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The Alan Dean Foster novelizations of the animated series were such fun, maybe 25% of my love of the animated series comes from those great books. I still love 'em and watch an episode every so often. Especially The Slaver Weapon (a re-purposed Larry Niven story) and the great Yesteryear.
I've collected some of the Gold Key comics, but for me they are just no damn good - it's like some other pulpy sci-fi story wearing ill-fitting Star Trek Halloween costumes. I might like them better if they weren't so Star-Trek-wrong.
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I was 12 in 1973 when TAS debuted in Canada and at my sister's house on the day myself and my mother were to return to the UK. If I hadn't seen an issue of The Monster Times, and it's full page article I might never have seen it. But I did. Along with the cartoon version of I Dream of Jeannie.
Back home in the UK I hastily wrote a letter to the Radio Times, back when the BBC and ITV had different tv guides, so you had to buy both, requesting this show. Still have that mag somewhere. Only a couple of lines (they completely ignored the request about Super Friends) and of course it was shown. Originally on Saturday tea times (yep, Doctor Who time when in it's season break I guess).
There was a new lion woman ensign along with a totally new alien character... Erickson or something? And yes, I do remember the new not-quite-the-original theme tune. That WAS annoying then..
Gold Key comics never seemed to resemble the thing were reproducing in strip form. We did get them in the UK, and although the covers looked great, it looked as if they didn't care if the contents were right as long as the cash rolled in.
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Ooh, I never knew there was a Persuaders comic. No wonder I keep coming back to this side of the board! Thanks, Jim.
http://bronzeageofblogs.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-persuaders.html
(It's both TV Action and Countdown, though I barely know what those even are. Man there's a lot of British enterainment comics to explore, I don't even have Space 1999).
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I love the Animated Series. I grew up with it, so that's part of it. It was - in the dark times - the only legit new Star Trek in town. I was crushed when it was cancelled and replaced by the Van Williams series "Westwind." But many of the stories were still quite good and would make solid live action episodes.
I also loved the Gold Key comics, especially the initial issues. They were so damned wrong, I loved them. Kirk was a cranky asshole throughout and Scotty was always getting Spock's goat, rather than McCoy. The Army Surplus belts, backpacks and canteens were amazing, And Kirk was the only one to ever have a communicator on landing party missions, but it was drawn as a tricorder. The inside of the ship was like a submarine and also had a giant steering wheel in a few panels. The rocket blasts out of the nacelles were a gem, too. I always wished a fan film series would be based on that look.
As for Lost in Space: I love the first season, enjoy about half of the third and maybe 7 episodes of the second. Is it "good?" Nah, but very little 60's television SF really was. It was all disposable entertainment, just "anything goes" fantasy of the day. I love it.
Buck Rogers remains one of my favorite series. I love the second season as well. All around, a very fun series.
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Filmation had about the same budget as any animation house of the era. Hanna Barbera, for example, didn't rely on stock poses like Filmation did, but they had a much sketchier and uglier look at the time. Filmation, though, had more realistic figures and their backgrounds were gorgeous paintings, That's where a lot of the money went.
As a kid in 1974, the show was great to this fan who wanted more new Trek. I used to copy they style when I drew comics and even posed in family pictures like "Kirk running." It was a huge influence on me. NOstalgic, though, is a huge factor here, I fully admit.
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