Based on a Richard Matheson story - which has them traveling to a different solar system, so they screwed it up. (I’m not sure I ever saw the episode.) But their home world is just like Earth - has to be for the surprise ending.
Right. And furthermore, in the pilot they were shown to have gotten up to an insanely fast speed in very short order, so it couldn’t have been an acceleration of 1g for a year.
As I said, it doesn’t quite work. It’s poorly executed, but there is at least a plausible concept underlying it. And I’m not denying that the series sucked overall.
This line was in the series’ pilot, and should have been avoided at all costs! :smack:
With respect to the (mercifully!) unsold pilot Into Infinity, Gerry Anderson replied “I’m sure we’re allowed some license in how we depict such things” when someone complained that it took their spaceship less than 30 seconds to accelerate from dead stop to lightspeed. :rolleyes:
That doesn’t have to be an error of the show. It could simply be that Fowler thought Weiss was the first of his students to die (and Weiss’ spectre thought so too, possibly simply mirroring Fowler’s belief). Then he meets Rice, who he didn’t recognize, hadn’t known about, and learns of his earlier demise.
Oh, is that what they’re calling it now?
As Skywatcher noted, that all turned out to be a dream, so it actually makes sense that it doesn’t really make sense.
Professor: You were the first!
Student: The first one to die, Professor. I was at Pearl Harbor on the Arizona.
I interpret that as meaning that he was, more or less, the first American casualty of WWII.
I have fond memories of the TZ. As a young kid, it was on at 10, past my bedtime. But there was an old TV in my bedroom, which even worked for about an hour or so before the picture would condense into a white dot in the center of the screen. So, I’d turn it on with the volume as low as possible, my light off, and ready at an instant to click it off and hop in bed if I heard movement in the hall. Really the perfect setup for watching a show like TZ! I also remember watching another show like that, whose name I’m not sure I remember, though I can still play the theme song in my mind’s ear. “Journeys in the Unknown” is what I think it was.
Years later, about age 20, I remember TZ being on late night TV and I watched them all again, and it was interesting to compare my adult experience watching them with my memories from childhood!
Even as a kid, LIS made me roll my eyes (watching reruns, I believe.) I remember watching Robot roll ahead of … Timmy? whatever the kid’s name was … anyway, rolling ahead of him, detonating dangerous mines. He hits the first one, BOOM. “That was a ten megaton explosion. I can withstand up to a 30 megaton explosion.”
LOL. For one thing, he pronounced the “ton” as in “automaton”. And yeah, well, a 10 MT bang is gonna leave you right where you were, about 20 feet in front of the kid you’re protecting. Of course, he rolls on, to meet with a 20, and yes, a 30 MT explosion, which of course proves momentarily fatal for Robot. Sigh!
“The secret’s in the sauce.”
I thought it was clowns that tasted funny?
Try saying in a robot voice: “Danger…_____ ________.”
His name will come to you.
I think LJ is making a joke: As was noted in MAD Magazine, June Lockhart was the mom in both LiS and Lassie. 
Sure it wasn’t The Outer Limits? That’s the other one I remember.
:smack:
This is worse than the time I didn’t foresee the twist ending of Twilight Zone where aliens brought a book called To Serve Manicotti.[sup]1[/sup]
[sup]1[/sup]It was a cookbook.
In addition to ‘Outer Limits’ there was a brief program called “'Way Out,” hosted by Roald Dahl.
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There was also One Step Beyond
and Boris Karloff Presents Thriller
and Karloff aghain in The Veil
and some people have confused TZ episodes with episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents
There were lots of weird story anthologies on TV in those days.
Although The Veil was never aired - the production company went bankrupt before any syndication deal was ever made. It was a completely wonderful idea - TZ-type “true” stories with Boris Karloff appearing as a major character in each one.
Thanks, but I actually got it right:
I’d misremembered the theme a bit, correct motion but different intervals and harmony. I kinda like my version better.
You know what? Eight and a half years later, I demand the rite of fanwank.
They called it an asteroid, because historically it had been an asteroid. Now, however, the government has harnessed this planetoid, and put it in a circular 9-million-mile-radius orbit of earth. They’ve pumped in some artificial gravity and atmosphere, and have a first-rate solitary confinement rock.
True, it’s an artificial moon, but because they typically use the asteroid belt for resources, the Blackwater guys still call them asteroids. Some are trojans, some are even completely artificial jobs, but try to chase out established jargon, you know?
Other way around - British billion = American trillion (1 followed by 12 zeroes).