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Crossbow This was a 1980s half-hour historical adventure series showing William Tell getting involved with righting various injustices in Switzerland. Season one was good, and season two was still okay (but once he got reunited with his bratty son the irritation factor rose significantly)...

I finished Extinction and while it was good, it had a plot twist I saw coming 200 or so pages before the reveal. But now I'm starting a novel by Poppy Kuroki called Gate to Kagoshima. It involves a young Japanese woman in the present day who accidentally gets sent back 128 years earlier, at...

Here's another one I just thought of; we used to watch it on our PBS station many years back. Blakes 7 It had early Doctor Who-like levels of special effects (due to the same reason: budget constraints), but excellent characters, concepts, and imaginative writing, even if almost every planet...

Those are viable alternatives to those willing to pay those prices...I tend to scale a bit closer to the "cheapskate" end of the spectrum. :) Desk calendars had the advantage of being free (I used to gather up everyone's sheets in my office at the end of the month, back when we all used desk...

I used to use the backs of desk calendar pages: measuring off 1" squares with a yardstick, then drawing the map features as needed. Those are stored in a dresser drawer in my game room, rolled up in a cardboard toilet paper roll with the name of the adventure written on the roll. When my desk...

Well, just to finish off the campaign from where I left off: 96. Field Trip to Hell 97. Coronation Day 98. Today is the First Day of the Rest of Your Undeath 99. The Conclave of Skulls 100. Undead Dreams I managed to get one last "________ Dreams" title in there at the end. And in...

And where does Superman and the Mole Men fall on your list, Morrus? First Superman movie ever, I believe. Johnathan

I had a coworker claim he liked all types of music. So I asked him if that included Klingon opera. He then updated his claim to "almost all types of music." Johnathan

And another show I really enjoyed as a teen and would love to watch again, if I could ever find the series on DVD: The Goodies Johnathan

Shows I used to race home from grade school as a little kid to make sure I didn't miss: Ultraman Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot The Space Giants Speed Racer I've recently rewatched Ultraman and Speed Racer on DVD with my boys and enjoyed the memories. I'd rewatch the other two for...

The Prisoner Johnathan

Agreed in full. Adam Warlock is one of my favorite Marvel "space" characters, and I absolutely hate what they did to him in the MCU. So much potential wasted. Johnathan

As an aside, my son and I just progressed far enough through the "Black Mirror" series that tonight we watched the "Metalhead" episode. You weren't kidding; that was intense! It definitely ranks up there in my top three so far, and we still have roughly half of the series left to watch. Okay...

Yeah, I went to Maxwell Air Force Base AL (from Minot AFB ND) in January for a four-week training course. I was outside in my short sleeves because it was 40 degrees out, staring at the locals all bundled up in their winter coats and woolen caps and scarves. Each of us thought the other one...

I'm just starting Douglas Preston's Extinction - basically, Jurassic Park, but in a Colorado valley in the Rockies, and with Pleistocene mammals instead of dinosaurs. He's a reliably entertaining author whose previous works I've enjoyed, so I'm expecting it to be a good read. Johnathan