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from: Charlie E.
date: 2011-01-21 12:20:04
subject: Re: Pioneers of Television - Science Fiction

On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:35:20 +0000 (UTC), 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?

Well, Fireball was childrens TV, on saturday mornings IIRC. (Yes, I
had a toy XL-5!)  Starlost I have only heard of as an adult, and UFO
was a later series, of the Space 1999 generation...

Charlie
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