On 1/21/2011 1:35 PM, Doug Freyburger wrote:
> Charlie E. wrote:
>>
>> but they really just focused on the
>> three 'seminal' series - Trek, Lost in Space and Twilight Zone.
>
> Every list of three seminal series I've ever heard from a long time fan
> is Outer Limits, Twilight Zone and Star Trek in any order.  Until
> Babylon 5 came out. By then shows were poineers "on" television not
> poineers "of" television.
>
> Lost in Space is fun and campy but was it really any more important than
> Fireball XL-5, The Starlost or UFOs?
>

I think by "pioneers" they meant Allen, Roddenberry and Serling.

I find the Pioneers series interesting but shallow. They just revisit 
nostalgic classics, and don't go deeply into anything. The Twilight Zone 
was not the first serious TV anthology series. See Tales of Tomorrow 
many years earlier, available on DVD and various archives.
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