@scottthomas3792 Exactly right. We used to 'tape over' recordings at home and often regretted doing so later, but there was a tab to break off, which prevented this. Remember that in those days people complained constantly about repeats. No one foresaw that one day entire channels would be dedicated to on-demand repeats, or that "sci-fi nonsense" like this programme and Doctor Who would someday be regarded as cultural treasures
@@neilgodwin6531 In the early '60s, videotape was probably the 2 inch tape on reels...expensive, and took up a lot of space in storage. Yeah, the old audio cassettes and VHS had breakout tabs...not sure about Beta, but I would guess they did. Film has a life as well...maybe 60 years for color, and it starts to degrade... something that I learned recently is one aging film can " infect" others stored nearby. Gases produced during the process can accelerate aging in film near that one. Nothing lasts forever...
@scottthomas3792 I understand that early video tapes were expensive but when you think of what it must have cost to produce these drama's, actors wages , staff wages, studio costs, cardboard scenery lol etc. It's must have been much more expensive than video tape. But now it is all gone ! Have been searching for a 1965 version of M.R James 'lost hearts' but it is also gone. Shame
I was able to personally save a pair of half-hour 1979 "Reasonably Spontaneous Conversation" programs (w/cartoon voice actor Mel Blanc and Monkee Peter Tork -- I've posted both here on UA-cam) from being wiped by my stingy old co-producer, who regularly taped over U-Matic master videocassettes to avoid paying $40 each for new ones. I was unable to stop him from erasing numerous other gems including a complete 1983 Bill Hicks performance that we taped for a local Texas television channel -- after Bill died I didn't speak to the jerk for a decade.
It's too bad that Philip K. Dick didn't get more mainstream work. He did desire, and deserved it, and he certainly needed the income from it. And he was perfectly capable of writing his own screen plays. Wrote one for Ubik, but no one would touch it. He was too far ahead of his time, but he helped create the future and his influence will be felt for years to come.
Absolutely. He had his faults, foibles and follies but he was quite brilliant. In much the same way H.P. Lovecraft and Franz Kafka was there were only a small percentage who " got him" he was a man out of his time and place in society. No one liked the critique or what they had to say. The collective conservative status quo of his era was stacked against him. After the 70's happened he began to really find his audience and gain some traction, even then though the dominant Zeitgeist still stigmatized his work as " druggie/junky " deranged drool. Many a great artist usually are only appreciated post humorously and usually die in abject poverty and relative or actual obscurity within their respective lifetime.
You forgot One Step Beyond Was this amazing British Series Before The Amazing Legend The Twilight Zone if so then Rod Sterling Totally stole the Idea as much as I am a Massive Fan of RS and the TZ If so Americans would have sued the Brits if Brits had done this Most Sci FI stories are stolen from the Brits same as Tech most Fools think many Techs come From China Japan Wrong Most Techs were invented by the British The group The Evil 1s and their Top same Military and SS Clones have always given a lot of Tech to their Created Controlled Communist Puppets In the 60s they gave to their Created Controlled Puppet Country China Cancer blood Tests that Cost less than a Pound today which detect many Cancers before they can Kill UK Old Family Lords Royals Military Chiefs and their Top same UK Military and SS Clones got their Pure Evil Created Controlled UK Face Puppet Politicans with No Real Power to Refuse this Medical Advance to the British Public or the rest of Humanity although this Medical Advance the British Public had Funded Paid for Owned many Brits knew about this Medical advance yet were to Spineless to stand up and Demand it Shocking over 60 Years on and Brits are still refused this Cheap Blood Test However They have had the Cure for Cancer for over 40 Years Proven by a Polish Doc who opened a Clinic in Texas in the USA and proved he could not only Cure every Cancer in the Book he knew what Caused Cancer when the FDA came after him he took his Case to Americas Top Created Controlled Corrupt Courts and Top Judges Who told this Real Hero FF they did not Care If he Could cure every Cancer in the Book or knew what Caused Cancer he could not Cure Cancer However this Brave Hero had done his Homework and he could in Texas and did for over 40 Years The group the More Awake call The Evil 1s A small group of Familes with at least one Group who Control every Country on Earth with their Same Top Military and SS Clones Got their Created Controlled World MSM not to report they had the Cure for Cancer yet Americans including Doctors all knew American Chat Shows in the 70s did Talks about this Doc Curing all Cancers in Texas yet Americans Never had the Backbone to demand the Cure for Cancer for Every State in the USA or For Humanity Sadly out of Sight out of Mind The Polish Doc who Found the Cure for Cancer said he Believed they already knew What the Cure for Cancer was All the Above was Called out and Proven with Sack Loads of Evidence at World FP by Over A Billion of Humanitys Bravest Real Heroes Real FF who Demanded all these Medical Advances for Humanity including By over Ten Million of GBUKs Bravest Real Heroes Real FF again World MSM Refused to cover these Protests or the Sacks full of Evidence including Live Tapes of the Doc in Court Proving he could cure every Cancer and Proving He knew what Caused Cancer I think it was a Certain Low Protein in the Blood so he just took Blood from people who had a High amount of this Protein and then gave it to Cancer Patients it Cured every Cancer Sadly Over a Billion of Humanitys Bravest Finest Real Heroes Real Freedom Fighters were again let Down By Billions of the Weakest Most Spineless Pathetic Whining Hypocrites on Earth the Cosmos who Never stood up about anything including even the Basics To Live
Great comment and follow up reply’s, while I have nothing to add, PK Dick was well before his time, I still loved growing up at this time, look what we got out of it. The late 70’s and early 80’s Sci-Fi movies bare remarkable similarities and amen for that!
The story Cold Equations was broadcast on the NBC radio show X Minus 1 on August 25 1955, I think a couple other episodes of this show were adapted from X minus 1 scripts as well but considering they both used the leading Sci Fi writers at that time it makes sense they’d do so.
Interesting! I'm 60 and I've lived in England all my life and enjoyed literary and A/V S.F all my life but I knew nothing of this series! It should have been mentioned in several books about the history of T.V S.F that I've read but no: nothing. Thank you for making this video.
It would have been broadcast before you were born and anyway was quickly forgotten. Many conventional critics of that time despised science fiction and would have been happy to see the series fail. They preferred the more "literary" adaptations that the BBC routinely churned out. Even Kubric's 2001 was denigrated by many British pundits as a costly incomprehensible bore when it was first released.
I've got those radio shows, 'Cold Equations' is particularly sad, I'll have to re-listen but I'm sure in the 'X Minus One' version she's trying to visit her boyfriend.
At least there's Out of the Unknown. I'm doing videos on Out of the Unknown and touched on Out of this World in my first video, very glad to see it getting some love :). *Yellow Pill has a bit of a reconstruction on the DVD, not as impressive as the one for Beachhead but worth a watch. Easily the same quality as a Doctor Who telesnap reconstruction.
I've watched most of the surviving episodes of this series, and it's a crying shame that the rest was destroyed. It's good old SF in good old slow TV format. I would have loved to see "Cold Equations", and I was disappointed to find that "Reason" is one of the episodes that was lost. The haunting robot song Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO composed by Delia Derbyshire (of the Dr. Who theme song fame) for that episode survives, and can be found here on YT.
Clifford D Simak…enough said. Well, not so fast. Besides, the two stories adapted as scripts for OUT OF THIS WORLD sadly so few of his stories have been adapted and that includes those for radio too. “COURTESY” was adapted for X-1 and Dimension X, and is my favorite and resonates with many people today if they come across it’s meaning. The other stories adapted for radio was “JUNKYARD”, HOW-2” and “LULU” - not to be confused with “LULUNGOMEENA” a brilliant thought provoking story itself and on par with “HOSTESS”. The Outer Limits episode “THE DUPLICATE MAN” was taken from his story Good Night, Mr. James. For the most part, not enough of his novels and short stories have been successfully brought to the big screen (home or theatre) with his overall recognition not getting the attention it deserves. Some examples of Simak stories worth reading are City, The Werewolf Principle, The Visitors and Immigrant to name a few. Sure, these stories may seem dated and less sophisticated as the current generation is accustomed, but their message and plots are worthy of being adapted.
Bloody hell kid, you did a smashing job here, now I can’t sleep after my nighty night shift, I gotta get my hands on that video, just looking at it on your excellent video, there’s a black and white similarity to how we consumed TV back in the day which looks Star Trekkie and definitely Dr. Who. I love it. Liked, subscribed and shared son. Well Done … 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you for this breakdown & review! As a massive fan of classic era Doctor Who, I'd never even heard of this. Extremely informative. It's truly a shame that so many series had been wiped, I would love to have seen the entirety.
Imposter was adapted for a US sci-fi show in the early 00s which was expanded and turned into a feature film. It's quite good, Vincent Donforio and Gary Sinise star in it (borrows a lot of peops from Starship Troopers).
I am a connoisseur of Vintage era Science Fiction and Horror tv Anthologies. But Out of this World is one series I never heard about, Karloff hosted another short lived US series The VEIL.
Enjoyed the review. Too bad we don't have the other episodes. But maybe something will turn up someday. A film based on Cold Equation was remade not too long ago.
there's something of C3PO about the robot design..their design isn't a negative as they're a little eerie all stood together..like the Robots of Death in a.way. certainly not a face you'd want to see peering round your doorway at 2am so they hit on something. sometimes unlimited budgets are a curse that stifles creativity..just look at Star Wars
Lovely voiceover. So nice to hear. Not AI! I always skip AI videos now, no matter how good they are - much better to enjoy these well made original documentaries.
I don't remember that show at all, but as I was only seven at the time I probably would have been in bed when it was aired anyway. I do remember a couple of other sc-fi shows from the early sixties, one was called Pathfinders to Mars and the other was called Pathfinders to Venus, both starred actor Gerald Flood who was in a lot of tv shows back then, in fact he looked a lot like the actor who played Black in the lost robot episode featured here.
Ta for that. Just subbed. Don't know about this gem ! Anymore like this ? Or review old British sci fi films. Man who haunted himself ? Or earth dies screaming. Two gems
I'm actually surprised that Rod Sterling didn't pick up some of P.K.D's work for adaptation, even We'll Remeber It For You Wholesale or Overdrawn At The Memory Bank was ripe for at least somekind of Adaptation either for The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery or The Outer Limits.
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank was on MST3K as well. I guess the cast of that show feels bad that they made fun of Keanu Reeves now, though. I mean, he is a part of the Bill & Ted, Matrix, and John Wick franchises, among other notable films that are of MUCH higher quality than that early misstep in his career.
how sad we won't see any of the episodes..some sci fi gods in the story department like Phillip K Dick & Asimov..plus Boris Karloff as host is a fantastic set up for sci fi tv stories.. I've seen Colonel March on tv which is a similar idea & enjoyed those. so many shows that no thought to save..guess the tv company were desperate for blank tapes or something..otherwise most people would see the significance of such a sci fi show & saved it
I don't remember the series specifically but I can recall seeing an adaptation of Heinlein's "Universe" (aka "Orphans of the Sky") on some BBC channel back in the day. Possibly it was part of this series, or one of the ones it spawned.
Cold Equations as a radio play is available on UA-cam as an episode of the 1950s radio anthology series X-Minus One. ua-cam.com/video/yNtxJpRsCWc/v-deo.html
Britain hated keeping shows and movies. The camera negative of "Dr. Strangelove" was cut up and spliced into the printing negative as it wore out to save a few pounds.
Regarding that work by Terry Nation at number 5. I wonder if Verity Lambert or a member of her team watched this, before commissioning him to write the script which introduced the first "alien threat" to Doctor Who. The title, "Botany Bay," is also amusing for Star Trek nerds like me. KHAAAAN! 😂
It's a shame Paul Simon didn't come to Britain until 1965, because if he'd got here earlier I'd have said it was that theme tune was the inspiration for the percussion track to Cecilia! Have you heard of a TV series from the 1960s called The Master? Nothing to do with Doctor Who (and nothing to do with martial arts - that was a 1980s series), it was about a 150 year old telepathic nutcase living in a hollowed-out Rockall, intent on taking over the world with his associate (a sinister, non-speaking Chinaman) and team of bad guys. I think he'd developed a death ray or something. I remember it being quite scary even though it was a children's show, and to my young eyes The Master looked kind of shiny like he'd been varnished, which freaked me out quite a bit! I don't think there's anything of it around, including photographs, whichever is a pity.
I just about remember that show. It was shown on ITV early in 1966, and yes I found it very creepy too. I think after it finished there was another sci-fi show in the same time slot called Object Z.
There is a re adaptation of the episode of the girl having to be rejected into space on the (DUST) scifi channel. I watched it about 2 months ago. I can't remember what the name was. But It's the same story line as you described. Or very similar !
This just reinforces my belief that the majority of television and movie executives are *IDIOTS,* at least when it comes to stories involving *_science fiction._*
Are you aware a subliminal image of Elon Musk appears at ~6:30.5 (will need slo-mo and fast reactions to catch it); this is the 2nd or 3rd video this last week, where I have spotted a flashed image, but the first one I was fast enough to pin down the exact time; spotted in wildly different channels.
@@AstileDohertyProductions Did you put it in?? Because I have seen other subliminal pictures added to other channels this week - which I thought was illegal.
@ianemery2925 I did it myself. Keep pointing them out just in case they aren't intentional because I won't be having any subliminal messages I myself didn't put in
Appreciate the detailed breakdown! I have a quick question: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (air carpet target dish off jeans toilet sweet piano spoil fruit essay). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?
American networks, especially cheapo NBC would reuse 2" videotape, mostly for blue screen so the weather man could show the weather! Ernie Kovaks had a lot of his shows erased.
The networks didn't realize what they had and so scrapped it. Part of the overall loss of the art of the Sci Fi short story. Explains why so much of today's attempts at Sci Fi series are crap.
I read "The Cold Equations," and it didn't work for me. The woman would be, what, 50kg? They couldn't find that much mass to jettison? Not believable. Also not believable that a fuel supply wouldn't have a safety factor. What if you had to dodge an asteroid? Simply not believable.
TV exec. "We need a network time killer to go up against another network's hit show." "Let's seeeeeeeeeeeeee..............My 8 year old son writes these goofy sci-fi shorts that we can make into a series. Now, all we need is someone we can pay scale to as an MC and narrator." "What's Boris Karloff doing these days??????????"
I'm glad to see this excellent series has not been totally forgotten. It's the kind of thing you don't really see these days. TV producers prefer "space opera" series such as Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica or Stargate. I remember watching some episodes of this series when I was just 11 years old. "Imposter" is the one which really stayed with me down the years. A movie version starring Vincent D'Onofrio was made back in 2001 but the story was spoiled by the addition of a sentimental anti-racist / social equality theme which had nothing to do with Philip K Dick's original tale.
I remember watching this as a kid. Scared the shit out of me.
It beggars belief that television companies wiped video tapes of these excellent shows. Such a sad loss
Maybe videotape was expensive then...videotape was fairly new in the early '60s...
@scottthomas3792 Exactly right. We used to 'tape over' recordings at home and often regretted doing so later, but there was a tab to break off, which prevented this.
Remember that in those days people complained constantly about repeats.
No one foresaw that one day entire channels would be dedicated to on-demand repeats, or that "sci-fi nonsense" like this programme and Doctor Who would someday be regarded as cultural treasures
@@neilgodwin6531 In the early '60s, videotape was probably the 2 inch tape on reels...expensive, and took up a lot of space in storage.
Yeah, the old audio cassettes and VHS had breakout tabs...not sure about Beta, but I would guess they did.
Film has a life as well...maybe 60 years for color, and it starts to degrade... something that I learned recently is one aging film can " infect" others stored nearby. Gases produced during the process can accelerate aging in film near that one.
Nothing lasts forever...
@scottthomas3792 I understand that early video tapes were expensive but when you think of what it must have cost to produce these drama's, actors wages , staff wages, studio costs, cardboard scenery lol etc. It's must have been much more expensive than video tape. But now it is all gone !
Have been searching for a 1965 version of M.R James 'lost hearts' but it is also gone. Shame
I was able to personally save a pair of half-hour 1979 "Reasonably Spontaneous Conversation" programs (w/cartoon voice actor Mel Blanc and Monkee Peter Tork -- I've posted both here on UA-cam) from being wiped by my stingy old co-producer, who regularly taped over U-Matic master videocassettes to avoid paying $40 each for new ones.
I was unable to stop him from erasing numerous other gems including a complete 1983 Bill Hicks performance that we taped for a local Texas television channel -- after Bill died I didn't speak to the jerk for a decade.
It's too bad that Philip K. Dick didn't get more mainstream work. He did desire, and deserved it, and he certainly needed the income from it. And he was perfectly capable of writing his own screen plays. Wrote one for Ubik, but no one would touch it. He was too far ahead of his time, but he helped create the future and his influence will be felt for years to come.
Absolutely. He had his faults, foibles and follies but he was quite brilliant. In much the same way H.P. Lovecraft and Franz Kafka was there were only a small percentage who " got him" he was a man out of his time and place in society. No one liked the critique or what they had to say. The collective conservative status quo of his era was stacked against him. After the 70's happened he began to really find his audience and gain some traction, even then though the dominant Zeitgeist still stigmatized his work as " druggie/junky " deranged drool. Many a great artist usually are only appreciated post humorously and usually die in abject poverty and relative or actual obscurity within their respective lifetime.
Dick’s stories have been the basis for a good many movies over the decades.
You forgot One Step Beyond Was this amazing British Series Before The Amazing Legend The Twilight Zone if so then Rod Sterling Totally stole the Idea as much as I am a Massive Fan of RS and the TZ If so Americans would have sued the Brits if Brits had done this Most Sci FI stories are stolen from the Brits same as Tech most Fools think many Techs come From China Japan Wrong Most Techs were invented by the British The group The Evil 1s and their Top same Military and SS Clones have always given a lot of Tech to their Created Controlled Communist Puppets In the 60s they gave to their Created Controlled Puppet Country China Cancer blood Tests that Cost less than a Pound today which detect many Cancers before they can Kill UK Old Family Lords Royals Military Chiefs and their Top same UK Military and SS Clones got their Pure Evil Created Controlled UK Face Puppet Politicans with No Real Power to Refuse this Medical Advance to the British Public or the rest of Humanity although this Medical Advance the British Public had Funded Paid for Owned many Brits knew about this Medical advance yet were to Spineless to stand up and Demand it Shocking over 60 Years on and Brits are still refused this Cheap Blood Test However They have had the Cure for Cancer for over 40 Years Proven by a Polish Doc who opened a Clinic in Texas in the USA and proved he could not only Cure every Cancer in the Book he knew what Caused Cancer when the FDA came after him he took his Case to Americas Top Created Controlled Corrupt Courts and Top Judges Who told this Real Hero FF they did not Care If he Could cure every Cancer in the Book or knew what Caused Cancer he could not Cure Cancer However this Brave Hero had done his Homework and he could in Texas and did for over 40 Years The group the More Awake call The Evil 1s A small group of Familes with at least one Group who Control every Country on Earth with their Same Top Military and SS Clones Got their Created Controlled World MSM not to report they had the Cure for Cancer yet Americans including Doctors all knew American Chat Shows in the 70s did Talks about this Doc Curing all Cancers in Texas yet Americans Never had the Backbone to demand the Cure for Cancer for Every State in the USA or For Humanity Sadly out of Sight out of Mind The Polish Doc who Found the Cure for Cancer said he Believed they already knew What the Cure for Cancer was All the Above was Called out and Proven with Sack Loads of Evidence at World FP by Over A Billion of Humanitys Bravest Real Heroes Real FF who Demanded all these Medical Advances for Humanity including By over Ten Million of GBUKs Bravest Real Heroes Real FF again World MSM Refused to cover these Protests or the Sacks full of Evidence including Live Tapes of the Doc in Court Proving he could cure every Cancer and Proving He knew what Caused Cancer I think it was a Certain Low Protein in the Blood so he just took Blood from people who had a High amount of this Protein and then gave it to Cancer Patients it Cured every Cancer Sadly Over a Billion of Humanitys Bravest Finest Real Heroes Real Freedom Fighters were again let Down By Billions of the Weakest Most Spineless Pathetic Whining Hypocrites on Earth the Cosmos who Never stood up about anything including even the Basics To Live
Great comment and follow up reply’s, while I have nothing to add, PK Dick was well before his time, I still loved growing up at this time, look what we got out of it. The late 70’s and early 80’s Sci-Fi movies bare remarkable similarities and amen for that!
The story Cold Equations was broadcast on the NBC radio show X Minus 1 on August 25 1955, I think a couple other episodes of this show were adapted from X minus 1 scripts as well but considering they both used the leading Sci Fi writers at that time it makes sense they’d do so.
Interesting! I'm 60 and I've lived in England all my life and enjoyed literary and A/V S.F all my life but I knew nothing of this series! It should have been mentioned in several books about the history of T.V S.F that I've read but no: nothing. Thank you for making this video.
It would have been broadcast before you were born and anyway was quickly forgotten. Many conventional critics of that time despised science fiction and would have been happy to see the series fail. They preferred the more "literary" adaptations that the BBC routinely churned out. Even Kubric's 2001 was denigrated by many British pundits as a costly incomprehensible bore when it was first released.
A _very_ good and worthwhile video presentation! 😊 Subscribed!
Thanks for posting.
These stories aired way past my bedtime in 1962 and I'm sure I would have enjoyed watching them..
Looks so good, I've been enjoying Boris Karloff as the eye patch wearing head of strange investigation in Colonel March of Scotland Yard.
"Cold Equations" was adapted for radio for the American series "X Minus One" and broadcast on August 25, 1955 on NBC.
I've got those radio shows, 'Cold Equations' is particularly sad, I'll have to re-listen but I'm sure in the 'X Minus One' version she's trying to visit her boyfriend.
The writer of Cold Equations, Tom Godwin, was obviously a man of great intelligence and talent. I wish I was actually related (perhaps I am) 😂
@@neilgodwin6531 you never know ;)
Wow, this is great! A high school teacher around 1970 told me about Way Out, but I never heard of Out of This World until now.
At least there's Out of the Unknown.
I'm doing videos on Out of the Unknown and touched on Out of this World in my first video, very glad to see it getting some love :).
*Yellow Pill has a bit of a reconstruction on the DVD, not as impressive as the one for Beachhead but worth a watch. Easily the same quality as a Doctor Who telesnap reconstruction.
I've watched most of the surviving episodes of this series, and it's a crying shame that the rest was destroyed. It's good old SF in good old slow TV format. I would have loved to see "Cold Equations", and I was disappointed to find that "Reason" is one of the episodes that was lost. The haunting robot song Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO composed by Delia Derbyshire (of the Dr. Who theme song fame) for that episode survives, and can be found here on YT.
Clifford D Simak…enough said.
Well, not so fast. Besides, the two stories adapted as scripts for OUT OF THIS WORLD sadly so few of his stories have been adapted and that includes those for radio too. “COURTESY” was adapted for X-1 and Dimension X, and is my favorite and resonates with many people today if they come across it’s meaning. The other stories adapted for radio was “JUNKYARD”, HOW-2” and “LULU” - not to be confused with “LULUNGOMEENA” a brilliant thought provoking story itself and on par with “HOSTESS”. The Outer Limits episode “THE DUPLICATE MAN” was taken from his story Good Night, Mr. James. For the most part, not enough of his novels and short stories have been successfully brought to the big screen (home or theatre) with his overall recognition not getting the attention it deserves. Some examples of Simak stories worth reading are City, The Werewolf Principle, The Visitors and Immigrant to name a few. Sure, these stories may seem dated and less sophisticated as the current generation is accustomed, but their message and plots are worthy of being adapted.
Bloody hell kid, you did a smashing job here, now I can’t sleep after my nighty night shift, I gotta get my hands on that video, just looking at it on your excellent video, there’s a black and white similarity to how we consumed TV back in the day which looks Star Trekkie and definitely Dr. Who. I love it. Liked, subscribed and shared son. Well Done … 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
A pity Cold Equations was lost. It's one of the best science fiction stories ever.
Thank you for this breakdown & review! As a massive fan of classic era Doctor Who, I'd never even heard of this. Extremely informative. It's truly a shame that so many series had been wiped, I would love to have seen the entirety.
Imposter was adapted for a US sci-fi show in the early 00s which was expanded and turned into a feature film. It's quite good, Vincent Donforio and Gary Sinise star in it (borrows a lot of peops from Starship Troopers).
I am a connoisseur of Vintage era Science Fiction and Horror tv Anthologies. But Out of this World is one series I never heard about, Karloff hosted another short lived US series The VEIL.
Cold equations was done as an actual radio play. On one of those early sci fi drama series in the US
Enjoyed the review. Too bad we don't have the other episodes. But maybe something will turn up someday. A film based on Cold Equation was remade not too long ago.
I enjoyed viewing your program. Thank You for sharing.
there's something of C3PO about the robot design..their design isn't a negative as they're a little eerie all stood together..like the Robots of Death in a.way. certainly not a face you'd want to see peering round your doorway at 2am so they hit on something. sometimes unlimited budgets are a curse that stifles creativity..just look at Star Wars
Very good assessment of a truly hidden gem.
Really wish the last four episodes of Way Out would pop up online
Who remembers "Thriller," "One Step Beyond," "The Outer Limits," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," or "Checkmate"?
Quite a few people remember Hitchcock and the Outer Limits. Not so many the others.
Lovely voiceover. So nice to hear. Not AI! I always skip AI videos now, no matter how good they are - much better to enjoy these well made original documentaries.
I don't remember that show at all, but as I was only seven at the time I probably would have been in bed when it was aired anyway. I do remember a couple of other sc-fi shows from the early sixties, one was called Pathfinders to Mars and the other was called Pathfinders to Venus, both starred actor Gerald Flood who was in a lot of tv shows back then, in fact he looked a lot like the actor who played Black in the lost robot episode featured here.
Ta for that. Just subbed. Don't know about this gem ! Anymore like this ? Or review old British sci fi films. Man who haunted himself ? Or earth dies screaming. Two gems
I'm actually surprised that Rod Sterling didn't pick up some of P.K.D's work for adaptation, even We'll Remeber It For You Wholesale or Overdrawn At The Memory Bank was ripe for at least somekind of Adaptation either for The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery or The Outer Limits.
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank was on MST3K as well. I guess the cast of that show feels bad that they made fun of Keanu Reeves now, though. I mean, he is a part of the Bill & Ted, Matrix, and John Wick franchises, among other notable films that are of MUCH higher quality than that early misstep in his career.
how sad we won't see any of the episodes..some sci fi gods in the story department like Phillip K Dick & Asimov..plus Boris Karloff as host is a fantastic set up for sci fi tv stories..
I've seen Colonel March on tv which is a similar idea & enjoyed those.
so many shows that no thought to save..guess the tv company were desperate for blank tapes or something..otherwise most people would see the significance of such a sci fi show & saved it
I don't remember the series specifically but I can recall seeing an adaptation of Heinlein's "Universe" (aka "Orphans of the Sky") on some BBC channel back in the day. Possibly it was part of this series, or one of the ones it spawned.
"so impractical, cheap and bizarre, I love them" - me too!
Cold Equations as a radio play is available on UA-cam as an episode of the 1950s radio anthology series X-Minus One.
ua-cam.com/video/yNtxJpRsCWc/v-deo.html
The only episode that I got to see, because of my age, was ‘Dumb Martian’ but it must have impressed me because I still remember it.
Any first hand details you remember of the play, please do share :)
Britain hated keeping shows and movies. The camera negative of "Dr. Strangelove" was cut up and spliced into the printing negative as it wore out to save a few pounds.
Grew up on Asimov....amazing that he came to screen so much earlier than I thought!
Regarding that work by Terry Nation at number 5. I wonder if Verity Lambert or a member of her team watched this, before commissioning him to write the script which introduced the first "alien threat" to Doctor Who.
The title, "Botany Bay," is also amusing for Star Trek nerds like me. KHAAAAN! 😂
It's a shame Paul Simon didn't come to Britain until 1965, because if he'd got here earlier I'd have said it was that theme tune was the inspiration for the percussion track to Cecilia!
Have you heard of a TV series from the 1960s called The Master? Nothing to do with Doctor Who (and nothing to do with martial arts - that was a 1980s series), it was about a 150 year old telepathic nutcase living in a hollowed-out Rockall, intent on taking over the world with his associate (a sinister, non-speaking Chinaman) and team of bad guys. I think he'd developed a death ray or something. I remember it being quite scary even though it was a children's show, and to my young eyes The Master looked kind of shiny like he'd been varnished, which freaked me out quite a bit!
I don't think there's anything of it around, including photographs, whichever is a pity.
I just about remember that show. It was shown on ITV early in 1966, and yes I found it very creepy too. I think after it finished there was another sci-fi show in the same time slot called Object Z.
The Little Yellow Pill and Target Generation were redone for Out of the Unknown Series 3 (1969).
Don’t know if you got to see the 2001 remake of Imposter with Gary Sinase. It was pretty good!
I vaguely remember this and it was scary as hell.
There is a re adaptation of the episode of the girl having to be rejected into space on the (DUST) scifi channel. I watched it about 2 months ago. I can't remember what the name was. But It's the same story line as you described. Or very similar !
When first saw the thumbnail I confused this with "The Outer Limits."
Couldn’t they do to Tales Of Tomorrow what was done to the missing Dr. Who episodes? Animate them?
This just reinforces my belief that the majority of television and movie executives are *IDIOTS,* at least when it comes to stories involving *_science fiction._*
I am convinced that most people that make science fiction and fantasy are them as well.
I adapted Cold Equations as a playwriting course assessment piece.
Are you aware a subliminal image of Elon Musk appears at ~6:30.5 (will need slo-mo and fast reactions to catch it); this is the 2nd or 3rd video this last week, where I have spotted a flashed image, but the first one I was fast enough to pin down the exact time; spotted in wildly different channels.
Well done - you got a gold star 🌟
@@AstileDohertyProductions Did you put it in?? Because I have seen other subliminal pictures added to other channels this week - which I thought was illegal.
@ianemery2925 I did it myself. Keep pointing them out just in case they aren't intentional because I won't be having any subliminal messages I myself didn't put in
SciFi channel did a made for TV version of Cold Equations.
Never even heard of this. Wow this from the Vaults.
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What's on earth are you talking about.
That's what I was thinking.
American networks, especially cheapo NBC would reuse 2" videotape, mostly for blue screen so the weather man could show the weather! Ernie Kovaks had a lot of his shows erased.
That's damn shame ABC network wipes/erased entire series.
I looked up the Wikipedia article to find out more about this and followed along with your video word for word :/
Calvin? Did the movie 'AI' use this?
Simak dramatised! How frustrating that we can't see it. ☹️
The networks didn't realize what they had and so scrapped it. Part of the overall loss of the art of the Sci Fi short story. Explains why so much of today's attempts at Sci Fi series are crap.
Wait! Did you say "Fronkensteen Complex"?
Gene Wilder is alive and with us 😂
I read "The Cold Equations," and it didn't work for me. The woman would be, what, 50kg? They couldn't find that much mass to jettison? Not believable. Also not believable that a fuel supply wouldn't have a safety factor. What if you had to dodge an asteroid? Simply not believable.
Cold Equation was redone in episode of 1990s Outer Limits and the webseries, Which name I can't remember.
' The Outer Limits ' was strictly sci-fi . ' The Twilights Zone ' was not .
What in the hell is Elon Musk doing in this documentary.
Musk?
State broadcaster did that to Dr who dads army etc. Yet kept Crap like state opening parliament
Just someone's unwanted opinions masquerading as an actual episode.
Why didn't the guy who told Nestor to get lost just tell all of the robots to allow themselves to be found?
TV exec. "We need a network time killer to go up against another network's hit show."
"Let's seeeeeeeeeeeeee..............My 8 year old son writes these goofy sci-fi shorts that we can make into a series. Now, all we need is someone we can pay scale to as an MC and narrator."
"What's Boris Karloff doing these days??????????"
Asimov's three laws of robotics is a load of crap
Stop calling people by their last names. Call them by their first names.
No.
@@AstileDohertyProductions Yes, absolutely!!!
Gary Sinise was instrumental in getting a movie version of Imposter made, which he starred in. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_(2001_film)
I'm glad to see this excellent series has not been totally forgotten. It's the kind of thing you don't really see these days. TV producers prefer "space opera" series such as Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica or Stargate.
I remember watching some episodes of this series when I was just 11 years old. "Imposter" is the one which really stayed with me down the years. A movie version starring Vincent D'Onofrio was made back in 2001 but the story was spoiled by the addition of a sentimental anti-racist / social equality theme which had nothing to do with Philip K Dick's original tale.