On 22/01/2011 03:53, John W. Kennedy wrote:

> It's not a question of artistic value, but one of historic importance.
> There are plenty of parallels. The American musical, for example, was
> strongly influenced by "The Black Crook" (1866, I think) and the 1902
> "Wizard of Oz", but neither one is tolerable today. No one ever does
> "The Black Crook", and the single amateur performance of
"Wizard of
> Oz" last summer was the first full-dress production since the 1920s.
> Similarly, "Lost in Space" is a landmark, even though most of it is
> bloody awful. "Fireball XL-5" was a kiddy show, "The
Starlost" was
> repudiated by its creator even before it went on the air, and "UFO"
> was an adult production of a kiddy-show concept. (And "Fireball XL-5"
> and "UFO" were British, anyway, which puts them out of
"Pioneers"'
> purview.)
>

What, British SF is somehow derivative?  Or is it just British TV?
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