I now find myself responding to even more posts than I did previously! But I very much appreciate your enthusiasm, and I can promise you that it will not go unrewarded!
Thanks for the vote of confidence! Technically we've already entered 1977, but the remainder of the year should be full of surprises!Can't wait to enter '77 Brainbin. Bet you have some great ideas planned.
I think you ought to know by now that I don't take well to such demandsTHE OBSERVER said:But please make sure that "Dallas" stays the same as OTL. Don't, I repeat, don't do anything.
This memory conflation is ridiculously common - it's closely related to the similar problem of "remembering" nonexistent events couched in a veneer of plausibility. Groucho and his "I like my cigar, but I take it out my mouth every once in a while", for example. (It never happened.) Johnny Carson and "I'd love to if you'd move that darn cat". (Also never happened.) With regards to what ITTL is known as ReGenesis, I'm aware that it was (more or less) successfully adapted into Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, but frankly I don't think it would have done very well in the time and place in which it was originally pitched. The Questor Tapes, on the other hand, is much more in keeping with the "Walking the Earth" sub-genre that was very popular at the time, so it was much more of a no-brainer to keep on the air. And with the end of The Way of the Warrior, it's now the last show of its kind at what was once known as "the House that Paladin Built", a studio that (re-)built its reputation on well-written action-adventure series.Memory is not always accurate. While reading the thread I got interested in looking up information on OTL Genesis II. To my surprise Wikipedia says there were two pilots TV movies for it and the second one was called Planet Earth. I only remember one. But in my memory it starred John Saxon and it had Mariette Hartley with two navels. But Saxon was in Planet Earth, while Hartley with two navels was in Genesis II. But I remember watching one film. Plus this isn't like I was real young in grade school. I saw Genesis II the spring of my senior year in High School and Planet Earth the spring of my freshman year in college. Yet my memory has conflated two events separated by a year into one.
The first thing I always notice about the Turd Season is the hair. I guess the first thing to go with the budget cuts was conditioner...Asharella said:My only complaint was that James T. Kirk wasn't quite as cute since he was getting a little fat in the tummy.
My readers have been very good to me... in most respectsAsharella said:(Don't think I didn't notice how constant reader questions about certain shows ended up with you doing major explanations about them in TTL- I'm thinking about the Muppets.)
So you can actually answer some of the questions they pose about what the heck is actually going on in those issues!That was GREAT seeing those old Lois Lane covers. I'm sure I have most of them. (Yes, have. I have all my comics safe and secure in boxes in my closet.)
All right, I'm not nearly the expert on Lois Lanes that I am on James Bonds, but I'll give this a whirl:Asharella said:Here's my list of my favorite actresses to play Lois listed in order from best to least favorite.
I never really watched Smallville.Asharella said:1) Erica Durance. (I wasn't a fan at first, but she grew on me.)
Nor The Adventures of Superman. 1950s non-sitcoms aren't very widely syndicated anymore.Asharella said:2) Noel Neill (My first Lois and always number one on this list until Erica finally won me over)
I was a little kid when Lois & Clark was on, and I barely remember it. She seemed fine, I guess. Technically I think she was my first Lois, as I didn't watch the classic movie until I was a bit older. With regards to the placement of her name, it's a pun on the famous explorers Lewis & Clark - I can't say I figured that out until much later on.Asharella said:3) Terry Hatcher (She got her name before Clark's! She was a great Lois)
She's the only Lois I can honestly say that I really know. She's not really great, though. Does anyone really like her?Asharella said:4) Margot Kidder (I never really liked her, but still she seemed to be Lois)
Kate Bosworth was everywhere in the mid-2000s. I really don't know why, because she couldn't act to save her life.Asharella said:6) Kate Bosworth (I don't know who this girl was playing, but she wasn't Lois Lane)
I've always liked Amy Adams, and I don't doubt that she could pull it off.Asharella said:Soon I'll be able to figure out where Amy Adams fits on the list. I like her, but can she be Lois Lane? She seems more like a Lana Lang to me. Oh well.
Thank you, unclepatrick, I appreciate your complimentsWhich I am waiting to see. It all way interesting what you come up with.
Now I won't just be covering 1978, of course. You may have noted my tendency to start at some indeterminate point in the past and follow the events up to the "present date" in the cycle. With that in mind, you might want to double-check where I left off in the previous British Telly update.Let's see, British tv highlights of 1978 include the first broadcast of:
- Blakes 7 - of course.
- All Creatures Great and Small
- Grange Hill
- Top Gear - a far more serious programme in those days, long before the advent of Clarkson.
- Butterflies
- Return of the Saint
- Edward & Mrs Simpson
- James Burke's Connections
It was also the fifteenth anniversary of the first broadcast of Doctor Who.
Better a space alien than Max Headroom, wouldn't you say?NCW8 said:It was also the year that some-one hijacked the sound of the Southern TV broadcast of the ITN news and broadcast a message claiming to be Vrillon of the Intergalactic Association.
Because, as we all know, directing and acting for the same project are obviously beyond Nimoy's capabilities...(Actually: Let him stay dead. Let Leonard direct.)
And thank you for all the help you've been to this timeline!As I check this thread, there's 299,999 views listed. With the view I conducted on the way in to post this, I'd like to be the first to congratulate the Brainbin on his success in getting this to come this far. And just think, all this because of That Wacky Redhead!
Thanks for sticking around ever since Page OneNevertheless it can't be long before TWR passes another notable milestone. Congratulations, Brainbin.
I'm pretty sure it was me, actually. I refreshed at 56 minutes past the hour and it was 299,999, so I clicked it once to make sure it would get over!It only updates once an hour, so I may not actually be view 300,000. Maybe you are, or maybe the 300,000th view lies within us all. Let us meditate upon this...perhaps it will bring enlightenment? (Or a fresh update!)
Thank you, phx!300,063!
Congrats, BB.
Obviously, I can't answer your question directly, e_wraith, but I wanted to emphasize that this was indeed a topic of discussion on this thread before.Connections is one of my most beloved shows of all time. I recall liking both shows, but liking Connections more. Of course, I re-watched Connections fairly recently where as I have not seen Day the Universe Changed in forever, so that may bias me. With space being more in the public interest, I wonder if Burke will even do Connections? He may be more involved in doing space related programming for the BBC and his schedule may not work out to do Connections. Or it might come later. Or it might be more space focused, though at this point Moonshot Lunacy is over with... I guess it largely depends on how much time he spent developing the series and what he did with that time in this timeline.I speculated a little on this back in May. If ITV broadcast James Doohan's The Final Frontier, then the BBC would be prompted to make their own programme dealing with space and related technologies. Due to his reporting of Apollo, Burke would be the obvious candidate to present that. This would butterfly away his studio-based series, The Burke Special and might cover some of the same ground as Connections.
Excellent question! How does Wednesday sound? I could try to rush it for tomorrow, but I wouldn't want to serve any update before its time...When will the next update be?
And, in fact, Evers ITTL beats Scott IOTL by 38 years in becoming the first African-American Senator to be elected from the South! Not too shabby, if you ask meWell Brainbin, with the appointment of Tim Scott to fill the United States Senate seat of Jim DeMint from South Carolina, your scenario has beaten real-life by 36 years in getting the first African-American Senator from the South since Reconstruction!
(For those who don't remember, in this timeline Charles Evers was narrowly elected to the Senate from Mississippi in 1976 after a crowded, four-way race in the general election.)