Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Theme Song of the Week 12: The Powers of Matthew Star (1983)
award-winning creator of Enter The House Between and author of 32 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).
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Last year at around this time (or a month earlier, perhaps), I posted galleries of cinematic and TV spaceships from the 1970s, 1980s, 1... -
The robots of the 1950s cinema were generally imposing, huge, terrifying, and of humanoid build. If you encountered these metal men,...
The opening titles were the only exciting thing about the show! It made the show look as if it was effects-filled, when just the opposite was true. Articles in Starlog stated that the show's pilot was never shown. Maybe the pilot featured such "Return of the Jedi" style effects?
ReplyDeleteActually, the show's pilot was shown as the series' last episode. It was introduced by a voiceover from Lou Gosset as a sort of alternate take on the show.
ReplyDeleteActually, the show's pilot was shown as the series' last episode. It had different supporting characters, and was introduced with a voiceover by Lou Gosset, Jr. describing it as kind of an alternate take on the show.
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