Brian O'Neill wrote:
> On 1/21/2011 2:35 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?
>>
>
> The Starlost in my mind would be very questionable on such a list. It
> was great in concept, but very little of it panned out. The studio execs
> got too much control, the creator abandoned it, the special effects guy
> failed to create the promised system and they had to fall back to crappy
> chroma-key effects, etc.
>
> The whole story got fictionalized in an interesting book, actually, by
> Ben Bova (who was the science advisor), called "The Starcrossed".
>
> There was an attempt to being back the original concept/pilot script as
> a feature movie with Sony, but it fell into Development Hell.
>
> UFO was Gerry Anderson's first live action show, but it only survived
> for a single series when a strike interfered with production, and it
> eventually died. Space: 1999, which was born out of ideas for the second
> series of UFO, gained life on its own, dropping some of the more cheesy
> elements and better effects. Space: 1999 got far more play in the US,
> but I think Lost In Space was far ahead in terms of being a part of the
> culture.
>
> -Brian
>
>
I remember the StarLost. But to me, it seemed like it was lifted 
directly from Robert Heinlein's "Orphans of the Sky".

Gerry & Sylvia Anderson's puppet shows in the '60s were shows I loved on 
Saturday mornings as a kid!
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