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- From: dlb@fanny.wash.inmet.com (David Barton)
- Subject: Re: The SciFi Channel stinks !! (was: Re: Does SciFi Channel cut episodes????)
- In-Reply-To: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu's message of 31 Dec 92 01:22:27 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 14:41:04 GMT
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- In article <mcirvin.725764947@husc.harvard.edu>
- mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin) writes:
-
- roten@cuba.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Roten) writes:
-
- >But the Sci-Fi Channel seems to have gone to _great_ _lengths_ to
- >resurrect every schlock science fiction series ever thought up by the
- >cocaine-saturated minds of Hollywood's overpaid TV moguls (only to flop
- >like a beached fish a few months later, cancelled) and broadcast it. MY
- >GHOD !!! We are even being 'treated' to 'Cattlecar Galactica', my
- >nomination for the Worst SF Series Of All Time !!! And 'Loused Up In
- >Space', which is a damned close runner up !!!
-
- You forgot "Future Cop." They've got that, too. They even had a little
- interview a few seconds long with Ernest Borgnine before the episode I saw
- began ("I read the script, and I liked it... It was ahead of its time...")
-
- Well, I for one, will defend the Sci-Fi channel. They have brought
- back Alien Nation and The Prisoner; this alone is sufficient
- justification for their existence. I am also glad to see some of the
- Gerry Anderson shows (not Space 1999, but the marionation stuff)
- brought back, for sheer nostalgia's sake.
-
- Some of the One Step Beyond shows are better than I remembered.
-
- And they are at least trying to support more production of science
- fiction movies. Granted that the first try (Homewrecker) was a
- stinkeroo, but intention counts for something.
-
- All right, their daily fare (particularly in the evenings) is schlock.
- This was to be expected, at least by me; they are starting out, and it
- will take time for funding and efforts to get better stuff to bear
- fruit. If their level of broadcasts is the same in, say, five years I
- will join the chorus of complaints.
-
- What I *don't* understand is why they are leaving some of the really
- fine old time science fiction languishing on the shelves. For Pete's
- sake, jettison Cattlestar Glacwhatever and bring back ``The Outer
- Limits''. Or the old ``Twilight Zone'' episodes. Wasn't it the USA
- network that had the all night Outer Limits marathons a while back?
- This would indicate that they are available to Sci Fi (which is owned
- by USA), and there is NO EXCUSE for not showing these on something
- that calls itself the ``Sci Fi Channel''.
-
- And some of the graphics are nice.
-
- Dave Barton
- dlb@hudson.wash.inmet.com
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