Just gone back to my schooldays listening to Journey into Space on www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jmqp
Ah, they were the days.
Ah, they were the days.
Journey into Space
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I remember this well from my primary school days. It was the talk of the school, and seemed very exiting and a bit frightening as well. Listening to it now, one thing that struck me is that to Lemmy Barnet, things like high G seems to come as a surprise. Hadn`t they heard of training astronauts in those days? Poor old Lemmy comes across as the "class clown". OK, I know it was done for dramatic effect, to educate the listener to what were then new concepts. The fictional moon trip was set in 1965. Little did we know that only four years after that, the real thing wood happen.
"OK Digby" surely
Why did the Mekon seem to have all the fun? (Until he got his come-uppance that is)Jim
Does anyone remember "Quatermass and the pit"? This was a classic sci-fi drama, first televised in the late 1950s or early 60s. In the story, a buried spaceship was discovered during excavations on a building site in London. As the ship was unearthed, various paranormal activity occured, and it had a deep psychological effect on one of the workers.The program has been rebroadcast several times over the years.
I had a terrifying experience whilst watching a re run. We had just moved into an old house, and things were a bit basic. In one scene a terrified worker runs from the pit, and collapses on a gravel path in a graveyard. The ground beneath him moves like waves on the sea. As I watched, I thought I saw movement out of the corner of my eye. Just for a moment, I was convinced that the floor of our room was moving in a wave like manner.
I told myself not to be so stupid, and carried on watching. Five minutes later, I saw movement again. I looked across the room. The floor was definitely moving in waves! On pulling myself together, I realised that the wind was blowing under the door, and lifting the carpet in waves. It would only be a slight exaggeration to say that a change of underwear was the order of the day...
I had a terrifying experience whilst watching a re run. We had just moved into an old house, and things were a bit basic. In one scene a terrified worker runs from the pit, and collapses on a gravel path in a graveyard. The ground beneath him moves like waves on the sea. As I watched, I thought I saw movement out of the corner of my eye. Just for a moment, I was convinced that the floor of our room was moving in a wave like manner.
I told myself not to be so stupid, and carried on watching. Five minutes later, I saw movement again. I looked across the room. The floor was definitely moving in waves! On pulling myself together, I realised that the wind was blowing under the door, and lifting the carpet in waves. It would only be a slight exaggeration to say that a change of underwear was the order of the day...
The first episode was 'The Quatermass Experiment' where he built a rocket for space exploration. Four people went up, only one returned with three empty space suits. Victor Caroon had taken on all the other three people, then things got worse.
Buster Crabb as 'Flash Gordon' was my first Sci-Fi hero. I still think the Emporer Ming is causing these floods
The first two episodes and others in the series can be viewed on YouTube. I have just been enthralled yet again. Oh dear, now in my second childhood.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N18c9n3xNlU
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N18c9n3xNlU