On 22/01/2011 03:53, John W. Kennedy wrote:   
      
   > It's not a question of artistic value, but one of historic importance.   
   > There are plenty of parallels. The American musical, for example, was   
   > strongly influenced by "The Black Crook" (1866, I think) and the 1902   
   > "Wizard of Oz", but neither one is tolerable today. No one ever does   
   > "The Black Crook", and the single amateur performance of "Wizard of   
   > Oz" last summer was the first full-dress production since the 1920s.   
   > Similarly, "Lost in Space" is a landmark, even though most of it is   
   > bloody awful. "Fireball XL-5" was a kiddy show, "The Starlost" was   
   > repudiated by its creator even before it went on the air, and "UFO"   
   > was an adult production of a kiddy-show concept. (And "Fireball XL-5"   
   > and "UFO" were British, anyway, which puts them out of "Pioneers"'   
   > purview.)   
   >   
      
   What, British SF is somehow derivative?  Or is it just British TV?   
   --- SBBSecho 2.12-Win32   
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