Science Fiction Trivia

[spud42]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_Luna

is my next guess.... Target Luna followed by 3 Pathfinder series.. Pathfinders in Space,Pathfinders to Mars and Pathfinders to Venus.

not easy to find...(assuming i got it right this time) .

[Cody]

I was only a young'un, but I remember the Pathfinders series.

[ffutures]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_Luna

is my next guess.... Target Luna followed by 3 Pathfinder series.. Pathfinders in Space,Pathfinders to Mars and Pathfinders to Venus.

not easy to find...(assuming i got it right this time) .

Absolutely right!

To explain the clues:

Clue 1 - all four series aired in 1960-61 - they did

Clue 2 - the hero's pet mysteriously changes species (but not name) between the first and second series. - It was a hamster called Hamlet in the first series, which became a guinea pig (still called Hamlet!) in later series.

Clue 3 - It's live action with some models etc., not puppets. - model spaceships etc, can't remember what they did about the dinosaurs etc. I really must watch the DVDs, I've got the set somewhere.

Clue 4 - The odd series out was actually the first (sorry I didn't make that clearer), does not survive except as a script, and has a two-word title.
Target Luna
All of the others have a completely different cast from the first but playing the same roles, have three word titles with one word in common, and survived (via various foreign broadcasters, collectors, etc.) to ultimately make it to DVD.
Pathfinders in Space,Pathfinders to Mars and Pathfinders to Venus

Clue 5 - One of the adult stars played his first role as a journalist and pilot in these series, later played a different journalist in another three more borderline SF serials, and a member of British intelligence in an espionage series, but is probably best remembered for a much later role as a robot on Doctor Who.
Gerald Flood -
played journalist / pilot Conway Henderson in the Pathfinders series
Journalist Mark Bannerman in Plateau of Fear, City Beneath the Sea and Secret Beneath the Sea (1961-63)
Peregrine Smith in The Ratcatchers (1966-67)
Kamelion the robot in Doctor Who (1983-84)

Over to you!

[spud42]

ok, this was before my time as i was born end of 3rd quarter 1961....

ok this shouldnt be too hard....

La Fiesta de Santa Carolita

book and Author.

[ffutures]

ok, this was before my time as i was born end of 3rd quarter 1961....

I was 7 to 8 at the time and remember bits of it - there were some interesting touches, e.g. an alien spaceship they found on the moon was dumbbell shaped, I think they said so that the nuclear engines were as far as possible from the crew, an idea which they may have nicked from Clarke's Exploration of Space and/or The Sands of Mars.

No idea on your clue, unfortunately.

[spud42]

Clue , The First....... American Author, well known, Hugo award winner( multiple times)

[spud42]

Clue the second, this author had a Long career as a sci fi writer. you could say it was Long lived.....

[spud42]

like Lazarus this thread needs to be resurrected after 4 days..... ( clue 3)

[Smivs]

'To Sail Beyond the Sunset' - Robert A. Heinlein.
This is one of his that I haven't read, but the clues were enough to point me in the right direction

[spud42]

100% correct Sir Gourd.
i have the ebook and havent read it either yet. so i started the whole series again.. just finished Methuselahs Children and half way through Time enough for Love.
Number of the Beast
The Cat Who Walked through Walls
then To Sail Beyond the Sunset
my list has a sixth book The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, havent read this either...

well thats the rest of October and probably November sorted...lol

the Libby Sheffield drive has been hooked up and the KipperSlipper Nipper Dipper is on her way to your corner of the 8( to totally mix metaphors!)

[Smivs]

It's been a while since we had an anagram.

'stops, hires raptor'

Book and Film - Name of both (the same) and author.

[ffutures]

Duhhhhh... Starship Troopers. Book by Robert A. Heinlein

[Smivs]

Spot on.
Back to the ffutures

[ffutures]

Spot on.
Back to the ffutures

OK, since I'm feeling lazy, let's have five stories / books / films with aliens adopted by humans - but only one for each "universe" e.g. if there's a series of books and a film with several aliens adopted by humans the first one anyone mentions from that source is the only one allowed.

[spud42]

what do you mean by adopted?