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From: cpd@cat.pan.net
"Nicole Massey" wrote in message
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> "Zeb Carter" wrote in message
> news:O5Kaq.13534$zx2.8716@newsfe08.iad...
>> catpandaddy wrote:
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>>> "catpandaddy" wrote in message
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>>>> 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.
>
> That was probably related to pain on the part of most of the actors as
> every time they brushed against Ms. Gray they got splinters.
>
I am more of the opinion that the splinters came from those plywood-like
special effects models.
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