roadrash
cycle chatterer
- Location
- sitting on the edge of wigan pier
yeah I think the missile was white with an orange tip, I will try to find it next time I'm in mums loft
The Logan's Run thread (and other 70's SciFi....)
- Thread starter simon the viking
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John the Monkey
Frivolous Cyclist
- Location
- Crewe
jefmcg
Guru
Lol. I didn't mean the Andersons had infinite Eagles, I meant the the lunatics** did.
If this program had been intended for grown ups, a big theme would have been resource management. Anything you use up would be gone for good, anyone who died would not be replaced. So they'd be repairing and repurposing like mad and upskilling everyone so they wouldn't lose expertise. And while they may be nearly self sufficient in water, air and poop-grown potatoes, they will need to start creating penicillin at least. Contraception can be neglected as they had better start breeding.
But instead every week they explode things, but they are never short of vehicles, pilots and fuel. Kablooie!
** I assume lunatic is the correct name for residents of Moon Base Alpha.
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
How about Quatermass. Wasn't there one with John Mills? That was the 70's wasn't it?
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simon the viking
Guru
Something about Wembley being an ancient alien landing site....
Firestorm
Veteran
- Location
- Southend on Sea
Logans run had the rather pleasant Farah Fawcett
UFO had Wanda Ventham ..Dominic Cumberbatch's Mum....
UFO had Wanda Ventham ..Dominic Cumberbatch's Mum....
I was about to bring that up, excellent film and full on 70s hippy ideals.
captain nemo1701
Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
- Location
- Bristol
There's a link between UFO & Space 1999. Apparently, a sequel series - UFO2- was on the cards, set ten years later with Shado expanding moonbase, but it never happened. Some of the pre-production design work evolved into that seen in Space 1999. Likewise in Star Trek, a planned series in the 70's morphed into the movies, with some of the scripts being dusted off for the Next Generation. And for the new show Discovery the ship design looks an awful lot like one proposed for the Enterprise back in the 70's.
Mr Celine
Discordian
- Location
- Waxing my moustache
Dark Star. Be very careful what you say when trying to talk down a bomb.
RE-imagine, Re-interpter, Re-boot and any other similar description translates as "I have no imagination, so I am going butcher a good film in the hopes that the piece of ordure that I produce will fool enough people who liked the original to cover the costs'
midlife
Legendary Member
Perhaps I should have called this thread 'The 70's SciFi thread'
All good stuff though keep them dodgy effects coming.... surprised no one has mentioned Space 1999 or Blake's 7 yet(last series... only redeeming feature is Glynis Barber pre Dempsey and Makepeace)
...or the deliciously evil Servalan
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
Quatermass & The Pit??
That film freaked me out, as a kid, as did 'Night Of The Demon'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_and_the_Pit_(film)
A line of it was sampled, for 'Hounds Of Love' (Kate Bush)
Mr Celine
Discordian
- Location
- Waxing my moustache
!968 is surely close enough to the 70s
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
There was a later version of quatermass with john mills, not as good as the original ones though.
