I agree with you all the way, Tracey. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: tdli...@multiculturaladvantage.com Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:21:48 -0800 Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY I prefer them to syfy regular ”reality TV.” In fact, it seems to me that they should be showing exactly that in the middle of the day and late night. But they don’t. We love to vilify them for their decisions, but most of them are for short time profits. I think short –term ( quarterly) profits drive many of their decisions. If they own the rights, then something might be up with the ratings compared to the crap the show day in and day out. You need to remember, that scifi fans are not their target audience anymore. I would likely indulge in some of the old shows from time to time, but the people who like the most dangerous night on Television and Lots of those ghostbusters reality tv stuff. Real scifi fans don’t go for that type of stuff From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Martin Baxter Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 12:08 PM To: SciFiNoir2 Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY For me, Tracey, they're holding up better than Siffy's usual fare. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: tdli...@multiculturaladvantage.com Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:19:55 -0800 Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY I loved all those old shows. Scifi has shown them from time to time. Perhaps they do not do well with ratings. Because as Rave says, they do not hold up well From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Keith Johnson Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 9:51 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY 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: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.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 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@...> 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. > Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. Get it now. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390708/direct/01/
