Take the Solarnauts challenge!

Wildeblood · Post by **Wildeblood** » Sun Jun 21, 2015 7:35 am

Properly lame sci-fi from the golden age of lame sci-fi, with lame acting, lame music and lame special effects. How long can you endure?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o4aiYOLqtk

Try to stick it out until at least 13:30, where/when you can see a spacesuit helmet specially designed to accommodate a beehive hairdo. Because even in space a gal's not fashionably dressed without a beehive.

Addendum: plot twist at 16:40!

spud42 · Post by **spud42** » Sun Jun 21, 2015 1:21 pm

14:10

only got that far because or Derek Fowlds... i loved Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister.....

checked on him in IMDB and saw he did 3+ years with Basil Brush !!!!! Boom Boom... lol

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 7:52 am

Don't know about lame. Thought it was a lot of fun, everything was just.. well.. shiney, no dust on anything.
Recon as a kid if it was a series I'd have watched it.
Thanks for the link.

spud42 · Post by **spud42** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 8:44 am

imay or may not have seen it... we left the UK in June 1967. would depend on when it aired.....if it aired that is...looks like it was unaired.. pity....

SteveKing · Post by **SteveKing** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 9:26 am

I left in '72, but don't remember it at all (perhaps a bit too young?!

Love the fancy fridge magnets!

Too fast paced for me

ClymAngus · Post by **ClymAngus** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 9:48 am

I a sucker for world class media drek. I shall get the popcorn out and give this a view this evening.

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 10:16 am

I was in UK 60's to 90. And a Sifi fan.
It never aired as a series. Don't even know if it made series status. Think the post was a pilot that didn't make it.
Still well worth a watch.

Wildeblood · Post by **Wildeblood** » Sun Jul 26, 2015 6:43 am

BUMP

Did anyone beat my 16 minute endurance of the Solarnauts?

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Sun Jul 26, 2015 11:40 am

Wildeblood wrote:
Did anyone beat my 16 minute endurance of the Solarnauts?

Yup.. watched it right through.

Some thoughts whilst watching:

Whoever chose the theme music should have been shot.

Whoever composed the theme music badly needed access to better quality drugs.

The dialogue and techno-babble.. O.M.G. beyond awful.

ffutures · Post by **ffutures** » Sun Jul 26, 2015 3:13 pm

Alex wrote:
I was in UK 60's to 90. And a Sifi fan.
It never aired as a series. Don't even know if it made series status. Think the post was a pilot that didn't make it.
Still well worth a watch.

It was a pilot made by Roberta Leigh (Space Patrol etc.) but they couldn't sell the series. It's one of the extras in the Space Patrol DVD boxed set.

Ranthe · Post by **Ranthe** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 3:36 am

Is this the UK television SF equivalent of "The Eye of Argon"?

I only got up to 6:57 before my "bad dialogue-ometer" redlined and my suspension-of-disbelief dropped below minimum safe levels...

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 4:45 am

Unlike a lot of youtube vids, I quite enjoyed many of the comments posted, too..

My favourite has to be "Excuse me... I have a reading of 3 over 6. Gotta run!"

Wildeblood · Post by **Wildeblood** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 5:14 am

Ranthe wrote:
Is this the UK television SF equivalent of "The Eye of Argon"?

I was unaware of the Eye of Argon; thank you. I located the text, and am embarrassed to report I only lasted to the second sentence before laughing. Specifically, the phrase "shone dully" caught me by surprise. (Er, spoiler alert.)

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 5:25 am

Wildeblood wrote:
... am embarrassed to report I only lasted to the second sentence before laughing. Specifically, the phrase "shone dully" caught me by surprise.

Me too! That was just.. just.. words fail me..

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 5:38 am

'Tis a pity that, being the second sentence, and not the first, it's not eligible for the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest...

Heh.. I'm really starting to get into this story. I'm not sure what I'm enjoying most.. the mangled sentences, the mangled spelling, the mangled grammar, the mangled tenses, or the mangled similes.

Thanks, Ranthe.. this is a true treasure!

3 minutes later..
Edit.. OMG, I may die from laughing so hard.. this just gets better and better!

3 hours later..
Edit: I got curious about the history of Eye of Argon, and eventually found this:
http://www.foxacre.com/argon/index.html

"It has been described as having been written by a teenager with three thesauruses and no dictionary."

Being free, The Somewhat Official Competitive Reading Edition is particularly good value. It includes the original illustrations from OSFAN #10, the fanzine in which it was originally published.

For anyone wanting to see a PDF scan of the story, made from the original zine, in all it's eye-watering paper colours, see:
http://ansible.uk/misc/eyeargon-intro.html

Enjoy!

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