While the first season of Space:1999 was generally disappointing to this then young teen, I harboured some anticipation for its second: ...

My introduction to Space:1999  happened in the early evening of Monday, September 1st, 1975, when CBLFT (the CBC's French-language flags...

I copped "Ring Around the Bathtub" from a friend of mine. That mocking title about sums up Space:1999 's most rotten Year One ...

"Earthbound" is one of  Space:1999 's finest hours. When the promising  Space premiered in September of 1975, I was there in...

Summer, 1975. As per my usual habit after arriving at my local shopping mall, I immediately made my way to W.H. Smith, the bookstore. After ...

I can't believe I started high school fifty years ago. I also can't believe that the television series Space:1999 premiered fifty y...

In October of 1988 I worked on a few episodes of the television series titled, simply enough, and not with any nod to accuracy, Friday the 1...

Most mornings I will check my website data to see what kind of traffic I'm getting, and what countries it's coming from. This mornin...

On this day in 1973, another Star Trek series premiered: a Saturday morning  Star Trek , commonly referred to as "The Animated Series...

September the 8th, 1966, is a date known to many Trekkers. I'm just old enough to have remembered  Star Trek first airing but I must ha...

"Journey to Where" is one of the very few good episodes of Space: 1999 , a short-lived science fiction television series that didn...

Star Trek had its world premiere, not on September 8, 1966, on its home network of NBC, but two days earlier on Canada's CTV network. C...

Film Opticals of Canada Ltd . closed its doors in 2005, but it lives on for me in business card form. During my years there we produced t...

On September 1st, 1975, which happened to be Labour Day, just like September 1st of this year, I was introduced to a dramatic one-hour SF te...

Our society knows how to cultivate poverty, but knows not how to care for the poor.

Chatter on the Internet this morning reminded me that it's Back to School Day. "Please, no." This reminded me of my first da...

This morning, on a beautifully sunny and warm day here in the great city of Toronto, I strolled up to my local LCBO store, On my way back ho...

My friend Ana spent two weeks in Italy.  Her parents are from there which makes for a powerful draw. While she was showing me samples of pic...

I'm the first one to say that PP Pierre Poilievre will be replaced by his own party come January, but I want him to stay as CPC leader. ...

When I was a child in the 1960s and early 1970s TV-themed "tie-in" lunch boxes were a big thing. The colour screen on the box'...