[Spaceship Zero] Q-Ship (actually updated 19 May 2007)

[Plane Sailing]

Oh yeah!

Space mummies?

 

[arwink]

Space mummies?

Nah. Who'd be silly enough to put mummies inside a space pyramid?

 

[Capellan]

Nah. Who'd be silly enough to put mummies inside a space pyramid?

Ruin the verisimilitude, wouldn't it? I mean, it's hard enough to believe that there's a pyramid in the asteroid belt, to begin with. If it had mummies in it as well? No-one would believe that for a second. Just too many coincidences, all at once.

 

[Zaruthustran]

"Join us next time, on Q-ship, when the crew encounters the mysterious Space Tomb."

Bravo! And boy of boy, I can't wait for Space Tomb!

-z

PS: The best part about this sort of game is you can open the dictionary to a random page, plunge yourfinger down on a random spot on that page, read the closest noun, stick it in front of a certain other word, and have your adventure seed.

Like this (gets dictionary, flips and plunges):

Space Joker
Space Gladiator
Space Party
Space Chrisom

Okay, that last one is a little weird.

PSS: If you guys ever need a break you might consider placing the actors in commercials. A little one shot where, say, Fury comes home to his middle-America 50's home wearing a grass-stained uniform, S'Ondra scolds him, and they must seek out the Professor (with his new miracle cleaning agent "Fumigantastic" and his amazing hands-free electric uniform press Archie. Or something.

 

[ledded]

*the sound of hands clapping fills the air, along with the bite of the occasional shrill whistle*

Great work once again, man.

I am sooooo loving this SH, please keep up the good work.

S'Ondra, in a black vinyl outfit that's even briefer than the usual attire

Oh yippee! Black vinyl in a Space Tomb! I can't wait!

 

[Plane Sailing]

I just saw the trailer for "Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow" http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/skycaptainandtheworldoftomorrow/skycaptain_large.html and immediatly thought of the q-ship crew...

 

[the Jester]

Wow! I just read this SH and boy, is it a fun one!!

Good work! I too want to check out Spaceship 0 now...

 

[Emperor Valerian]

I just finished reading the entirety of this thread today at work, and it has gone on my favorites section in IE. Excellent work!

 

[Eyas]

Hey, back to the front with you!

Love the SH and can not wait for the next installment. Keep up the good work.

 

[Capellan]

The Update You Get When Capellan's Been Too Slack to Write an Update

DVD Extras: "Blast Off!" Trivia

• Like most of the season 1 episodes, much of the script for "Blast Off!" came directly from one of the 1950s radio play scripts. This practice gradually declined as the TV show found its own style.

• The principal addition to the script (other than a significant increase in innuendo!) was the scene on Pluto, which did not occur in the original radio play.

• Commander Dawson (of Pluto Base) was played by Edward Baxter-Smythe, the voice actor for Captain Fury in the radio series.

• In the radio play, Fury says of the Grognor "Good Lord! It must be fifty feet tall!". Budgetary restraints on the television show meant that the creature could only be man-sized, so the line was removed.

• In the year of Q-Ship's debut, the Grognor was nominated the "Worst Sci Fi Monster" in the Television and Radio Times: "The costume was so cumbersome that the 'creature' moved in a kind of constipated waddle, and a fault in the editing makes it clear that at one point during filming it actually fell over."

• Captain Fury losing or removing his shirt would become a regular feature of the show: the writers managed to include it at least once every second episode.

• On the night the show first aired, the BBC received nearly one hundred calls, complaining about S'Ondra's 'indecent' attire.

• S'Ondra dolls were the BBC's highest selling merchandise item for each of the next five months.