Warning! If you watch a sizeable number of episodes of ‘70s Saturday morning staple “Isis” (1975-77), you will wake up at 4:00 in the morning with the theme music in your head. So far, I’ve watched up through Episode 18, and I fear it will follow me into the afterlife.
But I’ll do anything for “Roy’s Tie Dye Sci Fi Corner.”
This week, we’ll celebrate actress Joanna Cameron, most closely identified with the dual role of high school science teacher Andrea Thomas and her alter ego, the beneficent Egyptian goddess somehow recognized immediately by seemingly everyone in 20th century California. Cameron died last month at the age of 73. She starred in 22 episodes of “Isis” – later syndicated as “The Secrets of Isis” – and made several crossover appearances, opposite John Davey’s Captain Marvel, in “Shazam!”
Joining us for this special salute will be Lisa Everetts, of the podcast POP ninja, who was a personal friend of Cameron, and Brian Cutler Actors Studio, who played fellow teacher Rick Mason on the show.
We’ll excavate the secrets of Isis, in memory of Joanna Cameron, on the next Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner. Don your amulets and tunics in the comments section. We’ll summon our powers in rhyming couplets, when we livestream on Facebook, THIS FRIDAY EVENING AT A SPECIAL TIME – 8:00 EST!
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Past episodes of “Pop Ninja,” a program of nostalgic reflections on popular culture of 1970s and ’80s, are archived here:
