Hi Mike: Thanks for setting us straight on the question of stars' billing. I think some of us understandably read too much into the Jonathan Harris situation....
... backgrounds ... You must be referring to those vertical standing magtape drives. Those units have been shunted around from series to series. I have seen...
Hello Don-2 When I said 'circuitboard' for the background of the TV scanner, it was more in principle than strictly borrowing off an existing board. With a ...
... Hi Geoff: "The Name of the Game" was similar to SEARCH insofar as having three revolving stars, TF being one of them, along with Dominic Frontiere doing...
It has it's benefits. I recollect a similar arrangement with Martin Landau for Mission: Impossible. Landau and series producer Bruce Geller were good ...
First let me say, great first post by Kendall Gray, and welcome to the group. Hi Geoff. Just reading the posts re: scanner, got me thinking. Logically, after...
Also I read the Mission: Impossible Dossier and they mentioned the fact that Landau got paid MORE being credited as a guest star, seeing guest stars got paid...
Hello ATaylor Do you think Mike Walston has seen the true colour?? He might have a poor picture that he's referring to. Mind you, it might be because he can't...
... lights ... system on ... That bank of flashing squares was a recycling of mock computer hardware from the movie "Desk Set." The magtape drives of season...
Those vertical magtape drives were all over the tube back in those days. I just watched the final episode of Paramount's THE IMMORTAL ("Brother's Keeper",...
Hello everyone Hello Don Re: Name Of The Game. If memory serves, the order of stars in the opening credits was Gene Barry, Robert Stack & Tony Franciosa - at...
Watch crystals should be a lot tougher than a contact lens. Marta http://www.steveandmarta.com Home of "The Graveyards of Omaha" and "The New Twilight Zone"...
... & ... That was true of Barbara Bain being a series regular inasmuch that she wanted more for the forthcoming TV season. How much more I do not know....
Greetings, All, My brain's been idle so random thoughts have cropped up on this topic. I remember the "rotating star" theme was popular back in the days...
They were also popular in the late fifties. Maverick had two brothers sharing the same series. Cheyenne also shared his time slot with Conflict, Sugarfoot and...
Hi Geoff, I must say that searching for a scanner lens on the internet has exposed me to websites of companies with some incredible technology, that verges on...
Here's the difference: Back in the 50s when Roy Huggins and others pioneered the two-or-three-lead shows, drama series generaly ran about 40 new episodes a...
In a message dated 2/26/2003 2:15:07 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... Garner at that time was not a big star until the series. At that time the actors were signed...
Rotating casts goes back to "Maverck" too. Jim Garner was very coveted throughout the industry for movies. He was a very busy man during the early 60s. Jack...
Hello Yorktown Did you see them link Steve Austin’s bionics into Colossus footage in an early ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’ episode?? The problem with TV...
In a message dated 2/26/03 6:18:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... LOL - I remember that. ... Battlestar Galactica was the last series to get away with the...
http://marscon.org/2003/index.html I'm just a little curious if anyone here is attending Marscon this weekend? Seems to me that if I had a party room reserved...
... Hi: If the con allows you to tape signs to the wall announcing room parties, why not make a sign saying something along the lines of, "Do you remember the...
Hello Marta But do watch crystals come in blue?? I'm a bit confused here. Do you mean watch crystals as in their jewel movement in the old fashioned watches?? ...
In a message dated 2/27/2003 6:24:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... They both appeared in a british series called Space 1999. The show was on in 1975 and it...
... the ... If ... history ... That is true. When Bruce couldn't meet Bain's quote, he decided not to renew Bain's contract. Consequently, when her contract...
Barbara Bain showed up at the Twilight Zone convention last year, at the Friday night get-together; don't know why she was there, but I believe it was because...
Greetings, Just to throw another bit (or 2) into the knowledge pot, Space:1999 returned with about 20 new episodes in the fall of 1976. This series didn't...
Hi Geoff, Well assuming that we negate power considerations (and incidentally, I've considered integrating an ultra thin "hearing aid" battery into the...
I believe they do allow signage, providing you use masking tape to put them up. They assigned me a room almost across the hall from the legitimate movie/video...
