You see, those programs and the old SciFi went against everything the network exec's college courses taught them, so... "Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet" >From "THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES" by C.W. Badie
________________________________ From: Mark Ellis <jaxl...@yahoo.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Mon, January 18, 2010 2:28:07 PM Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY As I recall, a dozen or so years ago Sy-Fy nee' Sci-Fi filled most of its daily programming with not just The Invaders but Lost In Space, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of The Sea, Time Tunnel, Star Trek, Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, Galactica 1980, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, War of the Worlds, V, the original Outer Limits and even some more off-trail stuff like Thriller. MarkEllisInk. com Site of best-selling author Mark (James Axler) Ellis --- On Mon, 1/18/10, Martin Baxter <truthseeker013@ hotmail.com> wrote: >From: Martin Baxter <truthseeker013@ hotmail.com> >Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY >To: "SciFiNoir2" <scifino...@yahoogro ups.com> >Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 3:13 PM > > > >I know, Keith. I almost jumped for joy when I happened to surf across the >channel and saw the synopsis for the ep. Good stuff, long past... > >"If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody >hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > >http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > >________________________________ To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com >From: KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net >Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:51:21 +0000 >Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY > > > > >Agreed, I watched it religiously when I was a kid. I dig the vibrant colors of >the sets, and man, i've lost count of all the familiar guest stars! Still, it >had a good core of plot and acting, so it's aged well. >This goes back to my earlier questions: why doesn't SyFy show more stuff like >this? I had no clue they even owned rights to this show. i'm always looking >for Land of the Giants, Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, etc., >and instead I get SyFy Originals crap and Ghost Hunters. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Kelwyn" <ravena...@yahoo. com> >To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com >Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 11:53:06 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern >Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY > > >I love, love, LOVED this show when it was on (but then I was a sucker for the >whole Quinn Martin ouevre: "Twelve O'Clock High," "The Fugitive"). Watching it >now is kind of like watching old "Wild, Wild West" episodes (fake-looking >sets, bad wigs, extremely fake-looking fight scenes and strident, god-awful >music!). The aliens did die "cool," though. > >~rave! > >--- In scifino...@yahoogro ups.com, Keith Johnson <KeithBJohnson@ ...> wrote: >> >> Well, this is odd. SyFy is running an all day marathon of the classic TV >> series "The Invaders". This was the original "aliens walk among us plotting >> to take over the world" show, the forerunner for aspects of everything from >> "The X-Files" (on which the lead had a part, I believe), to "Third Wave". >> This was a classic '60s scifi series, with the look and great guest stars >> that distinguished shows of that era. So far I've seen Roddie McDowall and >> Suzanne Pleshette. Check it out. >> > > > > >________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now.
