Actress Ann Robinson, Known for 'War of the Worlds,' Dies at 96
Ann Robinson, famous for her role in The War of the Worlds, died on September 26 in Los Angeles at age 96. Her family confirmed her passing.
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Ann Robinson, who played Sylvia Van Buren in the 1953 film The War of the Worlds, has died at 96. This is a sad loss for classic sci-fi fans.
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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.
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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.
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