Remembering Irwin Allen, who was born 110 years ago today. Flawed though his sci-fi productions were, they gave me a great deal of joy growing up, especially The Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants.
Here he is directing Don Marshall and Gary Conway on the set of the very first episode of Land of the Giants. The fact that the Spindrift crash-landed on the giant world on 12 June was a deliberate in-joke.
Do dildos dream of electric pussy? 
This issue's classic story comes from a place where the sins of the past continue to haunt the living, even if they don't remember them.
Wonder a wasteland with Stephen Vincent Benét in "By the Waters of Babylon, and experience the horror of realization.
https://perseidprophecies.ca/issue-9-spring-2026/by-the-waters-of-babylon/
As a boy, I learned to draw the TARDIS from illustrations in the Doctor Who Annuals from the Patrick Troughton era. My TARDISes always had those ‘stabiliser’ blocks on the front and the wrong number of windows on the side. It was only many years later, when I saw the publicity photos of Jackie Lane posing beside the hastily constructed stand-in TARDIS prop, that I realised where those bloomin’ stabilisers had come from. 🙂
Even as a kid, some things just looked wrong. Case in point: this TARDIS Commander badge. It was originally merchandise for the 1972 BBC TV Visual Effects exhibition at the Science Museum in London, but they must have had plenty left over, because they were still available to buy at the Doctor Who exhibition in Blackpool a couple of years later.
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I hate it when my page starts looking like an obituary column, but I'm very sorry to hear that Jill Curzon has passed away. Fans of the Peter Cushing Dalek movies will remember her as Louise in Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.
R.I.P.
ALTHEA
Look, why don't you let me tell
the Captain that you didn't mean
what you said and that you
won't mention it again.
TONY
I can't promise that, Althea. Not
when I know what's going to happen.
ALTHEA
You don't know! Nobody knows. You can't!
Many happy returns to Susan Hampshire, Althea Hall in the pilot episode of The Time Tunnel, "Rendezvous with Yesterday".
#SusanHampshire #TheTimeTunnel #JamesDarren #IrwinAllen #RetroSciFi #ClassicSciFi
Heyne Science Fiction Magazin
1981-85
herausgegeben von
Wolfgang Jeschke (1936-2015)
Die habe ich ab Ende 80er so nach und nach alle antiquarisch oder als Remittenden vom Grabbeltisch erworben.
Es ist immer wieder schön, darin zu stöbern.
Irgendwann bekommt sie mein Neffe.
[edit: Korrektur Erscheinungszeitraum]
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