Ronald Neame: “I was brought up in a school that said, ‘There is no camera'”

Suppose you’re only as good as your last film, and especially as good as your last film’s receipts at the box office. In that case, film director Ronald Neame must have been at his peak when “The P…

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There's a part one, somewhere online...I saw this when it came out, 1973 on an 7th grade middle school old fashioned class date sorta thing.

https://youtu.be/aTOlZOYmW9s?si=T8qyO-zjKGA5r6wW

THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE - AMC Backstory - The Poseidon Adventure - Part 2

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I must confess that I was never much of a fan of Lost in Space, however, happy birthday to June Lockhart as she turns 100 today.

Here's to you, Mrs Robinson.

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June 12, 1983: On this day in the distant future/past, sub-orbital passenger flight 612, en route from Los Angeles to London, ran into some very big trouble...

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Remembering James Darren, my childhood hero from The Time Tunnel, on what would have been his 89th birthday.

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3 things about James Goldstone’s WHEN TIME RAN OUT… [1980]

1. Manual cable wench.
2. Lava bomb mirror smash.
3. Burgess Meredith as superhero!

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Meanwhile, at Project Tic-Toc...

The Time Tunnel team might be struggling to retrieve James Darren, but at least they’ve managed to snag some cups and saucers from the Titanic.

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As it happened, I already owned a variation of the same pose on one of my precious Land of the Giants bubble-gum cards.

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Land of the Giants listing from TV Times, dated 28th April, 1972.

My nine year-old self was delighted by the publicity picture. Such things were to be treasured back then, and I recall carefully cutting this one out and pasting it into my scrapbook.

Funnily enough, the exact same picture appeared in TV Times the following week. That was fine, though—I could never have too many pictures of Land of the Giants.

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