Tom Holmberg

I noticed there's a book on the show coming out The Outer Limits - TV Milestones Author Joanne Morreale Paperback (05 Apr 2022) Wayne State University Press In this TV Milestone, author Joanne Morreale highlights the differences of The Outer Limits (ABC 1963-65) from typical programs on the air in the 1960s. Morreale argues that the show provides insight into changes in the television industry as writers turned to genre fiction-in this case, a hybrid of science fiction and horror-to provide veiled social commentary. The show illustrates the tension between networks who wanted mainstream entertainment and the independent writer-producers, Leslie Stevens and Joseph Stefano, who wanted to use the medium to challenge viewers. In five chapters, The Outer Limits makes a case for the show's deployment of gothic melodrama and science fiction tropes, unique televisual characteristics, and creative adaptation of many cultural sources to interrogate the relationship between humans and technology in a way that continues to influence contemporary debate in such shows as Star Trek, The X-Files, and Black Mirror. Underlying the arguments is the eerie notion of The Outer Limits as a disruptive force on television at the time, purposely making audiences uncomfortable. For example, in its iconic opening credit sequence a disembodied Control Voice claims to be taking over the television as images mimic signal interference. Other themes convey Cold War paranoia, ambivalence about the Kennedy era New Frontier, and anxiety about the burgeoning military-industrial-governmental complex. The book points out that The Outer Limits presaged what came to be known as quality television. While most episodes followed the lowbrow tradition of televised science fiction by adapting previously published stories and films, the series elevated the genre by rearticulating it through themes and images drawn from myth, literature, and the art film.

Liberty Mutual dance party ad? Like every ad now has annoying dancing.

I'm reading Mark Twain's "Life on the Mississippi" and there's a chapter about how predatory the undertaking business is. So we can assume it pretty much always was a scam.

Or more than one serving in a bag of potato chips. 😋

You might try, if you haven't read them, Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles series. People either really hate it, or they think they are the best historical novels ever. I happen to really like the series. I originally read it in the 1970's reread it in the 1990s and again in the 2010s. If you are a perfectionist you might want to have a copy of the "Dorothy Dunnett Companion" near to hand.

Or hit with a rolled up paper.

I'd put it in the top 10.

I always thought a movie version actually following the book would be interesting.

I always say I'd want to be thrown out in the woods.

So, what are your favorite TV theme songs from the retro era? I would go with "The Addams Family" theme song as my favorite, which isn't too controversial, but my second favorite would be "Car 54, Where Are You?" I like the historical references - Khrushchev and Idlewild (which of course weren't historical at the time). Too bad theme songs have largely disappeared today.

Her *ss looks like its ready to explode.

Camels

If it's gold or silver (which you'd assume a wedding ring would be), there's no carbon I'd think.

I wonder if they'll run into the cast from the movie "10,000 B.C." at some point?

Can you carbon date a diamond that's already tens of thousands (or more) of years old?

It;s fitting, since they're in The Land Down Under.

The town I grew up in in suburban Chicago was known as a home of the "Bloomer Girls." Before my time, there was a Bloomer Girls field as well as a Bloomer Girls museum. I've never heard whatever happened to the items in the museum, but hopefully they were preserved. https://www.forestparkhistory.org/bloomer-girls.html

Rockford, IL, home of the Rockford Peaches, is planning to build a women's baseball museum https://www.wifr.com/2021/10/05/plan-international-womens-baseball-museum-advances-city-council/

Or "The Travels of Jamie McPheeters" by Robert Lewis Taylor, which coincidentally I read during Covid.

That's why God invented libraries!

There's a bio of V.C. Andrews due out soon, for anyone interested. Also James Patterson has an autobiography coming out - like we need more James Patterson books. Never read a James Patterson book, I'm waiting for "The Bible" written by James Patterson.

I like her too.

If you can have polar bears on tropical islands (or polar bears and penguins together, for that matter), I guess you can have dinosaurs and dire wolves. Maybe the dinosaurs would fall through their own sinkhole. 🤓

Tommy Kirk was in much better films than that.

If that was supposed to be a prehistoric American, how likely would he look Scandinavian (as he looked to me)?