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Post by caucasoididiot on Jul 4, 2011 13:36:45 GMT -5
davidszondy.com/future/moonbase3/moonbase_3.htmI had never even heard of this short-lived BBC series from '73 until I stumbled on that link yesterday. It apparently set out to be hard science fiction, a story about life on a moonbase that restricted itself to know possibilities, eschewing warp drives, cybermen and green animal women. About the only other things I can think of offhand that went so far were Destination Moon and a now forgotten US show called Men into Space from the very late '50s. Heck, even 2001 tosses in aliens. It was apparently lost until a copy turned up fairly recently. Has anyone seen it, by chance? Everyone seems to admit that it suffered from a shoestring budget and perhaps from the limited story potential of sun-baked rock and hard vacuum, but I'd be curious to check it out.
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Post by Shep on Jul 5, 2011 7:18:23 GMT -5
davidszondy.com/future/moonbase3/moonbase_3.htmI had never even heard of this short-lived BBC series from '73 until I stumbled on that link yesterday. It apparently set out to be hard science fiction, a story about life on a moonbase that restricted itself to know possibilities, eschewing warp drives, cybermen and green animal women. About the only other things I can think of offhand that went so far were Destination Moon and a now forgotten US show called Men into Space from the very late '50s. Heck, even 2001 tosses in aliens. It was apparently lost until a copy turned up fairly recently. Has anyone seen it, by chance? Everyone seems to admit that it suffered from a shoestring budget and perhaps from the limited story potential of sun-baked rock and hard vacuum, but I'd be curious to check it out. I've seen it many times. (I actually used to own the dvd set about 5 or 7 years ago.) Dr. Who's Barry Letts and Terrence Dicks were involved. An interesting show where there were no "monsters of the week." Instead the crew battled loneliness and isolation while trying to do their jobs under difficult circumstances/constant budget cuts. Personally, I prefer this over "Space 1999" and it's certainly much better than "The Starlost."
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Post by caucasoididiot on Jul 5, 2011 8:42:32 GMT -5
Heh heh . . . you'd have to work to get something worse than The Starlost.
So I guess its rediscovery isn't so recent after all. I'll have to keep an eye out.
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