Doctor RooTwo thoughts:
(1) That's the face I see in the mirror when I shave these days.
(2) A sci-fi character I can still cosplay.
Today marks the 50th anniversary of Logan's Run, released on 23 June 1976.
My strongest memory of the film is that, back in the 1970s, I owned a very truncated Super 8 version which I used to show to my friends on a projector. It proved remarkably popular thanks to one scene featuring Jenny Agutter shedding her clothes. What can I say? We were schoolboys!
Fifty years later, I still think the film stands up remarkably well.
"Run, Runner!"
Happy Bionic Birthday to Lindsay Wagner.
Here she is, fifty years ago in June 1976, visiting the UK to promote The Bionic Woman.
It's another beautiful day in The Village.
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.
VetTVYou can't read the words "Dōmo arigatō" without finishing the sentence in a robot voice.
Styx went full sci-fi in 1983 and handed us one of the most iconic synth-rock tracks ever made.
Where does this rank in the tier list of weirdly awesome 80s concept songs?
#Styx #MrRoboto #KilroyWasHere #80sRock #SynthRock #80sNostalgia #RetroSciFi #VetTV
It's another beautiful day in The Village.
Here we have a promotional Land of the Giants badge. Well, here in the UK we'd call it a badge; in the States it's a button or a pin. Whatever you want to call it, it was produced in the 1960s, and as a little boy I would have worn it proudly if only it had been available in the UK.
I have to say, though, the wording puzzles me. Why has "are" been changed to "is"? This might be a question that one of my American friends can answer for me.
