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Post by legios on Jul 17, 2014 20:07:28 GMT
Also in October is Out of This World, the ground-breaking ABC series from 1962 which paved the way for Out of the Unknown. Containing the only surviving episode (the recently re-discovered ‘Little Lost Robot’, by Isaac Asimov), as well as reconstructions of other episodes, this DVD grants sci-Fi fans the long-overdue opportunity to experience this historically important series for the first time since its original broadcast. The "Little Lost Robot" adaptation! Jings, I never expected that to ever be disinterred from the vaults for people to see again. And "Out of the Unknown" would be fascinating to see just for historical value alone. If they are presented up to the standard of some of the other BFI stuff I have experience ("Gojira", "Seven Samurai" for example) then they should be good packages. Karl
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Post by legios on Jul 18, 2014 4:22:54 GMT
What's Little Lost Robot? One of Issac Asimov's "Robot" positronic robot short stories. A bit of a favourite of mine as I like the "logic puzzle" element of them, and because they were a strong influence of my reading habits when I was in my early teens. Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 16, 2014 7:32:03 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 23, 2014 21:39:37 GMT
Out of This World £10.49 in store at HMV this week allegedly. Amazon want £14.00
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 23, 2014 21:53:29 GMT
I will have a look.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 26, 2014 17:22:56 GMT
Procured! My goodness, despite there being only one surviving episode of this series there's a lot of stuff on the disc!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 27, 2014 18:21:19 GMT
The surviving episode is quite good so long as you know what you're getting. Karloff has no idea what is going on in his intro/outro. With two ways to watch I naturally plumped for the Vidfire version. The commentary features a 97 year old chap. He rambles a bit but then he is 97!!! Looking forward to listening to the included missing episode soundtracks.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 3, 2014 17:23:16 GMT
Cold Equations and what there is of Imposter have been listened to. The former is probably too grim to be listening to just before bed!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 4, 2014 17:39:02 GMT
Cold Equations was pretty grim.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 4, 2014 18:02:27 GMT
Imposter and Cold Equations are from Out of this World.
Cold Equations is indeed fucking grim. It is the definition of fucking grim.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Dec 4, 2014 21:09:53 GMT
The original short story made a huge impact on me when I first read it - aged somewhere between eight and ten. It has a brutal crushing inevitability to it that is very striking.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 6, 2014 19:44:13 GMT
It rang a bell. Though the pictures are gone it works very well as an audio piece. This also saves Ralph from the confusing sight of a young Jane Asher.
Imposter was adapted by Terry Nation. Features 'mutos' in an irradiated area outside a giant dome. He must have liked that idea...
Great disc. From what survives I think this was an excellent series. Well done the BFI for getting it out.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Feb 12, 2015 21:19:49 GMT
"Imposter" I thought was...ok as far as I went - but in honesty I think the same about the source story - it is a fine piece of identity questioning, but not on the same level as "The Electric Ant" in terms of P.K. Dicks work.
The adaptation of "Cold Equations" I thought was really good - I did wonder what they were going to do to stretch it out to an hour (the original is a fairly short, but impactful, short story. What they chose to do was very clever and - maybe it was because of having actual cast performances to get to know - even more disturbing than the original story in some respects. Certainly I wasn't expecting it to retain the impact that it did considering how often I have read the source material.
It is a really good disc, and I have to say on the strength of what we have it is a deep shame that the rest is lost to us. (And also that we haven't had an anthology series in the SF Genre with the kind of weight that this and "Out of the Unknown" managed to achieve for the current generation).
Karl
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