******FESARIUS-SIZED SPOILERS!****** As a kid watching Star Trek out of broadcast order in reruns during the 1970s and 1980s, I could always tell earlier episodes by their ‘growing pains’; uniforms without black collars, different paint/layout scheme for the ship’s interiors, Spock’s makeup tweaks, various terminology differences (“United Earth Space Probe Agency,” “Vulcanian” ), etc. First…
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Between HAL 9000 and Skynet, there was “Colossus: The Forbin Project” (1970)…
******MAINFRAME-SIZED SPOILERS!****** Two years after the homicidal HAL 9000 made its debut in “2001: A Space Odyssey” and 14 years before Skynet is mentioned in “The Terminator,” there was a lesser known but equally dangerous supercomputer-based artificial intelligence known as “Colossus: The Forbin Project” (1970). Based on the book “Colossus” by Dennis Feltham Jones (1918-1981),…
“The Night That Panicked America” (1975) is a little-seen TV-movie about the greatest Halloween prank ever played…
“The War of the Worlds“ In 1897, the seminal sci-fi classic “The War of the Worlds,” by H. G. Wells, was serialized in Pearson’s and Cosmopolitan magazines, before being published as a novel a year later. The story concerned an invasion of Earth by Martians piloting massive tripod machines. This invading vanguard ravages the English…