#ok right can we do a marriage of convenience so we can share our dvd collection?

[thisbluespirit]

#Out of the Unknown#No Place Like Earth#john wyndham#Single play#BBC#Stanley Miller#Peter Potter#Terence Morgan#Jessica Dunning#Hannah Gordon#Joseph O'Conor#Alan Tilvern#George Pastell#Jerry Stovin#Vernon Joyner#Bill Treacher#Geoffrey Palmer#Roy Stewart#Classic TV#Happy days: for many many years I have wanted to see this series. I was unreasonably excited when the BFI finally announced a release for#The surviving episodes; then unreasonably upset by the price (which hasn't wavered much in the 6 or 7 years since release). But my shitty#Job gave me a paltry bonus for not dying of covid and I decided it was high time I invested. Oh what a joy; the beeb must have raised an#Eyebrow when Irene Shubik (lately poached from ITV and Armchair Theatre) suggested this spiritual successor to Out of this World; the work#Involved in simply finding stories suitable for adaptation was mountainous and Sci fi is a notoriously costly production for TV and film.#Still they must have had faith: the alien landscape which opens this first episode is quite astonishing and suggests a budget somewhat#Above that of contemporaries like DW; as does the casting of a fairly big star like Morgan. This is wistful Sci fi by way of Jack London#Style romantic tales of wilderness and exploration; but there's a cynical and sharply political layer hidden at the centre of this tale.#A fairly modest first episode in terms of impact but a pretty impressive demonstration of what the fx department were capable of#That bodes well for the future of the series. John Wyndham was still alive at this point too: I wonder if he watched?#Or even if he was approached to adapt his own story? Eh probably not. He wasn't a TV writer and AFAIK the series didn't really do that 

Oh, well, now I’m jealous!  I once managed to get this when it dipped down SLIGHTLY and then the disc that had David Collings breaking down on broke down and I returned it and then they refunded me instead of giving me a new one so now once I had this but now I don’t.

altho it’s a poisoned chalice because a lot of mid 20th C SF one after the other does get tiresome.  All the amazing things these men can imagine!!  Except maybe that one day in the future women might... do a thing?  They might even be doing things now?  A shocking concept too out there for yr average 1950s/60s SF writer to conceive of. /salty

I do love the surviving JM one and David Collings particularly.  I’m not biased!!!  (And someone sent me a piratical version of the JM at least.  But I didn’t want to pay ridic amounts for the whole thing, I don’t want to pay it now when I’ve seen part of it anyway.   but. JEALOUS!!!

(I mean not of your way of earning it maybe but still)

Out of the Unknown: No Place Like Earth (1.1, BBC, 1965)

"You could belong here, if you would. Life is not something that can be stopped just because you do not like it. You are not apart from life - you are a part of it."

"That may have been true, once."

"And it is still true. You are merely existing now, and it is not enough. One exists by barter, but one lives by giving - and taking, when it is offered."