Airwolf May 24th finally on (quality) dvd!!!
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 19:51
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Hey, now that I think of it, Buck Rogers had some of THE best female costumes I ever saw! And that evil princess that wanted Buck, holy s*@t, she was gorgeous! I was just in it for the chicks!
Just thought of another sci-fi/ action show that still holds up...The Prisoner. A definite product of the sixties, but a surprisingly low cheese factor.
uh-oh, Orange Alert, gotta blaze.
Chrisisall
Yeah and some of those guest actors are amazing!!! But it always makes me laugh how when I was a kid I just wasn't aware of any of that!!!!
Ahh the loss of innocence eh?
Anyhoo Chrisisall man you and me I reckon we could sit through weeks of old TV show's together... The Prisoner is perhaps the best of any of those shows. It was recently shown here in it's entirety on some channel and they are still every bit as good! David Lynch has learned a thing or two from that show.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005 12:04
Just watch out, after the first season you might want to go for the second, but be warned- 3 out of 4 shows were medeocre(at best). Maybe 5 or 6 good ones in the lot. (I'm a diehard fan, I'm gonna get season 2 anyway).
But even I'm not gonna touch season 3 !!!
What show are you referring to here? A few shows have been mentioned in the thread already. Hope its not Blakes7.. I've been meaning to buy that because of fond childhood memories of it.
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No, that was Airwolf.
From what I hear , Blakes 7 suffered no such degredation in quality.
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Being about ten years older tha you, Somnambulist, I've sat through any and every thing from Twilight Zone, Outer Limits (old AND new versions), One Step Beyond, jeez, I don't have time to list em all right now...but Secret Agent (aka Danger Man-?)was cool, but the follow-up, The Prisoner, was the wildest show possibly ever made! So ahead of it's time, full of action, thought provoking. Only 17 episodes, yet it had the depth of a multi- season program. I still can't put into words all that I see in it! How much was in number 6's head? Did he know something he didn't know on a concious level? There are so many ways you could take it. Were we seeing what literally was happening or HIS experience in the Village? Only reasion I don't own em is cause I've practically MEMORIZED em I've seem em so many times.
Be seeing you.
Chrisisall
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Thursday, March 17, 2005 12:57
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Being about ten years older tha you, Somnambulist, I've sat through any and every thing from Twilight Zone,
Ohh maybe you can help me out here. I've watched a few Twilight Zones and I remember seeing one when I was really young, so my recall is a little off, but I seem to rememeber an episode where seven or eight people are confined in a cylindrical room with a very high wall, and they don't know how they got there? Anyway they do their utmost to get out, as they can see the sky above them, but they fail and finally succumb to fatigue. However for the final shot the camera lifts out of the room looking down on them and pans back into a street where we see that they are indeed inside a bin in the high street and people are just passing them by.
It freaked the hell out of me when I was kid, and I seem to remember this as being a Twilight Zone episode, but I have not subsequently seen it and I'm now wondering about my sanity as a youngster?!!! Does this episode ring any bells with you? Or was I just smoking the carpet??!?!
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The Prisoner, was the wildest show possibly ever made! So ahead of it's time, full of action, thought provoking. Only 17 episodes, yet it had the depth of a multi- season program. I still can't put into words all that I see in it! How much was in number 6's head? Did he know something he didn't know on a concious level? There are so many ways you could take it. Were we seeing what literally was happening or HIS experience in the Village? Only reasion I don't own em is cause I've practically MEMORIZED em I've seem em so many times.
Be seeing you.
Chrisisall
Best thing about the Prisoner is that Patrick Magowan refuses to explain the concept! Which I think is fantastic. On the reruns they had a discussion from all sorts involved in the show, friends family etc, and all have tried to have Patirck explain it. But he refuses.
But you're right, there are so many issues. Was he number one? Was he the all seeing overlord of the compound and therefore suffering form a 'God' like complex, testing his minions??? Or if not who is Number 1? Why the pennyfarthing bicycle? Who where all those people and why didn't they mind being there?
*eouch! Head hurts*
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A friend and I were talking about older shows that we remember. It turns out all the shows we really liked got canceled too soon! Sound familiar? Anyway, the shows we talked about were:
Streethawk
Misfits of Science (still can't believe Courtney Cox was in that)
Nasty Boys (cool cop show with some big names)
Hardball
Automan
Manimal
Actually, they ran a Manimal marathon the other day. It was cool! LOL!
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Ohh maybe you can help me out here. I've watched a few Twilight Zones and I remember seeing one when I was really young, so my recall is a little off, but I seem to rememeber an episode where seven or eight people are confined in a cylindrical room with a very high wall, and they don't know how they got there? Anyway they do their utmost to get out, as they can see the sky above them, but they fail and finally succumb to fatigue. However for the final shot the camera lifts out of the room looking down on them and pans back into a street where we see that they are indeed inside a bin in the high street and people are just passing them by.
It freaked the hell out of me when I was kid, and I seem to remember this as being a Twilight Zone episode, but I have not subsequently seen it and I'm now wondering about my sanity as a youngster?!!! Does this episode ring any bells with you? Or was I just smoking the carpet??!?!
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Hello All -
Long time lurker, first time poster, but reading this made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I clearly remember this episode! Very well done with a great twist (as usual for TZ) at the end.
So rest assured that you were not smoking the carpet!
JimTwilley
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chrisisall wrote:
Thursday, March 17, 2005 12:57Quote:
Being about ten years older tha you, Somnambulist, I've sat through any and every thing from Twilight Zone,
Ohh maybe you can help me out here. I've watched a few Twilight Zones and I remember seeing one when I was really young, so my recall is a little off, but I seem to rememeber an episode where seven or eight people are confined in a cylindrical room with a very high wall, and they don't know how they got there? Anyway they do their utmost to get out, as they can see the sky above them, but they fail and finally succumb to fatigue. However for the final shot the camera lifts out of the room looking down on them and pans back into a street where we see that they are indeed inside a bin in the high street and people are just passing them by.
It freaked the hell out of me when I was kid, and I seem to remember this as being a Twilight Zone episode, but I have not subsequently seen it and I'm now wondering about my sanity as a youngster?!!! Does this episode ring any bells with you? Or was I just smoking the carpet??!?!Quote:
The Prisoner, was the wildest show possibly ever made! So ahead of it's time, full of action, thought provoking. Only 17 episodes, yet it had the depth of a multi- season program. I still can't put into words all that I see in it! How much was in number 6's head? Did he know something he didn't know on a concious level? There are so many ways you could take it. Were we seeing what literally was happening or HIS experience in the Village? Only reasion I don't own em is cause I've practically MEMORIZED em I've seem em so many times.
Be seeing you.
Chrisisall
Best thing about the Prisoner is that Patrick Magowan refuses to explain the concept! Which I think is fantastic. On the reruns they had a discussion from all sorts involved in the show, friends family etc, and all have tried to have Patirck explain it. But he refuses.
But you're right, there are so many issues. Was he number one? Was he the all seeing overlord of the compound and therefore suffering form a 'God' like complex, testing his minions??? Or if not who is Number 1? Why the pennyfarthing bicycle? Who where all those people and why didn't they mind being there?
*eouch! Head hurts*
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Ohh maybe you can help me out here. I've watched a few Twilight Zones and I remember seeing one when I was really young, so my recall is a little off, but I seem to rememeber an episode where seven or eight people are confined in a cylindrical room with a very high wall, and they don't know how they got there? Anyway they do their utmost to get out, as they can see the sky above them, but they fail and finally succumb to fatigue. However for the final shot the camera lifts out of the room looking down on them and pans back into a street where we see that they are indeed inside a bin in the high street and people are just passing them by.
It freaked the hell out of me when I was kid, and I seem to remember this as being a Twilight Zone episode, but I have not subsequently seen it and I'm now wondering about my sanity as a youngster?!!! Does this episode ring any bells with you? Or was I just smoking the carpet??!?!
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Hello All -
Long time lurker, first time poster (what can I say, I'm shy like that!), but when I read this it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up!
I clearly remember that episode. There was a soldier or two and a model in the room. Great episode with an interesting twist!
So rest assured that you were not smoking the carpet as a child!
JimTwilley
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Hello All -
Long time lurker, first time poster, but reading this made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I clearly remember this episode! Very well done with a great twist (as usual for TZ) at the end.
So rest assured that you were not smoking the carpet!
JimTwilley
Pheeeuw. :) Thanks JimTwilley
Allthough now I'm a little sorry I gave away the ending to a really good episode.
Glad you posted. This has been driving me crazy for years - all my chums who I mention this to look at me kinda sideways.
So with carpet in tact I shall forthwith recall this episode knowing it does exsist.... Mind you if I wasn't smoking the carpet that Rod Serling fella sure was :)
Cheers
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