MIRI-cannibals??

[Guy Gardener]

Its been ten years since I have seen this episode but the memories I am using to reflect on are 3 times older than that.

 

[Delta Vega]

We have to allow for the kids being aliens, or for the disease to have inconsistent results in different kids. Jahn and Miri got to be full grown before they developed the final symptoms of scabby insanity which, now that I think of it, might have been a metaphor for syphilis.

And may I say, Michael J. Pollard was great in "Miri" and he was great on Lost in Space ("The Magic Mirror"). It's no accident that he and Kim Darby were both movie stars. It's hard for me to imagine this episode with actual little kids in the leading guest roles. If "And the Children Shall Lead" is any indication, the pre-pubescent actors available for television in the late Sixties were not very good.

Agree about the kids they used in "And the Children Shall Lead", and also agree about Pollards acting ability, Ive always considered him a decent actor in anything Ive saw him in, but he wasn't even borderline pre pubescent, he looked like an extra from "Woodstock"
They should have called on the ever impressive Kurt Russell who was already on the scene as a young actor, and didn't look like he was in Country Joe and the Fish.
They could have used Pollard in the hippie episode without too much make up, : )

 

[Tenacity]

Speaking of The Cry of the Onlies (the novel mentioned earlier in this thread), does anyone know WHY, specifically, its author was ordered to scrap all mentions of Miri's planet being a second Earth?

Not relevant to the plot?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Not relevant to the plot?

Doesn't matter. It was in the episode, that's all that matters.

Now if the author had decided, on her own, not to mention it, that'd be one thing. But she was ordered to do it. There has to be a reason for that, and...

...wait, I just remembered. It was just Richard Arnold being a dick (again).

 

[mb22]

Agree about the kids they used in "And the Children Shall Lead", and also agree about Pollards acting ability, Ive always considered him a decent actor in anything Ive saw him in, but he wasn't even borderline pre pubescent, he looked like an extra from "Woodstock"
They should have called on the ever impressive Kurt Russell who was already on the scene as a young actor, and didn't look like he was in Country Joe and the Fish.
They could have used Pollard in the hippie episode without too much make up, : )

From the 1969 MAD Magazine parody "The Guru of Ours"