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[DLibrasnow]

Originally posted by License To Kill
I really love how no one even responds to my posts!

They did License to Kill....

[DLibrasnow]

Originally posted by Jaelle


Oh and as to Tim's IRA film "The Informant," yes I've seen it.  I have it on video.  Tim is fabulous in it, such a great performance.  He manages to make an ugly, violent bigot into a more nuanced, even sympathetic character.

Right here

[DLibrasnow]

All this talk about this fun movie...I am going to throw in the DVD tonight and just sit back and relax....

[DieAnotherDay57]

I haven't seen that movie in a while , I might watch it some time soon.

[DLibrasnow]

I love the "yoghurt-carton-with-fins" look of the spaceships....and who wouldn't love one of those rocket bikes?

[clinkeroo]

From the sad but true department...

I saw this film 15 times on the big screen. The only one I've seen more is Jaws. I was just the right age to begin to appreciate the intentional corniness, and I was into the old Flash Gordon daily strips at the time. Great, Great fun.

[Robinson]

The interesting thing was that NBC was running the animated series on Saturday mornings around that time.

Done by the folks at Filmation (Tarzan & the Super 7, Fat Albert, He-Man), the series really kept the spirit of the old Buster Crabbe serials. At one point NBC aired a two-hour movie "Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All." Essentially, they compiled and edited down the series to two hours. However, there were interesting changes in terms of story. Flash was with the State Department, investigating the sudden development of Axis weaponry. It's revealed later on that Ming was supplying the Nazi's with technology for their V2 rockets.

That show was ahead of it's time and needs to come back on SciFi or Boomerang.

[Blofeld's Cat]

Originally posted by clinkeroo
From the sad but true department...

I saw this film 15 times on the big screen.

Tell me about it. It started to get like The Rocky Horror Picture Show with audience participation after my 5th viewing.

All of us would let out a "Ah hah-ah" and stamp our feet evertime the Queen riff was heard.

It was the theatre fun aspect of Queen's music in this movie that drew me to the original Highlander in the first place.

[clinkeroo]

I remember everyone chanting along with Dale during the "football" fight, "Go, Flash, Go." In retrospect, it sounds like a Dr. Seuss book.

[Jaelle]

Originally posted by Robinson
The interesting thing was that NBC was running the animated series on Saturday mornings around that time.

Done by the folks at Filmation (Tarzan & the Super 7, Fat Albert, He-Man), the series really kept the spirit of the old Buster Crabbe serials. At one point NBC aired a two-hour movie "Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All." Essentially, they compiled and edited down the series to two hours. However, there were interesting changes in terms of story. Flash was with the State Department, investigating the sudden development of Axis weaponry. It's revealed later on that Ming was supplying the Nazi's with technology for their V2 rockets.

That show was ahead of it's time and needs to come back on SciFi or Boomerang.

Wow, I had completely forgotten about this animated series yet I watched it faithfully. My boyfriend at the time and our circle of friends were big Bond/science fiction/horror fans and this series was a huge favorite of ours. It certainly was ahead of its time. I'm surprised it hasn't been collected somewhere on video.

[DLibrasnow]

Originally posted by Jaelle
I'm surprised it hasn't been collected somewhere on video.

Same here....I also had forgotten about this series. The Buster Crabbe serials are available on DVD!!

[Robinson]

Originally posted by Jaelle


Wow, I had completely forgotten about this animated series yet I watched it faithfully.  My boyfriend at the time and our circle of friends were big Bond/science fiction/horror fans and this series was a huge favorite of ours.  It certainly was ahead of its time.  I'm surprised it hasn't been collected somewhere on video.

And this was why I went to Trek conventions: to find bootlegged copies of old TV shows.

There used to be cats who had copies of the old show & catalogs listing all the programs they had in stock. Who'd of "thunk" someone out in Bellmore, LI would've had the forsight to videotape the every episode of "StarBlazers" and "ElectraWoman and Dyna-Girl?"

Someone's got a Filmation fansite on the web. We've gotta find out who's still got the rights to Flash Gordon so we can get 'em bumped up to DVD!

And while we're at it, get the 'ol 1967 version of SpiderMan placed on DVD.

[DLibrasnow]

Check out this site for a rundown of the Filmation "Flash Gordon" episodes:

http://www.bcdb.com/...f_Flash_Gordon/

[Jaelle]

Originally posted by Robinson
And this was why I went to Trek conventions: to find bootlegged copies of old TV shows.

I used to do the same thing. Here in NYC I sometimes go to these vintage shows where dealers sell videos of old TV shows. That's where I got old eps of the Outer Limits, for example, and Bill Shatner's old series For the People. And the old Beatles cartoon as well.

And while we're at it, get the 'ol 1967 version of SpiderMan placed on DVD. [/B]

I used to watch that religiously as a kid. The theme song is permanently ingrained in my head.

From DiL:

Check out this site for a rundown of the Filmation "Flash Gordon" episodes:
http://www.bcdb.com/...f_Flash_Gordon/[/B]

This board is such a fount of information! Thanks very much for this!

[Turn]

I was one of the people who taped that Flash Gordon cartoon movie way back in about 1982 or so, but eventually ended up taping over it. Now I try to get back some of those shows. There really is some fun stuff out there I'd like to see released on DVD.

My brother got the entire Beatles cartoon series from a dealer a few years ago and a few other things. The funniest old Shatner thing I've seen was an old show from the early '60s where he played a Swedish immigrant in the old west, complete with accent. I taped it off TV Land several years ago and it was a keeper just for its humor.

[Jaelle]

Originally posted by Turn
The funniest old Shatner thing I've seen was an old show from the early '60s where he played a Swedish immigrant in the old west, complete with accent. I taped it off TV Land several years ago and it was a keeper just for its humor.

Hmm, this sounds very familiar... I think I've seen this. I also have on video his pilor for an Alexander the Great series. Now that's a lot of fun to watch!

[Robinson]

Originally posted by Jaelle


I used to watch that religiously as a kid.  The theme song is permanently ingrained in my head.

Spiderman(1967) had one of the best soundtracks PERIOD!!! Beyond the theme song, the underlying score reeked of late-60's cool!

That soundtrack is the Holy Grail- That, and the score from "The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh."

[DLibrasnow]

it shouldn't be any surprise to CBNers that this fun movie is my favorite Timothy Dalton film.