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Tomorrow's World : The Unearthly History Of Science Fiction
montyburns56
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Did no one else watch this series by Dominic Sandbrook on Saturday? It's a four part series with each episode having a theme about different aspects of Sci-Fi in the mainstream media. It's the same guy who did those BBC2 series about the 70s and the German car industry and like those shows I really enjoyed this one.
The first episode was about Space so they had features about Star Trek, Star Wars, BSG, Alien amongst others, but the good thing was they actually had interviews with people who were involved with the shows/films such as Doug Trumball, John Carpenter, Anthony Daniels and William Shatner (but don't let that put you off).
If you're a fan of mainstream Sci-fi then I'd check it out episode two on Saturday which is about Invasion!
The first episode was about Space so they had features about Star Trek, Star Wars, BSG, Alien amongst others, but the good thing was they actually had interviews with people who were involved with the shows/films such as Doug Trumball, John Carpenter, Anthony Daniels and William Shatner (but don't let that put you off).
If you're a fan of mainstream Sci-fi then I'd check it out episode two on Saturday which is about Invasion!
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Dominic Sandbrook starts the second volume in his history of sci-fi on Horsell Common in Surrey.
This tranquil spot is, he explains, the “ground zero of the alien invasion story”, a setting for HG Wells’s 1897 classic, The War of the Worlds. A seminal work, it gave rise to The Thing, Quatermass, The Midwich Cuckoos, Daleks invading Earth and Godzilla, all of which reflected the political anxieties and paranoia of their day.
So that's why I didn't see Maggie Philbin in last weeks episode!
Isn't Maggie back on TV, doing something science based?
I'd say that ET definitely fits in with the Invasion theme as they invaded Earth even if their intentions were peaceful, but including Jurassic Park was a bit of crowbar job!
Yeah, I did see in her something, it might have been Bang Goes The Theory. Incidentally when I first saw Ruth Langsford on TV I actually thought that she was Maggie Philbin!
That must be where I saw her then, must have caught it while surfing.
Superb film ,well worth catching next time.
As someone mentioned earlier in the thread there is some extra stuff on iPlayer that features some of those events.
Also that story about Quantum Leap producer Don Bellisario meeting Lee Harvey Oswald when he was in the Army was an eye opener and certainly made me think "what if?".
It's a shame that it was the last episode though as it's been one of my favourite shows in recent months.
Terminator was in the robots edition.
It received many plaudits, but I thought it was a dull, disappointing movie. It tried too hard to be 2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris, but failed to reach their heights.