/tv/ - Movies and Television

Buy it and check it out, tell us what you think, I've never seen this show anywhere.

>>345320
>>345317
Seconded. Even shitty physical media holds archival value. I still have some direct to DVD slop, blu ray is high Def at least. On my third watch of dated scifi/fantasy media I'll change my tv's settings so it's darker and hides the dated effects.

Unless it's British

>>345317
We're not forty thousand years old, none of us have seen that grandpa

>>345358
I watched older shows all the time cause my parents had good taste.

>>345360
My family was similar. Plus back in the old days there was less of a hard separation between old and new stuff. I remember waking up early to watch reruns of Underdog as a little kid. If you turned on Cartoon Network back in 2001, you might see an old Fleischer, Warner Bros., or Hanna-Barbera cartoon or a '70s Scooby-Doo movie. It was normal back then for kids to be familiar with Tom and Jerry as well as newer cartoons like Dexter's Laboratory. I remember watching movies like Frankenstein and The Searchers when I was little, but today with old media being memory holed so hard that would probably be considered pretty unusual.

I remember something about this show, but not much. When I was in my 20s tho I used to watch some 70 shows like Buck Rogers and Kung Fu with David Carradine

>>345358
>what's that sonny? Why yes, I do vividly remember the Taft administration, i was just a young boy at the time after all!


I know grandpa. Go to bed and make sure you drink your prune juice to stay regular.

>>345323
>Unless it's British
Filtered

Watched the first episode. It's a story set far off year 1999, where countries on Earth are using the Moon as a dumping ground for nuclear waste. Eventually, the nuclear waste blows up and the explosion knocks the Moon out of Earth's orbit. It's pretty good for a 70's science fiction show, but I don't like the lead actor very much.

So, the background of this is it's a Gerry Anderson show (the guy who made Thunderbirds), so the model work is really good because that was their thing.
It was also originally envisioned as a continuation of their earlier show UFO, which had a few episodes set on a moon base that performed better than the rest of the series. At some point the decision was made to make a clean break from UFO and make a new show instead, so they could go all in on the moon setting.

Incidentally, UFO is super sick, and served as inspiration for both X-Com and Evangelion.

>>345659
>It's pretty good for a 70's science fiction show, but I don't like the lead actor very much.
Isn't it Martin Landau?
>>345667
>Incidentally, UFO is super sick, and served as inspiration for both X-Com and Evangelion.
The premise sounds interesting. I'm downloading it right now.