home bbs files messages ]

Just a sample of the Echomail archive

Cooperative anarchy at its finest, still active today. Darkrealms is the Zone 1 Hub.

   BABYLON5      Babylon 5 Discussions.      2,554 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 1,471 of 2,554   
   Charlie E. to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated   
   Re: Pioneers of Television - Science Fic   
   21 Jan 11 12:20:04   
   
   On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:35:20 +0000 (UTC), Doug Freyburger   
    wrote:   
      
   >Charlie E. wrote:   
   >>   
   >> but they really just focused on the   
   >> three 'seminal' series - Trek, Lost in Space and Twilight Zone.   
   >   
   >Every list of three seminal series I've ever heard from a long time fan   
   >is Outer Limits, Twilight Zone and Star Trek in any order.  Until   
   >Babylon 5 came out. By then shows were poineers "on" television not   
   >poineers "of" television.   
   >   
   >Lost in Space is fun and campy but was it really any more important than   
   >Fireball XL-5, The Starlost or UFOs?   
      
   Well, Fireball was childrens TV, on saturday mornings IIRC. (Yes, I   
   had a toy XL-5!)  Starlost I have only heard of as an adult, and UFO   
   was a later series, of the Space 1999 generation...   
      
   Charlie   
   --- SBBSecho 2.12-Win32   
    * Origin: Time Warp of the Future BBS - Home of League 10 (1:14/400)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca