All in all, a pleasant way to spend a Monday afternoon.
~rave!
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@...> 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...@...>
> 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
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> 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...@...>
> 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
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> 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.
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> MarkEllisInk.com
> Site of best-selling author Mark (James Axler) Ellis
>
> --- On Mon, 1/18/10, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@...> wrote:
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> From: Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@...>
> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY
> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 12:51 PM
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> 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
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> 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.
> >
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