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).
Fifty years ago, I was five years old, and at that tender young age I dreamed of "lost worlds of fantasy," as I call them as a cri...
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ReplyDeleteYou know I STILL haven't managed to watch the whole thing. It hurts too much. I think I was the only one in my elementary school class that missed it - I had my Mum take me out to see "Message From Space" that night. The really strange thing is that my memory is of the other kids having LIKED the holiday special - ok, admittedly we were eight years old and desperate for more of anything that could give us more Star Wars - which made me wonder if I had made a mistake.
ReplyDeleteOf course having tried to watch the Holiday Special now I'm convinced I did the right thing back then!