John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Cult Movies and Classic TV

Creator of the audio drama Enter The House Between. One of the horror genre's "most widely read critics" (Rue Morgue # 68), "an accomplished film journalist" (Comic Buyer's Guide #1535), and the award-winning author of Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002), John Kenneth Muir, presents his blog on film, television and nostalgia, named one of the Top 100 Film Studies Blog on the Net.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

The Cult-TV Faces of: Jonathan Harris

A mainstay of the 1960s and 1970s, the late Jonathan Harris headlined in several popular cult-TV series over the years, both as heroes and as scoundrels. How many of the many cult-tv faces of Jonathan Harris do you recognize? If you can, name the series, character, and episode (though that's harder this week...).

John Kenneth Muir

award-winning creator of Enter The House Between and author of 32 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).

10 comments:

BigNick010:45 AM
Wow.. #2 is from Lost in Space. #3 is from Ark ][ (I just watched that episode recently). What a great series that was. It took YEARS of talking to other people about Ark ][ before anyone else I knew remembered it. I'm sure that series is what cemented my love for post-apocalyptic world. :-)

I feel like I should know #4 and #5, but my brain isn't cooperating. #1 I have no idea.
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John Kenneth Muir11:04 AM
Hey Nick!

You got # 2 and 3 absolutely right. Congrats on guessing Ark II correctly...I'm impressed!!!!

Best,
JKM
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dave starry11:56 AM
On pure guess work I'd go with...

#1 The Twilight Zone
#4 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
#5 Battlestar Galactica

...but have no idea about the episode or character names.
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John Kenneth Muir12:15 PM
Hey Dave:

You got # 1 (The Twilight Zone) and # 5 (Battlestar Galacitca). But #4 is not Buck Rogers.

Still, great job!

best,
JKM
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Tim Smith1:05 PM
I believe #4 is Space Academy.
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John Kenneth Muir1:27 PM
Tim - you got it! Space Academy is indeed # 4. Nicely done.

The whole line up was

1. Twilight Zone: "Twenty Two"
2. Lost in Space: "The Space Croppers"
3. Ark II: "The Drought"
4. Space Academy: "Life Begins at 300"
5. Battlestar Galactica: "Gun on Ice Planet Zero Part 2.

best,
JKM
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SFF2:41 PM
Ah yes, Lucifer. Smith always had a bit of that in him. : )
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John Kenneth Muir4:14 PM
Sci-Fi Fanatic:

That's a very good way of putting it, I think. In every one of his roles, you saw that glint in his eye, that devilish (but charming) side.

best,
John
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dave starry11:54 AM
Being a fan of WWII movies, as a kid I really enjoyed the "Gun on Ice Planet Zero" episode of BSG with its 'Guns of Navarone' meets 'The Dirty Dozen' plot line.
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kindertrauma1:33 AM
I think Lucifer may be my all time favorite Galactica character.-Unk
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