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Post by williammcgregor on May 4, 2023 9:29:43 GMT
Dear all
Science Fiction is a genre I know nothing about!
Done some research and came up with 20.
Can anyone add any gen at all about any of them please?
Such as
Which tv company showed it ? ...
Which year it was shown ? ...
Who were the players in them ? ...
Was it sold overseas ? ...
A general plot or storyline
Duration of an episode ...
01 The Strange World Of Planet X
02 The Red Grass
03 The Big Pull
04 Emerald Soup
05 Target Luna
06 Object Z Returns
07 The Adventures of Don Quick
08 Plateau of Fear
09 Counterstrike
10 Dimension of Fear
11 Doomwatch
12 Legend of Death
13 The Silver Swan
14 The Georgian House
15 Stranger From Space
16 TheLost Planet
17 Return To The Lost Planet
18 Space School
19 Sierra Nine
20 The Puss From Another Planet
Thanks a lot
William
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Post by Peter Stirling on May 4, 2023 15:26:29 GMT
Dear all
Science Fiction is a genre I know nothing about! Done some research and came up with 20. Can anyone add any gen at all about any of them please? William 01 The Strange World Of Planet X ATV 7 X 30 mins Oct 1956
02 The Red Grass
03 The Big Pull BBC 6x 30mins July 1962
04 Emerald Soup 1964? ABC?
05 Target Luna ABC 6x 30mins May 1960
06 Object Z / Object Z Returns Rediffusion/ 6 x 30 mins Nov 1965 / Object Z returns 6x 30mins Feb 66
07 The Adventures of Don Quick LWT 6x 30 mins Dec 1970
08 Plateau of Fear ABC 6x 30 mins Sept 61
09 Counterstrike BBC1 10 X 50 mins Sept 69
10 Dimension of Fear ABC 4 X 45 mins Jan 63
11 Doomwatch BBC1 37x 50 mins Feb 70
12 Legend of Death BBC2 5 X 25 mins Jul 65
13 The Silver Swan
14 The Georgian House HTV 7 X 30mins Jan 76
15 Stranger From Space BBC 17x 15min?? Mar 52
16 TheLost Planet BBC 6x 30 mins Jan 54
17 Return of The Lost Planet BBC 6 x 30 mins Jan 55
18 Space School BBC 4 X 30 mins Jan 56
19 Sierra Nine Rediffusion 13 x 30 mins July 63
20 The Puss From Another Planet |
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Post by paul carney on May 4, 2023 18:17:55 GMT
Object Z & Object Z Returns were seriously good childrenās series.A higher standard of writing & performance,plus it was scary to my 10/11 year old self.š„¹
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Post by williammcgregor on May 5, 2023 14:23:20 GMT
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Post by RossL on May 5, 2023 17:11:09 GMT
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Post by williammcgregor on May 9, 2023 8:51:32 GMT
Great research Ross, here is some more gen on The Silver Swan from the Radio Times on BBC Genome
The Silver Swan: 5: John Tuesday 27 January 1953 17.30 pm
A serial play in six parts by C.E. Webber.
When Lucy came to see her aunt, house-keeper to Lady Gresham, she was fascinated by the row of Gresham portraits in the music room, and by an old violin with a silver swan painted on its back.
Each portrait had a story to tell in connection with the violin, and Lucy has been taken through four hundred years of history: seeing how the violin was given to the Greshams in the time of Queen Mary; how a Royalist Gresham was won over to Cromwell's cause and became 'Noli's fiddler'; how the violin saved an eighteenth-century Gresham from being press-ganged; how it was found in Vienna in 1850 after being lost for thirty years. In this episode the date is 1916.
(to 18.05)
Contributors
Writer:
C. E Webber
Producer:
Rex Tucker
Settings:
John Cooper
Musical direction:
John Hunter Blair
Lucy:
Carole Maybank
John Gresham:
Randal Herley
Stephen:
Victor Platt
Dick:
Michael Brill
German:
Carl Duering
Madeleine:
Olive Gregg
Farmer:
Shaun Sutton
Next is Number 16 The Lost Planet BBC Television Service Saturday 16 January 1954 17.00 pm
The Lost Planet: 1: Mystery at Inverard
by Angus MacVicar.
Adapted for television by the author.
The Space Ship in which "The Lost Planet" is approached is powered by an atomic motor firing charged droplets of water from a bank of six enormous jets. The crew is led by Doctor Lachlan McKinnon, as Scottish as his name, intrepid, fearless, and a brilliant scientist.
His assistant is Professor Lars Bergman, from Sweden, and his chief engineer, Spike Stranahan, from America. Janet Campbell, young, pretty, and studying science at Glasgow University, is his secretary, and his cook is Madge Smith, a Cockney, determined to take her new hat along and look smart when she arrives.
Then there is Jeremy Grant, aged sixteen and Dr. McKinnon's nephew. He comes from Australia, and the journey across the sea to Scotland seems a pretty big adventure to him until he gets to Inverard House and finds out what is happening there.
During this serial you will see what happens when a Space Ship runs across the path of a shower of meteorites-the 'vermin of the skies' - and watch Dr. McKinnon and Jeremy fighting to save the ship from destruction when the atomic motor becomes unsafe. You will journey through the silences of the void and roam across the fantastic landscapes of Hesikos, the lost planet. (Kevin Sheldon)
(to 18.00)
Contributors
Presenter:
John Hewer
Settings:
John Cooper
Producer:
Kevin Sheldon
Author/Adapter (The Lost Planet):
Angus MacVicar
Jeremy Grant:
Peter Kerr
Janet Campbell:
Mary Law
Dr. Lachlan McKinnon:
John Stuart
Professor Bergman:
Geoffrey Lumsden
Spike Stranahan:
John Springett
Kurt Oppenheimer:
John Pincombe
Madige Smith:
Joan Allan
The Lost Planet: 4: The Voice of Hesikos
by Angus MacVicar.
Adapted for television by the author.
A rare metal called Iridonium exists on Hesikos, the Lost Planet, and Dr. McKinnon knows that it can easily produce gold when mixed with lead in the right proportions.
Hermanoff, a rival scientist, also building a space-ship but lagging behind in the race to Hesikos, has tried to sabotage McKinnon's space-ship but has been foiled for the time being, although he has promised to land close behind the McKinnon expedition. After a narrow escape from a meteor shower and near-disaster when the oil gland in the switch gear seizes up, a safe landing is effected and the hatch swings open on the strange landscape of Hesikos, the Lost Planet.
(to 18.00)
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on May 9, 2023 13:45:27 GMT
It's amazing just how many of these types of show were made in the Sixties - and as William notes - the '50s also, considering there were only two channels.
Guess it was the age of Flying Saucer sightings and the Space Race.
And of course there were many similar US shows in those days too, many of which were aired in the UK.
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Post by williammcgregor on May 26, 2023 14:40:57 GMT
Science Fiction Progammes Help Needed ...
Number 2 The Red Grass,
if anyone has access to storylines for the following dates, please post.
An Associated-Rediffusion production 25 minute duration
Director: John Rhodes; Designer: John Emery
Writer: Peter Hayes
This is not on Peter Hayes V IMDB, he currently only has Sierra Nine and Frontier Drums to his credit on there.
Main cast: Nicholas Light as Donald Mason; Derek Sydney as Carl Maxted; Nicholas Amer as Kaliakos;
Jacqueline Hussey as Janet Mason. All six episodes shown 17.25 - 17.55 pm
Tuesday 6/1/59 with Robert Sansom as Professor Gilmain; Dinsdale Landen as John Howard; Alec Bregonzi as Skyros; John Stevenson Lang as Captain McTaggart
13/1/59 Episode 2 same as E1
20/1/59 Episode 3 with Alec Bregonzi; J S Lang; R Sansom; and John Gatrell as Doctor Alec Mason; Patrick Parnell as Simon Denning; Michael Jacques
27/1/59 Episode 4 with Colin Tapley as Inspector Truman; Patrick Parnell; Marjorie Wilde as Mrs Begley; J Gatrell; R Sansom; George Mikell as Seranov
3/2/59 Episode 5 M Wilde; J Gatrell; R Sansom; G Mikell
10/2/59 Episode 6 J Gatrell; C Tapley; G Mikell; Brian Parker
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Post by Patrick Coles on May 26, 2023 21:50:53 GMT
Some info on a couple of shows on your list....
The Adventures of Don Quick (1970)
- starred Ian Hendry and Ronald Lacey and was a six episode series of 50 minute episodes made by London Weekend productions
only the first episode 'The Benefits of Earth' (aired 30 October 1970) is held it seems the rest are missing
a Sci Fi satire based upon Don Quixote, Anouska Hemple, Patricia Haines, Kate O'Mara and Madeline Smith were among the guest stars
I recall some TV critics really hated the show !
details can be found on wiki
Doomwatch (1970-72) - was created by Dr Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis
Produced by Terence Dudley with scripts by him, Robert Holmes, Dennis Spooner, Louis Marks, Pedler and Davis all of whom also wrote scripts for 'Doctor Who'
the show had 38 episodes (14 missing) of 50 minutes and is out on DVD tho' as stated some episodes are lost - including I believe the infamous 'Survival Code' the shock ending first series episode (which saw BBC flooded with viewers letters as a result)
starring John Paul, Simon Oates, Joby Blanshard, and a youthful Robert Powell (first series) later John Nolan (second series) this was a flagship 'serious' BBC Sci Fi almost semi documentary which got Radio Times cover pics and was seen by some as a far more adult show in the 'Doctor Who' idiom but kept totally in a factual based setting despite some equally fantastic plot ideas
'Probation Officer' star John Paul played Dr Spencer Quist who headed up a small Government investigative team - Quist was a controversial scientific figure in British civil service circles and the show dealt with issues such as enhanced rats attacking humans ('Tomorrow The Rat'), a plastic eating virus, a ill fated space mission ('Re-Entry Forbidden') plus social issues such as ecology concerns and high rise blocks of flats affecting people's mental health
again full show details can be found on wiki
the series was so popular - it had 13.6 million viewers for the episode 'Invasion' - that a film version was made starring Ian Bannen and Judy Geeson with the TV show cast rather wasted as not much more than marginalised supporting figures, but this was not a success
later in 1999 a revival TV movie was made titled 'Doomwatch: Winter Angel' starring Trevor Eve - this was well received but no follow up series was made.
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Post by williammcgregor on May 27, 2023 14:13:01 GMT
Thanks Patrick, I have a question for you, have you any idea if The Adventures of Don Quick and Doomwatch were sold abroad ?
and have there been any recoveries from abroad ?
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Post by sonnybh on May 27, 2023 18:59:19 GMT
later in 1999 a revival TV movie was made titled 'Doomwatch: Winter Angel' starring Trevor Eve - this was well received but no follow up series was made. I haven't heard of that before! |
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Post by robkeeley on May 27, 2023 19:39:45 GMT
Thanks Patrick, I have a question for you, have you any idea if The Adventures of Don Quick and Doomwatch were sold abroad ? and have there been any recoveries from abroad ? Doomwatch certainly was, as many of the surviving episodes are 525-line recordings recovered from North American sales, and others exist as b/w telerecordings. |
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Post by sonnybh on May 28, 2023 19:07:45 GMT
From what I remember all of Moonbase 3 was found in Canada on 525 line tapes.
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Post by Jon Preddle on May 28, 2023 22:44:44 GMT
Thanks Patrick, I have a question for you, have you any idea if The Adventures of Don Quick and Doomwatch were sold abroad ? and have there been any recoveries from abroad ? was never sold abroad. Doomwatch was seen in colour in Canada (which is where the NTSC tapes of Season 2 that exist today came from), and in black and white (Season 2 only) in Australia, Hong Kong, Zambia, Singapore and Gibraltar, and maybe Jamaica. The BBC retained the original negatives, which is why those ones exist today. But whether any broadcast prints have ever been returned from overseas is unknown. |
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Post by simoncurtis on May 29, 2023 16:10:48 GMT
I recently bought the Doomwatch dvd box set. Although some of the episodes are not from the original tapes, there're no B&W telerordings on it.
The box set includes the BBC documentary, The Cult of Doomwatch. In it there's a short but brilliant clip of some chickens with two heads. But i can't find that scene in any of the episodes in the set. Any thoughts?
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ABC?
