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Post by taylorfirst1 on Aug 14, 2017 15:30:06 GMT
This Irwin Allen produced series ran from 1964-1968 and was made after the 1961 movie. I totally love the show. I used to watch it in reruns on WOR channel 9 out of New York back in 70's and 80's.
Does anyone have any thoughts or memories of this series?
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Aug 14, 2017 21:26:26 GMT
This Irwin Allen produced series ran from 1964-1968 and was made after the 1961 movie. I totally love the show. I used to watch it in reruns on WOR channel 9 out of New York back in 70's and 80's. Does anyone have any thoughts or memories of this series? Yes, I like it. It's currently being shown on the weekends (afaIk) on This or MeTV.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Aug 15, 2017 15:48:07 GMT
This Irwin Allen produced series ran from 1964-1968 and was made after the 1961 movie. I totally love the show. I used to watch it in reruns on WOR channel 9 out of New York back in 70's and 80's. Does anyone have any thoughts or memories of this series? Yes, I like it. It's currently being shown on the weekends (afaIk) on This or MeTV.Unfortunately, I don't have either of those on my cable system. I just have Comet, Charge, and TBD. I have the 1st half of the 1st season on DVD, however.
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Post by ironjade on Aug 15, 2017 20:28:48 GMT
When one of the early episodes, "The Price of Doom", was first shown in the UK, it was preceded by a warning to "those of a nervous disposition". They weren't kidding. As it was written by Cordwainer Bird, aka Harlan Ellison, I suppose we shouldn't be surprised.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Aug 15, 2017 22:14:07 GMT
When one of the early episodes, "The Price of Doom", was first shown in the UK, it was preceded by a warning to "those of a nervous disposition". They weren't kidding. As it was written by Cordwainer Bird, aka Harlan Ellison, I suppose we shouldn't be surprised. Recently I watched 'The Starlost' on DVD discs from Netflix. Low budget and low production values...but I enjoyed it.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Aug 15, 2017 22:23:33 GMT
One of my favorites. As with The Wild Wild West I never got tired of watching the reruns.
I was very young, but I remember seeing a few episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea on prime time in the 1960's. "The Fossil Men" scared me and I remember my father telling me it wasn't real and those were just men in suits. I also had a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea coloring book.
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Post by wmcclain on Aug 16, 2017 1:10:44 GMT
"That thing's taking over the ship!!!"
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Post by alpha128 on Aug 16, 2017 4:39:00 GMT
I never saw VTTBOTS until the first season DVDs were released. I bought Season 1, Part 1 on a lark, and liked it well enough to later buy Season 1, Part 2. Season 1 was an interesting combination of science fiction and spy thriller.
I watched Season 2 on-line, and overall it wasn't as well written as Season 1, but it did have some outstanding episodes.
I watched a bit of Season 3 on-line but, the quality fell even further from Season 2. I have yet to see any Season 4 episodes.
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Post by geezer on Aug 16, 2017 6:56:11 GMT
What about that Kowalski? Dude got knocked unconscious EVERY show! He must have gotten brain damage and dementia by age 40! Being an Irwin Allen production, it did suffer some of the ridiculous plots and scripts that LOST in Space suffered. The Seaview being taken over by an evil puppetmaster and his puppets, evil toys, werewolves, etc....
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Post by ironjade on Aug 16, 2017 8:56:31 GMT
When one of the early episodes, "The Price of Doom", was first shown in the UK, it was preceded by a warning to "those of a nervous disposition". They weren't kidding. As it was written by Cordwainer Bird, aka Harlan Ellison, I suppose we shouldn't be surprised. Recently I watched 'The Starlost' on DVD discs from Netflix. Low budget and low production values...but I enjoyed it.Harlan Ellison was promised all manner of inducements (big budget, cutting edge FX etc.) to get him to work on this dud. Most of the big budget allegedly went in the direction of Keir Dullea. "In space no one can hear you snore".
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Post by ironjade on Aug 16, 2017 9:00:15 GMT
What about that Kowalski? Dude got knocked unconscious EVERY show! He must have gotten brain damage and dementia by age 40! Being an Irwin Allen production, it did suffer some of the ridiculous plots and scripts that LOST in Space suffered. The Seaview being taken over by an evil puppetmaster and his puppets, evil toys, werewolves, etc.... Irwin Allen's TV series all got off to a terrific start but he didn't know when to quit. He ran most of them into the ground as long as they were making money. He probably only stopped making The Time Tunnel when he ran out of stock footage to re-use.
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Post by geezer on Aug 16, 2017 13:39:58 GMT
What about that Kowalski? Dude got knocked unconscious EVERY show! He must have gotten brain damage and dementia by age 40! Being an Irwin Allen production, it did suffer some of the ridiculous plots and scripts that LOST in Space suffered. The Seaview being taken over by an evil puppetmaster and his puppets, evil toys, werewolves, etc.... Irwin Allen's TV series all got off to a terrific start but he didn't know when to quit. He ran most of them into the ground as long as they were making money. He probably only stopped making The Time Tunnel when he ran out of stock footage to re-use. Ah yes, it appeared that Time Tunnel seemed to have the highest budget. Many episodes with large "army" scenes with many extras. Allen always got the blame for being a cheapskate. Fact of the matter, it was the networks that gave him such small budgets to work with! He did pretty well with what he had to work with. He should have found some better writers, though. I feel this was the biggest problems with his shows. Some of those plots should have seriously been rejected.
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Post by Jonesy1 on Aug 16, 2017 13:43:20 GMT
It's one of those shows that was so cheesy it was brilliant.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Aug 16, 2017 14:54:26 GMT
Voyage to the bottom of the Sea along with Lost in Space and The Man from UNCLE and many other shows caught a disease known as Batman-itis.
When Batman became a runaway hit other networks and show runners felt they had to emulate the over the top campiness and zaniness to keep up. Sometimes the results were less than optimal.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Aug 16, 2017 14:56:15 GMT
One of my favorites. As with The Wild Wild West I never got tired of watching the reruns. I was very young, but I remember seeing a few episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea on prime time in the 1960's. "The Fossil Men" scared me and I remember my father telling me it wasn't real and those were just men in suits. I also had a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea coloring book.Yes, those were the days when networks really knew how to get the absolute most out of merchandising. They would put TV shows on every product possible. Coloring books is just one of many examples. It seems that today, most of the bosses in show biz have forgotten how to do that.
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Post by ironjade on Aug 17, 2017 10:04:12 GMT
Irwin Allen's TV series all got off to a terrific start but he didn't know when to quit. He ran most of them into the ground as long as they were making money. He probably only stopped making The Time Tunnel when he ran out of stock footage to re-use. Ah yes, it appeared that Time Tunnel seemed to have the highest budget. Many episodes with large "army" scenes with many extras. Allen always got the blame for being a cheapskate. Fact of the matter, it was the networks that gave him such small budgets to work with! He did pretty well with what he had to work with. He should have found some better writers, though. I feel this was the biggest problems with his shows. Some of those plots should have seriously been rejected. In IA's defence it must be said that he used pretty good actors and his special effects were usually very impressive, particularly his use of large-scale models of the various vehicles. On a TV budget this was something of an achievement. If it hadn't been for Irwin Allen, Quinn Martin and Gerry Anderson, British TV would have had very little worth watching in the 1960s.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Aug 22, 2017 14:19:57 GMT
Fun fact: In the pilot episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea there is an enemy organization that is similar to Bond's SPECTRE.
In the pilot ep this organization uses a remotely piloted attack drone aircraft that releases multiple weapons at The Seaview. There is one scene that shows the pilot at the very distant ground control station where he has a joystick and a monitor that shows a camera view from the drone and includes a targeting reticle.
Irwin Allen certainly nailed that glimpse into the future.
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