Took a little bit of time to size up and draft some design plans for creating my own Tardis. Took the time to set it so it would look close enough to the actual thing. I know it’s not perfect, but it was fun to sit back watching a 80’s flick and build. Even put a control center into if for the doctor to use. Now just to put a few final touches on it and add some custom decals.😁👊🏻
Odyssey was a Canadian series produced in 1992, part of the “huge burst” of scifi shows made that year along with X-Files and Babylon 5. Of all of them, it was the one that is the least remembered. In a sign of how rare scifi was in the greater culture, four scifi shows produced at one time was seen as a strange trend.
“When a young boy goes into a coma, he enters a world populated only by kids, while his friends and family continue on in the real world.”
First episode date: March 9, 1992 (Canada)
Final episode date: December 26, 1994
Original network: CBC Television
This Canadian gem of a find stars Ryan Reynolds and is a classic.
Coincidence?
Debuting on June 9, 1979 the TV Pilot for the series entitled “Starstruck” aired only once on CBS. A Sci-Fi comedy focusing on the McCallister family and the Hotel/Restaurant they run in space. The humor coming from the robotic staff as well as the clientele that the family come in contact with. The shows creators seem to have been inspired by the cantina scene from the original Star Wars.
This was considered to be a lost pilot but thankfully Chuck Cirino who happened to be an effects technician on the show saved his copy on a VHS tape and has uploaded it on his YouTube channel.
“Starstruck (Pilot; Comedy; CBS; June 9, 1979). Ben McCallister, a widower, and his children, Kate, Masrk and Rupert operate McCallisters Midway Inn, a hotel-restaurant-saloon on an orbiting space station ‘somewhere between Earth and Pluto.’ It is the 22nd century and the proposal was to relate the problems encountered by the family. Ezra and Abigail are Ben’s parents; Amber is the lounge singer; Delight is the waitress.”
Fun little fact about this lost pilot episode is that “B Flick” sci-fi and horror great Forrest A. Ackerman has a uncredited role as an Alien Astronaut in it.
For all it’s campyness, (yes I used that word) It is worth a watch for a look into the vision of some of the ideas that came out of the time when Star Wars was just becoming a big thing and starting to inspire new movies and television shows.
Watch the full episode here.
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