Kitty and Lockheed as part of the Phoenix Five

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I know it's necessary, but I'm never not going rag on a sci fi show for ignoring language barriers, and that includes over five hundred year time gaps.

Phoenix Five crew revives a dude who launched himself into space in the far future of 1980. They're about to get a real thorough introduction to linguistic drift. -- whoops, no, everyone speaks 1970s English in the future.

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Sci-fi shows get so much mileage out of revolving darkroom doors. Just paint it silver and have someone spin it from the other side.

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Really wish I had a way to improve audio on these video files though. It looks like the copy I had was recorded from antenna to VCR and then transcoded from there, and it's sometimes hard to understand what people are saying.

I'm also missing about a quarter of the episodes, but this show is apparently rather episodic.

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Control panels that are just a bunch of lights that don't do anything but beep and blink. Love it.

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The costume design y'all. I can't even. It doesn't get better than this.

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I like that the Space Patrol's mission is to patrol and defend. They aren't even allowed to pursue terrorists! The mandate is very strict and prevents them from doing a lot of good, but it also prevents them from doing a lot of evil.

I don't like that the Phoenix Five crew immediately violates this directive with direct support of their superiors.

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Oh so goofy! The evil scientist built a device to turn dreams into reality, using it to debilitate the crew. The captain got himself to dream of capturing the evil scientist, and the device made it actually happen.

Hoping I can find more of this show.

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The ship has encountered a planetoid! ...it looks like a wadded up tissue.

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And the ship! They were still going a tad retro, but they tried to change it up a little.

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