Writer, producer, and director Irwin Allen is probably most known as the “Master of Disaster” because of his successes with such films as The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, but in the 1960s he was most notably a producer of high adventure science fiction television shows. Programs such as Lost in Space, Voyage to…
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Battlestar Galactica: Murder on the Rising Star – Review
So far we’ve had episodes that were Space Westerns, War Adventures, and even a Disaster Movie based one, but now with Murder on the Rising Star we move into the Murder Mystery genre, sadly this episode does not include a Space Jessica Fletcher or a Galactic Ben Matlock.
Battlestar Galactica: The Man with Nine Lives – Review
Television shows, and which actors appear on them, has changed quite a bit over the years, as there is no longer the stigma that use to be attached to it. Today big time movie stars are regularly appearing on such shows as America Horror Story, True Detective, and Game of Thrones, without giving it a…
Battlestar Galactica: War of the Gods – Review
Battlestar Galactica’s entire premise is based on the idea that man’s origins lie in the stars and not on Earth itself, kind of a “Screw you, Charles Darwin!”
Review – Banana/Cucumber (2005)
Making two shows that air at the same time and take place in the same universe is not an easy task. Russell T Davis‘ first work since Torchwood is an undeniably ambitious move- make not one, not two but THREE shows that interplay with each other. Now I’ve only seen two of those shows, as…