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   In article , "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.   
      
   In terms of TV shows, possibly, but there were movie "remakes" (of both   
   Falsh Gordon and other ideas) LONG before that. There were also "remakes",   
   or more precisely "rip-offs", of books even further back.   
      
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