Logan's Run Television Series

[Q2UnME]

The front section of the Ark II vehicle's fiberglass shell was remodeled into the Seeker spacecraft in Space Academy a couple of years later.

Wasn't the vehicle originally built for the movie Damnation Alley a few years prior? Boy, they got their monies worth out of that sucker....

 

[cylkoth]

^ Wow! It's the 21st Century and this is still going around?
No, the Damnation Alley vehicle is not the Ark, not repurposed or retooled in any way. I wish we could've got both together at some auto show to put an end to the debate. I've been hearing this since '77!
https://space1970.blogspot.com/2011/05/space-1970-mythbusting.html

 

[Christopher]

^Dang, I went looking for a link for more info, and I didn't notice it was the same link you just posted! Oops.

As it happens, though, the Damnation Alley Landmaster was customized by the same person who built the Logan's Run series's ground vehicles, Dean Jeffries.

 

[Skipper]

^Dang, I went looking for a link for more info, and I didn't notice it was the same link you just posted! Oops.

As it happens, though, the Damnation Alley Landmaster was customized by the same person who built the Logan's Run series's ground vehicles, Dean Jeffries.

It would appear not
http://www.angelfire.com/tv2/ark2/vehicles.html

The Ark II and the Roamer were both built by
the Brubaker Group, not Dean Jeffries as has
been reported elsewhere. The reason for this
confusion is that Jeffries designed a similar
vehicle for the movie Damnation Alley and for
years, people assumed the two vehicles were
the same.
The Ark itself was build on a garbage/dump
truck chasis and the main body was fiberglass
modules over a welded steel frame. It was more
of a prop than a vehicle. In show mode (i.e.
fully assembled, as seen on-screen), the actual
driver of the vehicle was not in the cockpit, but
instead sat underneath and in front of the
cockpit, in the "underbelly" of the front section.
In reality, the driver could only see out through
an opening at the top of the front boarding ramp
and a small rectangular hole in the side. To
overcome this problem on location, the fake
driver (in the cockpit where Jonah usually sat)
would have to give the real driver directions for
manuevering. This was okay for location shots
in the California desert areas, but not for
getting to locations requiring actual road use!

 

[Q2UnME]

^ Wow! It's the 21st Century and this is still going around?
No, the Damnation Alley vehicle is not the Ark, not repurposed or retooled in any way. I wish we could've got both together at some auto show to put an end to the debate. I've been hearing this since '77!
https://space1970.blogspot.com/2011/05/space-1970-mythbusting.html

Boy, I'm getting old, my memory is for shit. Color me corrected.....

 

[Christopher]

It would appear not

I was referring to the Logan's Run hovercraft, not Ark II.

 

[Redfern]

Only episode of "Ark II" that held my interest "guest starred" Robby the Robot in an episode titled "The Robot". Samuel, the youngest of the Ark team builds a robot which the which the "locals" , having no knowledge of science, accuse of being a "devil". The robot, Alphie, eventually sacrifices itself to seal a volcanic vent that is leaking toxic gases to save the very peasants who condemned the AI and everyone on the Ark is weepy eyed at the conclusion, particularly Samuel.

A very basic story, but, hey, it's Robby! They made some odd alterations to his design as can be seen here...

http://space1970.blogspot.com/2013/10/behind-scenes-pix-45-ark-ii.html

The "ring" scanners were swapped for "Roto-Rooter" type blades; the gyro-assembly removed for something akin to a motor housing; pinstripes were taped to the torso and the more sophisticated "disc" sectioned arm elements for some far more "recognizable" dryer hose pieces.

 

[Christopher]

The "ring" scanners were swapped for "Roto-Rooter" type blades; the gyro-assembly removed for something akin to a motor housing; pinstripes were taped to the torso and the more sophisticated "disc" sectioned arm elements for some far more "recognizable" dryer hose pieces.

Prosthetic makeup effects, robot-style.

 

[Redfern]

On the other hand, I rather like the radically different head/dome that Robby sported in guest appearances for "Space Academy" and "Project: U.F.O." Not as a permanent replacement, goodness no, but as "one offs" to depict a "different" robot, I thought it rather "slick".

"Cyclops" Robby

 

[Christopher]

Truly a master of disguise, he was. But then, Robby had to adapt to playing character roles after The Invisible Boy scuttled his chances at a leading-man career.

 

[DonIago]

I'm unfamiliar with the series beyond what I just read about it on Wikipedia, but I did get a mild chuckle out of the fact that the last episode is named "Stargate".

 

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'70s television

 

[Christopher]

I'm unfamiliar with the series beyond what I just read about it on Wikipedia, but I did get a mild chuckle out of the fact that the last episode is named "Stargate".

It was a common term well before the movie of that name. They used stargates for interstellar travel in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (though they were just animated quartets of bright lights that formed a diamond-shaped portal of squiggly energy between them), and there's a 1958 Andre Norton novel called Star Gate (though it's more an interdimensional portal in that one).

 

[DonIago]

Yeah, I know. That's why it was only a mild chuckle.

I'm pretty sure there was also a videogame called Stargate. Possibly the sequel to Defender? I could be way off about that though.

 

[Skipper]

'70s television

Well, they loved their post-apocalypse.

 

[cylkoth]

'70s television

PEW PEW PEW...PEW PEW PEW...PEW PEW PEW!

 

[Galileo7]

If you are not familiar with '70s science-fiction television series:
https://www.ranker.com/list/best-1970s-sci-fi-shows/ranker-tv

 

[Skipper]

If you are not familiar with '70s science-fiction television series:
https://www.ranker.com/list/best-1970s-sci-fi-shows/ranker-tv

A couple of series I didn't know!

It's a little sad that 70s Italian tv sci-fi series don't ever get mentioned...

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[TREK_GOD_1]

Well, they loved their post-apocalypse.

Yep--after the Planet of the Apes series took post-apocalyptic futures mainstream, there was no end to the sub-genre blossoming everywhere. But did that ever get old in the blink of an eye.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Yep--after the Planet of the Apes series took post-apocalyptic futures mainstream, there was no end to the sub-genre blossoming everywhere. But did that ever get old in the blink of an eye.

There's a lot of post-apocalyptic landscapes in Southern California.