In a message dated 7/12/03 10:20:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> What is it with sci-fi series and Jack the ripper?� The series Timecop did
> several Jack the ripper episodes, Sliders did one, The Outer Limits did one
> (then several "sequel" episodes on the same theme), B5 did one, IIRC even
> one of the Star Trek series did one, but details escape my memory at the
> moment.
>
"Wolf in the Fold" and not a bad episode.
Another ponderable is the fascination British sci-fi shows have with the Old
West. I can't think of a BritSF show that didn't try an oater ("The
Gunfighters", "Living in Harmony"). Maybe Blakes 7 didn't; don't recall. Most of them
are stinkers. The only decent one is Red Dwarf's "Gunfighters of the
Apocalypse."
(Actually, not just British SF. Star Trek did the awful "Specter of the Gun"
and TNG had yet ANOTHER Holodeck screw-up, although I don't remember the
title.)
Tom Beck
www.prydonians.org
www.mercerjewishsingles.org
"I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed I'd see the
last." - Dr Jerry Pournelle
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