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A little something I wrote for the Irwin Allen News Network to celebrate 60 years of The Time Tunnel.
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A little something I wrote for the Irwin Allen News Network to celebrate 60 years of The Time Tunnel.
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A little something I wrote for the Irwin Allen News Network to celebrate 60 years of The Time Tunnel.
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A little something I wrote for the Irwin Allen News Network to celebrate 60 years of The Time Tunnel.
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Happy 60th Anniversary to The Time Tunnel
#TheTimeTunnel #IrwinAllen #JamesDarren #RobertColbert #RetroSciFi #ClasicTelevison #1960s
https://afanofacertainage.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/the-time-tunnel-at-sixty/
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Happy 60th Anniversary to The Time Tunnel
#TheTimeTunnel #IrwinAllen #JamesDarren #RobertColbert #RetroSciFi #ClasicTelevison #1960s
https://afanofacertainage.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/the-time-tunnel-at-sixty/
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Happy 60th Anniversary to The Time Tunnel
#TheTimeTunnel #IrwinAllen #JamesDarren #RobertColbert #RetroSciFi #ClasicTelevison #1960s
https://afanofacertainage.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/the-time-tunnel-at-sixty/
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Happy 60th Anniversary to The Time Tunnel
#TheTimeTunnel #IrwinAllen #JamesDarren #RobertColbert #RetroSciFi #ClasicTelevison #1960s
https://afanofacertainage.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/the-time-tunnel-at-sixty/
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Happy 60th Anniversary to The Time Tunnel
#TheTimeTunnel #IrwinAllen #JamesDarren #RobertColbert #RetroSciFi #ClasicTelevison #1960s
https://afanofacertainage.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/the-time-tunnel-at-sixty/
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Anniversaries pass me by at an alarming rate now. I suspect it's something to do with getting old. I much preferred it when my favourite TV series and movies were celebrating their 10th anniversaries!
Back when Star Trek celebrated its 20th, that felt like an enormous stretch of time. And now here we are at the 60th... goodness, where did the time go?
#StarTrek #StarTrek60 #StarTrek60th #StarTrekTOS #CaptainKirk #WilliamShatner #SciFi #RetroSciFi #ClassicTV #1960s
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Anniversaries pass me by at an alarming rate now. I suspect it's something to do with getting old. I much preferred it when my favourite TV series and movies were celebrating their 10th anniversaries!
Back when Star Trek celebrated its 20th, that felt like an enormous stretch of time. And now here we are at the 60th... goodness, where did the time go?
#StarTrek #StarTrek60 #StarTrek60th #StarTrekTOS #CaptainKirk #WilliamShatner #SciFi #RetroSciFi #ClassicTV #1960s
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Anniversaries pass me by at an alarming rate now. I suspect it's something to do with getting old. I much preferred it when my favourite TV series and movies were celebrating their 10th anniversaries!
Back when Star Trek celebrated its 20th, that felt like an enormous stretch of time. And now here we are at the 60th... goodness, where did the time go?
#StarTrek #StarTrek60 #StarTrek60th #StarTrekTOS #CaptainKirk #WilliamShatner #SciFi #RetroSciFi #ClassicTV #1960s
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Anniversaries pass me by at an alarming rate now. I suspect it's something to do with getting old. I much preferred it when my favourite TV series and movies were celebrating their 10th anniversaries!
Back when Star Trek celebrated its 20th, that felt like an enormous stretch of time. And now here we are at the 60th... goodness, where did the time go?
#StarTrek #StarTrek60 #StarTrek60th #StarTrekTOS #CaptainKirk #WilliamShatner #SciFi #RetroSciFi #ClassicTV #1960s
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Anniversaries pass me by at an alarming rate now. I suspect it's something to do with getting old. I much preferred it when my favourite TV series and movies were celebrating their 10th anniversaries!
Back when Star Trek celebrated its 20th, that felt like an enormous stretch of time. And now here we are at the 60th... goodness, where did the time go?
#StarTrek #StarTrek60 #StarTrek60th #StarTrekTOS #CaptainKirk #WilliamShatner #SciFi #RetroSciFi #ClassicTV #1960s
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Remembering Irwin Allen, who was born 110 years ago today. Flawed though his sci-fi productions were, they gave me a great deal of joy growing up, especially The Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants.
Here he is directing Don Marshall and Gary Conway on the set of the very first episode of Land of the Giants. The fact that the Spindrift crash-landed on the giant world on 12 June was a deliberate in-joke.
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Here we have a promotional Land of the Giants badge. Well, here in the UK we'd call it a badge; in the States it's a button or a pin. Whatever you want to call it, it was produced in the 1960s, and as a little boy I would have worn it proudly if only it had been available in the UK.
I have to say, though, the wording puzzles me. Why has "are" been changed to "is"? This might be a question that one of my American friends can answer for me.
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I’m always posting anniversaries and birthdays, but some are a little more special to me than others. Case in point…
Happy 81st birthday to Heather Young, aka ‘Spindrift’ stewardess Betty Hamilton from Land of the Giants — one of my earliest crushes.
#LandOfTheGiants #HeatherYoung #BubblegumCards #RetroSciFi #ClassicSciFi #IrwinAllen
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I went to bed last night smiling at the news that two lost episodes of Doctor Who have been found. This morning I even peeked in on a Doctor Who forum. It really is heartwarming to see fans born in the 21st century getting excited about black-and-white episodes from the 1960s starring Big Billy Hartnell. As we older fans approach the finishing line, it's good to know the torch has been passed.
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A very happy 90th birthday to Gary Conway — actor, writer, artist, and so much more. He’s the very definition of a Renaissance man.
On top of his many talents and accomplishments, for my generation Mr Conway will always have a special place in our hearts as Captain Steve Burton, leader of the diminutive Earth people trapped in the Land of the Giants.
All the very best, sir.
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June 12, 1983: On this day in the distant future/past, sub-orbital passenger flight 612, en route from Los Angeles to London, ran into some very big trouble...
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As it happened, I already owned a variation of the same pose on one of my precious Land of the Giants bubble-gum cards.
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Land of the Giants listing from TV Times, dated 28th April, 1972.
My nine year-old self was delighted by the publicity picture. Such things were to be treasured back then, and I recall carefully cutting this one out and pasting it into my scrapbook.
Funnily enough, the exact same picture appeared in TV Times the following week. That was fine, though—I could never have too many pictures of Land of the Giants.
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I'm constantly posting anniversaries and birthdays, but some are a little more special to me than others. Case in point...
Happy 80th Birthday to Heather Young, alias 'Spindrift' stewardess Betty Hamilton from Land of the Giants, one of my earliest crushes.
#LandOfTheGiants #HeatherYoung #RetroSciFi #IrwinAllen #BubblegumCards
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Who is Number One?
Sixty-one years ago, Number 100 and Number 2 tried to convince the Doctor he was in 13th century Cathay rather than The Village.
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Before he hit the big time, John Williams was Johnny Williams, and he composed the theme tunes for Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants. Here he is letting the creator of those series, Irwin Allen, play with his baton (I suspect there's a crude joke there, but I'm really not the sort of chap to make it).
Happy Birthday, Johnny... John.... Mr Williams... Sir!
#JohnWilliams #IrwinAllen #LostInSpace #TheTimeTunnel #LandOfTheGiants #RetroSciFi
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3rd February, 1966
Publicity photograph of Jackie Lane, William Hartnell and Peter Purves on the jungle set of 'The Ark,' at Ealing Film Studio.
#DoctorWho #WilliamHartnell #Telefantasy #RetroSciFi #PeterPurves
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Just another day in the Land of the Giants.
Pages from the Land of the Giants colouring book,
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9th January, 1966
William Hartnell, having just celebrated his 58th birthday the previous day, is transformed into the Doctor by Make up artist Sonia Markham.
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Happy New Year from Great Britain!
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Friday 10th December, 1965
Recording day for The Daleks' Master Plan, Episode 8, 'Volcano.'
#DoctorWho #WilliamHartnell #TARDIS #RetroSciFi #Telefantasy
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What I want for Christmas... 1969.
(Spoiler, I found both under the Christmas tree that year. Thanks, Nan.)
#StarTrek #LandOfTheGiants #RetroSciFi #Annuals #Telefantasy
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My first exposure to Land of the Giants was as a weekly two page picture-strip in 'Joe 90: Top Secret' comic, published in 1969.*
Throughout the strip's run, the Spindrift was mistakenly referred to as the Spendthrift. The name stuck with me and, even now, all these decades later, I occasionally catch myself writing Spendthrift instead of Spindrift.
*Where I lived we didn't get the TV series until 1972.
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What's that you say? Post a picture of a spaceship that isn't from Star Trek or Star Wars. If you insist...
My all time favourite fictional spaceship is the Spindrift from Land of the Giants. Okay, the Spindrift didn't do much flying through space as it crashed in the first episode, but it's a gorgeous design with similarities to the Flying Sub from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and the Proteus from Fantastic Voyage.