The Sleestak still put some fear into me to this very day although I do admit they can't hit the broadside of a barn with the crossbows. The Library of Skulls in The Lost City were kind of eerie too. The real freakiest thing about the Sleestaks was when the gray intelligent one (who just happen to speak perfect English) appeared and he had thought he went back in time and was studying the early ancestors of his race, but instead he finds out he actually went forward in time and was seeing the future fate of his race.
Pretty intense for a children's show.
The real freakiest thing about the Sleestaks was when the gray intelligent one (who just happen to speak perfect English) appeared and he had thought he went back in time and was studying the early ancestors of his race, but instead he finds out he actually went forward in time and was seeing the future fate of his race.
Pretty intense for a children's show.
I know, I think it was all in the writing. I took a look at
www.landofthelost.com and I noticed there were a lot of good SF writers who wrote the stories.
Margaret Armen
Barry E. Blitzer
Ben Bova (noted SF author)
John Cutts
D.C. Fontana (wrote for Star Trek)
Peter Germano
David Gerrold (wrote for Star Trek, wrote the Tribbles episode)
Donald F. Glut (wrote some Star Wars books)
James L. Henderson
Bill Keenan
Walter Koenig (played Chekov on Star Trek, also writes SF)
Jon Kubichan
Ian Martin
Dick Morgan
Larry Niven (wrote "Lucifer's Hammer" and others with Jerry Pournelle)
Joyce Perry
Sam Roeca
Norman Spinrad (also wrote an "alternate history" book where Adolph Hitler came to the US after WWI and wrote SF books)
Greg Strangis
Theodore Sturgeon (wrote Killdozer (how can you get more 70's than that movie, although the original story was written in 1944)
Tom Swale
I got a big kick out of where Enik, the brown Sleestak, found out that he was in his future. I wonder how his race got that way? I also remember another Sleestak, one of the green ones, but he could talk and speak perfect English too. I remember the regular Sleestaks tried to sacrifice him to their "god" in the it until the Marshalls saved him. I'm surprised him and Enik never got together. I also thought the Zarn was interesting too.