Funny! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Baxter" <truthseeker...@hotmail.com> To: "SciFiNoir2" <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 7:10:30 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY
Keith, I admit to geeking out at the ep with Michael Rennie. Martin (did say "Klaatu barada nikto" several times) "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: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:34:24 +0000 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY On the same show as Susan Oliver is an actor playing a police detective. I recognized him as having played Commodore Wesley on Star Trek. He was the one who led the Starfleet task force that was testing the Richard Daystrom's M5 computer when it was running the Enterprise. Man I'm loving seeing all these old familiar faces! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 6:23:22 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY Unfortunately, we may not see actors of that caliber showing up on tv shows anymore because Hollywood doesn't want to pay them for their skills. There are a couple of exceptions but it is becoming the norm. On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@comcast.net > wrote: And back on those guest stars, what a group! So far I've seen the following: Suzanne Pleshette...Michael Rennie ("The Day The Earth Stood Still", The Keeper from Lost in Space)...Roddy McDowall...James Whitmore (the actor who reminds me of Spencer Tracy)...the dude who played Spock's rival Stonn on the Star Trek OS ep "Amok Time"...a character actor I don't know, but who played a three-eyed alien at a diner in an ep of "The Twilight Zone"... Susan Oliver (Captain Pike's love interest from the first Star Trek pilot, "The Cage")...an older British actor whose name espaces me, but who I remember as one of the original council of leaders on the original Battlestar Galactica-- great stuff. I miss the days when television was loaded with cop, cowboy, western, suspense, and scifi shows, and you saw the same actors showing up all over them in various roles. most of the folks I've seen appeared on at least Twilight Zone or Outer Limits back in the day, not to mention Gunsmoke, The Big Valley, Bonanza, Police Story, or The Six Million Dollar Man. I'm seeing a bit more of that guide of journeyman work for character actors on some of the TNT, USA, SyFy, and A&E shows like "Burn Notice", "Eureka", etc. Lots of actors from the cableverse are appearing on each others' shows. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Johnson" < keithbjohn...@comcast.net > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 4:47:46 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY Actually, watching the show again, i find it to be fairly sophisticated and well done, as I said earlier. This was scifi done the way it was in the old days: where many of the showrunners/writers/actors had decidedly non scifi backgrounds, and simply brought the standards of action and drama they'd learned from cop shows and Westerns to the scifi genre. It's why I love the early eps of the original Star Trek: they're very dramatic, full of good acting and deep themes. And like I said, I'm enjoying this forty-year old "Invaders" more than ninety percent of the SyFy Originals dreck we get each weekend! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Ellis" < jaxl...@yahoo.com > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 12:59:54 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY It's interesting that "UFOlogy" was in its infancy at that point, but the writers had obviously done their research, particularly with the Men In Black. MarkEllisInk.com Site of best-selling author Mark (James Axler) Ellis --- On Mon, 1/18/10, Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@comcast.net > wrote: From: Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@comcast.net > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 12:51 PM 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. > -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. Get it now.
