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  THE MACHINES STRIKE BACK! Writer-John and Ward Hawkins Dir-Nathan Juran (explaining the tremendous action sequences)   Teaser 1976--Seaview's diving bell with Crane and Riley aboard descend to a drone sub (this one numbered 117). Riley sees the aft hatch open up and fire upon the bell with a torpedo. It hits a rock near the bell. The defense mechanisms on the drones aren't supposed to work unless they are going to fire their missiles. The drone is doing just that--it lifts off the bottom with Sharkey unable to deactivate it from Seaview. It rams the bell, hitting it with its nose and then as it passes with its tail. The drone moves up to firing depth and fires the missile out of the sea and into the sky! The diving bell comes up into Seaview. Nelson asks Sharkey to plot its coarse and he does. Ski alerts Nelson in the radio room as Nelson orders Sparks to call Admiral Johnson. The coordinates: New York City.   Act One Nelson believes they should trace th...

  Russell T Davies is a bitter, sad man. Sure, his series, CUCUMBER, QUEER AS FOLK, IT'S A SIN, BANANA and others define what TV thinks gay life and the gay community is ALL and ONLY about: nasty men doing nasty things to each other and thinking nasty things about each other and themselves, while being "cool" and being sexual no matter who they hurt and step on. QUEER's first episode? Well, watch it and tell me that RTD has anything to say against anyone without being a hypocrite? Loved his DW seasons one to four but reading his book, one can tell he ran out of steam and had burn out and writer block. It's sad that a man that once told us DW was terrific and the best TV show in the world, has not only FAILED totally at it in 2023 to 2025---but that he now seems to dismiss it mostly due to his own failing and trust me, in twenty years time, most people will have forgotten his other very dark and depressing shows (not me because they do have some merit, despite bein...

  SLIDERS 3-LAST DAYS   Though some sources call this episode 4, it’s not. The PILOT was two hours with ads but in syndication that was split into two episodes, episode 1 and 2, but in reality, when first broadcast the PILOT SLIDERS was just episode 1, FEVER was episode 2, and LAST DAYS was episode 3.   Lots going on here. I think I avoided this episode because it has, like DEEP IMPACT, an all too real threat: an asteroid is going to hit the Earth. The Sliders arrive (Rembrandt twists to avoid hitting Arturo, Wade lands directly on Arturo’s stomach, and Arturo comments that sliding makes one lose all sense of dignity) on this parallel Earth only to find that they have three days (something like 72 hours) or so and the asteroid will hit before that. The inner conflict between the group comes to the fore.   This includes Wade noticing that Quinn really doesn’t notice her. On a side note, while this is annoying from Quinn (who wouldn’t notice Wade?), Wade is...