Thursday, January 10, 2013
Sci-Fi Cityscape #1: Texas City, 2120 AD (Space: 1999: "Journey to Where;" 1976)
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).
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
50 Years Ago: The Little Prince (1974)
This 1974 musical fantasy film from Stanley Donen, now a half-century old, is an adaptation of one of the most popular children’s novels in ...
-
The robots of the 1950s cinema were generally imposing, huge, terrifying, and of humanoid build. If you encountered these metal men,... -
Last year at around this time (or a month earlier, perhaps), I posted galleries of cinematic and TV spaceships from the 1970s, 1980s, 1...
Texas City made the Jetsons buildings seem believable.
ReplyDeleteSGB
Loved the domed cities of Texas City and was bummed that the Alphans never made it there. I wanted to see more of that place. Those images have stayed in my mind since I first saw that episode in the 70's.
ReplyDeleteJourney to Where was definitely one of the best episodes of Year Two, and it gave us our only glimpse of what life on Earth was like after the Moon broke away (though with the Moon falling through space warps, black suns, etc., who can say if that was the "real" Earth or some parallel version.) Still curious as to why Texas City was apparently populated with Brits, though. :)
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, some of the finest views of Texas City appear in a third season ep of "Wonder Woman". Those two views are only seen as blurry images on the Command Center viewscreen in "Journey to Where". Domed 'bubble' cities go all the way back to the pulp days of sci-fi. Texas City is one of the better depictions, though the rope lights destroy the proper sense of scale. Today's shows (CGI) would clutter up the image with a multitude of flying vehicles and figures walking about.
ReplyDelete