On Jan 22, 10:25 am, Zeb Carter  wrote:
> 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".
"Orphans of the Sky" (in its original magazine format) was the first
story of the sort, but by the 1970s the generation ship gone wrong was
a standard trope. I first encountered it in "The Star Seekers" by
Milton Lesser, a 1950s Winston juvenile.
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