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Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2022 1:09 am
by ffutures
Well, if someone doesn't give it their best shot we're going to be stuck here, there really isn't much I can add to this one, and I really don't feel up to coming up with another question at present!
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2022 1:04 pm
by spud42
ok, i will let you off the hook.
its Brains from Thunderbirds. i guess his firs appearence was in the early 60's... last one would be the movie in the 2000's??
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2022 3:47 pm
by Cholmondely
And was there not an anime version?
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2022 5:44 pm
by ffutures
spud42 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 29, 2022 1:04 pm
ok, i will let you off the hook.
its Brains from Thunderbirds. i guess his firs appearence was in the early 60's... last one would be the movie in the 2000's??
Spud gets the prize, but I don't think MBPs - this character has got around a bit...
Brains first appeared in the first episode of
Thunderbirds (
30 September 1965), and was in the final episode of that series (
25 December 1966) which is the first possibility for his last appearance...
However (deep breath) he also appeared in
Film -
Thunderbirds Are Go -
12th December 1966
Film -
Thunderbird 6 -
29 July 1968 - last appearance of the puppet version....
except for three more puppet films (1981-3), which I'm excluding because each was a mashup of two episodes of the original series so I don't think that they count, I don't think there was any new material. Then there was
Live action film
Thunderbirds -
20 July 2004
Brains does appear in this one, but seems to be more or less retired if I'm remembering it correctly. Then there was
Thunderbirds - The Anniversary Episodes -
17 August 2016
Three short films made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the series - it looks like Brains would probably be in at least the first of these, since it's basically a tour of Tracy island, but I don't have a list of characters so I can't tell.
Finally (SO FAR) there's the CGI series
Thunderbirds Are Go, which ran from 4 April 2015 to
22 February 2020 - Brains was in the first and last episode, and most of the rest that I saw.
Cholmondely wrote: ↑Tue Nov 29, 2022 3:47 pm
And was there not an anime version?
Nice try but no - There was an anime series, Thunderbirds 2086, which ran 17 April 1982 – 11 September 1982, but Brains doesn't appear to have been a character in it - I think it was more "inspired by" than anything else.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2022 9:16 pm
by ffutures
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2022 1:23 pm
by spud42
we all know that Dr Who is a Time Lord. The show is a mixture of adventure and time travel.
give me 5 example of other Time travel Tv shows.
i can think of at least 3 and maybe 4 ... MBP's for picking those shows....
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2022 9:54 pm
by Nite Owl
The most obvious answer in terms of title is
THE TIME TUNNEL.
There are a few others swimming around my brain but our fellow Trivinistas should have a chance to answer before those get posted.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2022 10:18 pm
by ffutures
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2022 11:54 am
by spud42
ok we have two , Nite Owl has the first MBP. and the low hanging fruit...lol
ffutures, thats one we didnt get in Aust so a couple of MBP's for this. Doesnt look like it was any good as it was canned before the original 13 shows were filmed... but it is a similar premise to a TV show i was thinking of.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2022 11:55 am
by Disembodied
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2022 12:10 pm
by JD
In the early 1970s in the UK we had the children's series called Timeslip. In each series, a different portal opened up into the past or future, where the protagonists would typically meet their future selves (not always happily) or encounter the past history of members of their family.
According to WP there were four series altogether. Don't know if they made it to Oz.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeslip
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2022 11:05 pm
by ffutures
OK, have another -
Crime Traveller, a short-lived British series about time travelling cops. The McGuffin is a time machine that lets you travel a little way into the past, but you can't change anything, or even give someone information about the future - one of the sub-plots was a lottery ticket scam that the hero tried that didn't work. I recall it as not being very good...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_Traveller
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2022 1:47 pm
by spud42
Disembodied has no 3 with Primeval was a favorite show of mine so 5 MBP's there,
JD that certainly qualifies , there was no requirement it had to be on AUS TV..lol
and ffutures regains the lead with no 5.
two i was thinking of that didnt come up wer Time Trax
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106154/, and Continium
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1954347/ and there was another one no one picked Travellers in this case time travel was achieved by sending the consiousness back in time. they took over people at their time of death...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5651844/
there seems to be a heavy bias to police being sent back in time here...lol
and the last one i had in mind was terranova
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1641349/ this one had potential but didnt get a second season...
ok ffutures your up next.
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2022 5:42 pm
by ffutures
OK... let's try another five. I think this time the five will be Animal Protagonists In Spaaaaaaaace!
Obvious one here (which is why I'm using it now) is the Muppet's Pigs In Spaaaaaaaace! segments, but what I'm looking for here is stories where the animal protagonist is a major part of the story. So an occasional appearance of someone's pet doesn't count, what I want is stories (films, TV, books, comics, whatever) which would not work without the animal as a character.
No two from the same universe or creator unless the creator worked for a lot of different companies - e.g. no more muppets, but Jim Henson has done animatronics for a lot of other films and TV so I'm not ruling them out completely.
As usual, please only give one answer at a time, and leave a few hours for other people to respond.
MBPs for anything that surprises me or makes me laugh...
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2022 5:53 pm
by Disembodied
It's not in space (or even spaaaaace!), and I doubt if it would make you laugh, but there's the superintelligent dog Sirius from Olaf Stapledon's novel of the same name.