PumpkinEscobar wrote:
> In article <090820070910255853%lurkinghorror@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> lurkinghorror <lurkinghorror@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> Just wanted to say, that I have wondered for YEARS why there was never
>> a show on like Jericho.
>>
>> This wondering goes all the way back to the friggin' Cold War, when,
>> lets face it, this show would have been REALLY appropriate.
>>
>> But no. Other than a really poorly conceived COMEDY (I think) about a
>> bunch of people in a farmhouse that lasted (I think, again) like 2
>> episodes, NOTHING.
>>
>> One of my fantasies a couple years back was an anthology show (Or
>> series of mini-series) of classic, retro SciFi, with a Parallel
>> Universe theme. The rationel of this theme was earlier SciFi concerning
>> topical events could be done more authentically as in their time
>> period, instead of roughly modified for current themes.
>>
>> Which is a long way to say that I had just finished reading "Alas
>> Babylon" which was pretty much quite like Jericho, except that it
>> happened when we thought it was going to happen (actually right BEFORE
>> the Cuban Missile Crisis), and it was a small town in Florida.
>>
>> ...And there were no NUTS involved. ;-)
>
>
> You never saw 'The Day After' in the 1980s? What about 'Amerika'?
>
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