Earth 2

Earth 2. NBC. "Created by Billy Ray and Michael Duggan & Carol Flint & Mark Levin." USA: Amblin, with Universal Television. Premiere 13/XI/94. Debrah [sic] Farentino, Clancy Brown, Sullivan Walker, Jessica Steen, Rebecca Gayheart, John Gegenhuber, Joey Zimmerman, J. Madison Wright, Antonio Sabato, Jr., featured players, with Tim Curry introduced in premiere and featured villain in second episode (and with plot options thereafter). Writers include Jennifer Flackett. Initial directors include Daniel Sackheim.

Lost in Space in the wild west of Earth 2. Of potential interest: prosthetics, a humanoid construction robot, and a programmed former convict who functions mostly as a tutor and who is interfaced in some way with a computer. In episode of 20 Nov. 1984, the ex-con's data base search was visually similar to dream-quest communication with aliens in premiere. In 20 Nov. episode also note "wrist locks" for kids: locators viewed very negatively by True, the point-of-view girl, but presented positively in terms of the plot; cf. and contrast motif of surveillance in SF generally, including positive locator bracelets in Aliens. In the "Promises, Promises" episode (27 Nov. 1994) the lead male child has to return to his exosuit (our term) to stay alive and function: cf. and contrast M.A.N.T.I.S. suit. Note also torture collar Tim Curry uses on the alien. (RDE, 22/11/94)