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Star Trek: The Cage Retrospective Review

9 May 2012 10:46 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »

A play-by-play review of all Star Trek Original Series episodes. We start with The Cage, the unaired first pilot for the show that was completed in early 1965, though never broadcast on television fully until 1988.

Written by Gene Roddenberry

Directed by Robert Butler

The theme is all… different.

That’s the first thing you notice. It’s different.

And not in a good way.

This was made well before the series, and while it is still recognizable, it is also very different. The bridge is different:

And that’s just the first shot.

This is not what we would call advanced science fiction. In fact, Voyager watchers will understand what I mean when I say I expect Captain Proton to chase Satan’s Robot and Chaotica across the bridge any second, especially when they are having trouble telling the difference between a “meteroroid” and a radio wave to the point where Spock, »

- Gillian Weisgram

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Review: Tarzan Season One

5 April 2012 10:22 AM, PDT | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »

September 8, 1966 was a pretty big night of television for fans of the fantastic. NBC ran a sneak peek of several new shows a week prior to the formal premiere of the prime time season. At 7:30, Ron Ely first swung on a vine across trees as Tarzan while an hour later, Captain James T. Kirk confronted the Salt Vampire on the first airing of Star Trek. While the latter has gone on to great international fame, the former series has always been somewhat eclipsed.

Warner Archive, bless their souls, has rectified that by releasing the complete first season of the two season series. You can find the first fifteen episodes on four discs comprising Tarzan Season One, Volume One while the remaining sixteen episodes are available in the second volume. Warner has done a nice job cleaning the prints and the show looks pretty darn good.

It was also a »

- Robert Greenberger

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