Fantastic Flashbacks

Memories of the fantastic movies, TV shows, books and comics of my youth. Lots of clippings from my scrapbooks and articles from my magazine collection, as well as some vintage advertisements just for fun!

Friday, February 19, 2010

1976 UFO series article

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Those of you that also read "My Star Trek Scrapbook" blog, will know I have scanned some material from the excellent British publ...

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Project Questor: Discontinued

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Since there has been some news lately about Gene Roddenberry's failed pilot "The Questor Tapes" being remade, I thought it was...

Monday, December 21, 2009

Charlon Heston Talks About Sci-Fi

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(Click on images to enlarge.) From the February 1980 edition of "Fantastic Films" magazine, comes this interview with Heston about...

Monday, November 30, 2009

Planet of the Apes teaching aid booklet

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(Click on images to enlarge.) Back around 1971, I was in the 5th grade and living near Parkersburg WV at the time. The English class of the ...

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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Superboy TV show

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(Click on images to enlarge.) Above, a full-page ad for "Superboy" in a cable-TV trade magazine. In 1988, the "Superboy...

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Sunday, September 6, 2009

1989 Family Channel Batman ad

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(Click on image to view larger.) This full-page ad, published in a fall 1989 cable trade magazine, is a very nice rendition of Adam West...

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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

1978 "The Time Machine" TV remake

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(Click to enlarge.) Clipped from the November 4-10 1978 TV Guide. I was always a fan of George Pal's "The Time Machine," so it...

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Frederick: Born in the late 50's, a kid in the 60's, a teen in the 70's, I'm "forever-fourteen." Monsters, spooky stuff, sci-fi and Star Trek captured my imagination as a youth and the memories made will never fade. The profile photo symbolizes the efforts of my stepdad to rid me of my "childish" interests, as he called them; at which, not being a man of strong imagination, he failed.

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