Monday, September 23, 2013

Television and Cinema Verities #87


“We’re hitting the era where the Earth has been used up.  We know there are limited resources and so we look now not to the past for heroes, as in the Western epics, but we look to the future for the heroes that tell us what obstacles we might have to overcome in our high technology developments.”

- Marc Singer discusses the dramatic underpinnings of V (1983) in an interview with Wendy Rathbone, re-posted on the V Archives.

1 comment:

  1. John,

    Ah man did I love those mini-series and the TV series. We did an interview with Jeff Yeager who starred on the TV series and he talks about working on the show. They have marathons from time to time, still a great show.

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