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   From: zeb_carter@ymail.com   
      
   catpandaddy wrote:   
   >   
   > "catpandaddy"  wrote in message   
   > news:j4fmd4$dp1$1@dont-email.me...   
   >>   
   >>  wrote in message   
   >> news:biqrj8-0g1.ln1@librarian.sky.com...   
   >>> And verily, didst David Johnston  hastily babble   
   >>> thusly:   
   >>>> On 9/2/2011 2:07 AM, TMC wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> 2. Making Flash Gordon non-space-bound.   
   >>>>> This one still makes us scratch our heads. You get to do the rights of   
   >>>>> one of space opera's most recognizable characters, who's famous for   
   >>>>> flying around on rockets and battling against aliens in space ??? and   
   >>>>> you never put him on a spaceship.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Flash Gordon battled aliens in spaceships? News to me. Buck Rogers did   
   >>>> a lot of spaceship stuff, but Flash was restricted to Mongo.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Errrr... How do you think he got to mongo in the first place?   
   >>> In dr zarkov's rocket ship. There was a lot of corny flying around   
   >>> shooting   
   >>> sparklers at each other in flash gordon. (the original buster crabbe   
   >>> version)   
   >>   
   >> Was Flash Gordon the first tv series to be given the "Reboot"   
   >> treatment by unimaginative tv execs with no original ideas?   
   >   
   > Sorry should have said "one of the first" series.   
      
   Buck Rogers in the 25th Century with Gil Gerard and Erin Gray would   
   probably fall into that category. The theatrical release of the movie   
   was good but the series went downhill after season 1.   
      
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