{"id":15699,"date":"2016-10-29T11:41:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T16:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=15699"},"modified":"2016-10-29T11:41:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T16:41:19","slug":"tv-horrors-the-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=15699","title":{"rendered":"TV Horrors: The Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you were trying to construct The Most Painfully 1970s SF TV Show Ever, you might come up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0083464\/\"><i>The Phoenix<\/i><\/a>, and never mind that it debuted in 1981. <\/p>\n<p>I mean, look at the intro footage, and tell me it doesn&#8217;t reek of the 1970s:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9SASkqWyn40\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I mean, ancient astronauts, pyramid power, ESP, big medallions and feathered hair! How much more 70s can you get?  <\/p>\n<p>This arrived after my &#8220;I&#8217;ll Watch Any Damn SF\/F\/H Show On TV&#8221; phase, and it actually came and went so quickly (only five episodes aired, including the pilot) I wasn&#8217;t even aware of it. <\/p>\n<p>Someone has put up a fairly crappy quality video of the complete pilot:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JvqGS4qrvkg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hope you like flute music. The writing isn&#8217;t very good, but Judson Scott (who I remember best as Khan&#8217;s second-in-command) is surprisingly tolerable as Hunky McSunAlien. <\/p>\n<p>For more on similar subject, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=6688\">Decade of Weirdness: The 1970s<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=3975\">Retro TV Memories: The Fantastic Journey<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were trying to construct The Most Painfully 1970s SF TV Show Ever, you might come up with The Phoenix, and never mind that it debuted in 1981. I mean, look at the intro footage, and tell me it doesn&#8217;t reek of the 1970s: I mean, ancient astronauts, pyramid power, ESP, big medallions and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":11,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,474],"tags":[1241,2088,1249,2160,1970,2159,1987],"class_list":["post-15699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","category-tv","tag-1970s","tag-1980s","tag-ancient-astronauts","tag-judson-scott","tag-science-fiction","tag-the-phoenix-tv-show","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15699"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15836,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15699\/revisions\/15836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}