GilligansPlanet-related stories
Posted Jan 31st 2009 11:02AM by Richard Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Animation, Children, Retro Squad, Reality-Free, Saturday Morning
The 1980s was the beginning of the end for Filmation Studios ... sort of. For, while their Saturday morning fortunes began to fade and eventually disappear, their successes turned to the burgeoning syndication market. It was there, starting in the early 1980s, that the studio introduced us to a sword-wielding warrior who became an animated legend.
Unfortunately, the studio's success in syndication would be a small, but powerful, blip for the two-decade old company. By the end of the 1980s the studio would fade into memory as the company was broken up and its talent moved onto bigger and better things.
Continue reading Saturday Morning: Filmation (Part 3) -- VIDEOS
Posted Apr 30th 2008 9:08AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, OpEd
Okay, here's a good one found via
Pop Candy...someone listed
six of the best Sci Fi television shows that you never saw (meaning that they lasted only a season or less).
If a young Julie Newmar is a robot, is she the first fem-bot? I suppose in many ways she's a sex toy ahead of her time.
I like the concepts behind
Alternative 3 (a documentary about a group of people who have abandoned the planet Earth as a lost cause) and
The Ultimate Imposter (an agent with a chip in his head to give him a different personality each week). I see elements of the latter in Joss Whedon's new series
Dollhouse.
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