Two OKC Papers on STTMP

Both entries were published on the same date, December 21, 1979.

The above is from the Oklahoma City Journal.  Don't forget that the "Batman movies" mentioned is the 1966 theatrical feature based on the 1966 ABC series.  However, the reviewer makes a valid point about the many crises in STTMP resembling TV-show act breaks.

The Tele-Versions column was carried by the Oklahoman.

See you on Monday, Trekkors and Trekettes!

  

Sheesh, Nobody Was Exterminated!

These guys will say ANYTHING to sell papers!

This is from the June 9, 1987 Globe.

Sadly, a reporter can probably find any viewpoint of choice if they ask the right selection of so-called "fans."

See you Thursday.  Hope by then you will have cooled off over this OUTRAGE!

  

Twenty-Five Years Already?!?

It was hard to believe in 1991 that a quarter century had passed since the Star Trek premiere.

This is from the July 2, 1991 National Enquirer.

And this is from the September 8, 1991 Tulsa World.

Wow, it seems like only yesterday!  See you Monday.

  

Four Views of STAR TREK IV

That is, four separate clippings about it.

The above is a review from the November 12, 1986 Oklahoman.  You gotta agree with Tony Frazier that this film really doesn't care about stepping on a few butterflies, as long as the whales get nabbed.

The November 16, 1986 TV Guide previewed a whole week of TREK fun.  You can bet I taped all those features.

Here's an ad from the Dallas Morning News of November 28, 1986.

And their review on the same date.

See you Thursday for more scrapings -- er, clippings!

A New TREK Series? Nah ... Maybe So

Here are three articles from the exciting Fall of 1986.

This first one is from the August 4, 1986 USA TODAY.  Cry, trek fan, cry!  Until ...

This here's from the Norman Transcript.  Guess what?  The Great Bird of the Galaxy will bring Trek back to TV!

Here's a different telling of the same exciting news, from the October 14, 1986 Tulsa World.

Just goes to show you can believe the papers sometimes!  See you Monday.

  

December Snippings!

Yup, it's another month of clippings from my copious STAR TREK scrapbooks.

You might call this snippet "Spock In as a Walk-In."

The clipping is from Starlog, cover-dated April 1982.  You could certainly use this kind of "walk-in" terminology to describe what they did in ST II and III, can't ya?

See you Thursday!

  

Thankful for ... ADVENTURE!

Yup, on this Thanksgiving Day, the Super Blog and the Record Round-Up are helping you be thankful by reminding you of all the thrills that keep yer ole heart pumpin' ...

This project began in the late 1970s when I held the condenser mic of my cassette recorder up to the speaker of our TV and recorded the audio of the opening credits of Jonny Quest and The Man from U.N.C.L.E..

Earlier attempts at this grouping were shared as MA-06 - Science Fiction & Fantasy Cassette.

Here's what we got:

01 - Star Wars Suite - John Williams - 1977  (12:39)

02 - The Martian Chronicles Theme - Stanley Myers - 1980  (2:03)

03 - Battlestar Galactica - Erich Kunzel / Cincinnati Pops Orchestra - 1984  (3:26)

04 - The Wild Wild West (4th season edit) - Richard Markowitz - 1968  (1:24)

05 - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (edit) - Stu Phillips - 1979  (1:24)

06 - Prelude - Outer Space - The Day the Earth Stood Still - Bernard Herrmann - 1951  (1:49)

07 - Doctor Who - Ron Grainer - 1980  (2:43)

08 - Tales of the Gold Monkey - Mike Post & Pete Carpenter - 1982  (1:02)

09 - Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Jerry Goldsmith - arr Fried - 1983  (1:19)

10 - Scarecrow and Mrs King - Arthur B Rubinstein - 1983  (1:16)

11 - Star Trek II and III Suite - James Horner - 1982  (13:44)

12 - Mission Impossible ’88 - Main Title - Lalo Schifrin - 1988  (1:04)

13 - Also Sprach Zarathustra (excerpt) - Richard Strauss - 1968  (1:39)

14 - The Greatest American Hero - Joey Scarsbury - 1981  (1:47)

15 - Themes from ET - Walter Murphy - 1982  (3:53)

16 - Alien - End Titles - Howard Hanson - 1979  (2:50)

17 - Twilight Zone the Movie - Theme and Overture (edit) - Marius Constant and Jerry Goldsmith - 1983  (5:55)

18 - Jonny Quest (edit - no FX) - Hoyt Curtin - 1964  (2:27)

19 - The Flash (no FX) - Danny Elfman - 1990  (1:33)

20 - Star Trek the Motion Picture - Main and End titles (edit) - Jerry Goldsmith - 1979  (3:25)

21 - System 9 - Mark  Alfred - markssuperblog.blogspot.com - 2024  (8:30)

Full Space Ahead, Junior Spacers!

Beside the tracks marked “edit,” the “Star Wars Suite” and “Star Trek II and III Suite” are also blended by me from the soundtrack releases.

The final track, my space de resistance, is a montage of SF excerpts from film and TV from the last seventy-some years.  (A PDF of the sources is enclosed.)  These dialogue excerpts are laid upon a bed of background fx which contains sounds from Star Trek, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Star Wars, The Jetsons, The Bionic Man, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Space Ghost, and perhaps some others.  Underlaying it all is the haunting sound of NASA’s Voyager Recordings, which may be found here. --- Symphonies of the Planets  -- 

You might say this is my sci-fi answer to the Beatles’ “Revolution 9.”  What do you think?

THIS LINK GOOD FOR THREE DAYS.

PERMANENT LINK.

See you on Monday for month of TREKKING WITH CLIPPINGS!

  

Stuffy Views About LOTR

That's what you're likely to get when such an august organ as The English Journal surveys Tolkien's The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings books.

This coverage form the November 1969 issue shows that stuffy academics might be able to cut loose with abandoned appreciation in a bar somewhere, but they must be veddy re-fined in print.

Take a gander and survey this survey.  Was this an attempt through stilted prose to win folks over?  Was it a quest by a hidebound academic to figure out why his shaggy students were reading this work by a philologist?

You have three days to reread the entire trilogy, plus The Hobbit, and report back!  After that, I'll see you Thursday.

  

Old News About Supes

This is from the September 10, 1999 USA Today.

But that wasn't the end of the story.  Good ole Wikipedia has a story which summarizes that DC now owns the rights.

Right or wrong!  (There's a lot of gray areas, not to mention yellow, red, and blue.)

See you on Monday, superguys and supergals!

  

Goin' Wildey!

You would too, if you got to read an interview with Jonny Quest creator Doug Wildey!

Note the implication on the first page's intro that "the age of 63" is a super-antique, geezerish age.

It's either a slip of Wildey's memory or a typo ... but JQ music director was Hoyt Curtin, not "Cartin."

This is from the May 15, 1986 issue of Amazing Heroes, number 95.

See you on Thursday, fellow Questians!

  

FINAL WORDS!

Since some folks are acting like the world is gonna end any minute, I thought it would be apropos to share some deep and not-so-deep thoughts on the subject from around the playground.

          In their 2012 book Megacatastrophes! David Darling and Dirk-Schulze-Makuch rank the likelihood of “Nine Strange Ways the World Could End.”  Least likely?  Radical climate change, whether caused by Mankind or things like solar flares.  The most likely danger, the thing to lose the most sleep over?  A pandemic, whether from medicine-resistant new bugs or old standbys like the plague or Ebola.

 

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper.

          ― T S Eliot, “The Hollow Men”

 

Don’t wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

          ― Roger Zelazny

 

It happened that a fire broke out backstage in a theater. The clown came out to inform the public. They thought it was a jest and applauded. He repeated his warning. They shouted even louder. So I think the world will come to an end amid the general applause from all the wits who believe that it is a joke.

          ― Søren Kierkegaard

 

Sure, at some level scientists know nanobots will destroy mankind. They just can’t resist seeing how it happens.

          ― Cracked.com

 

Apocalypse has come and gone. We’re just grubbing in the ashes.

          ― Samuel R Delany, Dhalgren

 

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

          ― Richard Bach

 

I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don’t worry it’s not the end of the world.

          ―  Jay London

 

 

It isn’t necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice—there are two other possibilities: One is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

          ― Frank Zappa

 

Not only does God play dice, but he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

          ― Stephen Hawking

 

Everything has to come to an end, sometime.

          ― L Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

 

I’m against endings. I’m against things being over. Being finished should be stopped! I am Comrade-in-Chief of going on. I support furthermore and etcetera!

          ― Saša Stanišić

 

Somehow the world never seems to end before your homework is due.

          ―  P J O’Rourke

 

We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep.

          ― Joel C. Rosenberg

 

I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

          ― Albert Einstein

 

Survival kit contents check. In them you’ll find: one .45 caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days’ concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing: antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair a nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

          ― Dr Strangelove

 

There’s something attractive about all those people being gone, about wandering in a depopulated world, scrounging cans of Campbell’s pork and beans, defending one’s family from marauders. But some secret part of us thinks it would be good to survive. All those other folks will die. That’s what after-the-bomb stories are all about.

          ― John Varley

 

Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

          ― Charles M. Schulz

 

Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.

          ― Joseph Campbell

 

I’m completely optimistic—I know the end is coming!

          ― Lydia Lunch

 

Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.

          ― Rorschach

What do YOU say, me fine feathered finks?

  

I Bought it for This Article

 Since I was just past 16 when this came out, I encountered it year later, maybe in Lute's Books in OKC.  This is from the December 1973 Penthouse.

How's THAT for fun!  See ya Thursday.

  

Superboy TV, Part 6 - Logos Great and Small

More from the promo folder issued to syndicating stations for Season 2 of the live-action Superboy.  This packet is courtesy of the late great Mark Barragar.

This would have been around 1989.

Remember, this era was marked by physical cutting and pasting of printed material.  Hence the myriad sizes!

Above is the entire packet's appearance.

PS you can find the previous five shared folders from this kit by simply searching "Superboy TV" in the SEARCH box.  See you Monday!