, whatever) on top of a pile of other badges at a yard sale and immediately thought of me.
