A Serious Flaw In The Bridge Design?

[Maurice]

And a lot of the sound effects were in Fantastic Voyage.

 

[GNDN18]

Sci-fi is expensive so anything of the genre shot on the lot is going to dip into the same pool of props and set elements

Salt shakers, Cutie Pie Geiger counters, circular slide rules, repainted Dictaphones. It’s not as if a genre show prop master can pop into Penney’s and see if there’s a sale on laser cannons.

City Beneath the Sea

That’s all I have left. I’ll show myself out.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

City Beneath the Sea
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That’s all I have left. I’ll show myself out.

City Beneath the Sea is a prop re-use that will live in infamy. The big, hero miniatures of both the Gemini 12 and the Jupiter 2 were literally carved up to give them windows so they could stand in as undersea buildings. And that was an Irwin Allen film.

This video is 22 min, but if you love vintage sci-fi miniatures, it's more than worth your time:

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And then of course the Robot was mangled for a Hanna-Barbera show called Mystery Island:
http://www.70slivekidvid.com/mystery.htm

It has since been restored as well.

 

[Redfern]

The spacecraft that flew across the desert in Planet of The Apes may not have looked anything like the Jupiter 2 but it sure sounded like it! The stock music and sounds department of 20th Century Fox just reused their own catalogue! The engine sounds of the Jupiter were also heard in The Time Tunnel too, another of Irwin's shows for Fox!
JB

And I LOVE that sound effect! Shoot, I prefer it over the (admittedly impressive but comparatively more "generic") drone of the Enterprise engines. I'm no good at audio "mixing", but I wonder how the two might sound combined?

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

The spacecraft that flew across the desert in Planet of The Apes may not have looked anything like the Jupiter 2 but it sure sounded like it! The stock music and sounds department of 20th Century Fox just reused their own catalogue! The engine sounds of the Jupiter were also heard in The Time Tunnel too, another of Irwin's shows for Fox!
JB

The look is what audiences pay attention to first, since it is a visual medium. It would have been cheap and distraction if POTA did not use William Creber's great ship design, or Allen got his way by insisting re-using the Jupiter II on Land of the Giants instead of the Rodger E. Maus Spindrift design. There's not much of an excuse for Allen--more than anyone else--constantly recycling the same props and components. There was no "world building" connecting the 4 Allen series; they were all in their separate universes, and hypothetically, even if they were linked, you cannot avoid the in-your-face reuse of machines (old as they already were) on a show set in 1968 (The Time Tunnel) also still in use on others set in 1983 or 1997.

That's the equivalent of having two TV series: one set in the mid 60s, and other today--2018--but instead the 2018 characters using current mobile devices, they're still grounded to the early Long Distance Xerography machines in use in the era of the 60s series. Only in Allen's case, all of his series were produced almost all at the same time (by 1967 when the LOTG pilot was completed), but he shoves the same old stuff in all, no matter their very different time periods.

 

[Spot261]

There's a supply of space suits on hand for when they open the viewscreen and go outside the ship. It's a fire escape you see.

 

[johnnybear]

And I LOVE that sound effect! Shoot, I prefer it over the (admittedly impressive but comparatively more "generic") drone of the Enterprise engines. I'm no good at audio "mixing", but I wonder how the two might sound combined?

Same here! I've got that sound on the Irwin Allen six CD set and it's fantastic! I've always loved the first Planet of The Apes feature film and that moment where the ship clears the mists and we see the uninhabited desert is awe inspiring especially with that sound!
JB

 

[johnnybear]

Isn't there a cut of the LOTG pilot where the music was taken from LIS instead of their own musicians?
JB

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Isn't there a cut of the LOTG pilot where the music was taken from LIS instead of their own musicians?
JB

The unaired pilot (aired for the ABC brass) re-used a couple of cues originally created for other Allen series, but it also features the Alexander Courage main title theme--replaced by the familiar John Williams main title theme, along with other original Williams cues.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

The spacecraft that flew across the desert in Planet of The Apes may not have looked anything like the Jupiter 2 but it sure sounded like it! The stock music and sounds department of 20th Century Fox just reused their own catalogue! The engine sounds of the Jupiter were also heard in The Time Tunnel too, another of Irwin's shows for Fox!

Count me in with the guys who love that engine sound. Fox used a similar but less-powerful turbine sound for the Batmobile, and it gave the car a tremendous stage presence that live appearances could never quite deliver. The Jupiter 2 sound was truly awesome, and you add in those super-clean, in-camera visual fx, and I was crazy about it.

It's great that we have CD releases of both the TOS and Irwin Allen sound fx libraries. I know at least one made-for-TV movie used the TOS bridge sound for a spacecraft. It was Strange New World (1975) with John Saxon, directed by Robert Butler ("The Cage").

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Bailey totally would have.

And if it did send him to the closest "safe" place (ie not exploding), would he have wound up on the Fesarius anyway?