Now This Comes Completely Out Of Left Field

[Bob Schroeck]

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/st ... ed_1129580]Gene Roddenberry's son and Ron Howard teaming up to revive The Questor Tapes.  If you don't know what The Questor Tapes is, well...  you're probably much younger than me.  It was one of Roddenberry's early post-Star Trek projects.  It was apparently supposed to be a 13-episode miniseries (this before Roots technically invented the miniseries), about a sophisticated android created but not completed by a dead scientist.  As a result of ham-handed attempts to find out what's on it, the team which completes the android accidentally scrambles part of the tape of data which is supposed to be fed into the android's brain as part of its activation.  Because of this the android, upon activation, has no clue what its purpose is, and ends up following several vague clues to find out why it was built.  It acquires a partner (played by Mike "B.J. Hunnicutt" Farrell before his role on M*A*S*H) along the way, and eventually does discover what it was created for.  The first feature-length episode was broadcast as a TV movie on NBC in 1974, but the rest of the series was never made.
In any case, if they're reviving The Questor Tapes, I'll be looking forward to seeing what they do with it.
Oh, and its IMDB entry is http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0070585/]here.  In case you're interested.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Foxboy]

What about that other series that was "stealth piloted" in an episode of Star Trek? Gary Seven?
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

[Sofaspud]

... ye gods.  I'd almost managed to forget about that.
Now I'm wondering if they'll revive The Time Tunnel...

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs

[Bob Schroeck]

Don't forget Genesis II (1973) and Planet Earth (1974), two different attempts by Roddenberry to get the same idea on TV.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[robkelk]

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/st ... ed_1129580]Gene Roddenberry's son and Ron Howard teaming up to revive The Questor Tapes.

Woo-hoo!

That was one of the better Roddenberry shows that never got past the pilot, IMHO. It'll be interesting to see what they do with it.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012