Brian O'Neill wrote:   
   > On 1/21/2011 2:35 PM, 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?   
   >>   
   >   
   > The Starlost in my mind would be very questionable on such a list. It   
   > was great in concept, but very little of it panned out. The studio execs   
   > got too much control, the creator abandoned it, the special effects guy   
   > failed to create the promised system and they had to fall back to crappy   
   > chroma-key effects, etc.   
   >   
   > The whole story got fictionalized in an interesting book, actually, by   
   > Ben Bova (who was the science advisor), called "The Starcrossed".   
   >   
   > There was an attempt to being back the original concept/pilot script as   
   > a feature movie with Sony, but it fell into Development Hell.   
   >   
   > UFO was Gerry Anderson's first live action show, but it only survived   
   > for a single series when a strike interfered with production, and it   
   > eventually died. Space: 1999, which was born out of ideas for the second   
   > series of UFO, gained life on its own, dropping some of the more cheesy   
   > elements and better effects. Space: 1999 got far more play in the US,   
   > but I think Lost In Space was far ahead in terms of being a part of the   
   > culture.   
   >   
   > -Brian   
   >   
   >   
   I remember the StarLost. But to me, it seemed like it was lifted    
   directly from Robert Heinlein's "Orphans of the Sky".   
      
   Gerry & Sylvia Anderson's puppet shows in the '60s were shows I loved on    
   Saturday mornings as a kid!   
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