But he sounds like a wuss in French.

“One man can make a difference.”

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I think he did the announcements for Olympics opening ceremony .

@@TheSpiralnotebook Close! He spoke during the closing ceremony of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Sadly, he died a few days later at age 70.

Hey!....and David's first was Albert ❤

I believe it was the star of the show!

I agreed! I am trying to understand why the US didn't build a flying sub sixty years ago. The US government had gone into insanity for WOKE and racism issues instead of creating an innovative Seaview submarine and a flying sub.

@@timetraveler2518 Aircraft are light and landing in water is equivalent too concrete for the most part only ( Irwin Allen) could pull that stunt of! lol 😂

That's how I feel too. And the Admiral takes on so many problems. And has to solve them himself. Even his 'holiday' in Venice, which I watched yesterday, well, it became full of problems!

@@nigelh3253 He's like James Bond, wherever he goes there are people who try to kill him 😄😄 As for the crew those poor people are being thrown around the sub like rag dolls in each episode... It's surprising no one thought about padding the insides of the ship...Go figure...

Lol They really do deserve hazard pay

@@Hessboys Seriously... 😄😄😄

​@@jeromewagschal9485they were ahead of their time, they didn't know it, but the crew of the enterprise in their star ship in the future would be thrown around the same way, and still no padding or seatbelts :)

They are brilliant loving them.. I wonder if lost in space and land of the giants will be jazzed up lol.. Loved these shows as a kid and love them even at the age of 47 👌

Yes the Flying Sun was cool

I'm a fan of Richard Basehart, but your analysis of his performance took my appreciation of him to another level. Thanks for your contribution!

@@TooleManTV actually i've been in the business for 40 years and having only previously seen him in Mobey Dick and The Andersonville Trials which I thought he just pretty good performances (he's miscast in Mobey Dick, he's supposed to be a young, wide-eyed seafarer, he plays it well but the lines on his face in the mid to later 1950's give him away). I haven't watched VTTBOTS since I was a kid and remembered only seeming dour main characters and paper miche monsters Lost In Space (I did have the flying sub model kit which I thought was too cool beyond words). I was a star trek kid. But now Im not so sure. I'm mightily impressed with the production values, cinematography occasional writing which is never quite as strong so far as I wish it was but I am a bif fan now of Richard Basehart. I watched the scene where he confronts himself in his office and while he slightly underplays Nelson ( he acts a bjt too casual a lot to keep from going over the top on a tight schedule so I don't blame him), his performance as his evil twin is so totally different from the Nelson personality it's like a magic show: his actual face doesn't even look like the real him and his closeups basically look like a different person. Its a positively bravura performance. I'll be going back to it often for the sheer wonder of that scene. Thank you for posting it and I'll be commenting more I'm sure as I re-discover these occasional gems through professional eyes. When its good, its solid as a rock on all counts. Thank you again for posting them.

@@davidrosler5413 If you revisit season one, in brilliant black-and-white, you will find the best scripts and Basehart's best performances of the series. Those episodes are not "legal" for me to post here, but they are worth the hunt and expense. The color episodes are a different animal. The beautiful color and clarity of each episode is thrilling, even when the plot is not. 👉Stay tuned! 👈

@@TooleManTV i have the dvd set of the first season somewhere but neglected to watch all but one or two, liked them but they're packed away somewhere from a move. Your assessment of the seasons is perfect. As you know its also a recurring problem with Allen TV shows, Lost in Space being the most famously aggregious. While I understand that monsters were all the rage in the early to mid 1960's, what I do not understand is why with talent like Robert Bloch and Jerome Bixby and Harlan Ellison floating around, he would use these kaughably incompetent writers and have monsters that sometimes looked like paper miche. I think the stupid werewolf might have been a redress if the Don Post mask wolfman. Yet you see the complicated makeup on Victor Jory and the impressive lava cave set and its positively bewildering why he did not put more money into scripts and less into visual scope. I mean, the thing with the puppets wit Vincent Price I TRIED to watch last night and had to admit defeat. Even Nelson says the puppets are remarkably realistic, suggesting the writer had a dark vision for the episode, where the puppets were sculptures if the heads of the actors and vanished like ghosts. Instead muppets come and go with that electronic twang heard a million times in List In Space. Although even that script was better than the MCU stuff. But when producers make those kinds of judgement calls, I am reduced to scratching my head. At best. Bewildering. I cannot explain it in any way. Bad and reckless taste I guess, but on that scale. Again, bewildering.

Thank you, David!

Glad you're enjoying it! Subscribe to my channel - more episodes ahead!

Great point! The movie and the TV series arrived almost on the same "bus" as the USNs missile sub fleet. There's something momentous in this that is so often overlooked. The first show to deliver "Failsafe", By-The-Week space age technology, and its connections to society overall. After the show ended these concepts weren't featured much on the small screen for some time. Much to consider here.

Time sure does fly by. Was 5 in 1966. 😊 Watched this, Lost in Space, Land of the Giants. Fun times.

I was 1 caught the reruns, probably 1970-71, I thought it was kinda ridiculous they dressed in 1966 fashions but it was 1980!😅

Definitely one of the better of the season 3 episodes. The "deal with the Devil" tale in a science fiction context, but this time told with a fairly solid plot -- much more so than most of the rampaging monster stories on the show.

​@LordZontar actually the script for the episode started out as JUST that, but when ABC found out they made the writers change it to an alien context, seeing how the series was then airing on Sunday nights!!

That's an interesting bedtime practice. Any strange dreams as a result?

@@TooleManTV maybe? I just love this show. 😀

Same here 😊

@@TooleManTV I have been dreaming of being attacked by bats and full grown vampires lately

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You're welcome! I'm enjoying these all over again.

One of my favorites. Thanks again. Looking foreward to more.😊😊😊 2:58

Excellent point! Thank you.

"Sportsmanship is not one of our strong suits. You've beaten me in a battle of wills. My superiors are most displeased. I've been recalled. But there will be other chances, other wills that are not as strong as yours. The nuclear holocaust WILL occur. And our day will dawn across your world."

LordZontar. Thank you for the "Alien Nelson's" closing speech. I was always most impressed with it. And very disappointed that it was missing from my mail-order VHS tape made for me back in the day. Again, many thanks. "And keep watching the skies".

You're welcome! The films were well preserved, and we are fortunate that the studio scanned them in HD.

It was only cancelled to make way for a new show. It had been doing well in ratings. The new show turned out to be a flop so it was a fiasco

Deserved 12 seasons

Thank you!

He did a lot of narration for David Wolper documentaries including that one.

Among other things he did was the clown in "La Strada" and even an episode of "Little House on the Prairie " as an arrogant teacher.

​@@zorkmid1083Richard Basehart also played a German Officer in a two-part episode of Combat!

They gave a reason. Not a good one.

‘Unhappily, we are so psychologically oriented that we .. we cannot kill. To accomplish that act we must depend on other individuals.. in this case Admiral .. YOU.. therefore YOU will push the button.’

Lo siento, no los tengo.

Apparently it’s a legal no go.

Enough times to be nicknamed "Flounder".

At least twice in serious need of salvage operations in "Submarine Sunk Here" and "Deadly Waters", but it DID hit the bottom of the sea on almost every episode!!

​@@johnmarx3919On VTTBOTS, the Submarine got tossed around at least 2 times per episode. In fact, this maneuver was used so often that it acquired it's own special name: "The Seaview Rock and Roll."