Was Galactica the first American sci-fi series with story arcs?

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Re: Was Galactica the first American sci-fi series with story arcs?

Post by Hope It Is The Grog » Tue Sep 08, 2015 10:03 pm

Oh, man! Logan's Run just sent me into geek overload... Lance LeGault, Nick Hammond, Spence Milligan, and Morgan Woodward all in the same episode?!? :wtf: :blink:


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Re: Was Galactica the first American sci-fi series with story arcs?

Post by Scott » Wed Sep 09, 2015 7:08 am

Hope It Is The Grog wrote:Oh, man! Logan's Run just sent me into geek overload... Lance LeGault, Nick Hammond, Spence Milligan, and Morgan Woodward all in the same episode?!? :wtf: :blink:
Oh yeah! I remember that one. Doesn't a Sandman have get a new face, and tries to lure everyone back to the city?

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Re: Was Galactica the first American sci-fi series with story arcs?

Post by Hope It Is The Grog » Wed Sep 09, 2015 7:29 am

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Hope It Is The Grog wrote:Oh, man! Logan's Run just sent me into geek overload... Lance LeGault, Nick Hammond, Spence Milligan, and Morgan Woodward all in the same episode?!? :wtf: :blink:
Oh yeah! I remember that one. Doesn't a Sandman have get a new face, and tries to lure everyone back to the city?
That's the one. Just like the evil Peter Parker in "Night of the Clones." :wink:
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Re: Was Galactica the first American sci-fi series with story arcs?

Post by Hope It Is The Grog » Fri Sep 11, 2015 5:16 am

Well, 10 episodes into Logan's Run now and I haven't seen a story arc yet. Episodes 2-10 could have been shown in any order and made just as much (or little) sense.

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Post by GoldCylon » Mon Sep 14, 2015 1:01 pm

The answers are far far away amongst the stars. Movie stars most likely.
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Re: Was Galactica the first American sci-fi series with story arcs?

Post by Hope It Is The Grog » Tue Sep 15, 2015 8:59 pm

My final judgment on Logan's Run: no story arc. Every episode leaves the characters right back where they had been. But it was fun to see those guest stars in the last three episodes - Barbara Babcock, Nehemiah Persoff, Paul Carr - all well known to the likes of us. :smile:
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Post by bishopdonmiguel » Wed Sep 16, 2015 6:04 am

Great report! Where did you watch this? I need to search for it.

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Re: Was Galactica the first American sci-fi series with story arcs?

Post by Hope It Is The Grog » Wed Sep 16, 2015 7:09 am

bishopdonmiguel wrote:Great report! Where did you watch this? I need to search for it.
Just bought it on DVD from Amazon. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006MFQ4OS

Another interesting detail: apparently there are no brassieres in the future. :shock:
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Re: Was Galactica the first American sci-fi series with story arcs?

Post by Croft2014 » Sun May 08, 2016 7:01 am

Doctor Who did it's first arc in the 1978-79 series with The Key to Time. After that there was The E-Space Trilogy (1980), The Return of the Master Trilogy (1981) and The Black Guardian Trilogy (1982-83) which was in effect a sequel to The Key to Time.

As for US TV bar the loose run in Planet of the Apes (1974-75) I'd say that BG was the first with extensive and more detailed arcs.

In the UK Blake's 7 (1977-81) had extensive arcs throughout it's run.

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Re: Was Galactica the first American sci-fi series with story arcs?

Post by Hope It Is The Grog » Sun May 08, 2016 7:26 am

I'm actually thinking of a much looser definition of story arcs, such that Doctor Who would have fulfilled my idea of arcs way before 1970.
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Re: Was Galactica the first American sci-fi series with story arcs?

Post by Croft2014 » Sun May 08, 2016 12:45 pm

Well, an arc story is where threads carry over from one storyline to another. Doctor Who (1963-89) was a collection of serials each made up of between 2-14 individual 24 and a half minute episodes; the exception being the 1985 series which was 45 minute episodes and the serials were all two parters bar one which was a three parter.

The only true arcs classic DW had were those I mention above.

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Re: Was Galactica the first American sci-fi series with story arcs?

Post by Hope It Is The Grog » Thu May 12, 2016 7:20 am

And I'm counting things like character arcs, which would include something like regenerations; also long-running and developing conflicts, such as between the Doctor and the Daleks.
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