It's easy to say "Kill Smith!" when you're not the one who'll have fictional blood on your conscience. Even if Don staged an accident and no one suspected him, he'd have a pretty heavy feeling in his stomach about it from then on.
TOS shuttle bay set question
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It's easy to say "Kill Smith!" when you're not the one who'll have fictional blood on your conscience. Even if Don staged an accident and no one suspected him, he'd have a pretty heavy feeling in his stomach about it from then on.
1960s Doctor Who??!!
As Dr. Smith said way too often, "Oh, the pain." I agree. I would have dropped Smith off at the nearest asteroid.
The 'full size' shuttlecraft bay as shown in JTB was pretty cool, with the disembarking passengers and the honor guard. For the low budget, the set designer and construction crew did an admirable job.
Fictional blood doesn't really weigh too heavily on my conscience, seeing as how they're fictional people and all.
BOOM -- I just killed Sherlock Holmes.
BOOM -- Spock's dead again.
BOOM -- So long, Batman.
BOOM -- I just resurrected everyone on Krypton just so I could blow up the entire planet again. I'm drunk with power.
I Love the sound of The Jupiter's engines when it was reaching hyper speeds, they reused it in The Time Tunnel and even Land of The Giants but for me it's best appearance as it were was in Planet of The Apes (1968) when The Icarus races across the desert and crashes in Dead Lake! Fantastic moment in picture history!
JB
Without the good Doctor to save them The Robinsons would have been brown bread in the first episode!
JB
Actually Moonbase Alpha (Space 1999) had their own Dr.Smith character, Commissioner Simmonds (played by Roy Dotrice) and he was quickly dealt with by the crew courtesy of guest alien Captain Zantor (played by Christopher Lee) in one of the most horrifying ways possible as well!
JB
JB
I think they knew for sure after episode four where Smith let the cat out of the bag with his threats of using the robot against the family if they did anything to displease him!
JB
Maybe Dr. Smith Sabataaaaaaged them...
The Commissioner's fate really stuck with me for a while as a kid. Although he really did it to himself.
I absolutely loved "Space 1999" when I was a kid. I wish one of the cable stations would rerun it.
One of them was running "UFO" and stopped. Want to see that one too.
One of them was running "UFO" and stopped. Want to see that one too.
More than that, they actual drop!
(compare the live action scenes for Journey to Babel and Immunity Syndrome)
I think every time I've seen POTA there's been some bit of recognition of that sound from somewhere, that I couldn't put my finger on...I Love the sound of The Jupiter's engines when it was reaching hyper speeds, they reused it in The Time Tunnel and even Land of The Giants but for me it's best appearance as it were was in Planet of The Apes (1968) when The Icarus races across the desert and crashes in Dead Lake! Fantastic moment in picture history!
JB
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PS, you don't kill your only medical doctor (Smith), even if he is an a-hole....
There wasn't really any "set" for the full-sized shuttlebay -- just the shuttlecraft mockup sitting on a bare soundstage with a door and a bit of corridor in the foreground.
Maybe they're starting to sag with age?
Because the drooping control booths were noted in the remastered shuttlebay, not the FX miniature. I never noticed previously, but googled it and see that is notable in many shots. More fodder for the remastered haters I guess. 
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