H. George Wells travels to the future, only to discover mankind divided into two factions and a civilization on the brink of collapse! Fortunately, we all know that could never happen…
This week on “Picture Perfect,” put aside your cares for an hour and begin the new year with an escapist program of time travel adventures.
Look forward – and back – to selections from “The Time Machine” (1960) by Russell Garcia, “Time After Time” (1979) by Miklós Rózsa, “Somewhere in Time” (1980) by John Barry, and “Back to the Future” (1985) by Alan Silvestri.
It’s about time, on “Picture Perfect,” music for the movies, now in syndication on KWAX Classical Oregon!
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Tag: Time Travel
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Star Trek IV Time Travel and Saving the Whales
I’ve been so damn busy this week I need to learn that trick they pull in “Star Trek” where they slingshot around the sun and travel back in time.
You can be guaranteed, then, that I’ll be paying extra-close attention when I rewatch “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home” (1986), in preparation for Roy and my discussion about the film on the next Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner. This is the one where Spock dons a bathrobe and headband in 20th Century San Francisco and mind melds with a humpback whale. With a high concept like that, is it any wonder it turned out to be the most financially successful of any “Star Trek” movie featuring the original cast?
With a new year approaching, my thoughts, in common with many others, I’m sure, are occupied with matters of time. If only we could travel back to 1986, maybe we too could save the world.
Weighty matters will be pondered, even as we embrace our inner geek. It will be all pointy heads and pointy ears as Roy and I discuss “Star Trek IV.” You’ll have a whale of time in the comments section, when we livestream on Facebook, YouTube, etc., this Friday evening at 7:00 EST!
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Time Travel Temptation Would I Go Back
If someone showed up in a time machine and offered to take me back, I often wonder if I wouldn’t go.
By the way, if you really want to feel old, 50 years before 1973 was 1923.
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Star Trek Time Travel Tomorrow Is Yesterday
I don’t claim to be an authority on the matter, but it seems like in the original “Star Trek” series, the Starship Enterprise went back to Earth like every other week. But mostly it was the crew encountering worlds that, for whatever reasons, developed into parallels of different periods of Earth’s history. So we got replica-Earths populated by plague-resistant children, Kirk and Spock battling Nazis, and Vic Tayback as a gangster in pinstripes.
But the first time the Enterprise went back to 20th century Earth for REAL (don’t worry, I know it’s fiction) was in the first season episode “Tomorrow Is Yesterday” (1967). Not to spoil anything, but this is the episode that introduces the “slingshot effect,” a convenient physics loophole later exploited in the movies.
Roy and I will attempt to perform the maneuver, in order to erase your memory of our original plan to cover “The Day After Tomorrow” (1975) – Gerry Anderson’s TV pilot that went nowhere – and to give the illusion that we are thorough, thoughtful programmers. Come to think of it, wouldn’t it be a lot easier just to employ a Jedi mind trick?
Be that as it may, we’re changing the program and moving it to a different night this week. I hope you’ll join us in the comments section for a discussion of “Tomorrow Is Yesterday,” on the next Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner. We’ll still be screwed up from the time-change, when we livestream on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, this SUNDAY EVENING AT 7:00 EST!
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PHOTO: Who needs Jedi, when you’ve got crafty Kirk to play mind games?
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Back to the Future Discussion and Space 1999 Preview
Time got away from us last night, as we realized we were cresting two hours in our discussion of “Back to the Future” (1985). There’s got to be some irony in that. And there was still plenty left on the table.
This last of a golden age of summer blockbusters was the time travel movie we didn’t know we needed. Now who would want to do without it?
You can watch the entire conversation, with viewer comments, at the link. And make a mental note to change your clocks tonight, as we “fall back!”
Whereas this week’s show went by like a flash of lightning meeting a DeLorean tearing down Main Street at 88 m.p.h., next week may wind up being a bit of a slog – at least for Classic Ross Amico, who is no big fan of “Space: 1999.” Gerry Anderson’s “The Day After Tomorrow” (1975) looks to be cut from the same cloth.
At least it’s directed by Charles Chrichton, who directed “The Lavender Hill Mob” and “A Fish Called Wanda,” and surely anything with Brian Blessed is worth watching. It’s only 47 minutes long – actually a pilot for a projected TV series – so hopefully I’ll be able to make it through, provided I can find it streaming anywhere.
My enthusiasm is not assured on the next Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner. Please bring your insights to the comments section, so Roy has something to play off of, when we livestream on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, next Friday evening at 7:30 Eastern STANDARD Time.
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