It has been a bit over thirty years since I last watched this show attentively. After R3's disastrous encounter with "Man From Atlantis", I was a bit hesitant to subject good childhood memories to the light of 21st century sensibilities.

How well did it hold up? Well, that'd be telling.

Oh, okay. I'll tell you, but after the jump.

(Is it appropriate to post 'Spoilers' for 35 year old TV shows?)

In the sixties and seventies, nothing screamed "Futurism" like plastic furniature. Think the mod, swanky interiors in A Clockwork Orange (1970) or the insides of Space Station V from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and you'll see what I mean. Unquestionably, the greatest most over-the-top concatenation of ultra-modern plastic furniature ever seen on TV was in the series Space:1999, which we've refered to numerous times here in this column. Here's a fascinating little website that chronicles one woman's quest to make the inside of her home look like Moonbase Alpha. It's surprisingly cool:

Fred Freiberger was a television producer with a long and successful career, which is impressive if you’re the kind of person who’s impressed by that sort of thing. I’m not, personally, but it’s more than I’ve done, so perhaps I should be. He’s also a writer, which is a bit more impressive, but given the stuff that he wrote, not vastly much more so. He was one of the anonymous faces behind the camera, the names at the credit crawl at the end of the episode that no one outside of the industry, and obsessive fans (like me) ever tended to notice.

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With us today, we've got Keith Young, a science fiction draftsman who's been producing some high-quality blueprints for the fan community for most of the last couple decades. Keith, thanks for being with us today.

Keith:
Hello, and thanks for having me.

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