Oh yeah, i have that one too. My late father was a huge Western fan. I still
get a little sad sometimes when watching a "shoot-em-up". Back home in Fort
Worth in the 70s and 80s, one of the local TV stations showed a block of
Westerns all Saturday: Rawhide, Have Gun Will Travel, Bonanza, The Rifleman,
etc. My dad would watch as many of them as he could when he was home.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com>
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 9:16:52 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY
They have a western channel that replays all of the old western tv shows and
movies. My father watches it continuously. Its called the Encore Western
Channel on comscum digital.
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@comcast.net >
wrote:
On what channel? I have one on Comcast, WSBR (or something like that), that
shows older stuff. One morning I turned on the tube at 2 am, to see "Daniel
Boone"!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Ellis" < jaxl...@yahoo.com >
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 9:02:20 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY
Just about every evening, my TV watching ritual starts with Cheyenne, segues
into The Rifleman then Have Gun-Will Travel and finally Gunsmoke.
MarkEllisInk.com
Site of best-selling author Mark (James Axler) Ellis
--- On Mon, 1/18/10, Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@comcast.net > wrote:
From: Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@comcast.net >
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 6:15 PM
And back on those guest stars, what a group! So far I've seen the following:
Suzanne Pleshette... Michael Rennie ("The Day The Earth Stood Still", The
Keeper from Lost in Space)...Roddy McDowall...James Whitmore (the actor who
reminds me of Spencer Tracy)...the dude who played Spock's rival Stonn on the
Star Trek OS ep "Amok Time"...a character actor I don't know, but who played a
three-eyed alien at a diner in an ep of "The Twilight Zone"... Susan Oliver
(Captain Pike's love interest from the first Star Trek pilot, "The Cage")...an
older British actor whose name espaces me, but who I remember as one of the
original council of leaders on the original Battlestar Galactica--
great stuff. I miss the days when television was loaded with cop, cowboy,
western, suspense, and scifi shows, and you saw the same actors showing up all
over them in various roles. most of the folks I've seen appeared on at least
Twilight Zone or Outer Limits back in the day, not to mention Gunsmoke, The Big
Valley, Bonanza, Police Story, or The Six Million Dollar Man. I'm seeing a bit
more of that guide of journeyman work for character actors on some of the TNT,
USA, SyFy, and A&E shows like "Burn Notice", "Eureka", etc. Lots of actors from
the cableverse are appearing on each others' shows.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Johnson" <KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net >
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 4:47:46 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY
Actually, watching the show again, i find it to be fairly sophisticated and
well done, as I said earlier. This was scifi done the way it was in the old
days: where many of the showrunners/ writers/actors had decidedly non scifi
backgrounds, and simply brought the standards of action and drama they'd
learned from cop shows and Westerns to the scifi genre. It's why I love the
early eps of the original Star Trek: they're very dramatic, full of good acting
and deep themes.
And like I said, I'm enjoying this forty-year old "Invaders" more than ninety
percent of the SyFy Originals dreck we get each weekend!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Ellis" <jaxl...@yahoo. com>
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 12:59:54 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY
It's interesting that "UFOlogy" was in its infancy at that point, but
the writers had obviously done their research, particularly with the Men In
Black.
MarkEllisInk. com
Site of best-selling author Mark (James Axler) Ellis
--- On Mon, 1/18/10, Keith Johnson <KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net > wrote:
From: Keith Johnson <KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net >
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 12:51 PM
Agreed, I watched it religiously when I was a kid. I dig the vibrant colors of
the sets, and man, i've lost count of all the familiar guest stars! Still, it
had a good core of plot and acting, so it's aged well.
This goes back to my earlier questions: why doesn't SyFy show more stuff like
this? I had no clue they even owned rights to this show. i'm always looking for
Land of the Giants, Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, etc., and
instead I get SyFy Originals crap and Ghost Hunters.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kelwyn" <ravena...@yahoo. com>
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 11:53:06 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY
I love, love, LOVED this show when it was on (but then I was a sucker for the
whole Quinn Martin ouevre: "Twelve O'Clock High," "The Fugitive"). Watching it
now is kind of like watching old "Wild, Wild West" episodes (fake-looking sets,
bad wigs, extremely fake-looking fight scenes and strident, god-awful music!).
The aliens did die "cool," though.
~rave!
--- In scifino...@yahoogro ups.com , Keith Johnson <KeithBJohnson@ ...> wrote:
>
> Well, this is odd. SyFy is running an all day marathon of the classic TV
> series "The Invaders". This was the original "aliens walk among us plotting
> to take over the world" show, the forerunner for aspects of everything from
> "The X-Files" (on which the lead had a part, I believe), to "Third Wave".
> This was a classic '60s scifi series, with the look and great guest stars
> that distinguished shows of that era. So far I've seen Roddie McDowall and
> Suzanne Pleshette. Check it out.
>
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