| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Searles, Baird |
Films: Where the Deer and the Androids Play |
1974 MAR |
mr/tvr |
essay: "why many sf movies seem inane to genre fans"; Westworld(1973), directorial debut & written by Michael Crichton, stars Richard Benjamin, Yul Brynner, James Brolin, has sequel Futureworld(1976) |
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Films: Frankenstein Redux |
1974 APR |
mr/tvr |
Frankenstein: The True Story(1973 two-part TV movie), script co-authored by Christopher Isherwood, stars James Mason, Michael Sarrazin as the Creature |
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Films: Zardoz |
1974 MAY |
mr/tvr |
Zardoz(1973 UK), written, produced & directed by John Boorman(of Deliverance fame), stars Sean Connery |
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Films: Miscellany |
1974 JUN |
mr/tvr |
the use of the term "sci-fi"; Zardoz update; quick round-up of some neglected films - Day of the Dolphin(1973); Fantastic Planet(1973 Czechoslovakia-France); Broken Sword(1969 Japan); The Exorcist(1973); Sleeper(1973); She(1935), & remake She(1965) |
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Films: Mickey Who? |
1974 JUL |
mr/tvr |
reviews a book on films, Christopher Finch: The Art of Walt Disney(1973); brief mention - This Island Earth(1954), based on story by Raymond F. Jones, "The Alien Machine" in TWS 1949 JUN, stars Jeff Morrow |
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Films: Sinbad, Shamans and a Strangler |
1974 AUG |
mr/tvr |
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad(1974 UK), stars John Phillip Law; Hex(1973), stars Keith Carradine; The Night Strangler(1972 TV), screenplay by Richard Matheson, stars Darren McGavin, Jo Ann Pflug |
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Films: Earthtrek |
1974 SEP |
mr/tvr |
Planet Earth(1974 TV), a sequel to Gene Roddenberry's Genesis II(1973 TV), stars John Saxon |
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Films: Frankenstein Re-Redux |
1974 OCT |
mr/tvr |
Andy Warhol's Frankenstein(1974 France-Italy-US), aka Flesh for Frankenstein, written & directed by Paul Morrissey; short encore, Barbarella(1967) |
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Films: Flesh Gordon |
1974 NOV |
mr/tvr |
Flesh Gordon(1972); Yellow Submarine(1968); The Turn of the Screw(1974, 2-part TV movie), stars Lynn Redgrave; book Walt Lee: Reference Guide to Fantastic Films, Vol.3(1974) |
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Films: Picnic World |
1974 DEC |
mr/tvr |
Phase IV(1973 UK), dir. Saul Bass, stars Nigel Davenport |
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Films: First Picture Show or What's Up, Paper Planet?, The |
1975 JAN |
mr/tvr |
Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women(1968), dir. Peter Bogdanovich(under ps. Derek Thomas); briefly mentions upcoming The Blue Bird(1976, US-Russian), dir. George Cukor |
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Films: Rosemary's Cuckoo |
1975 FEB |
mr/tvr |
The Stranger Within(1974 TV), stars Barbara Eden, script by Richard Matheson from his own story "Mother By Protest" in FAN 1953 SEP/OCT; briefly TV series Star Trek, Planet of the Apes, The Night Stalker |
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Films: Funky, Faustian, Filmorian Fantasy, A |
1975 MAR |
mr/tvr |
Phantom of the Paradise(1974), dir./prod./writer Brian De Palma, stars Archie Hahn, Paul Williams; The Cloning of Clifford Swimmer(1974 TV) |
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Films: Mangled Moorcock |
1975 APR |
mr/tvr |
The Last Days of Man on Earth(1973), screen version of Michael Moorcock's The Final Programme(1968, Jerry Cornelius seq.); Earthquake(1974), stars Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy |
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Films: Frankenstein Re-Re-Redux |
1975 MAY |
mr/tvr |
Young Frankenstein(1974), dir. Mel Brooks, written by Gene Wilder & Mel Brooks, stars Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr |
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Films: Dracula Redux (This Time Ad Absurdum) |
1975 JUN |
mr/tvr |
Andy Warhol's Dracula(1974), aka Blood for Dracula, dir. Paul Morrissey |
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Films: Simulacra Suburbia |
1975 JUL |
mr/tvr |
The Stepford Wives(1975), based on a novel by Ira Levin(who also wrote Rosemary's Baby), stars Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss |
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Films: Electra and the Beast, or Incest, Like Charity, Begins at Home |
1975 AUG |
mr/tvr |
Beauty and the Beast(1946 France), dir. Jean Cocteau; Donkey Skin(1970 France), stars Catherine Deneuve; The Rocky Horror Picture Show(1975), stars Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon; Death Takes a Holiday(1934), stars Fredric March, Evelyn Venable |
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Films |
1975 SEP |
mr/tvr |
The International Animation Festival; essay: "speculative fiction ... is the literature of the mind's eye ... & no camera & production crew can match the visions created by the capable author & the imaginative reader in combination" |
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Films: Ultimate Quest, The |
1975 OCT |
mr/tvr |
essay: fantasy & film are more compatible(than sf, see last column by Searles) at the present level of the film art, "generally fantasy presents a simpler visual concept"; Monty Python and the Holy Grail(1974), dir. Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones |
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Films: Rollerbore |
1975 NOV |
mr/tvr |
Rollerball(1975), dir. Norman Jewison, stars James Caan, John Houseman; Lancelot of the Lake(1974 France) |
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Films: Genesis 3½ + ½ |
1975 DEC |
mr/tvr |
Strange New World(1975 TV), stars Catherine Bach, John Saxon |
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Films: Edgar Rice Pudding, An |
1976 JAN |
mr/tvr |
The Land That Time Forgot(1975), based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, script co-authored by Michael Moorcock, stars Doug McClure |
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Films: Space: 1949 |
1976 FEB |
mr/tvr |
Space: 1999(1975-77, sf TV series, 48 ep.), 1st two episodes reviewed, stars Martin Landau, Barbara Bain |
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Films: Space 1949 (Cont.) |
1976 MAR |
mr/tvr |
Space: 1999(1975-77, TV series, 48 ep.), reviewed after 5 more episodes; The New Original Wonder Woman(1975-79, TV series under a few titles, 61 ep.), stars Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner |
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Films: Midwinter Mishmosh |
1976 APR |
mr/tvr |
Space: 1999(again, TV series); Carnival of Souls(1962), dir. Herk Harvey, filmed mostly in Lawrence, KS; books, Franz Rottensteiner: The Science Fiction Book; Ed Naha: Horrors, From Screen to Scream |
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Films: Mishmosh Redux |
1976 MAY |
mr/tvr |
UFO: Target Earth(1974); The Man Who Would Be King(1975), dir. John Huston, stars Michael Caine, Sean Connery; Barry Lyndon(1975), dir. Stanley Kubrick, based on William Makepeace Thackeray novel; Dr. Phibes Rises Again(1972), stars Vincent Price |
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Films: Peripheralia |
1976 JUN |
mr/tvr |
Space: 1999(again, TV series); "special report" on sf books & films in Newsweek; briefly, The Incredible Shrinking Man(1957); The Power(1968) |
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Films: Greenwood at Sunset, The |
1976 JUL |
mr/tvr |
Robin and Marion(1976), dir. Richard Lester, writer James Goldman, stars Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn; Weird Woman(1944), based on Fritz Leiber's Conjure Wife(UNK 1943 APR; 1953); The Green Slime(1969 Japan); upcoming film Star Wars(1977) |
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Films: Things to Come |
1976 AUG |
mr/tvr |
The Time Travelers(1976 TV); The People That Time Forgot(1977); At the Earth's Core(1976); Damnation Alley(1977); Dune(1984); Childhood's End(1996); The Martian Chronicles(1980 mini-series); Star Trek(1979); Lord of the Rings(1978), etc |
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Films: Blood Doesn't Go "Arf!" |
1976 SEP |
mr/tvr |
A Boy and His Dog(1975), based on Harlan Ellison's novella in NWS 1969 APR, dir. L.Q. Jones, stars Don Johnson, Jason Robards, Susanne Benton |
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Films: Watch Out for Falling Men (and Bluebirds) |
1976 OCT |
mr/tvr |
The Man Who Fell to Earth(1976), based on a novel by Walter Tevis, dir. Nicolas Roeg, stars David Bowie; The Bluebird(1976 Russian-US), "supposedly made for children," stars Patsy Kensit, Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner, Cicely Tyson |
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Films: See Logan Run |
1976 NOV |
mr/tvr |
Logan's Run(1976), based on the 1967 novel by William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson, dir. Michael Anderson, stars Michael York, Jenny Agutter |
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Films: Space 1939 |
1976 DEC |
mr/tvr |
Space: 1999(again, TV series); Food of the Gods(1976), stars Marjoe Gortner, has sequel, Food of the Gods II(1989) |
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Films: Futureworld Imperfect and an Edgar Rice Burrow |
1977 JAN |
mr/tvr |
Futureworld(1976), dir. Richard T. Heffron, stars Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner, Yul Brynner, sequel to Westworld(1973); At the Earth's Core(1976), based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, stars Doug McClure, Peter Cushing |
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Films: Fillet of Solaris |
1977 FEB |
mr/tvr |
Solaris(1972 Soviet Union), based on Stanislaw Lem's 1961 novel of the same name(trans. 1970 US), dir./screenplay by Andrei Tarkovsky |
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Films: Glass of Galosh, A |
1977 MAR |
mr/tvr |
The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella(1976), stars Edith Evans, Richard Chamberlain; briefly, Rosemary's Baby(1968); Beauty and the Beast(1946 France); Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby(1976 TV); Logan's Run(1976) |
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Films: Beauty & Beast Redux |
1977 APR |
mr/tvr |
Beauty and the Beast(1976 TV), Hallmark Hall of Fame, stars George C. Scott & Trish Van Devere |
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Films: Kings Kong and Arthur, Et Al. |
1977 MAY |
mr/tvr |
King Kong(1933), stars Robert Armstrong, Fay Wray; King Kong(1976), stars Jeff Bridges, Jessica Lange; Camelot(1967), stars Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave; On the Beach(1959), stars Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner |
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Films: Jolly Juvenalia on the Little Screen |
1977 JUN |
mr/tvr |
Wonder Woman(1975-79, TV series, 61 ep.), stars Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner; Fantastic Journey(1977, TV series, 10 ep.), stars Jared Martin, Roddy McDowall |
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Films: .2001 |
1977 JUL |
mr/tvr |
essay: the impact the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey(1968) has had on our culture, after it has just made its TV debut; Isaac Asimov's story "Nightfall," in ASF 1941 SEP, in a recorded reading |
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Films: Hal Colossus von Frankenstein |
1977 AUG |
mr/tvr |
Demon Seed(1977), based on Dean R. Koontz's 1973 novel, stars Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver |
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Films: Wizards, Garbage, Et Al. |
1977 SEP |
mr/tvr |
Demon Seed(1977), based on Dean R. Koontz's 1973 novel; Wizards(1977), animated, dir./written by Ralph Bakshi; briefly, All That Glitters(evening TV soap, 1977); Quark(1978 TV pilot); book Gary Gerani & Paul H. Schulman: Fantastic Television(1977) |
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Films: Star Wars |
1977 OCT |
mr/tvr |
essay: neo-romanticism in sf; Star Wars(1977), dir. & written by George Lucas, stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness |
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Films: Star Wars II |
1977 NOV |
mr/tvr |
Star Wars(1977), the reaction to the movie |
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Films: Carry Me Back to the House of Pain |
1977 DEC |
mr/tvr |
The Island of Lost Souls(1932), script by Philip Wylie, stars Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi; remake, The Island of Doctor Moreau(1977), stars Burt Lancaster, Richard Basehart; She Devil(1957), based on Weinbaum story "The Adaptive Ultimate"(ASF 1935 NOV) |
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Films: Sinbad, Stay Home! |
1978 JAN |
mr/tvr |
essay: special effects creator Ray Harryhausen; Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger(1977 UK), dir. Sam Wanamaker, stars Patrick Wayne, Jane Seymour, sequel to The Golden Voyage of Sinbad(1974 UK) |
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Films and Television: See Logan Run & Run & Run & Run & Run & Run ... |
1978 FEB |
mr/tvr |
Logan's Run(1976), based on William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson 1967 novel, stars Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan; Star Wars(1977); Wonder Woman(1976-79, TV series, 62 ep.), stars Lynda Carter, Lyle Wagonner |
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Films and Television: Road to Albany, The |
1978 MAR |
mr/tvr |
Damnation Alley(1977), based on Roger Zelazny's 1969 novel, stars Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard; Star Maidens(1976, UK TV series, 13 ep.), syndicated series from England |
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Films and Television: "Baggins! We Hates It, We Hates It!" |
1978 APR |
mr/tvr |
essay: J.R.R. Tolkiens works; The Hobbit(1978 TV), animated, voices of Orson Bean(Bilbo Baggins), John Huston(Gandalf the Grey) |
