On Jan 27, 10:42 am, Doug Freyburger  wrote:
> Blair Leatherwood wrote:
>
> > Was anyone else disappointed that there was no mention whatsoever of The
> > Outer Limits?
>
> Before I watched it I saw the names in the description and wondered at
> the list.  As I watched it I realized it was about the people far more
> than it was about the shows.
>
> When it mentioned the other shows that Irwin Allen produced I was
> impressed as I was a fan of a lot of them.  I got why he was in the
> list.  I recognized his name.
>
> When The Outer Limits was mentioned in this post it occured to me that I
> had no idea who had produced either the BW or color versions.  Maybe
> they didn't even have a single person in charge?  So I looked up the
> original BW show in IMDB.  I didn't remember Leslie Stevens.  Then I
> started reading the list of his other credits.  Wow.  Both of the OL
> series and a bunch of other stuff.  Very impressive.
>
> But it remains that before looking him up in IMDB I did not recognize
> his name while I recognized Irwin Allen just from it being listed
> together with Gene Roddenbury and Rod Sterling.  For a show about the
> people, name recognition matters.
>
> I'll go with disappointed but I do understand why he wasn't in the list.
The way I look at it, this first "Pioneers of Television" devoted to
the Science Fiction genre barely even scratched the surface, which is
why I hold out hope that they'll produce another one at some future
point that focuses on other influential shows within the genre, such
as "The Outer Limits," which they didn't get to in this first
documentary. The amount of time spent on "Lost in Space" just wasn't
warranted in my opinion. They could have spent more time on some of
Irwin Allen's other work, such as "The Time Tunnel," but they didn't,
choosing instead to focus on a very bad, cheesy series that was more
camp and comedy than serious science fiction, the pilot episode that
launched that series aside (which I have only a somewhat vague
recollection of, but I recall it not being as half as corny as the
series turned out to be, Jonathan Harris' ensuing comic genius and
input aside, which was a double edged sword that also hurt the show to
a great extent).
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