ENTER: One Hit Wonders Avatar Contest

[Neroon]

Well the winners are already posted, but here's one that might get a couple:

You know I'm voting for it!

 

[Kai "the spy"]

If it's okay to forget 2nd seasons, I'm going with Alien Nation.

The Alien Nation TV series only lasted one season. The movies were just that, movies. I think you're good.

What about my Twin Peaks entry, then? Good or no good?

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

Did you know that there was supposed to be a second season of UFO, dealing exclusively with the moonbase operations, but it got pulled at the last minute and morphed into Space: 1999?!

As a longtime UFO fan, I believe that's actually a myth, though the sets were recycled in several cases. You'll also hear that S:1999 was a sequel set in the same universe, which is also not true.

Here's more about UFO from a pretty comprehensive UFO site. Excerpts:

Most of Gerry & Sylvia Anderson's series only lasted 39 episodes or less, as financier Lew Grade was more interested in making a brand new series than continuing old ones. So when UFO finished filming 26 episodes in the fall of 1970, it wasn't even expected that there would be a second season....

In America, ITC syndicated UFO over 136 TV stations during the 1972-73 season....UFO did very well in the ratings [on CBS in New York and Los Angeles] for the first several months. It did so well in fact that CBS was thinking about ordering a second season. As a result, Gerry Anderson and his team began pre-production on a sequel series which would take place in the year 1999. The battle with the Aliens would have escalated, and SHADO HQ would have been moved to the moon in a much larger moonbase. Models, sets, and costumes were prepared, but then the ratings began to fall and the series was cancelled. However, Gerry pitched the idea to use this pre-production work for a brand new series, which turned out to be SPACE: 1999....

There is certainly nothing onscreen to indicate a direct link between UFO and [SPACE:1999 or] any other Anderson production. However, there has been a lot of publicity & fan conjecture about a shared "universe" of events in the various Anderson productions. Even in an old issue of STARLOG magazine, there was a Gerry Anderson column with statements saying that Moonbase Alpha was an evolution of the SHADO Moonbase, the Aliens had stopped coming to the Earth around 1990, and that the Hawk fighter was a replacement for the Interceptor. This however was not an official statement, but instead one dreamed up by a STARLOG columnist.

 

[Sindatur]

No Birds of Prey or Blade: The Series yet? What's up with that?

No Space: Above and Beyond either

 

[Carpe Occasio]

If it's okay to forget 2nd seasons, I'm going with Alien Nation.

The Alien Nation TV series only lasted one season. The movies were just that, movies. I think you're good.

What about my Twin Peaks entry, then? Good or no good?

See my post above...

Wait... I confused myself... Twin Peaks... Let me think...

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

^^ Thanks for the green light on my entry, Carpe.

 

[Carpe Occasio]

The Alien Nation TV series only lasted one season. The movies were just that, movies. I think you're good.

What about my Twin Peaks entry, then? Good or no good?

See my post above...

Wait... I confused myself... Twin Peaks... Let me think...

I confused your post about Twin Peaks with HopefulRomantic and Alien Nation. Twin Peaks had a second season, so technically it doesn't fit within the guidelines of this contest, but we'll let the voters decide. If you want to enter a Twin Peaks avatar that's OK with me. The voters will decide if it's worthy or not.

But I like your Galactica avatar better.

 

[od0_ital]

'cause I'm bored...

Brimstone, Birds of Prey, Blade, Caprica, Galactica 1980, Harsh Realm, The Lone Gunmen & Kings

 

[CorporalCaptain]

No Firefly??? (Unless I missed it.) I'm shocked.

 

[Sindatur]

No Firefly??? (Unless I missed it.) I'm shocked.

You missed it. See Post #4, by Neroon

 

[CorporalCaptain]

D'oh.

 

[Andrew_Kearley]

Did you know that there was supposed to be a second season of UFO, dealing exclusively with the moonbase operations, but it got pulled at the last minute and morphed into Space: 1999?!

Not strictly true, but I'd say that was fair exchange!

 

[Carpe Occasio]

'cause I'm bored...

Brimstone, Birds of Prey, Blade, Caprica, Galactica 1980, Harsh Realm, The Lone Gunmen & Kings

I'll add the following TV fodder (but I'm too lazy to include images):

American Gothic
Ark II
Beyond Westworld
Blue Thunder
The Burning Zone
Day Break
Defying Gravity
Earth 2
Exo-Man
The Fantastic Journey
Flash Forward
Gemini Man
Genesis II
Journeyman
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Level 9
Logan's Run
M.A.N.T.I.S
Misfits of Science
Mercy Point
Nowhere Man
Odyssey 5
Painkiller Jane
Planet of the Apes
The Powers of Matthew Star
Quark
The Questor Tapes
RoboCop
Salvage 1
Space: Above and Beyond
Space Rangers
Starman
Strange New World
Threshold
Time Cop
Total Recall 2070
Virtuality
Voyagers

 

[od0_ital]

^

Star Trek: TAS got two seasons.

 

[Carpe Occasio]

^

Star Trek: TAS got two seasons.

My bad.

 

[Klaus]

^

Star Trek: TAS got two seasons.

My bad.

Otherwise it would have been my entry lol...

 

[Klaus]

Even in an old issue of STARLOG magazine, there was a Gerry Anderson column with statements saying that Moonbase Alpha was an evolution of the SHADO Moonbase, the Aliens had stopped coming to the Earth around 1990, and that the Hawk fighter was a replacement for the Interceptor. This however was not an official statement, but instead one dreamed up by a STARLOG columnist.

I'm pretty sure that's where I got the idea, I was a reader of Starlog back then... ty for the clarification, btw.

I've gotta get back to my UFO review thread one of these days. Slacker.

 

[Carpe Occasio]

Starlog magazine. I was a reader from issue 1 until about the late 1980's.

 

[Klaus]

Though I've never forgiven them for the ST:TMP spoiler lol...

 

[Orac]